Read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to elizabethan england. there is no concept of "health and safety" in elizabethan england, so you will inevitably feel vulnerable when you arrive. nauseating smells and sights will assail your senses; contemporary standards of cleanliness will worry you. people die every day from unknown ailments, the young as often as the old. infectious diseases periodically kill thousands within a few weeks. even when plague is not in town, it lurks as an anxiety in the back of people’s minds and, when it does strike, their worry turns to terror. on top of the illnesses, the chances of being attacked and hurt are much higher than in the modern world, and workplace injuries are far more common. what is the topic of this paragraph?

What argument did andrew jackson use t persude the people that the indian removal act was a good idea

Who first discovers the alien cylinder on horsell common

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .