Carson McCullers

was a “super chemical.” DDT had the capacity to eliminate hundreds of species of insects at once, unlike the normal pesticides of the time that only had the ability to destroy a few.2 It had the ability to disrupt our natural habitat. In her book, Carson accomplished exactly what she had intended; bring awareness to the potentially deadly effects of DDT on our planet.2 She made the public aware that nature could be affected by human interference, even if it is unintentional. The public had to…

This is a story of a pediatric neurosurgeon name Ben Carson his brother Curtis and her mother Sonya. Sonya Carson is mother of ben and Curtis. In starting of the book, they describe about his husband. Sonya Carson get married at the age of 13 and after that they have two children and they lived in Detroit but because of some reason ben daddy left his family and never come back. This is the hardest time for ben and his brother to see future without his father. He remembers how they used to play…

Silent Spring in the early 1960’s, Rachel Carson sparked a great national environmental movement. In her book, Carson released her findings on the detrimental effects of the chemical dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). At the time, DDT was believed to be the answer to insect problems in the United States and was used extensively. However, Carson explains DDT reaches species not targeted by the chemical and hurts the environment as a whole. Rachel Carson proves, through a number of instances…

had a powerful and also negative effect on the natural world that we live in. Rachel Carson mainly argued that pesticides have an adverse effect on our environment. She said that they are properly termed as “biocides” since their effects were hardly limited to targeting the pests. Carson spoke a lot about DDT as a prime example as well as other synthetic pesticides several that are subject to bioaccumulations. Carson has accused the chemical industries of spreading wrong information on purpose…

Rachel Carson, I chose Rachel Carson because I wanted to know more about her what she did. Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Rachel Carson is considered a leader because Rachel Carson stayed true to her research when she faced with Critics and that her words inspired the environmental movement. On April 14, 1964 Rachel Carson died from breast cancer after 2 years of publishing her book "Silent Spring" when she was 56 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Rachel Carson…

The primary source I’ve chosen is the giving tree by Shel Silverstein, this book is about two opposites a boy and a tree. Every day the boy would come to the tree and play on her branches, climb her trunk, and eat her apples. then as the boy got older he stopped coming as much and would only come when he wanted something from the tree. first, it was her apple to sell in town to make money, then it was her branches to build a house, so he could get a wife and have kids. Then finally her trunk to…

We as humans sometimes fail to realize the how far agricultural ideology has come in the last 50 years. Rachel Carson highlights throughout her 1962 book “Silent Spring”. Although it may have not been intentional, Carson’s book sparked a revolution in the world that still continues to improve the way things are produced, disposed, and regulated throughout the United States. Rachel Carson enlightens us of how harmful these industrial…

This is all because the Earth has been ruined by the people and they need to put in the effort if they wish to have a future. “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson “... mysterious maladies swept the flock of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death” (168). All the farm animals are beginning to die because of the people. Because the people are using pesticides, all their…

Silent spring book review Xinruo Hu 26785525 Christine Liu Th 2-3 To Have a Lively Spring: Silent Spring Book Review Silent Spring is an epoch-making book, which documented detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds. Its tilted was meant to evoke a spring season in which not bird songs could be heard because they had all vanished as a result of pesticide abuse. The book warns us the importance of environment protection by examining the permanent damage caused by…

Washington. However, not all revolutionaries’ have these heroic qualities, but they can possess a non-violent and quiet presence. Rachel Carson was a marine biologist, environmentalist and writer whose ideas were far ahead of her time. Rachel exposed the use of harmful, life threatening pesticides and chemicals that were being used all across the globe in the 1960’s. Rachel Carson spread awareness of various types of chemicals that large corporations had declared as perfectly safe, and she…