Between 1545 and 1550, the Aztec people of southern Mexico were affected by a serious disease that they could neither cure nor (9)
It was so serious, in fact, that up to eighty percent
of the entire population - 15
million people in total - are thought to
have died. For almost five centuries, scientists were unable to (10)
which specific disease was the cause. Scientists
had some (11)
such as smallpox, malaria, or
influenza, but it was not possible to (12)
that it was one of them. A new scientific study, however, might have solved this
medical (5)
The scientists had a chance to (13)
some ancient DNA found on victims of the disease.
Their (14)of this evidence (15)
that the cause was one type of bacteria called salmonella, which
remains a health problem even today.

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He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

Compare and contrast the characters of miss temple and miss scatcherd from jane eyre, explaining how each functions as a model for jane. your answer should be at least 250 words.

One conclusion that a reader might draw from the excerpt from "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella" is that the man with the umbrella is persistent in his mission. provide two details from the text to support this conclusion.