Social And Governmental Norms On The Lives Of Millions Of Americans By Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the Beginning of the Environmental Movement in the United States

This is an efficient strategy. It makes her audience want to get involved and preserve the natural resources the environment has to offer. In her essay she describes the devastating effects chemicals have on the environment with such conviction; it might make the reader feel obligated to make changes in his or her own life to help the natural world. Rachel Carson uses an assertive tone to get her point across. She has a one-sided argument and is very aggressive to those who oppose her point of view. She is very effective at stating her opinion to her audience.

Rachel Carson is considered one of America's finest science and nature writers. She is best known for her 1962 book, Silent Spring, which is often credited with beginning the environmental movement in the United States. The book focussed on the uncontrolled and often indiscriminate use of pesticides, especially dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (commonly known as DDT), and the irreparable environmental damage caused by these chemicals. The public outcry Carson generated by the book motivated the U.S. Senate to form a committee to

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty cannot be judged objectively because what one finds beautiful or admirable may not appeal to another. In Rachel Carson’s essay “The Marginal World”, and in Scott Russell Sanders’s essay, “Buckeye”, both authors explore the environment around them and focus on the beauty found in areas hidden in the simplest of landscapes; despite how Carson finds beauty in places untouched, while Sanders finds beauty in places taunted by human touch.

The purpose of this piece is to draw awareness to the many contradictions relating environmental justice movements and to create a society more conscious of decisions by considering consequences.

"Benjamin Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 18th,1951". (According to Biography.com editors pg.1) He was the second son of his parents Sonya and Robert Carson. Carson's father

In the 21st century, society has more concern for nature than ever before. On every corner you see a recycling bin or something that helps to preserve the nature around us. It’s hard to believe that in the 1960s people were destroying it so easily. Rachel Carson wrote a game changing book titled Silent Spring. As a woman of the sexist 60s, Carson wasn't held too highly in the eyes of scientist and men of power. However, when her book was published, people rushed to buy it. Scientist read it to prove her wrong while others read it to gain knowledge about what was happening around them. According to Neil Goodwin, Carson brought into question the integrity of the pesticide industry. The book set up the beginning to a change of normal practices

Rachel Louise Carson had a calm, yet an enjoyable childhood. She was born on May twenty-seventh, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Maria Frazier McLean and Robert Warden Carson. Robert died of a heart attack in July of 1935. She had two siblings, an older sister named Marian and a younger brother named Robert. Marian had died of pneumonia in January of 1937.

“Rachel Carson has long been recognized by historians as a pivotal figure in the modern environmental movement. Excerpts of her writing were first published by her editor and friend Paul Brooks who appreciated her achievements as a prose

In the 1960’s, there was a very popular pesticide, known as DDT. The pesticide was sprayed relentlessly in public places, while the public payed no attention, simply assuming it would be a simple solution to keep those pesky mosquitoes away from their swimming pools and ice cream parties. While it may have solved that problem, DDT caused much more unnoticed harm than good. Rachel Carson was clearly aware of this, as in her book, “Silent Spring”, she brings to light the evils caused by this convenient bug spray. She does this by conveying intense imagery, discussing various real situations, and by expressing a very serious tone to suggest to the reader that this is truly no laughing matter.

She had influenced not only in reducing and controling the use of pesticide, but opened the doors for new discoveries that were causing harm to the ecosystem. Even after her death, Carson is still alive through her literature. Her literature is unique and powerful. She was capable to undergo generations and is still sending the message, not only to scientist, but to the public in general. Her writing skills expressed the wonder and the beauty of the natural world influencing the environmental protection movement worldwide. Today are many educational programs where they teach children and adults about the environmental values. The Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge and the Rachel Carson Homestead memorials were created to honor her work and her passion of sharing her knowledge with the world through her writing skills that will live for generations. Carson used her knowledge of science and her love for Nature as a means of protest and reform (Hynes, ). Whithout Carson’s work probably we would have loss many species due to the incontroled use of

The growth of consumerism benefited those white Americans who focused on the immediate future. However, some people began to realize that the Earth will not always have the same resources it would have if they continued to treat the planet carelessly. In 1962, Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring” to address the harsh and consistent use of chemical pesticides like DDT: “We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine.” This book caused a lot of controversy because of the lack of perceived science and knowledge of the general public, therefore, further research continued and sparked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. In addition, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb created concern about the projection of the planet’s resources due to overpopulation. Whites were disconnected from the possibility of a negative and toxic environment because their neighborhoods and livelihood were never directly affected, however, the threat of a possible

Rachel Carson’s knowledge of the environment is best evident in her observations about toxic chemicals in the outdoors. Pesticides were devastating wildlife and she explained how the environment was being destroyed. For example, she elaborated on how small birds and partridges were dying after being treated with arsenic-containing oil.

Barbra Streisand was born on April 24th, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, she aspired to be an actress but received no support from her family and had to work for herself. At 15, she met Alan Miller who taught at an acting school called Erasmus High. Alan gave Streisand a scholarship to the school in exchange for babysitting his children. Streisand graduated from Erasmus High in 1959 at 16 years old.

Rachel Carson spent most of her professional life as marine biologists. She spoke and wrote very boldly on the impact on chemical pollutant on ecosystems. Her most amazing leadership act was taking on the issue of using dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) as an agricultural insecticide. Her actions as an environmentalist pioneer caused her to be attacked by the chemical industry, farmers, and other scientist.