Leaf spring

The Louis J. Esposito dining hall is a popular location on Temple University’s urban campus where those who have a meal plan congregate. Not only does it serve as a location for students and faculty to eat, but it also is utilized as an area for socializing and completing homework. Due to this reason, the dining hall is regarded as a cosmopolitan canopy. As described by Elijah Anderson, author of the piece The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, cosmopolitan canopies are…

Mrs. McGrath tells us to clean up and sort our belongings. She reminds us to read over the weekend and not forget our homework. I gather up all my schoolwork and put them in my neatly sorted desk. I reach in for my homework folder and make sure my assignments are in there.Mrs.McGrath sends us to our lockers to put our homework in our homework. We eventually line up to go to Mrs. Key’s socials studies class. She's very mean to us except to four students .She gives them cool nicknames out of the…

declared as perfectly safe, and she prevailed over the propaganda used by the companies. Rachel’s book, Silent Spring, lead to many environmental changes that took place in the chemical industry. Today, the teachings of Rachel Carson have influenced many environmentalists, and they have raised environmental consciousness throughout the country. Rachel Carson’s goal in writing Silent Spring was to raise awareness of the use of the…

Linnea Saukko, author of “How to Poison the Earth,” made a big impact on the way people thought of the environment with her essay. Saukko got a degree in geology and worked for the Environmental Protection Agency to try to help the present issues. Her goal is to inform people about the harmful things happening to the earth. However, she takes a different approach than most would. She exaggerates her point with the use of satire and irony. By looking at this essay through the different methods…

World War II spanned the years of 1939-1945 and made a substantial impact on the dance world. In finding sources to apply towards researching World War II’s influence on Appalachian Spring (1944), I immediately went to YouTube. The iconic film of Appalachian Spring is a great tool to use when looking at the choreography, set, costumes, and musical score. The set, designed by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is very simple, but is highlighted by it’s functionality of one side of an exterior wall, a…

issues have now began to be noticed by experts and organizations because leaders such as Rachel Carson have brought them to light. Rachel Carson’s bestseller “Silent Spring”, describes various case where pesticides are dangerous and led to environment problems. Everything in our environment is related and affected by each other. “Silent Spring” defines the harmful effects that chemical control has created on all components of our environment. In this essay I will analysis the side effects and…

The book, “Silent Spring”, by Rachel Carson brings to light the possible harm and ramifications of overusing chemicals that are not fully understood. To fully drive her point home, Carson uses language, ethos, and logos. Carson uses strong language several times in order giver her argument stronger emphasis. At one point she uses the word “evil” to describe pollution. There are very few words that have a more negative connotation than evil. Carson uses this word fairly early in her book,…

Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure’’, Silent Spring (1962), she mentions, continued use of chemical pesticides will erase mankind if they are continued to be unregulated. She explains how it took millions of years to adapt to changes on earth, but chemicals are doing drastic damage to the world faster than it can adapt. She has one purpose, to inform the public on how our use of chemicals can destroy our planet and us. She is trying to create a relationship with the public in order to…

Silent Spring was a controversial book written by Rachel Carson about the effects of DDT on animals, plants, and even humans. To this day, fifty years later, the book has still received criticism for exaggerating and misinforming the readers about the real effects of DDT. Rachel Carson, while exaggerating information, is correct in her studies of the effects of DDT. Rachel Carson states fairly early on in Silent Spring that when DDT is sprayed in large areas it can easily run in water. DDT is a…

The internet is an important method of connecting people all over the world. Not only can people communicate over the internet, people can use it as a way to buy, sell, and trade pieces of their culture. Ebay and other trading and bidding sites make it easy to find artifacts from around the world. However, this also makes it easier for people to sell artifacts illegally, or sell fake ones. The list of Egyptian Antiquities on Ebay is pages and pages long, with many artifacts that could be fake,…