Ship fever
"Human desire to survive and the value of human lives." The book Ship fever by Andrea Barrett explores the development of science at an age when the society was on the entrance of progress. The little value placed on human life due to the diseases and wars that destroyed society held claim to the society¡¯s need to be indifferent to death. The need to survive was the primary desire and the concept of ¡®survival of the fittest¡¯ accepted by all. This story allows the reader to explore the worthlessness of human life even in face of the extreme need for survival.Humans have had a monumental effect on the state of the earth and, indeed, may have threatened their own survival. However, humans are also the only known species with the capacity to conceptualize and care about collectively induced charge and perhaps to ensure its own survival. The earth may not care which species remain and which do not, but arguably it could care about its own survival. In Andrea Barrett's "Ship Fever," Lauchlin, a young Canadian doctor, works on a quarantine station off the coast of Quebec. It is during the Great Irish Famine, and boatloads of typhus-r
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Approximate Word count = 767
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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