Natalie Jones APES‚ 4th period 8/8/15 Silent Spring Work 1. Carson’s first chapter explains the title of her book. Why is it called “Silent Spring”? It’s called Silent Spring because the season of spring‚ usually filled with singing birds and playing children‚ has become still and quiet because the people of the town have somehow killed the wildlife and poisoned their environment. She’s warning her readers what could happen if the issues she explains in her book are not addressed. 2. Why does
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our fingertips. The loss of importance that nature plays in our social environments has lead to deforestation‚ global warming‚ and the declining concern for the lives of the average animals. In Carson’s “Silent Spring” she criticizes farmers and their use of pesticides. She writes “Silent Spring” as a way to convey how she feels about the misuse of power those who are in charge of these agricultural areas. She uses diction‚ her personal love for animals and biological
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Silent Spring by: Rachel Carson Review: This book was focused on the concern of pesticides that industries‚ along with us as individuals‚ have been dumping (both knowingly and unknowingly) into water. Carson was concerned that the chemicals which the farmers spread on their fields‚ and even the chemicals we use in our homes (among others)‚ in the end‚ might come back around and harm us. The beginning of the book tells a story of a place‚ that was once so beautiful‚ turned dead and ugly due
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Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” Silent Spring is widely accepted as helping start the American environmental movement in 1972. Rachel Carson was a well-known author on natural history when Silent Spring was published. The book spearheaded environmental concern and no book since has had the same impact. It begins with a story about a quaint and charming little farm town in pristine Anywhere‚ mid-America and describes wildlife and all the beautiful colors on the countryside. Many people come to
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The excerpt from Silent Spring began by describing a scene we all could recognize: a prosperous farmland‚ with a successful and healthy people inhabiting it. Every detail and description was clear and tangible‚ almost as if the readers could see the scene. This did draw them in‚ but the lack of information found at the end of the piece was able to captivate the readers even more so. At the very end of Carson’s tale‚ we see that the dreary and forlorn town was sprinkled with “a white granular powder
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Critique essay Silent Spring – “A Fable for tomorrow” Alexandre Clavier (31053242) Rachel Carson was the author who leaves her mark on the birth of the ecological movement. Indeed‚ her book represents the first targeted campaign against the ravages of pesticides and herbicides in the United States of America (Carson‚ 1962). In her work‚ Carson exposes the impacts of pesticides on wildlife and describes its bad effects on natural environments‚ fauna and flora but also on the human DNA (Online
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In Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" she calls attention to the dangers of pesticides. Through her use of imagery‚ rhetorical questions‚ and similes she has created a very passionate argument towards whether or not farmers should use these poisons that affect much more than they think. She asks if "Indiana still raised any boys who roam throw woods?". "If so‚ who guarded the poisoned area to make sure no one went through?" " Who kept vigilant watch to tell the innocent stroller that he was about
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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 book‚ and has had a big impact on the environment. The main points of Silent Spring were to educate people on the dangers of pesticides‚ to show how pesticides
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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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AP Biology/Pd. 2 11/13/13 “Silent Springs” Test Content Questions: 1. Carlson classifies modern insecticides into two groups of chemicals. The first group‚ represented by DDT‚ is known as the “chlorinated hydrocarbons” and the other group‚ represented by Malathion and parathion‚ consists of the organic phosphorus insecticides. Although both are organic‚ the organic phosphorous insecticides are more poisonous than the chlorinated hydrocarbons and have the ability to destroy enzymes. 2. When insecticides
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