Silent Spring

Project ID #: 702379 As a Cover Picture I think I would like using this image if possible: A ThinkStock Image #: 486354585 Author’s Biography: My name is Angie Ignacio and I am originally from a very small five square miles island named Saba. I am 24 years of age and currently still a student attending a Dutch college in the Netherlands. I have been living in the Netherland a little over four years. I enjoy writing poetry whenever the inspiration hits me and writing in general. In my free…

Me In my personal dictionary, lost and lonely were the most significant words. On those days, it seemed like all I knew about life has been that we live, grow and die. Elbert is my name, but people used to call me El. Tall, skinny, little boy, I was on my way to the manhood. Nobody understood me and I understood nobody, like a black dot on a white shirt. Running was a hobby of mine. I ran to school. I ran to the store. I ran everywhere. One foot after the other, making everything and all the…

Samantha Navarrete Mrs. Joanne Treffner English 1 June 2015 Shedding Light on Night “The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.” -Mal Pancoast Elie Wiesel would definitely have agreed with Mrs. Pancoast. Almost seventy years have passed since the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945 when Elie Wiesel was released from the clenches of the Nazi Germany concentration camp. Through the hardships and devastating conditions. Elie Wiesel survived to write his heart wrenching memoir…

The Black Death, as it was most commonly called, was renowned as the most devastating pandemic to have even swept over the Eastern Hemisphere during the fourteenth century. It was the cause of over tens of millions of deaths throughout Europe and Asia and went by many names, including the “Great Mortality,” and “Universal Plague.” The widespread plague originated in Central Asia and was most likely variants of the bubonic and pneumonic plagues. The bubonic plague, which was the most common…

him now as outer space, waiting for whatever she might say to unfreeze him, now he felt he could see the edge or outline of what a real vision of hell might be. It was of two great and terrible armies within himself, opposed and faced each other, silent. There would be battle but no victor. Or never a battle – the…

able to set the scene for some aboriginal communities. It is a scare, dirt town that has one inaccurately built shed that is able to cater to be a church, hospital and doctors service. For Delilah and her community, the closest known town is Alice Springs, and in order to escape this hell hole, herself and Samson make their way there with no money, food or shelter Samson and Delilah are left to sleep under a bridge and depend on handouts and hunted wildlife. In conclusion, the movie Samson and…

Humans are oblivious. Their inventions and habitation of the Earth have left them to believe they are the owners of this sphere of rock. However, they are merely paying rent to mother nature. Nature has the ability to thrive without humans, as evident in the 4.5 billion years before mankind. This recurring idea that humans are rather a small part of the world itself is often exercised in various stories and novels. One such story is “There will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury. The story is all…

It was utilized a lot between the years of 1940 and 1970. In 1953 the US chose to drop billions of pounds of the insecticide all over. After that Rachel Carson composed Silent Spring which discussed the numerous threats of DDT. One of the numerous risks Rachel Carson explained, was it caused cancers. As evidenced by “DDT Linked to Fourfold Increase in Breast Cancer Risk,” “In addition, daughters exposed to the higher levels…

Throughout the novel, “Catcher in the Rye”, J.D. Salinger takes the reader through the labyrinth of the protagonist and narrator Holden Caulfield’s mind. The novel parallels easily to many of the battles teenagers still face today, such as, the upheaval from childhood to adulthood and the feelings of uncertainty when faced with making choices that shape their future. As Salinger highlights Holden’s struggles to find his own identity in a world of “phoniness”, he also emphasizes Holden’s struggle…

World War I was a war of the future. Armies on both sides used newly developed chemical agents and automatic weapons, leading to great devastation. This war was the culmination of the two centuries of rapid scientific and technological development preceding it, fought during a cultural period of opulence and extravagance. Thus, it may come as a surprise to find a poet like Alan Seeger. Modernity dissatisfied Seeger; he doubted it was conducive to a meaningful life or to medieval values he held…