In this sense‚ the American culture is wrong because they do not understand the Philippines’ culture and cannot criticize theirs but should rather criticize their own culture of what is considered ethical and not. Even if this is the case‚ in Rachels’ “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism‚” he brings up one of his objections that cultures cannot simply criticize another. It is quite straightforward because one culture cannot understand another’s if they are not part of that culture in the first
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Spring Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) became the inspiration for the environmental movement. Its elegant prose expressed passionate outrage at the ravaging of beautiful‚ unspoiled nature by man. Its frightening message was that we are all being injured by deadly poisons (DDT and other pesticides) put out by a callous chemical industry. This message was snapped up by intellectuals‚ and the book sold over a million copies. Many organizations have sprung up to spread Carson’s message. Rachel Carson
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The book‚ Silent Spring‚ by Rachel Carson is regarded as the most significant environmental novel as it was the start of the environmental movement. This book highlights the human poisoning of the biosphere through chemicals aimed at pests and disease control‚ particularly dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). DDT pesticides were particularly harmful because as they entered the biosphere‚ they not only killed the bugs but also entered the food chain. DDT accumulated in the fatty tissues of animals
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“Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” Once I was exposed to reading “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” I put myself in Christopher Hitchens and Rachel Riederer shoes and realized how humor‚ can be used in a horrendous situation. Not everyone may know what a cancer patient has to go through but as days go by everyone has been through a situation that cannot handle on his or her own. By reading these two articles‚ I automatically had a mental image of what and how the narrator felt. In the article‚ “Patient”‚
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What is Morality. James Rachels is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama and author of several books dating back to his first book End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality(1986). In Rachels essay “What is Morality- The Elements of Moral Philosophy”‚ Rachels believes that “minimum conception”(14) of morality is‚ at the very least‚ the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason while considering others who will be affected by it as well. This “minimum conception”(Rachels‚1) he urges‚ is a core
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companies had to say‚ environmentalist Rachel Carson sought to get behind the mystery that was pesticide use in America. She saw through the chemical companies’ lies‚ and with the use of her book‚ strove to end their deathly practices. Silent Spring voiced her opinion over the catastrophic consequences of this chemical abuse and could be considered the prime factor that led to the ignition of regulation programs‚ such as the Environmental Protection Agency. In her infamous publication‚ Carson questions
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Analyzing Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure” In her essay “The Obligation to Endure”‚ Rachel Carson alerts the public to the dangers of modern industrial pollution. She writes about the harmful consequences of lethal materials being released into the environment. She uses horrifying evidence‚ a passionate tone‚ audience‚ and the overall structure of her essay to express to her readers that the pollution created by man wounds the earth. There are many different ways that pollution can harm
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Rachel Carson was born on May 27‚ 1907 in Springdale‚ Pennsylvania. She grew up with abig appreciation for nature because her mom liked nature. She got a degree in Biology fromPennsylvania College for Women and a degree in Zoology from Johns Hopkins University. Sheworked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She was known as a very good nature writer andwrote a lot of books about the living world and the ocean. She died in 1964 after a long fightwith breast cancer.In 1947‚ Time Magazine said that
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Her Kind The poem “Her Kind” by Anne Sexton brings attention to her readers from digging deep into the true meaning behind her imagery. Her poem is quiet but along with an intense emotion‚ it brings out most of what she truly felt in reality. Anne describes very descriptively three roles of women in society that are overlooked and judged constantly by the people around them. In Anne’s eyes‚ she makes us feel that as good of a person she can be‚ she’s always overlooked and misunderstood and she
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reactions and emotions the main character‚ Louise Mallard‚ endures after hearing the news that her husband is believed to have been killed in an accident. Although Mrs. Mallard may be criticized for what seems to be ‘heartless’ at first‚ the story illustrates exactly how different a woman felt in the 1800’s compared to how a woman would feel today if the accident occurred. The story begins when Mrs. Mallard is told her husband is believed to have died after a railroad accident after Richards‚ a family friend
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