Silent Spring

in celebrating Basant Panchami. Basant Panchami is a popular Hindu festival dedicated to goddess Saraswati, who is the divinity of knowledge, art and music. This day falls on the fifth day of the Hindu month of Magh, which is also the first day of spring. Goddess Saraswari is generally shown seated on a white lotus, wearing a colorful silk sari with base of white color and holding a book in her lower left hand. Goddess Saraswati denotes serenity and calmness. Her ride is a white swan which is…

too, would die at Armageddon.” (Tarico, Winell, 2013) One of the greatest examples of Lane’s emotional state is this passage on what he thinks Hell looks like: “It was of two great and terrible armies within himself, opposed and facing each other, silent. There would be battle but no victor. Or never a battle—the armies would stay like that, motionless, looking across at each other, and seeing therein something so different and alien from themselves that they could not understand, could not hear…

One final feature of Washington Square, which according to Quilligan is characteristic of allegory as a genre, is the presence of a “threshold text.” A threshold text is an opening narrative that is commented and investigated in the rest of the text; it signals the reader to read morally (i.e., allegorically) (53). The opening pages of Washington Square present a physician, a man of the medical profession, whose trade is to keep people alive; he is a practical man, touched by the light of…

Finding Love In Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the protagonists, an unnamed man and son, travel a “Barren, silent. godless road during an apocalypse where the world is devoid of hope and civilization. The father and the boy navigate through the “soft ash” (4) with hopes of making it to the South for better living conditions where it will be “warm at last” (147). During their dangerous journey, the man and the boy encounter several experiences, such as worrying about warmth,…

Novels by Ilana Tan is one of the novel the season 4 for me. His first novel is titled Summer in Seoul, a novel entitled Autumn in Paris, his third novel, entitled Winter in Tokyo and his fourth novel titled Spring in London. The reason I chose it is because the title ' little ' pull my heart, a synopsis of the book very soon made me want to go home and read this book in my room. In this article, I will review some of the things I love about this novel. The main character in this novel there are…

Malaria is one of the most prominent public health epidemic worldwide. It’s the leading cause of death and disease effecting half of the world’s population. According to World Health Origination (2013) 3.2 billion people live in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 106 countries and territories. Vulnerable populations such as rural poor, young children and expecting women who are more exposed to infection with the least access to services are at elevated risk for transmission of this deadly…

Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of equality and justice in his letter to the people of Birmingham, Alabama. King writes, from his jail cell, about the injustice he has seen and he offers ways of fixing it. His plans starts with acquiring an understanding of the difference between a just and unjust law and how to react to them. Then his plan requires taking action to abide by and fight for these just laws. The final…

“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 the picture, there are so many options that promote the growth of the…

beneath the North American Plate and has a long history of eruptive periods followed lengthy dormancies. Her volcanic activity was marked by thousands of years of lava and pyroclastic flows only to fall silent and then reawaken to begin her destructive cycle again. In the 1800's, Louwala-Clough fell silent, all signs of volcanic activity blanketed beneath her snow capped peak for over one hundred years before she awakened with a deadly force in 1980. Geologists Dwight R. Crandell and Donal R.…

The Brand ACNE Studios was founded in 1996 as part of the creative collective ACNE, which stands for "Ambition to Create Novel Expressions". Although Tomas Skoging, one of the two founders still remaining with the company once said, "from the beginning it was "Associated Computer Nerd Enterprises". (highsnobiety.com, 2015) The widely circulated story of ACNE's unusual beginnings is now embedded within fashion folklore and undoubtedly a success story that many have fruitlessly hoped to imitate…