Rachel Carson

done the impossible? I have, and I am here to tell you about a particular Marine Biologist, whom you may not have heard of before. Her name is Rachel Carson; she contributed to science through making awareness through writing. Here is her story. Rachel Carson was born in 1907. When Rachel Carson was young; she developed an intrigue to nature. Rachel Carson decided to enroll into, “Pennsylvania College for Women.” She did so with hopes of becoming a writer, but her interests soon wavered onto…

Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907, in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She grew up on a small farm which gave her first-hand exposure to the wildlife around her as well as the chemicals to which it was subjected. Her mother instilled within her an appreciation for nature at a young age which ignited her interests in science, specifically conservation. Carson graduated from a small high school and pursued a degree in biology at the Pennsylvania College for Women where she graduated magna cum laude.…

To illustrate the devastating consequences of pesticide use on humans and the environment, Rachel Carson compares the hidden destruction of chemicals to the unmistakable effects of nuclear warfare. During WWII, the United States and other countries began experimenting with nuclear weapons, such as the bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the effects were instant, with around two hundred thousand deaths from the bombs and many more from burns and radiation. Carson’s book, written…

After reading, The Obligation to Endure by Rachel Carson, it definitely consists of a lot of facts and evidence to state her argument. Carson’s thesis is informing the audience the dangers of pesticides and explaining how it does more harm than good. “In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of us” (Carson 358). She wants us to be more informed and wants…

Rachel Carson, the author, starts off the passage with an anecdote about her twenty-month old nephew, Roger, in which the two of them go for a relaxing late night walk on the beach. She compares Roger’s bubbly facial expressions and amazement at his first time experiencing the beautiful moonlit ocean to her many years of “sea-love”. Despite the difference in age and experience, she goes on to say that they appeared to sense the same awe and wonder in regards to the roaring and moonlit ocean.…

In the article, “The Obligation To Endure” by Rachel Carson the author focused on explaining the consequences of human behavior. She explains how much harm we have done to our environment by the use of pesticides specifically referring to DDT, a pesticide that is not only poisonous to insects but to our Ecosystem as a whole. These pesticides instead of helping humanity they are having the opposite effect and are altering our nature. She could not be more accurate, pesticides tend to settle into…

Rachel Carson, a biologist, was the founder of the modern environmentalism movement during the 1960’s and 70’s. This movement spread quickly throughout the United States. Carson is known today for publishing her very famous book Silent Spring. This book was published during such an important time in history and is significant to this day because it tells us a lot about the environment we live in today. Many people have been fascinated by her book and several other pieces of work. She has…

In the Short Essay “ The Obligation to Endure” Rachel Carson informs people in general to the threats of current mechanical contamination. She expounds on the destructive results of deadly materials being discharged into nature. There is a wide range of ways that contamination can hurt nature, from the atomic blasts releasing dangerous chemicals into the air to the venomous pesticides showered on plants that executes vegetation and sickens dairy cattle. The changes in accordance with these…

on the environment from numerous activities grew. Rachel Carson, a biologist, wrote a book discussing the destructive effects of pesticides, as a means to inform the public and urge them to act against the use of them, yet the book created much controversy. In the excerpt from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Carson states that the use of spraying pesticides is not worth the damage done to the natural world by describing the poison's widespread…

Triumph Against Adversity Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in the early 1960’s as a response to the massive amounts of DDT being spread throughout the United States. DDT had first been introduced in the wake of World War II as a “wonder pesticide” that could eliminate all pests. The real problems began rising when farmers starting using much more of the pesticide than were necessary. Farmers were using as much as two pounds of DDT per acre on their crops, and not long after the effects were…