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    Rachel Carson wrote the book‚ Silent Spring‚ to introduce the issues with pesticides. Carson’s main argument in the chapter‚ The Obligation to Endure‚ is that pesticides do not put an end to the insect problems. Pesticides are human’s invention to bring an end to pest issues. However‚ pesticides not only have limited success‚ but also worsen the situation. Pesticides kill the insects‚ but insects grow to be immune to the chemicals. Hence‚ scientists have to make stronger and more harmful pesticides

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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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    benefits? Of course‚ and in the most inhumane manner. Will we then have a surplus amount of resources for the future? Certaintly not‚ if we do not become aware of what we are doing that’s effecting our environment. In the book an Obligation to Endure the author‚ Racheal Carson‚ begins by informing the reader on man being

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    Analyzing Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure” In her essay “The Obligation to Endure”‚ Rachel Carson alerts the public to the dangers of modern industrial pollution. She writes about the harmful consequences of lethal materials being released into the environment. She uses horrifying evidence‚ a passionate tone‚ audience‚ and the overall structure of her essay to express to her readers that the pollution created by man wounds the earth. There are many different ways that pollution can harm

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    Pesticides Rachel Carson writes of how pesticides and human interferences with nature have changed the course of the human races future. Carson describes the drastic changes and mutations in nature that pesticides have introduced by the pesticides. She then goes on to describe the effects of the pesticides on people and the animals. Also Carson talks about the long term effects and how they will affect our descendants. Carson’s essay tells of the consequences and havoc that will occur. Carson describes

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    are being produced and tested every day. Are these chemicals being tested for the effects they could have on our environment though? In‚ “Silent Spring” an excerpt from Rachel Carson’s‚ “The Obligation to Endure‚” Carson suggests that the pesticides and insecticides we have are harmful to more than just the environment. Rachel Carson is an author who is passionate about the environment and concerned about the well being of its inhabitants. This is apparent because of the way in which she writes. For

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    Professor Norford ENC 1101 3 March 2014 Word Count: 828 The Obligation to Endure Carson writes this essay informing us about pesticides and chemicals farmers use on their crops that can danger our echo system. The pollution man is creating “is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible.” (Carson 2) There are many different ways that pollution can harm the environment‚ from

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    ENG 102 22 April 2013 Environmental Issues Today Rachel Carson had a passionate belief that mankind had launched a personal war on itself inadvertently due to the war it had launched on insects and its insistence of contaminating the air‚ land and water by doing so. At a rate of more than 500 new chemicals per year‚ of which 200 from the1940 ’s to the 1960 ’s were pesticides‚ the public market is flooded with more pesticides than it knows what to do with. More often than not‚ each new insecticide

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    Rachel Carson “The Pain of Persecution – One Person CAN Make a Difference” Rachel Carson has made an impact on how people now care for the environment. She has made better the health and future of our world. We must continue to finish what Rachel has left us with- the conservation of the environment. A.) –Who are the people whose lives are EVERYONE’S lives are affected affected? -What is the history? What were the Pesticides called DDT were being sprayed on circumstances?

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    Together‚ “The Flight of Rachel Carson” and “Fragments of an Autobiography” encompass the idea of how the passionate struggle and attitude to achieve guarantees influential success beyond a simple want and ambition as noted in the collective determination of the characters Charles Dickens and Rachel Carson. From “The Flight of Rachel Carson”‚ the necessary attitude‚ hardships‚ and actions are presented through Rachel Carson’s notion that attempts at results yields far greater findings than simply

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