The Obligation to Endure is the second chapter from the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Carson presents the persuasive argument that pesticides such as DDT should be kept away from our homes‚ our place of business‚ and our children. In the 1950s and 60s DDT was a very popular pesticide that was commonly used. The hazardous effects were unknown. Carson expresses her founded concerns about the adverse risks and toxicity associated with these pesticides using logical‚ emotional‚ and ethical
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Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure” was a successful persuasive approach to opening society’s eyes to environmental issues. In “The Obligation to Endure”‚ Rachel Carson writes about the earth and how it has adapted to environmental changes in the span of millions of years. “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species-man- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world” (Rachel Carson 267). Carson states that mankind has done some irreversible
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people’s mistakes. It becomes more effective if the subject in question is particularly high in our interest scale. The article titled “The Sense of Wonder” by Rachel Carson talks about the unique sense of wonder that characterizes newborns and children and the way that growing old and age counteracts and reduces this special gift. Carson details very specific suggestions for parents to promote and therefore establish connections between children and nature. It is important to start building a sense
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balancing nature with mankind and understanding the harmful effects of using synthetic pesticides on the earth. Rachel Carson weaves this message throughout the book by utilizing powerful diction‚ for example‚ “Although modern man seldom remembers the fact‚ he could not exist without the plants that harness the sun’s energy and manufacture the basic foodstuffs he depends upon for life” (63). Carson empowers society by explaining the need for coexistence with plants because without plants there would be
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mid-twentieth century‚ there were high uses of toxic pesticides--namely DDT. Overtime these pesticides would have toxic effects on the environment and organisms. An environmentalist named Rachel Carson was greatly bothered by this and wrote the book Silent Spring explaining the toxicity of insecticides and their effects on life. Carson explained the effects that insecticides were having on life at that time‚ and the effects that would happen in the future if insecticide use continued. Silent Spring is an important
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In the eye-opening excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ by Rachel Carson‚ we are regaled with a tale of an ideal‚ albeit fictional‚ flourishing town that blossomed with vitality. Through descriptive passages and an abundance of detail the author uses the setting and mood to take us on a journey through time as we learn about a prospering town that succumbs to a doomed fate that can only be instated through humans careless actions. The author immediately plunged into descriptive detail in this short
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Final Essay: Rachel Carson and the Fight Against Indiscriminate Pesticide Use May 10‚ 2012 Prompt: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a controversial piece of work when it was published in 1962. Explain why this was so and why Carson’s work remains the subject of some controversy today. In her 1962 book‚ Silent Spring‚ Rachel Carson details the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use‚ which had “already silenced the voice of spring in countless towns in America” (Carson (1962) page 3). ‘Miss
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Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist‚ author‚ and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Rachel Carson was born on May 27‚ 1907 in Springdale‚ PA. Carson grew up in Springdale and attended high school close to there. It was a small school called Parnassus High School in Kensington‚ PA. She intended to go to college and major in English and become a teacher‚ but she soon changed to Biology. Carson competed
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LINGUISTIC PECULARITIES OF ENGLISH-AMERICAN FABLE Graduation paper presented by Patskal Natalia a fifth year student of the English department SUPERVISED BY N. Nera a lecturer of the English department Lviv 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction……………………………………………………………………………...3 Part I. Theoretical background of fable as a genre ………………………………….6 1.1. Genre of fable in literature and its history…………………………………………..6 1.2. Form and content of fables............................................
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Common type of story is the fable‚ which presents a moral‚ or lesson about human behavior. Fables usually feature animals behaving and speaking as humans. Among the most widely known are those from the ancient Sanskrit Pancatantra (Five Chapters)‚ which was first written down in India perhaps 2‚000 years ago. Known in Europe as The Fables of Bidpai‚ this collection presents animal characters in entertaining stories and poetry. Many European animal fables have at least in part descended from the Pancatantra
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