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  2. Simo Häyhä - Wikipedia

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    Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname, The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the ...

  3. Death in children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Not only are the responses to death not even, neither are the subjects of death. In the literature for children ages 3 to 8 written in the 1970s and 1980s, where someone died, 51% of the deaths were adults, 28% were animals or plants and only 9% were children (six books). Of the adults who died, 91% were "grandparent age" and 9% were " parent age".

  4. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the " white death ", or historically as consumption, [ 8 ] is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. [ 1 ] Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. [ 1 ] Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is ...

  5. Susan Sontag - Wikipedia

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    www.susansontag.com. Susan Lee Sontag (/ ˈsɒntæɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.

  6. June Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Jordan began her teaching career in 1967 at the City College of New York. Between 1968 and 1978 she taught at Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Connecticut College. She became the director of The Poetry Center at SUNY at Stony Brook and was an English professor there from 1978 to 1989.

  7. Audre Lorde - Wikipedia

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    Children. 2. Audre Lorde (/ ˈɔːdriˈlɔːrd / AW-dree LORD; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist. She was a self-described "Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet" who dedicated her life ...

  8. Alice de Janzé - Wikipedia

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    Alice de Janzé (née Silverthorne; 28 September 1899 – 30 September 1941), [1] also known as the Countess de Janzé during her first marriage and as Alice de Trafford during her second marriage, was an American heiress who spent years in colonial Kenya as a member of the Happy Valley set.

  9. Illness as Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    Illness as Metaphor. Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to describe diseases and the people affected by them. Teasing out the similarities between public perspectives on cancer (the paradigmatic disease of the 20th century before ...