Rachel Carson

As we’ve discussed heavily in class, as time goes on, new innovations are created in our history as people and cultures progress through the years. We’ve looked at objects and ideas that have seen advancements whether due to technology, or an advancement in thinking. This remains true when looking through forms of art and looking at Christian Schussele’s Men of Progress in 1862, and Edward Sorel’s People of Progress crafted in 1999. From a very basic visual perspective, there is a stark…

consume. If the farmers wished to make a profit through selling foods but have a string of complains of it harming people who consume the food it has been used on, the use is utterly pointless and will harm their reputation as it only causes damage. Carson further gives an example of where "workers handling foliage that had been treated [with parathion] collapsed and went into shock." This sets a strong image into the audience's head of the extent of this chemical's danger. This sparks a sense…

Even though DDT is cheap, it should not be used because it causes more harm than benefits: it has harmful chemicals that destroy the environment and kill insects In 1962, American Biologist Rachel Carson wrote a book, Silent Spring, on the environmental impact of spraying DDT. In Silent Spring, Carson questioned the logic of releasing large amounts of potentially dangerous chemicals into the environment…

Speaker: • It is clear that Emerson is telling the story because he is talking in first person and giving the reader life advice. • A male Ralph Waldo Emerson writes about how he is ashamed of his society and how easily people surrender to people of the higher class or power. • One can assume the speaker’s point of view is that everyone should follow his or her own instincts and not conform to society because he states, “I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and…

Written in 1962, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was one of the most influential texts of the environmental movement in the 1960’s and on. The book reported the adverse effects of pesticides in the environment and what our society could do to dampen the flame. Carson divided her book into seventeen chapters, each of which is an independent essay of its own, nonetheless the chapters fuse together to create a continuous non-fiction novel. In the first chapter, Carson provides the reader with a…

“Of Man in the Stream of Time” is written by Rachel Carson. In this essay, Carson discusses the importance for man to take responsibility over nature. Also, Carson focuses on “man’s attitude toward nature” (Carson 311). Scripture and worldly evidence provide proof that nature can survive on its own without the help of mankind. Genesis 1:27 says, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over…

the earth, yet it is for the better for the human race; or so one may think. Edward O. Wilson felt the crisp dry dead leafs and also found himself in the mystical forest, however, when he left the battlefield of earth was lost to man. Similarly Rachel Carson noted a change in the physiology of earth and unveiled a silent biological warfare. Throughout humanity’s vast timespan people have been admiring the landscape, as a place of beauty and to some a place to dominate. It is this principle…

I decided to sit down and watch the The Rachel Maddow Show. This show airs through the news station MSNBC. This episode was aired on October 16th, 2015. I did not watch it live but I did find a link to the entire episode on YouTube. This show is obviously left leaning, in other words liberal, making for a very biased news show. I noticed with the show that liberals were praised and conservatives were scrutinized. Over the course of the show she covered various stories in politics ranging…

and proved to be harmful to humans as well. Appalled by the rapid deterioration of nature, Rachel Caron, a marine biologist and conservationist, wrote the book Silent Spring, urging for a ban on DDT. The title of her book is an ominous evocation of a silent, lifeless future stripped of the beautiful music…

Rachel Carson had many great reasons for writing the book Silent Spring. The main theme of the book was to prove the effects of the careless spraying and dusting of people, crops, fields, and forests with harmful chemicals in the mid 1900s. This book was published in 1962, so a lot of the “new” advancements and findings are outdated as of 2015, however this book marks the important history of what happened when humans interfered with nature by using chemicals, and how that affected the…