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    The two aspects that shaped Rachel Carson’s life was the glue factory right around the corner of her childhood home and her book the Silent Spring. The factory “passers-by could watch old horses file up a covered wooden ramp to their death” (Griswold). As a young child witnessing a particular work left an effect on Carson’s life. Additionally, the citizens were forced “from sitting on their porches in the evening” (Griswold). Rachel Carson surroundings established her opinion on our world’s environment

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    attempt to control pests detrimental to their crops. Rachel Carson was a biologist who wrote pamphlets (Lear) on conservation and natural resources designed to inform people on the beauty of the living world. In an excerpt from her 1962 work Silent Spring, Carson calls upon the public to take action against the use of parathion by highlighting its catastrophic nature and vilifying the agricultural community for their negligence. Carson emphasizes the hazards of parathion by exposing its fatal

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    “No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people have done it themselves.” In the descriptive nonfiction, anchor text, “from a Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson she explains the effects of the chemical used by humans called Pesticides. This man made chemical is designed to kill crop eating insects, but they can be toxic to many including humans. Pesticides cause vegetation to wither and streams to become contaminated. Also, animals to die and the

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    Analysis of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Review: This book was focused on the concern of pesticides that industries, along with us as individuals, have been dumping (both knowingly and unknowingly) into water. Carson was concerned that the chemicals which the farmers spread on their fields, and even the chemicals we use in our homes (among others), in the end, might come back around and harm us. The beginning of the book tells a story of a place, that was once so beautiful, turned dead

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    The book, Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, warns people about the use of insecticides. When people use pesticides to kill insects, it leads to problems because pesticides transfer from people to animals. Carson shows us when the earth is contaminated with pollution, it is going to take generation after generation to fix. When the chemicals were discovered to make pesticides they were found by accident. People started to use pesticides to kill insects, but the pesticides started to make people sick

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    Rachel Carson was a Marine Biologist and a conservationist who wrote Silent Spring, which helped revolutionize modern environmental conservation. She was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, PA. Her mother had a vast love for nature which was bequeathed down to Carson. She graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women in 1927 with a major in Marine Biology and later got her M.A. from John Hopkins in Zoology on the year of 1932. Initially, she wrote pamphlets on conservation and natural resources while

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    The concept of what is humane and what isn’t, plagues our world and easily influences what our society needs. The war on chemicals sparks a stimulating debate, which is splitting our populace directly down the middle. In the environmental book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson presents a one-sized argument in which she states that pesticides are one of the roots of environmental ruin. Carson deeply advocates the control over pests by limiting the use of pesticides, which she is truly certain that the chemicals

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    In the book, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson warns people about the use of insecticide. When people use pesticide to kill insects it leads to problems because it would transfer from people to animals. Carson shows us when the earth is contaminated with pollution, it is going to take generation after generation to fix. When the chemicals were discovered to make pesticides it was founded by an accident. People started to use pesticides to kill insects, but the pesticide started to make people and animals

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    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

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    Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 edition, first published in 1962) was written by a marine biologist, Rachel Carson. In this book, she is warning the effects on the environment of use of dangerous pesticides that is sprinkled to farm products, especially dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane (DDT). In this book, Carson is mainly mentioning about insecticide. She has been saying that spraying insecticide is harmful. In chapter four, she uses “endless cycle” (46) to describe that effect

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