Smirnov 1 Daniil I. Smirnov Mr. Rienhoff AP Lang & Comp 18 Sept. 2012 Silent Spring Chunk 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
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Micaela Quiroga Silent Spring Rough Draft Ms. Evans‚ AP Lang‚ pd. 3 September 2012 In America today‚ many people do not realize the impact they have on the environment. We come from a more educated generation‚ yes‚ but many people do not realize‚ that even just recycling can led to less deforestation‚ and ensuring that the environment of many animals is still there and safe. Much like how deforestation can negatively affect animals‚ it negatively affects us‚ less trees means less oxygen
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AP language and composition free response question 1 In the passage from “Silent Spring”‚ by Rachel Carson‚ she portrays her strong emotions about American’s attitude towards the environment and the mindset obtained that it is justifiable to kill species because of an inconvenience they might cause. Carson is able to render that through rhetorical strategies such as exemplification‚ repetition‚ and cause and effect. Carson uses exemplification to help the reader understand her point on the pathetic
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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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The following quote "The sedge is withr’d from the lake‚ And no birds sing‚" (Keats) seems like a very simple sentence with no meaning to it. However‚ after reading Chapter 6 of Silent Spring ‚ I realized how loaded the comment is with meaning. The quote is describing humans and how humans treat the plants here on earth. The quote describes a scene where humans continue to destroy plants because they feel that they are in the way or that the plants are not appealing to look at. However
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A’Lexia Wright AP Lang/Comp Commentary Throughout my speech I used many rhetorical devices and figures of speech. These devices include imagery‚ simile‚ parallelism‚ polysyndeton‚ tone‚ emotional appeal‚ logos and rhetorical questions. Thess devices gave me the ability to convey how I felt about teens practicing sexual abstinence. I used a rhetorical question to introduce my speech. "Whats your favorite sex position?"‚ was my introduction because I wanted to hook onto my audience
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In the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson‚ Rachel describes the damage of pesticides on the environment which had not yet been well known because of the hidden truth. Officials have either denied or prevented speaking about the harm of dangerous chemicals even though humans were negatively affected by it. This quote references the ideal expectation of a civilization because it generates the idea that a civilization can only be classified as one‚ as long as they avoid destruction. The occurrence
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Introduction Silent Spring is an American non-fiction book written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962. The book is not written as a novel‚ but rather as an explanation and commentary on the harmful use insecticides. Although not a classic style novel‚ Carson employs literary and story-telling techniques in order to communicate the information and message that she is trying to convey in a more effective and compelling way. While Silent Spring was only one of many books that Carson had written
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Jossie Brown Roxeanne Lawler English 102-HV 29 January 2013 Silent Spring: Unsilenced In the book Silent Spring‚ marine biologist Rachel Carson describes the devastating effects of pesticides on the environment. The excerpt titled The Obligation to Endure is well written and makes compelling points leading the reader to continue reading and swaying their opinion in favor of the purpose filled and deliberate argument. Carson has one weakness in this excerpt where she switches her writing to
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is one of the most influential books of the 20th century. However‚ people still criticize this book saying that it lead to protest against pesticides. Rachel Carson writes how DDT is toxic to many of the animals‚ especially the birds and can harm them. There is another argument however; DDT kills mosquitoes that carry malaria. Critics argue that this has affected many of the people living in countries like Africa who are majorly affected by malaria and after the ban
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