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    Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, first published in 1962, bright light to how the widespread use of chemical pesticides was posing a serious threat to public health and leading to the destruction of wildlife. While numerous philosophers have written on this topic throughout history, Rachel Carson did an excellent job at creating a more basic way for the general public to comprehend the troubles in the environment at the time. This book was no doubt in response to the increasing awareness in the 1960s

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    being killed off, diseases were being prevented, and everyone was happy and mosquito-free. But upon hearing that DDT was affecting more than just insects, Rachel Carson decided to take action and wrote her bestselling book, “Silent Spring.” However, with the release of ‘Silent Spring’ came very harsh criticism and the birth of the environmental movement. Her book proved to be a very controversial topic, and it still is today with many saying that her assumptions were wrong and she jumped to conclusions

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    1960s came a need for change, as an immense amount of smog and toxic chemicals used in agriculture and industry caused, the blue to fade away from the sky and water in America. Rachel Carson provided the catalyst for this change with her book Silent Spring published in 1962, which revealed the harmful impacts of pesticides on almost all wildlife and human beings. People reading a book wouldn’t be enough, though, for twenty million Americans came together on April 22, 1970, to celebrate the beauty

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    Environmentalism is the belief in which one advocates for environmental preservation. In Rachel Carson’s narrative Silent Spring, she gives her activist insight on the use of toxic chemicals for the benefit of humanity by exposing the detrimental effects these toxins bring. In comparison to Carson, I perceive myself to have developed my perception of nature through books however, my culture did not allow me to have a one on one interaction with nature. Carson fails to comprehend how traditional values

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    Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is a revolutionary part of the environmentalist’s history. Caron’s last novel written, published in 1962, is a plea to the American people to look at what insecticides are doing to our nation, and with that, our earth. Her first chapter sets the scene, and brings readers to a fictitious city that all Americans can try to relate to by writing, “There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with

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    Argument essay,is “Silent Springs”inspiring or discourage because it is so big. Carson's writing is inspiring people to solve the problem because I am guessing they really want to find out why these people are dying,for example in paragraph 3 it says “Who would be stricken suddenly while they play and die within a few hours.”that explains what they want to find out so their friends and family won't just die. In paragraph 8 it says “They have done it to themselves.”They found out why they the people

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    Carson’s anchor text, “Silent Spring” is inspiring some people to solve the problem that could get worse in the future. For example, it makes people think we should care for the planet more because if we don’t, we could disappear in a second. In this anchor text, it is about the dangers of DDT. It is a dangerous pesticides many people try to get rid of. With this more people start to be puzzled. For example, the story is about DDT which is a thing we should start worrying about. In paragraph 3,

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    organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) was a major achievement in chemistry in 1940s that proffers solution to the menace of pest invasion on agricultural farms at the time. However, this success was short lived when Rachael Carson published the book title “silent spring” in 1962 that calls the attention of the world to the detrimental effect of continuous application pesticides and it derivative compounds on human and the environment (Ref). World health organization (WHO) compiled fact sheet recently, gave an

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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 Rachel Carson takes a more extreme view than I do, her expose still manages to maintain relevance because she uses universal themes that appeal 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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    detriment that people cause can affect the food we the air we breathe. The people that do this to us make other people sick. These diseases make other people sick and die. The food we eat can become poisonous. As, explained in “ Silent Springs “ by Rachel Carson, the environment in the story was dangerous. The author states in paragraph 3 on page 364, it says doctors become more puzzled on what is going with the their patients. Additionally she claims that all of the people ,animals

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