Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Year Written: 1962 The beginning of the Environmentalist Movement Short Summary; The pesticides used in an attempt to control insects that were major threats to national and international agriculture and the deadly and lasting results. Rachel Carson elaborates with careful research the harmful effects of pesticides on insects‚ marine life‚ land mammals‚ plant life‚ soil and humans‚ which can store the toxins and result in convulsions‚ bone aches‚ cancer and death
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Silent Spring Rachel Carson Penguin Books in Association with Hamish Hami‚ 2000 1 336pp.‚ £9.99‚ ISBN-10: 0141184949 “The sedge is wither’d from the lake‚ and no birds sing.” I was pleasantly surprised when I firstly opened the title page of Silent Spring. This line of John Keats’s La Belle Dame sans Merci which is one of my favourite poetries seems to be a poetic description of the theme of the book. However‚ unlike the artistic conception of sadness created by the poet in that ballad‚ “no
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Silent Spring by: Rachel Carson Review: This book was focused on the concern of pesticides that industries‚ along with us as individuals‚ have been dumping (both knowingly and unknowingly) into water. Carson was concerned that the chemicals which the farmers spread on their fields‚ and even the chemicals we use in our homes (among others)‚ in the end‚ might come back around and harm us. The beginning of the book tells a story of a place‚ that was once so beautiful‚ turned dead and ugly due
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eradicate or to reduce the expanding range of these organism without considering the true impact of such indiscriminate application of pesticides or herbicides or as Rachel Carson named as “Biocides” (Carson‚ 1962). The book written by Rachel Carson “Silent Springs” was very controversial then and now‚ because the same forces that dominated the use of these dangerous chemicals are present today but under different names and chemicals composition.
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Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” Silent Spring is widely accepted as helping start the American environmental movement in 1972. Rachel Carson was a well-known author on natural history when Silent Spring was published. The book spearheaded environmental concern and no book since has had the same impact. It begins with a story about a quaint and charming little farm town in pristine Anywhere‚ mid-America and describes wildlife and all the beautiful colors on the countryside. Many people come to
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Silent 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.
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Critique essay Silent Spring – “A Fable for tomorrow” Alexandre Clavier (31053242) Rachel Carson was the author who leaves her mark on the birth of the ecological movement. Indeed‚ her book represents the first targeted campaign against the ravages of pesticides and herbicides in the United States of America (Carson‚ 1962). In her work‚ Carson exposes the impacts of pesticides on wildlife and describes its bad effects on natural environments‚ fauna and flora but also on the human DNA (Online
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1. David Pimentel #35‚ Is Silent Spring Behind Us? Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson in 1962 that discusses the effects of pesticides‚ specifically DDT‚ and how they have had a negative impact on the environment. During the time between 1945 and 1972‚ chlorinated insecticides had become widely used in efforts to protect crops. As a result‚ these insecticides had seriously reduced the populations of predatory birds‚ fish‚ snakes and other reptilian populations‚ as well as insects and
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Causes‚ Effects‚ and Legacy of Upton Sinclair ’s The Jungle and Rachel Carson ’s Silent Spring Period 2 Maxwell Wang 1906 would see the publication of Upton Sinclair ’s The Jungle‚ pushing through major reforms of the meatpacking industry and eventually causing the government to take actions to protect the health of its people; almost fifty years later‚ the publication of Rachel Carson ’s novel Silent Spring would invoke a similar‚ but changed response to the threat of DDT. Although both
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Winter Poems A Winter Message A flake of snow in flurry thro’ the air Had landed as a kiss upon my cheek: A secret message‚ just for me to share; To take to heart but never dare to speak About or presuppose to other eyes Your open feelings – distant though they are. And so‚ upon your lips‚ my OWN surprise: A flake of snow returned from me afar. Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2010 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-winter-message/ As Winter raged And Winter was at war. Her
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