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Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson was an environmentalist and author of the popular book, Silent Spring. The book highlighted the dangers of using DDT as a pesticide and resulted in a ban of its usage.

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What is the web address of the Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale Pennsylvania?

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The address of the Rachel Carson Homestead is: 613 Marion Ave, Springdale, PA 15144

What was Rachel carsons boyfriends name?

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She had a girlfriend

When was Rachel Carson mom born?

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Rachel Carson's mother introduced her to the world of nature, which she lived all her life.

What did Rachel Carson do after silent spring?

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The specific event that inspired Rachel Carson to name her book "silent spring" is detailed on page 106 and 107 in her book. She describes how in 1954 Michigan State's campus is sprayed for Dutch elm disease. The DDT in the spray turns the campus in to a graveyard for most of the robins that attempt to take up residence in the spring.

How did Rachel Carson admire?

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she wear skirts and t- shirts tucked in.

she wear hats sometimes.

Did Rachel Carson have a pet?

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she never got adopted or adopted children because she dosent have children

How did Rachel Carson present her ideas to the public?

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Rachel Carson was a scientist, and author, that studied the impact we leave on the environment with our chemicals. She wrote many books, that brought her word to life, caused quite a stir in environmentalist circles, and brought the world to a realization of the danger in using pesticides. When she wrote a book called Silent Spring in 1962, the fourth she had written on nature, the story created a fire-storm among the public and researchers alike. For more details, please see the sites listed below.

How many books did Rachel Carson write in her lifetime?

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rachel Carson has written three major books

What was Rachel Carson's eye color?

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brown eyes

What is the book that Rachel Carson wrote about?

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She made a invention of a book she wrote Silent Night

What did Rachel Carson study?

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She got her MA in Pennsylvania College for Women in zoology. She was a writer and she loved to be in nature. She help ban the pesticide DDT which caused people to get cancer and weak pelican shells.

What are weird or facts about Rachel Carson?

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'''st.nicholas paid Carson a little over 3 dollars for one of her essays.'''

Did Rachel Carson win the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Rachel Carson, writer, scientist, and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town ofSpringdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

She was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

She wrote pamphlets on conservation and natural resources and edited scientific articles, but in her free time turned her government research into lyric prose, first as an article "Undersea" (1937, for the Atlantic Monthly), and then in a book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941). In 1952 she published her prize-winning study of the ocean, The Sea Around Us, which was followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955. These books constituted a biography of the ocean and made Carson famous as a naturalist and science writer for the public. Carson resigned from government service in 1952 to devote herself to her writing.

She wrote several other articles designed to teach people about the wonder and beauty of the living world, including "Help Your Child to Wonder," (1956) and "Our Ever-Changing Shore" (1957), and planned another book on the ecology of life. Embedded within all of Carson's writing was the view that human beings were but one part of nature distinguished primarily by their power to alter it, in some cases irreversibly.

Disturbed by the profligate use of synthetic chemical pesticides after World War II, Carson reluctantly changed her focus in order to warn the public about the long term effects of misusing pesticides. In Silent Spring (1962) she challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and the government, and called for a change in the way humankind viewed the natural world.

Carson was attacked by the chemical industry and some in government as an alarmist, but courageously spoke out to remind us that we are a vulnerable part of the natural world subject to the same damage as the rest of the ecosystem. Testifying before Congress in 1963, Carson called for new policies to protect human health and the environment. Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer. Her witness for the beauty and integrity of life continues to inspire new generations to protect the living world and all its creatures.

What science did Rachel Carson do?

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Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Carson started her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her financial security and recognition as a gifted writer. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the republished version of her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, were also bestsellers. Together, her sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life, from the shores to the surface to the deep sea. In the late 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation and the environmental problems caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented portion of the American public. Silent Spring spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy-leading to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides-and the grassroots environmental movement it inspired the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Why did rachel Carson decide to change her course of studies in college?

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Beacuse she wanted to learn about Science and about ocean life.

Did Rachel Carson invent anything?

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Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Carson started her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her financial security and recognition as a gifted writer. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the republished version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. Together, her sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life, from the shores to the surface to the deep sea.