Rachel Ruysch

So no one told me life was gonna be this way. This is going to be legen wait for it dary. On September 22nd, 1994 Monica, Chandler, Ross, Phoebe, Joey and Rachel starred in the first episode of Friends. More than ten years later, Lily, Marshall, Ted, Barney, and Robin starred in the first episode of a show about a man telling his kids about how he met their mother. Both shows are situational comedies set in New York City. The shows both star a group of white, twenty-something year old adults…

not want to harm others. If farmers realized that deadly pesticides, such as parathion, could hurt people just as easily as the birds and other pests they are trying to put an end to , would they still use them? In this excerpt from Silent Spring, Rachel Carson uses rhetorical devices such as hyperbole, understatement, and rhetorical questions to make the practice of using poisons such as parathion important . Carson starts out by using the symbiotic nature of hyperbole and understatement to…

In the period after WWII, the world had major recovering to accomplish. Our environment needed tremendous work. After WWII, major regions of Europe and Asia lay in ruin. Cities throughout the world burned, and we had to deal with the after effects of an atomic bomb, something that had never been used before, so no one was sure of the aftermath that it would cause. These rallies, which are still continuing today, were both philosophical and social movements. Groups across the United States,…

Media, in the forms of photography, film, and writing are similar in that they often reveal a particular message, or comment on a societal aspect. For some, these messages may be underlying, while in others, they are evident and transparent. This idea helps distinguishes differences in media. Photography is widely open for interpretation. In the case of Errol Morris’ “Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up?” the lack of context and textual clues make it hard to discern what was true or what…

release of Silent Spring in the early 1960’s, Rachel Carson sparked a great national environmental movement. In her book, Carson released her findings on the detrimental effects of the chemical dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). At the time, DDT was believed to be the answer to insect problems in the United States and was used extensively. However, Carson explains DDT reaches species not targeted by the chemical and hurts the environment as a whole. Rachel Carson proves, through a number of…

After reading Silent Spring, I see even more that humans in years past and today have had a powerful and also negative effect on the natural world that we live in. Rachel Carson mainly argued that pesticides have an adverse effect on our environment. She said that they are properly termed as “biocides” since their effects were hardly limited to targeting the pests. Carson spoke a lot about DDT as a prime example as well as other synthetic pesticides several that are subject to bioaccumulations.…

The genre of teen films was born in the 1950’s but became a fixture in pop culture following on the heels of movies from John Hughes in the 80’s. The genre of teen films encompasses movies that are directed towards a teen audience and are generally also about teens. They encompass essential components that reflect the teen experience: a defined social hierarchy that is usually disrupted during the course of the movie, conflict stemming from rebellion, and a romantic interest. All of these are…

chose Rachel Carson, I chose Rachel Carson because I wanted to know more about her what she did. Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Rachel Carson is considered a leader because Rachel Carson stayed true to her research when she faced with Critics and that her words inspired the environmental movement. On April 14, 1964 Rachel Carson died from breast cancer after 2 years of publishing her book "Silent Spring" when she was 56 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Rachel…

The primary source I’ve chosen is the giving tree by Shel Silverstein, this book is about two opposites a boy and a tree. Every day the boy would come to the tree and play on her branches, climb her trunk, and eat her apples. then as the boy got older he stopped coming as much and would only come when he wanted something from the tree. first, it was her apple to sell in town to make money, then it was her branches to build a house, so he could get a wife and have kids. Then finally her trunk to…

consumption. We as humans sometimes fail to realize the how far agricultural ideology has come in the last 50 years. Rachel Carson highlights throughout her 1962 book “Silent Spring”. Although it may have not been intentional, Carson’s book sparked a revolution in the world that still continues to improve the way things are produced, disposed, and regulated throughout the United States. Rachel Carson enlightens us of how harmful these industrial…