Rachel Ruysch

Contrast Rachel Carson and Al Gore's view of humans' relationship with nature with the views of Carson's opponents. With whom do you agree and to what degree? Carson’s opponents reasoned that they were in the safe zone if they banned pesticides in their home ground…

Silent Spring was a controversial book written by Rachel Carson about the effects of DDT on animals, plants, and even humans. To this day, fifty years later, the book has still received criticism for exaggerating and misinforming the readers about the real effects of DDT. Rachel Carson, while exaggerating information, is correct in her studies of the effects of DDT. Rachel Carson states fairly early on in Silent Spring that when DDT is sprayed in large areas it can easily run in water. DDT is a…

Northern Baroque: Baroque Art was the principal European style of art in the 17th century. Although encapsulating the whole of Europe, Baroque art greatly varied from region to region. Having been divided into two separate spheres, the Northern countries who turned Protestant, and the Southern countries who remained Catholic, developed two distinctive artistic styles. In Italy and Spain, the Counter-Reformation was in full swing, promoting complex and dramatic paintings and sculptures such as…