In 1994, Silent Spring Institute launched the Cape Cod Breast Cancer to investigate the possible relationships between environmental pollution and breast cancer (Silent Spring, 2002). Researchers can indicate breast carcinogens with the advancement of environmental testing methods, which is important for risk reduction (Silent Spring, 2002). Studies have revealed that compounds in personal care products can mimic hormones…
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Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907 in Springdale Pennsylvania. She grew up on a Pennsylvania farm, which gave her a lot of her knowledge on nature and wildlife. Rachel spent most of her time outdoors as a child, but she also read lots of books about nature. She became fascinated by the ocean when she found fossilized shells near her home. She wondered what kinds of animals lived in them and what happened to the ocean they lived in. This inspired her to start her research. Rachel Carson was an American…
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Rachel Carson argues persuasively in her book, Silent Spring, regarding the idea that “if humankind poisoned nature, nature would in turn poison humankind.” Silent Spring is a written narrative documenting the harmful effects pesticides have on the environment. However, this best-selling environmental science book published in 1962 is unlike any others. Getting the public’s attention rather than the scientific community was the intent of the book. For this reason, Carson inspired the modern environmental…
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Jossie Brown Roxeanne Lawler English 102-HV 29 January 2013 Silent Spring: Unsilenced In the book Silent Spring, marine biologist Rachel Carson describes the devastating effects of pesticides on the environment. The excerpt titled The Obligation to Endure is well written and makes compelling points leading the reader to continue reading and swaying their opinion in favor of the purpose filled and deliberate argument. Carson has one weakness in this excerpt where she switches her writing to…
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Rachel Carson was a biologist and a pioneer in history in the study of effects of pollution on the environment. In 1929, she earned her degree at John Hopkins University, which not many women were enrolled there during her time. She authored many books on pollution and the environment. Rachel Carson also helped the Navy detect submarines in World War II by developing programs to investigate undersea sounds, life, and terrain. As a writer and biologist, she became an idol and a celebrity in women's…
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Rachel Carson fights against the impacts of chemicals like DDT and other harmful chemicals that hurt the world. She confronts many appeals to influence as many people as she can but she aims for all of the people of America to change their ways and protect nature. The purpose of Carson’s Silent Springs is to make people aware of the negative impacts they are causing in the environment. She tries to influence everyone she can by making her arguments appealing in many different aspects from intellectual…
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a brief explanation of the cause and effects associated with this case. Rachel Carson had a history of interest with the chemical called DDT. She had tried to get DDT some attention unsuccessfully until her book came out in 1962. She had a friend who wrote her about the large bird kills on Cape Cod from the use of DDT. DDT around the late 40’s and 50’s was thought of a miracle pesticide and its use became very popular. Carson tried over a long period to get a magazine to support her in showing the…
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Silent Spring Rachel Carson Online Information For the online version of BookRags' Silent Spring Premium Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-silentspring/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography…
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examples, and each piece has offered a solution. Three of the many works that have addressed this idea are; the poem, “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Leroi Jones, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephan Marche, and “The Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson. Through their writing, these three authors have offered different suggestions to help act as an alarm clock to wake us up from our own ignorant state. The poem, “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Leroi Jones relates to the…
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lives.When Rachel Carson wrote Silent spring it was the New York Times best seller, “creating worldwide awareness of the dangers of environmental pollution.” (Carson." Encyclopædia Britannica) Many of the corporations polluting the air were not happy about it. They were not happy because of air pollution, but because they were going to be losing money. Carson started a movement in the 1960's and stated that “the planetary ecosystem was reaching the limits of what it could sustain.” “Carson stood behind…
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