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I want to explain in advance at this in writing, weve examined various disasters from different perspectives, first of all, the psychological and physical problems that jamestown, disaster sermons and responses to fires hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the dawn and party and root to california, irish immigrants flaming the potato famine in the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism, johnston flood of 1889 the impact of the triangle shirt lays factory in new york city and disaster arts that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So today we are discussing david oceans Pulitzer Prizewinning book, polio an american story, you all received questions that i posted and i am really interested in this topic, because i also teach someone are in the 19 fifties and of course that is one so much of this book takes place and i think just looking at polio really reveals so many different issues ....
Exist and get to unpack them a little bit a little bit and learn about the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. Its not just america has these myths, but even the sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with, and we think of the kind general narrative that we attached to it, one of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. We already talked about why this war even occurred. But once its underway, it is sort of predominant image and we get that image a lot from popular culture, those are the kind of images i have up here for you, of the idea that this really was just meant and then sent needlessly to their death. I have an example, all quiet on the western front. You are gonna like this image. This is the cover for the first english edition of the ....