Silent Spring By Rachel Carson

Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri, is a writer,and she is known for many auto-biographical novels and she also writes poetry and essays. She also loved to study music, dance,and drama. From 1963 to 1966 Angelou was involved in the black civil rights movement. Maya Angelou wrote this specific poem called; “Phenomenal Women”. Angelou has a very creative way of saying things throughout her poem. Angelou talks about a woman in the poem that talks about herself a lot she repeats the phrase“ I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman that's me”( Angelou) therefore Angelou might be this person in her poem. Angelou is trying to show the reader that you need to have more confidence in your own person instead of worrying about others judgment.

Throughout the term, an array of environmental issues reveal how the human organism disrupts ecosystems for the use of herbicides, pesticides, fossil fuels, lead, mercury, deforestation, dams, genetically modified organisms (GMO), human waste, phosphates, radiation, persistent organic pollutants (POP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and an endless list of other toxins and systems that taint our environment. In addition, the seemingly endless list of toxic chemicals alters biodiversity while potentially changing genetic composition. There are several experiences throughout ENVS 1301 that heightened awareness and reshaped personnal attitude due to years of ignorance, neglect, and abuse for our surroundings. Most everyone (including self) is involved

In the eighteen hundreds, women were expected to love their husbands, clean and cook, and take care of the children. Most women had to listen to what their husbands said and follow it, so there were not much equal rights in the time. However, in the book The Awakening, the main character Edna is not the typical nineteenth century women. Edna cares about her children, but she is not the motherly figure. Furthermore, she does not worship her husband like many other women do, and she becomes rebellious towards her husband, which is very odd at the time. Throughout the Novella, Edna awakens to her true potential. However, after a couple obstacles she could not take it and decides to kill herself. People argue if Edna’s suicide is her full transformation to awakening, but in all actuality it is her failed attempt of truly becoming free.

1. Spring by Mary Oliver is one of joy and happiness. The poem creates a refreshing and joyous environment and mood. The poem itself is a definition and description of the wonderful season of spring. I broke this poem into three parts to define its meaning and musical interpretation.

The subject of this investigation is “How did the 2007 Broadway production of Spring Awakening convey the structure of an authoritarian society and its detrimental effects on the youth of the musical?” Adapted from the German play The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood, written by playwright Frank Wedekind, the musical Spring Awakening “[explores] the tortured inner lives of a handful of adolescents [living] in 19th-century Germany” and their struggles to deal with problems such as: sexual frustration, failure, and abuse; all made worse by the overbearing adults who wield their power over the vulnerable young characters through indoctrination and fear tactics (Isherwood). Under the direction of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, all the elements that went into making this musical reflect the central message of the play—a warning of the dangers of an authoritarian society and how, if too powerful, can create horrific situations for the younger generation, depicted in the musical through tragedies such as suicide and teenage pregnancy.

Sisters Frieda and Claudia know they were getting a new sister. Well not exactly. Because Pecola’s father burnt down their home, she was sent to live with the MacTeer family until her family was able to take her back. Frieda and Claudia do not know what to make of Pecola. First off she is ugly, this little black girl, whom no one will ever call beauty. What she long for is blue eyes. The bluest eyes in the world, as if she was like all those blonde fair skin blue eye girls, her family would love her, and mend their broken home. Where Pecola very view times get to narrates her story, it is told from other perspective, including events to led to her home life. From Claudia’s point of view of Pecola, to how her parents were both raise and met,

Humans have been interfered with chemicals such as lead, mercury, and ammonia to provide themselves a better life. Yet, they were blindsided of the threats those chemicals proposed until the waking up call from the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in the early 1960s, in which she alarmed that the earth is destroyed by the overuse of toxic chemicals. Not only the earth is affected, the lives of all kinds are also affected: the lives of plants, animals, and even humans. With the population is on the rise, the use of chemical is in demand. The need of chemicals in agriculture, home products, and also food process is irreplaceable. Humans cannot go back to the ancient age but to move forward with new chemicals to have a better life. The moving

The author of “Phenomenal Woman,” Maya Angelou is a jack of many trades. This multi-talented woman is not only an award-winning author and poet, but also an actress, screenwriter, dancer, and civil rights activist (Maya par 2). Maya Angelou’s amazing gift of writing was so powerful and inspirational. Although she no longer walks the earth, her works continue to live on and be the food for our souls. She was truly a living example of the phenomenal and confident person that we should all strive to be. In the poem “Phenomenal Woman,” Maya Angelou lets us know that it is not what we look like. It is how we carry ourselves. We should have a sense of shamelessness about ourselves. We should be shameless and confident, no one can take away our pride, and they cannot do anything but respect us for it.

The Industrial Revolution fundamentally shifted the relationship of human beings to nature. Once, human beings were relatively vulnerable and helpless before the forces of the natural world. Now, in the age of industrialization, humanity is able to change and shape nature, as well as simply try to survive its onslaught. With the ability to alter nature has come unexpected consequences, however, that forces our species to continually reevaluate how it relates to the environment. Global warming is often seen as the consequences of human beings attempting to dominate nature, through the construction of fossil fuel-burning machinery, industrialized agriculture, and the clearing of national habitats. The question of how to live in a state of balance with nature has generated the branch of philosophy known as environmental ethics, a form of applied ethics that studies the relationship of humans to the environment and often provides prescriptive advice about how human beings should live in nature.

As the world changes everyday, pollution and global warming have taken effect on everyday lives. In “The Obligation to Endure”, Carson uses logos to show that pollution is undeniably fatal to all living things on Earth by saying, “Along with the possibility of the extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem for

The environment provides many valuable resources for human beings including but not limited to many necessary elements for sustaining life. It can be argued, therefore, that when a person protects the environment for his own good and that of future generations, he may justify his actions under the principle that human life is sacred and must be protected. Without air, clean water, and healthy plants and animals on which to feed, the human race, along with many other races, would die out.

A hiker taking a walk around the nature has likely looked up and listened to the birds singing in the high, blue sky. Additionally, that hiker could have counted the number of birds that were flying home. Suddenly, the wind could sweep through the area, and whisper through the hiker’s ears. When they take a deep breath, he or she would sense the taste of fresh air. The mind opens. What a time to be alive. However, time has changed nature. In reality, the air that used to be fresh is now polluted. In particular, those birds that flew across the sky are now dying each day. Watching them die in desperation makes that person feels hopeless about the future, about how humans have destroyed the earth for in just a few years. In fact, the earth is badly polluted with “...tens of thousands of chemicals in use today throughout the world” (Noyes and Lema). Unfortunately, some are recorded as unknown or poorly tested. Chemical pollution, the silent killer, brings us a step closer to the destruction of the earth every day. Therefore, humans must take action to stop the overuse of chemical substances because of their tremendous negative impact on organisms’ health, their link to ecological disasters, and the harm to future generations, before chemical pollution takes over this planet.

Ecology- “the interactive relationships among living beings and their environment” (Hillel, 47). Throughout history man and nature and the relationship between the two has shaped the world we live in today. They have coexisted ever since the first humans were put on the earth. Over the years a lot has changed for the better and for the worse. Humans have begun to see nature differently than we originally did, therefore treating nature differently. Although humans have done some things to better and help nature, the amount of damage and pain that we have inflicted on it is overwhelming at times. I love nature and feel that it is a big part of who I am, so I obviously don’t like seeing it being treated this way and would love to one day make a real impact in bettering the well-being of nature and my surroundings. One big aspect that I feel has led to the mistreatment of our world is the lack of knowledge that the recent generations have of even the simplest aspects of nature like dirt and water for example, I will elaborate on both of these topics later in the paper. I also feel that harming the environment is more of a choice than something that is inevitable, humanity as a whole need to just step up and decide to fix the problem instead of being passive about it.

One of the greatest problems that the world is facing today are of environmental pollution, pollution is increasing rapidly every year and causing serious and lasting damage to the earth. In the short story “A Fable for Tomorrow” by Rachel Carson, describes a small beautiful town in America that later become a terrible town, because it was overwhelmed by pollution. In addition, most of the technology that is uses in today society causes pollution for examples, cars, and pesticides. However, it is very difficult for people to give up on technology, since they are very used of using every day that makes it challenging to protect the environment. It is a similar story “Our Animal Rites” by Anna Quindlen, shows how nature is harmed because of

Civilization has been overwhelmed with fearful reports that mankind is steadily working towards self – destruction through the process of uncontrolled pollution of the environment. A casual look at our surroundings shows reckless attitude of people towards environmental preservation.