Abstract
This paper discusses Rachel Carson's literary contributions to the environmentalist movement, particularly, "Silent Spring," which examines the life-destroying capabilities of pesticides. The paper discusses Rachel Carson's commitment to science and the impact her works had on the environmentalist movement, today.

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"Best remembered for her classic indictment of the life-destroying capabilities of pesticides in her classic, Silent Spring (1962), Rachel Carson had a long-standing and deeply-felt concern about human treatment of its fragile and life-sustaining ecosystem. Even before the national attention that came with Silent Spring, Carson had made a substantial mark on the American imagination with The Sea Around Us, published in 1951 when Carson was in her early forties. Its popularity and commercial success was almost unprecedented for books "about nature" and it went on to win its writer both the John Burroughs Medal (awarded to the author of a distinguished book of natural history) and the National Book Award."

Tags:environmentalism pesticides, rachel carson, ecosphere pesticides science ecology

Abstract
This paper discusses the impact and legacy of Rachel Carson and her 1962 book, "Silent Spring", on the environment. The paper explains Carson's thesis that the increased use of chemicals in the industrial and agricultural sectors has a negative impact of the environment.

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"In1962, Rachel Carson wrote in "Silent Spring" that the rapidity of change and the speed with which new situations are created follow the impetuous and heedless pace of man, rather than the deliberate pace of nature. Carson's text represented an effort to awaken a public that was unaware of the negative impact being made upon the environment by man's increased use of chemicals in both the industrial and agricultural sectors and what Carson called man's war against nature. The point that Carson made was..."

Tags:environment, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, chemicals, industrial, agricultural

Abstract
This paper looks at the case against DDT, and how it was spearheaded by Rachel Carson with publication of her book, "Silent Spring". It looks at the different positions taken by affected parties and their responsibilities.

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"The case under study in "The Silence of the Birds": Rachel Carson and the Pesticides" concerns the pesticide DDT which was banned. DDT has been banned for all use and sale in the United States by the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. A major driving force behind this ban was Rachel Carson, a naturalist and science writer who became aware of DDT and its potential forecological damage and issued warnings that it might not be the panacea for insect woes..."

Tags:DDT, Rachel Carson

Abstract
In this article, the writer maintains that all of Rachel Carson's predictions in "Silent Spring" have come true, and that none of them were overreaction.

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"I would say that all of Rachel Carson's predictions in "Silent Spring" have come true, and that none of them were overreaction. In fact, I think the situation when she wrote it was like the proverbial elephant in the room. People were happily dumping toxins into the environment (the environment that is our habitat and that has to sustain us). DDT was in common usage. Yet no one ever seemed to stop and think that we might be destroying the planet we need in order to survive as a species - until ..."

Tags:environmental, studies, discussions

Abstract
The paper looks at the influence of the book on the ban of the use of DDT, and how it spurred revolutionary changes in the laws that have been destroying air, land and water of this planet. The initiation of the environmental movement is explored in relation to the book and the development of this movement is traced.

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"Seldom there have been incidents in the history of mankind that a single book has managed to alter the path of history, but Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson did precisely that. The book forced the ban on the use of DDT, after its publication in 1962, and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws that have been destroying air, land, and water of this planet. The obsessive concern of Carson for the future of this planet and the humanity that has been living for billions of years, echoed forcefully throughout the world, as her expressive book has been influential in the initiation of the environmental movement (2)."

Tags:DDT, environmental, movement, planet, activist, ecology, ecological, degradation, awareness

Abstract
Rachel Carson's 1962 book, "Silent Spring," unquestionably served as a catalyst in the formation of the modern environmental movement, rousing many to action, and profoundly altering the public conception of government, industry, and the human relationship to the natural world. This paper explores the myriad ways in which Carson revolutionized nature writing and her profound impact on American life.

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"Perhaps the most noticeable aspect of Carson's writing is its lack of overt glorification of the natural world. Gone are Muir's mountain "temples," "bathed in light, bathed in floods of singing water," or "the wild sheep of God" that populate Mary Austin's' landscape. Carson boldly does away with the grandiose language usually used to evoke emotion, and in its place she creates an overriding tone of objectivity. A trained biologist, she presents a vast body of information in a style that is succinct and straightforward, designed to have a logical, rather than artistic or spiritual, appeal. References to the divine, for example, are almost entirely lacking - a marked contrast between her work and that of most other writers. Rather, one races through a series of vividly sketched case studies and statistics, which together paint an increasingly convincing and dire picture. It is this tone of objectivity, somewhat ironically, that creates much of Silent Spring's tremendous emotional impact."

Tags:ddt, fertilizer, fungicide, pesticides

Abstract
Rachel Carson is celebrated as one of the most influential conservationist of the 20th century and one who will continue to to inspire generations to come. This paper examines the life story of Carson, beginning with her childhood, her university education, and her love for nature. It also focuses on Carson's most famous book, "The Silent Spring", which opened the world's eyes to the dangers of pesticide such as DDT and changed the course of this form of destruction to the environment.

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"In 1958 Carson received a letter from Olga Owens Huckins, owner of a private bird sanctuary in Duxbury, Massachusetts, who was horrified one day to find birds dead and dying throughout her property (Rachel pp). Explaining that only days earlier local agencies had conducted a massive, unannounced spraying of the pesticide DDT, Huckins begged Carson to find someone in government to look into the regulations regarding chemical spraying (Rachel pp). Carson had long suspected the danger posed by the use of DDT and in fact had once tried to interest Reader's Digest in an article based on research by Elmer Higgins and Clarence Cottram at the Fish and Wildlife Service, but Reader's Digest declined and the findings were never released to the public (Rachel pp)."

Tags:Kaiulani, Lee, biologist

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"Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring, portrays some of the dangerous threats posed by humanity to the environment of the earth. The book remains significant not only because it was the first work exposing such dangers to the general public, but because the dangers have multiplied and intensified due to the failure of politicians, corporations, and the public to adequately respond to the warnings of Carson.
More than that, however, the book is a plea to human beings to completely transform the perspective they have on their relationship with nature. To Carson, the danger is certainly posed by pesticides, by pollution, by other waste from industry and technology. However, just as important, if not more important, is the view that nature is the enemy of man, or at least a wild force which needs to be tamed in order to exploited.."

Tags:BOOK, REVIEWS, (NON-FICTION)

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This paper discusses how Rachel Carson and Barbara McClintock,two of the most successful 20th century female scientists in the world often had their early work denigrated and ignored. Carson's work helped the world recognize the destructive and deadly powers of DDT and its relatives and helped establish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Dr. Barbara McClintock won a Nobel Prize in 1983, after more than fifty years of research in genetic transposition. This paper looks at how both women had difficulty finding decent positions and reaching acceptance from their peers and how female scientists today continue to make great strides in research and technology, but still have difficulty in being taken seriously by their colleagues.

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"She began writing as a way to make extra income to help support herself and her mother, and left the Bureau of Fishers in 1952 to devote herself to writing. She began studying the effects of pesticides on people and animals as early as 1945. "'The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became,' Carson recalled"(Matthiessen). She went on to write one of the most influential volumes of the decade, "Silent Spring," which vehemently condemned (with startling and graphic research as evidence) the use of pesticides in commercial and agricultural spraying for the control of insects. Her description of the total annihilation of songbird populations where spraying occurred is chilling even today."

Tags:jumping, genes, nobel, prize, research, pesticides, agricultural, chemical, industry

Abstract
An analysis of Rachel Carson's literary work "Silent Spring". The author analyzes the message in the novel and Carson's use of language and symbolism to convey the message.

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"Be it known that the tapestry of life is formed by the lives of people. Each person is like a thread and it is difficult for the thread to see how it affects the whole. In this blindness, institutions are sometimes accepted that are not necessarily healthy. Once accepted the institutions begin to mar the design the tapestry. Sometimes in these moments a voice will arise that will help those who were blind to see. This voice in the wilderness will rush upon the consciousness of people like a mighty wave changing peoples perspectives demanding them to reevaluate their actions. This was so during the American Revolution when Tomas Pane wrote Common Sense. This literary worked helped lead Americans to the overthrow British rule and to found the United States. Later in American history Harriet Beacher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which demanded that black slaves be freed. In recent history Rachel Carson shocked her reader into action when she was able to blend her talent as a writer with her scientific expertise into the literary work Silent Spring."

Tags:animals, chemicals, endangered