Ira L. Baldwin 's The Biological Weapons Program During World War II

He was a state legislator, founder and president of the University, and was a member of the Confederation Congress. He was one of the U.S. singers of the Constitution, in 1787 Baldwin was one of four Georgia delegates to attend the U.S. constitutional convention in Philadelphia, but by the time the constitution was completed, only two Georgia delegates remained to sign the document and Baldwin was one of them, and ended up earning the title “founding father” for the new

James Baldwin was a man who wrote an exceptional amount of essays. He enticed audiences differing in race, sexuality, ethnic background, government preference and so much more. Each piece is a circulation of emotions and a teeter-totter on where he balances personal experiences and worldly events to the way you feel. Not only did he have the ability to catch readers’ attention through writing, but he also appeared on television a few times.

In Baldwin’s early life, he had to work hard and support his family. Born on August 2, 1924 in Harlem, New York, James Baldwin was born as the oldest child out of eight siblings (“About the Author”). All of his siblings were step brothers and sisters (Tackach). Baldwin helped raise his siblings for his mother, Emma Berdis Jones and his stepfather, David Baldwin. James did not know his biological father because his mother would not say anything related about his father. David Baldwin was a very harsh and religious stepfather to James (“About the Author”). His stepfather would verbally abuse him and call James an ugly child (“James Baldwin”). Even though his home life was not so good, James had a good education and attended Frederick Douglass Junior High School for the first two years of high school (Tackach). Then, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School in Bronx, New York for the next two years (“James Baldwin”). During his years of high school, he became a preacher at church from the ages of fourteen to eighteen (“About the

Baldwin was born to a young mother whose name is Emma Berdis Jones, and allegedly, she never told him who his real father was. James Baldwin grew up in poverty, which was an enhancer for his struggling relationship with his stepfather. Nevertheless, James followed in his footsteps and became a preacher. After a realization, at the age of 18 Baldwin

James Baldwin is a African American , he was born in 1924 in New York. As a child he didn’t have his father in his life but he still wanted a relationship with him before his dad died in 1943. He grew up in a church called Pentecostal and started ministering at the age of 14. James spoke about religion, sexual, class rankings, and thoughts about racism. He experienced discrimination from individuals when applying for different jobs, so later when he moved into a different neighborhood he got inspired by different writers to start writing. (Biography )

First we need a little background of Baldwin. A native New Yorker, Baldwin was born in Harlem. In the late 1940’s Baldwin then moved to France to escape growing racisms and homophobic. Unfortunately Baldwin died at the young age of 63 due to cancer; luckily he left us with an array of classic American Novels.

When I published my first novel in 2000, I was a thirty-three year old woman who had made the decision to become a writer at the age of nine. At the age of nine, I had heard the name: James Baldwin but had no conception of his magnitude, of his impact on the world. I had not read his work and so did not and could not know that ultimately and eventually my entire writing career would be the manifestation of his very profound observation.

Due to the town’s inaccessibility, a person with black skin had never set foot in this remote village before, so Baldwin became a spectacle of the town. The longer Baldwin stayed in the village, the more familiar the people became with him. However, in his eyes, Baldwin still felt like a “stranger.” This is evident

Baldwin developed a passion for reading at an early age, and demonstrated a gift for writing during his school years. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he worked on the school's magazine

In the book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s main concern is the widespread use of synthetic pesticides and their impact on the environment. Carson concentrates on a commonly used pesticide in the 1950s called DDT. She opposes the indiscriminate spraying of DDT because it has profound consequences on the environment, humans and animals. Carson collected information about how the DDT can cause cancer in humans, harm animals such as birds and remained in the environment for long periods of time. Subsequently, the chemicals in the pesticides are extremely harmful so she tries to raise awareness and convince others that there are better alternatives.

In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson proves that pesticides do more harm than good. She details how ineffective most pesticides are, how toxic they've become, and how they've managed to radically alter entire ecosystems by killing off animals like robins and eagles. Carson begins by noting that attempts to improve the efficiency of pesticides have merely resulted in their becoming even more toxic. As those toxins move up the food chain, they increase in potency to the point of killing many animals, including eagles. Carson also details how pesticides are bad for humans. The toxins are stored in fat, where they linger around in the system, causing many problems, including diseases like cancer.

In chapter four of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson describes the damage pesticides can do to the water supply. Carson describes what happens when pesticides enter the water supply. Also, Carson shows us the drinking water at Pennsylvania was contaminated with insecticides. Carson shows that the contaminated water can kill a fish in only four hours. In Silent Spring, Carson says,“For example, a sample of drinking water from an orchard area Pennsylvania, when tested on fish in a laboratory, contained enough insecticide to kill all of the test fish in only four hours”(41). In this quote, Carson shows that the water supply at Pennsylvania was very contaminated with insecticides. A number of insecticides in that water were enough to kill the animals in the lake in only four hours because it was very concentrated. Carson shows us that the water Pennsylvanian was contaminated with insecticides. Also, Carson shows that the insecticides were very concentrated in the fatty tissues of the animals. The water is not safe for the animals and the human beings that drink it. Pesticide should be limited because it poisons our water

Silent spring by Rachel Carson is the story about pesticide use and its consequences, which prompts human attitudes towards pollution and gives such a vivid critiques to some modern industrial behaviors. The book is a cause of panel setup for saving ecology of President Kennedy. Carson begins her first chapter “A Fable of tomorrow,” with a visualized description of a heartbreaking outcome in a small town in America when it comes to the massive use of pesticides. She introduces many kinds of insecticides such as DDT, arsenic, heptachloride, chlordane, hexachloride and so forth. The synthetic pesticides tragically spread and unknowingly resided in the body of fish, birds, reptiles, and domesticated and wild animals, and thus also in the body

As a result of one of her friends writing a letter describing the death of birds after she sprayed her property with DDT to control mosquitos and several other events, Rachel Carson began to pay attention to the results of pesticides that are used to control insects in America. In her book, Silent Spring (1962), marine biologist and conservationist Rachael Carson examines the effects of the use of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds. Her purpose of the book is to inform the reader on the harmful effects of uncontrolled pesticide usage on not only animals, but no humans themselves. She explores the interconnections of the environment in which she describes how a pesticide that is meant to eliminate one organism, can spread its

DDT is a highly effective insecticide kills mosquito, louse and other crop pests. Thus, it was widely used in the United States, Western Europe and some Asian countries to promote the prosperity of agriculture and to control epidemic typhus, malaria and other insect-borne infectious diseases during the World War II. DDT reached its peak demand in 1950s and 1980s, when more than 40,000 tons DDT were used worldwide each year. Although some scientists had concern about the extensive use of the pesticide, public kept ignoring DDT’s harm until 1962, when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring – a book that pointed out occurrence of toxicological problems and emphasized insecticides, including DDT, were chief culprits of the problems (Carson, 1962).