Rachel Carson

proliferation of widespread activism during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s after a series of environmental disasters ignited concern, including increased habitat destruction, the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, and the exposure of dangerous pesticides by Rachel…

hris Mitchell Professor Christopher Myers Environmental Ethics PHIL320 April 26, 2015 Social Contract Connection to Land Ethics In society people follow an unspoken law that governs the basis of living within that society a social contract. This unspoken contract gives people the freedom to choose if they wish to remain living there or to move on to another city or country. Since the time of Socrates the acknowledgement of a social contract has been established within civilization. Humans need…

of a gang. Those times were rough for her. But those are the main reasons why she is so involved in children’s lives today. She is currently working a Detention Center for Juveniles and going back to school to receive her BA in Sociology. Phillip Carson- 03/22 Cleveland Heights, Ohio- Mr. Phillip describes himself as being different. He stated he’s a very unique individual but most people will never know that. He is currently enrolled in 4 year University majoring in Accounting. He is very…

Ecofeminism has many women/nature interconnections, but three claims are vital empirical, conceptual and epistemological. The empirical claim shows that the first victim of impact of environmental deterioration is women. As Heather Eaton vocalizes, “Ecofeminists’ empirical claim examines sociopolitical and economic structures that restrict many women’s lives to poverty, ecological deprivation, and economic powerlessness. The degradation of environment has affected women in the most parts of…

It inspired future anti-slavery/civil rights/politics centric novels like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The Civil War, a violent war resulting from the controversy engulfing slavery’s ethics, began not even 10 years after Stowe published the book. Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a best-seller, and many Americans, whether they agreed or disagreed with the…

thought and collaboration, significant innovation and social change would be much rarer than it is today. The success and impact of Andrew Carnegie’s steel company demonstrates that American capitalism aids the production of significant innovations. As Rachel Carson’s environmental activism tried to…

nation. The power of words not only showed in the age of war, but also in the peace age. Uncle Tom’s Cabin wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe plays a important role in the movement of abolitionist and the American Civil War. Silent Spring wrote by Rachel Carson called attention to environmental issues and caused DDT to be made illegal that helped thousands of animals. But not every book has good influence on society, The Clansman is a book lead to a disgraceful anti-black film and led to led to…

or even eliminating the use of chemicals, farm animals will be able to grow in their own rate and provide natural products. In Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, she illustrates a community that is embedded with a strange evil spell that envelop illness to animals—birds could not fly, chicks did not hatch, and fish died. And who is to blame for these abnormal activities? Carson concludes, “No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done…

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Americans flocked to their local shopping centers to purchase the latest and greatest consumer goods. Thanks to higher wages, the GI Bill, and a booming job market, consumers used their new spending power to purchase a wide array of products including televisions, washing machines, refrigerators, toaster ovens, and vacuum cleaners. Among the most desired of these postwar products was the latest in bug-killing technology, a chemical known as DDT…

Summary of: Puente Hills Landfill In the book This is Paradise: Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California by Jeanne Marie Laskas; talks about a 1,365-acre dump that serves five million people in the Los Angeles, California area. This place is the Puente Hills Landfill. In 1953, Puente Hills used to be a landing site of the first spacecraft in the Martian invasion, before it was a landfill. Then it became a series of canyons where people threw trash. In 1965, it became the San Gabriel…