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experience as an immigrant or an international student in Canada‚ and/or examples that you know directly or indirectly. You should also quote at least once from “No Nation So Favoured” by Hugh MacLennan (pp.5-6). OR 2. In “A Fable for Tomorrow” (pp. 123-124)‚ Rachel Carson raises the serious issues of pollution and environmental protection. Select specific examples from Carson’s essay and essays by Sang Il Lee (“Our Earthly Fate”‚ pp.233-234)‚ or David Suzuki (“Overpopulation Is Bad but Overconsumption
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Name Instructor Environmental Studies and Forestry Date Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – Review Silent Spring is a widely-read environmental book published on September 27‚ 1962‚ by Houghton Mifflin. Rachel Carson‚ a renowned environmentalist‚ wrote this book to express her concerns over the human abuse of the environment. In this work‚ Carson vividly expresses and documents how the use of pesticides in agriculture indiscriminately affects the natural environment. She primarily focuses on how
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Silent Spring 1. A. I was captivated with the way Carson began the book with the imaginary town that had suffered plagues due to pesticides. She then went on to say that these were based off real events that happened all over the country. Also it was fascinating how much Rachel Carson new about carcinogens and the ill effects of pesticides such as cancer and birth defects. This was at a time when this was not a wide spread fact. B. The protagonists in this novel are nature and the public
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Silent Spring Rachel Carson Penguin Books in Association with Hamish Hami‚ 2000 1 336pp.‚ £9.99‚ ISBN-10: 0141184949 “The sedge is wither’d from the lake‚ and no birds sing.” I was pleasantly surprised when I firstly opened the title page of Silent Spring. This line of John Keats’s La Belle Dame sans Merci which is one of my favourite poetries seems to be a poetic description of the theme of the book. However‚ unlike the artistic conception of sadness created by the poet in that ballad‚ “no
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I have read excerpts from two texts. An informational text titled ‘The Sea Around Us’ by Rachel Carson‚ and a literature text titled ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’‚ by Jules Verne. In both excerpts there are many descriptions of the ocean. Many people debate whether details are described more vividly in informational text‚ or in literature. I feel the ocean was described more vividly in the excerpt from the literature text ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’. I believe the ocean
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Essay Dangerous insecticidal practices run rampant across the United States‚ and no one is doing a single thing to stop them. Rachel Carson published an infamously controversial book hailed as Silent Spring in1962 in which she tries to convince her audience that it is their civic duty as human beings to prevent unreasonable pesticide methods from ever taking place. Carson denounces the simple act of farming by backing up her argument with literary prose and scientific facts. Carson’s implementation
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A female marine biologist and environmentalist named Rachel Carson wrote The Sea Around Us in 1951‚ which ended up in her winning a National Book award for a Non-fiction book and a John Burroughs award the following year. In this book she covers a wide range of topics involving our oceans in three parts. The first part‚ titled Mother Sea‚ Rachel Carson describes the history of how the seas formed‚ life on the surface and near the floor of the ocean‚ how the sea changes with the seasons‚ how islands
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eagle’s population status changed? The population had increased greatly. 4. When was the bald eagle removed from the Endangered Species List? August 9‚ 2007 the bald eagle was removed from the Endangered Species List. 5. Since the publication of Rachel Carson’s book‚ Silent Spring in 1962‚ what laws have been enacted that have helped bald eagles recover? Since 1962 the Bald and Golden eagle protection act came out ‚ making hunting bald eagles illegal. 6. Name some other bird species that have
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Throughout Silent Spring‚ Carson describes how DDT entered the food chain and built up inside animals causing cancer and other damage. The Center for Disease Control (2009) states people are most likely exposed to DDT from foods‚ including meat fish‚ and dairy products. Once entered the body‚ the Center for Disease Control (2009) explains‚ DDT is converted into several breakdown products called metabolites‚ including the metabolite dichlorodiphenyldichloroethene (DDE). Carson wanted to make the point
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