However, if you do not receive treatment with an antibiotic, you can be in big trouble. If you do nothing, these symptoms can go away or recur for as long as a year. You can lose hair and have sore muscles, a fever, sore throat and swollen lymph nodes. The rash can be accompanied by wart-like bumps in your mouth or genitals. Very few rashes of other causes involve the palms and soles, so if you develop a rash that covers your palms and soles, you should get a blood test for syphilis. A few weeks later, a non-itchy rash usually develops on the trunk that can spread to cover the entire body. Syphilis starts with no symptoms at all or as a painless sore on your mouth, rectum or genitals that usually goes away without treatment in two or three weeks. Treemonisha teaches us that education brings the community together in fighting racial prejudice. She becomes their community leader by teaching her fellow former slaves not to believe evil people who prey on the downtrodden with hate stories founded on ignorance and superstition. However, Treemonisha tells them to let the abusers go so the former slaves will not be evil like their oppressors. When the townspeople find out what the abusers have done to Treemonisha, they want to punish them severely. As a result, she is abducted by these cruel people and is thrown into a wasp nest, but is rescued by her friend Remus (like the story of Br'er Rabbit and the briar patch). Treemonisha tells the people in her community who are former slaves not to believe the superstitions of the people who are abusing them. Since there were no schools in this impoverished community, she would not have learned to read or write, but her foster parents asked a kind white woman to teach her. Treemonisha is an 18-year-old woman who had been found in the forest and was brought up from infancy by former slaves in an isolated community near Joplin's hometown, Texarkana, in 1884.
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He also formed an opera company and toured with a production of his first opera, A Guest of Honor., but receipts from the production were stolen and the score of the opera was lost when all of the company's belongings were seized for failure to pay rent. Louis, where he was able to live relatively comfortably by composing, teaching and performing his ragtime music. That year he married Belle Hayden, the sister-in-law of one of his students, but she had no interest in his music and they eventually divorced. In 1899, his "Maple Leaf Rag" was published and may have sold more than a million copies. Ragtime music had become a national craze after the World's Fair and Joplin toured with his own band. Among his students were future composers Arthur Marshall, Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. He played at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, and in 1894, at age 25, he moved to Sedalia, Missouri to work as a piano teacher. At age 20, he quit his full-time job as a railroad laborer and tried to earn enough money to feed himself by playing music, but because of the prevalent prejudices at that time, the only places he could find work were in brothels and churches.
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Joplin played the piano, guitar and mandolin.