Silent Spring

In the spring, they helped me run a clothing drive for Cradles To Crayons with my school and I even went to a reunion where we joined together again in Gillette Stadium and did community service. In the fall, when high school started, I heard about a peer leadership…

It was February 27, it was so close to spring. She sat there and thought how depressed she was the whole winter as she was every previous winter; sitting inside all day never once seeing the sunlight because her days had been taken from her by waking up at 6:20 every morning to sit through 8…

OXFORD, OH - After finishing a meeting with The Miami Student, Megan Zahneis rushed to her next student-run organization meeting. Dressed in all black business attire, she took the five-minute walk up Spring Street from the Armstrong Student Center to McGuffey Hall on Miami University’s Campus. A group of fifteen people gathered on a Wednesday afternoon to engage in conversation and enjoy coffee and snacks. Five board members of the Students with Disabilities Advisory Council shared stories,…

levels of estrogen and other hormones, have led disrupted people’s metabolisms and regulation of fat cells. While the idea of chemical obesogens seems valid, given that EDCs are known to be correlated with illnesses and disorders such as cancer (Silent Spring Institute, 2006), Guthman again still does not have much evidence to prove her point, since these chemicals have barely been studied when researching obesity. Overall, while Guthman makes an interesting point in that scientists should…

D’Amari Brown, a thirteen year–one month old male, attends Lehman College Speech and Hearing Clinic for individual speech-language services twice weekly for 50 minutes. He has been attending the clinic since spring 2012; his intervention has focused on fluency and intonation. The case history form was sent home with D’Amari for his mother, Jennifer Maldonado to complete. Mrs. Maldonado completed the case history form and acted as a reliable informant. Additionally, Mrs. Maldonado has stated…

he said I couldn’t. I went along with it and just did the roundoff back handspring. I started the trick. First up the roundoff, I got through it perfectly. My eyes were focused on the floor. It was navy blue with white tape lining the edges. The springs squeaking every time I land. I jump up and flip into my backhandspring, and with all the power in the world I land. The rebound made me feel like I was a bird. Able to stay in the air for a few seconds before I came back down. I started to come…

literary legacy of Chinese nation. The power of words not only showed in the age of war, but also in the peace age. Uncle Tom’s Cabin wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe plays a important role in the movement of abolitionist and the American Civil War. Silent Spring wrote by Rachel Carson called attention to environmental issues and caused DDT to be made illegal that helped thousands of animals. But not every book has good influence on society, The Clansman is a book lead to a disgraceful anti-black…

“Come to me, Sir Gwaine,” rasped the faceless hooded figure standing before me, a man cloaked in dark robes, bearing a longsword. “It is your time.” My gods, where am I? I thought, as a ghostly fog crept in, shrouding the leafless forest trees and enveloping my body. The ethereal mist chilled me to the core, making it difficult to move, difficult to reason. Then, a deep, ink-like blackness rolled across the sky and trickled down to the earth, a blackness so thick and oppressive I felt like I…

wins. Many texts will tell you that Rachael Carson was the founder of the environmental movement in the US. On the contrary, there was conservation and environmental movement for over a hundred years before she published her famous book, "Silent Spring." Later in the course, we'll see how she overcame a lot of tough opposition to write the book and defend her stand against the misuses of…

Limon watched as his Adar [father], Naneth [mother], and Muindor [brother] get ready for the Spring Festival. His parents are warriors of Rivendell though not talked about much they are great protectors of their lands against the darkness. Limon was ready not caring much about his hair as much as everyone else in his family. His brother, Tadion, being the eldest of the two sat him down and braided his hair. “Naneth, can Tadion and I leave for the festival now?” Limon asked in a sweet tone…