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    University of Phoenix Material Environmental Movement Matrix Choose five items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1970s: • Cuyahoga River‚ OH (Cleveland) fire 1969 • Love Canal • Silent Spring • Population Bomb • Endangered Species Act (1966‚ 1969‚ & 1973) • Clean Water Act (1972‚ 1977) • Conservationism vs. environmentalism • Acid rain • Ozone layer • Rainforests • Depletion of fossil fuels • Climate change Event Significance Clean

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    Insects vs Animals

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    Silent Spring Why do we not care about exterminating a whole society of insects‚ but we start riots and revolts over the killing of animals like elephants‚ dolphins‚ whales‚ rhinos‚ and other nearly extinct animals? We have reasons to kill these animals just like the insects‚ the slaughter of these animals temporarily benefits us‚ but what people do think about is what will happen if we eliminate every single insect of a certain species. Rachel Carson is an incredibly brave individual

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    and the Fight Against Indiscriminate Pesticide Use May 10‚ 2012 Prompt: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a controversial piece of work when it was published in 1962. Explain why this was so and why Carson’s work remains the subject of some controversy today. In her 1962 book‚ Silent Spring‚ Rachel Carson details the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use‚ which had “already silenced the voice of spring in countless towns in America” (Carson (1962) page 3). ‘Miss Carson‚’ as many of her detractors

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    Silent Spring: Unsilenced

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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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    Spring Framework Tutorial Isabelle Muszynski 15 April 2003 Chapter 1 Introduction This tutorial covers the main packages in the Spring Framework. For full details‚ we refer you to Rod Johnson’s book‚ Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development‚ published by Wrox Press in 2002. The book’s ISBN number is 1-86100-784-1. The code for the Spring Framework is contained in package com.interface21. We provide UML diagrams for the subpackages‚ as well as code samples. 1.1 Setting up for the

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    The Pros And Cons Of DDT

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    DDT between beneficial and destructive Throughout the history‚ humans have faced a lot of problems‚ but the worst of all of these are the problems made by humans themselves. Every day we try to discover something new to help our society and to help us survive in the environment that we are living in. We use technology and chemicals as an example to come up with anything that can benefit us and realize its purpose. We started to have problems with mosquitoes‚ so scientists from all over the world

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    Book Title: Silent Spring Author: Rachael Carson Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company in 1962 Background Information: Silent Spring is a book that explains the environmental and human dangers of uncritical use of pesticides‚ leading to new changes in the laws affecting our air‚ land‚ and water. It also looks at the effects of insecticides and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States‚ whose declining numbers generated the silence to which her title refers. I began this

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    in the United States. DDT‚ in the form of “sprays‚ dusts‚ and aerosols‚” was “applied almost universally to farms‚ gardens‚ forests‚ and . . . [had] the power to kill every insect‚ the ‘good’ and the ‘bad.’” In 1962‚ Rachael Carson published Silent Spring in which she discusses the impact DDT usage had on the environment and public health. Even though “the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects‚” it killed everything and left behind “a deadly film.” She insisted that DDT “not be called

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    scientists discovered pesticides that would kill the insects and end the war between farmers and insects that attacked their crops. Rachel Carson introduced her point of view from her scientific research to the public through her book titled Silent Spring‚ which is about humans destroying the entire earth and all the living things including humans themselves instead of supporting life. As Rachel Carson was a little girl‚ she already knew that she wanted to be a recognized writer when she grows

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    Silent Spring Euphemism

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    scattered with thousands of lifeless birds. This animal genocide was the shocking reality that stunned millions of Americans worldwide. Rachel Carson‚ a marine biologist and conservationist‚ released the book Silent Spring in order to address the harmful effects of pesticide usage. Silent Spring pointed out long-term consequences of chemical use that far outweighed the immediate benefits. Although Carson’s controversial book was denounced at first by the chemical companies‚ it eventually led to the

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