Rachel Carson

Birmingham Jail." As like King, Rachel Carson also employs Aristotle’s distinguishes in her text, called "The Obligation to Endure," as a tool to express her thought about pollution. These two authors clearly argue about two different subjects; however, they both use the same three means of persuasion to communicate to the target audience. By using Aristotle’s distinguishes, the audience can analyze the effectiveness of ethos, pathos, and logos that King and Carson conduct in the texts to…

World War II was a turning point for American technology. America spent a lot of money and resources to manufacture supplies for allied troop in the begging of WWII. Once the United States entered WWII they had a lot of factories at hand to manufacture weapons for their own troop in the war. Even after WWII the military industrial complex continued creating new forms of technology and leading the United States to the moon. Three technologies created during and after WWI where the atomic bomb,…

clean accessible water, organic foods, animal protection, and reforestation. Today’s environmental movement encompasses many ideas and concerns, but the modern environmental movement originated in the 1960s with one particular issue: pesticides. Rachel Carson, a biologist, raised American consciousness about pesticides with her book Silent Spring. Carson’s 1962 book resulted in the prohibition of America’s favorite pesticide; DDT. Carson’s booked helped spark the modern environmental movement by…

As society progresses, our reliance on technology grows everyday. It allows us to be more efficient in many ways. However this efficiency can come with certain consequences. In 1962, when Rachel Carson released her book Silent Spring, she exposed pesticides’ harmful effects on the environment, stirring up major controversy on pesticide use and igniting the environmental movement. Known as the most efficient way to improve crop profit, pesticides were later placed on strict restrictions, and the…

Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Frederic Edwin Church all had distinct responses to nature, which are reflective of their respective upbringings and careers. Thoreau wrote about the existence of God all throughout nature, while Carson wrote purely about the splendor of nature and how humans had the power to alter it, while harming themselves in the process. Church, on the other hand, painted in order to express, and restore, the relationship between revelations of the sciences and…

In the excerpt Key Readings In Journalism, chapter 22, it talks about a woman named Rachel Carson. Although Carson was not a journalist, she was widely considered to be an conservationist and was worried about the damage being done to the environment with the use of pesticides and released a book about DDT and her findings were astounding. Although she faced major backlash from the chemical industry, she stood by her work. The use of DDT came under stricter regulation from the government.…

What Rachel Carson’s position would be on the debate on the existence of climate change Rachel Carson was very concerned about the relation of human beings and nature – the environment; she believed that the actions human beings and things that they released to the environment had a long-lasting effect on nature that could be determinantal to generations to come. This was her greatest idea and one that has clearly not been reflected in the current-day debate on climate change especially by…

chemicals used during extraction on human and livestock health? • What are the repercussions of long-term exposure to chemicals on crops and soil? • What are the economic implications of extraction in regard to agriculture and tourism? Question 1b: Rachel Carson’s widespread cautionary tale of the effects of chemicals, particularly pesticides, on air, water, soil, wildlife, and human health can be applied to the Kiamichi River scenario. Each question would likely be addressed with an…

activist for the initiative of keeping our environment in pristine condition with Rachel Carson studying of all the various farms and how too much pesticide usage correlates to the destruction to the ecosystem of a fictional town shown in the following passage,”The Birds, for example- where have they gone? Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted.”(Rachel Carson, Models for Writers…

communist. As Carson says herself in Silent Spring, “only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species—man—acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.” In order for her environmental concerns to successfully be heard by the public, Carson needed to reach out to other women to aid her efforts in fulfilling her goal. This included a luncheon with other prominent American women hosted by Agnes Meyer, the owner of the Washington Post (Carson Video 3).…