Who gets to define deviance?  What gives certain people the authority and/or power to define deviance?  How do definitions/perspectives of deviance differ from culture to culture, group to group, or time period to time period?

The Great Influenza Epidemic (GIE) of 1918 occurred at the end of World War One and had a massive effect on populations and health care policies around the world. It is difficult to separate the mortality rate of the disease and the war, but it is abundantly clear that both exacerbated each other and increased the amount killed. Part of the reason that the disease had such a massive effect on the world was the way in which the infected body reacted to the virus. The strain of influenza that cause the GIE is thought to cause a “cytokine storm” in the body, an extreme immune response that can cause more harm than he Deviant Acts lp. It is not impossible that a new flu strain could mutate in the same way, making it important to study how and why this flu had such a devastating effect on the world. In order to study that, a comparison of the epidemiological histories of America and Europe and the rates of infection and death from the GIE is essential. It would give a new insight into whether the spread of disease was related to an environmental factor, or was indiscriminate in how it spread from person to person.The histories of disease showed what types of diseases populations were less vulnerable too, and whether they could have possibly built a resistance to the GIE based on their resistance to diseases they had previously encountered. Looking at the American and European histories of disease helped to determine that the virus was, in fact, indiscriminate in how it spread. Despite being contrary to initial hypothesis’ about the Great Influenza Epidemic, this information is still valuable to the investigation as a first step in solving why and how this disease became a pandemic. INTRODUCTION “Influenza”, otherwise known as the flu, is a common disease that strikes every yea Deviant Acts r from November to March, in a period of time often called “flu season”. Despite the fact that this disease strikes yearly and is thus very familiar to doctors and creators of vaccines, it appears in different strains, or mutated forms, that have mutated and adapted over time to new environmental factors or human preventions. There are several different types of vaccines, but at their essence, they work by injecting the body with a type virus, alive or dead, and allowing the body time to create T-lymphocytes or cells that will remember how to combat a certain disease. Having these T-lymphocytes allows the body to create B-cells or cells that create an Deviant Acts tibodies to defend against viruses, much quicker than if it was encountering a virus for the first time. This quick response allows the body to combat the virus much more effectively, making the virus not as devastating as if the body was experiencing this “invasion” for the first time Deviant Acts  (Vaccines: How They Work) Of the many types of viruses out there, the flu virus works in a unique way, by mutating itself regularly, in ways that the body cannot always recognize.This renders previous vaccines useless against this new flu because the body has no T-lymphocytes that remember this particular type of flu. This means that new vaccines have to be c>