Rachel Carson

During the 1940s powerful chemicals, such as DDT were used to remove crop-destroying insects. In Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure”, she argues that harmful chemicals are not only killing insects but also modifying its surroundings(604, par.1). She develops this argument using poignant diction, explaining that the environment take milleniums to adjust and that human pollution is advancing further than the Earth can keep up thus causing irreversible damages to the environment. Carson’s…

Rachel Carson in her article “The Obligation to Endure” argues the impact that pesticides/insecticides had upon the environment and the human health risks that were caused because of the harmful pesticides/insecticides. Carson made some interesting points which led me to think about how man is actually destroying the earth, with the help of science because of the harmful chemicals that are being used in pesticides. Society fails to realize that the pesticides being used are actually killing…

This issue and its effects on our lives can be told by Rachel Carson, a MA zoologist from 1932, who switched her focus to the effect of pesticides on humans and our environment (Articulation 358). Carson goes on to express facts in order to shine light on the harms of chemicals on our environment. With the whole world unclear of the future at stake, Carson reaches out to the audience to realize the possible truth. In The Obligation to Endure, Carson expresses the harm of chemicals on our world…

In Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, published 1962, the author brings forth the idea that we are poisoning ourselves and the environment through the common misuse of chemical pesticides during that time (Introduction). She believes that citizens must have the right to “be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” (p xv under Introduction). In the face of obvious toxic effects of DDT and other chemicals, she reports that at the time, new chemicals were being…

to keep yards bug free… Soon to be taken out of hand. Bi-o-cide: noun; “the destruction of life.” Birds losing their song. Innocent animals dying. Others almost going extinct. How is it that our means of killing “pests”, has started killing us? Rachel Carson wrote “The Obligation to Endure”, a chapter in her book Silent Spring to emphasize how important it is for the public to be educated on the chemicals that are harming our planet. Although pesticides do not need to be completely taken out of…

More people began paying attention to the effects of pesticides when Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring came about. It was about the commonly used pesticide DDT and her book had sparked the environmental movement. Carson pointed out major problems about the use of pesticides like how they have harmed the health of the environment and many of its species. Soon, people started to realize how damaging they have been. Rachel Carson thoughts on the use of pesticides were that we shouldn’t be using…

She is one of the first people who introduced this controversial topic about our planet. Publish in 1962, “Silent Spring”has became one of the best seller books on the New York Times list. In the book, Carson 's main argument is that pesticides (she like to calls them “biocides”) have detrimental effects on the environment. She said that Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane is harmful to bird populations and can be harmful to humans or even small to large…

While it is an author’s dream to affect the perspective of all demographics, many times, target audiences must be identified. Based on these target audiences, “methods of engagement” may vary greatly. Rachel Carson wished to use “Silent Springs” to shed light on the immoral usage of pesticides throughout the United States. (Insert Source). As a topic rooted deeply in scientific discovery, the detrimental effects of pesticide use is one that is difficult to…

complex beauty before me. In her 1955 essay “The Marginal World,” Rachel Carson stands at the edge where the water meets the soil and she tries to see a glimpse of the hidden beauty within a small pool. When she sees what is inside, she realizes the strength of the small creatures within it. With her discovery, Carson writes of her experience and uses various rhetorical strategies to convey life that is both beautiful and complicated. Carson utilizes contrast. She starts by comparing the ebb…

Spring, a book written by Rachel Carson, explains the effects of pesticides and chemicals on the environment. Rachel Carson ends her book with, “it’s our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth”(“Carson, Rachel”). Many aspects of the environment are effected by human impact. Such as, unnatural chemicals like the ones Carson talks about…