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    Silent Spring was written and published sixty five years ago. Over time, good works of literature begin to lose their relevance, but great works transcend time. Although Alice Walker takes a more extreme view than I do, her expose still managed to maintain relevance because she used universal themes that appealed to the audience’s morality despite the obvious cultural changes that take place over the span of fifty years. Through the use of several rhetorical devices and argumentative methods Silent

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    INTRODUCTION In the book 'Silent spring ' written by Rachael Carson we find a picture of Carson 's deep concept about the connection between nature’s equilibrium and the web of life that has been ruined by the uncontrolled use of insecticides which in turn affected the healthy livelihood of this earth’s creatures. Furthermore, she tells the readers of substitute techniques of achieving the same ends. The title of the book is enough to make us understand that it was a hint of a spring season with no bird

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    Silent Spring writing piece. Lis San Emeterio Silent Spring writing piece. Lis San Emeterio If you haven't read the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, you're missing out on an informative journey about pesticides and the effects that it has on the human body, on animals, and the reason why insecticides, pesticides, and all other sorts of chemicals have become such a controversial issue in our world. Rachel Carson eloquently wrote 50 years ago about how humans are the reason that pesticides

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    Rachel Carson is a noted biologist who studies biology, a branch of science addressing living organisms, yet she has written a book called Silent Spring to speak about the harmful effects of pesticides on nature. Carson doesn’t write about birds’ genetic and physical makeup, the role of them in the animal food chain, or even how to identify their unbelievable bird songs, yet strongly attests the fight for a well developed environment containing birds, humans, and insects is just and necessary. To

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    pesticides, nineteen have studies pointing toward carcinogens, thirteen are linked with birth defects, twenty-one with reproductive effect, and fifteen with neurotoxicity, twenty-six with liver or kidney damage. Environmentalist Rachel Carson book Silent Spring discusses the lethality of pesticides, specifically parathion. Rachel Carson hopes to change American’s attitudes toward nature and pesticide use. In this influential passage, Rachel Carson discusses disastrous affect of parathion on nature in

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    The Obligation to Endure is taken from the book Silent Spring by the author Rachel Carson. This piece was written in 1962. It is a very richly worded excerpt, written with the intention of grabbing hold of the reader and opening their eyes to what she sees as a problem within the rise of humanity. The main focus of the topic is that the overuse of insecticides and chemicals which are not only a problem but also a detriment to man as well as nature. Carson makes a very effective argument, bringing

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    When Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, she focused mainly on how pesticides affected the environment. She looked at many different types of herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides that caused great harm to everything within an environment. Trying to persuade scientists and officials about these issues that are caused by pesticides. This did a great job at communicating to the public back in the 1960’s, but in today’s world this book would not do a great job at communicating to the public, with

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    In biologist Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring (1962), she suggests that Americans should stop using parathion and other harmful chemical agents. Carson uses cause and effect, a metaphor, and connotative diction to assert her point. She writes to a general audience in a passionate tone. Carson describes the unnecessary cruelty of American farmers to innocent animals and people in order to change Americans’ attitude toward the environment. Carson begins by presenting the farmer’s selfish murdering

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    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

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    Silent Spring Rachel Carson Online Information For the online version of BookRags' Silent Spring Premium Study Guide, including complete copyright information, please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-silentspring/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale's For Students Series: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction, Author Biography

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