It is kind of like a bibliography and tells about the experiences of Carson during this time as well as her pushing the fight against chemicals. She provides many facts such as “These sprays‚ dusts‚ and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms‚ gardens‚ forests‚ and homes nonselective chemicals that have the power
Premium Natural environment Ecology Environmentalism
The Wave – Characterization of Ben Ross Ben Ross is one of the main characters in the novel „The Wave“‚ written by Morton Rhue in 1981. The story is based on a true story. Ben Ross is a history teacher at the Gordon High School. He is technical untalented and always wants the best for his students. He tries to teach his lessons in a practically way to show his students the „main aspects of history”. When he started to talk with his students about Nazi Germany and if it is possible that
Premium Adolf Hitler Nazi Germany Nazism
Title: Fairest Author: Gail Carson Levine By: Jane Phillips Page Number Direct Quote from the book Response 5 I developed the habit of holding my hand in front of my face when guests arrived‚ foolish practice‚ because it raised curiosity and concealed little. This part reminded me of myself because I have stupid habits. Also‚ I felt sad that Aza would think that she would have to hide herself or feel ashamed about what she looked like. 87 She was our ruler now! Everyone in the
Premium English-language films
everything was the use of chemicals to eradicate or to reduce the expanding range of these organism without considering the true impact of such indiscriminate application of pesticides or herbicides or as Rachel Carson named as “Biocides” (Carson‚ 1962). The book written by Rachel Carson “Silent Springs” was very controversial then and now‚ because the same forces that dominated the use of these dangerous chemicals are present today but under different names and chemicals composition.
Premium Environmentalism Pesticide DDT
Good and evil. Judah and Messala. Ben-Hur was a film produced in 1959 and given a new spin in a remake in 2016. Each films directors were William Wyler (1959) and Timur Bekmambetov (2016) with cinematography by Robert Surtees (1959) and Oliver Wood (2016). The 1959 epic was a movie that was 3 hours and 44 minutes in total. An overture and entr’acte were included at the beginning and middle of the film respectively to allow the audience a break from sitting. Judah Ben-Hur is wrongly accused and sent
Premium Film Roman Empire Ben-Hur
Reflective Practice Reid (1994) Gibbs Reflective Cycle What happened? (description) What would you do if it happened again? (action plan) What were you thinking/feeling? (feeling) What alternatives did you have? (conclusion) How can you make sense of what happened? (analysis) What was good/bad about the experience? (evaluation) Reflectivity The circular process by which our thoughts affect our actions‚ which affect the situation we are dealing with and therefore after feedback through the reactions
Premium Learning Knowledge Reflective practice
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 damage to the earth in a very small amount of time. I find
Premium Pollution Pesticide Soil contamination
Words In high school my essays were about summarizing a chapter from a book or writing a short story. There was no set length it had to be and there were not any specifics to focus on such as to focus on a strong introduction or to focus on being organized when writing. The essays that I wrote in high school were just for a quick grade or to help out our grade. I did not really have that much experience in writing essays. In the past semester I have grown more as a writer than I have in the past
Premium Rhetoric Writing Essay
is an active process that helps health care professional gain a deeper understanding of their experiences (Varghese‚ 2010). This essay will discuss about the academic achievements which were obtained during the last semester through a reflective model. The reflective model I have chosen is Gibbs’s model (1988). Gibb’s model of reflection incorporated the following: description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ a conclusion and an action plan (Brooker et al‚ 2003). The first stage of Gibbs’s model
Premium Critical thinking Writing Academia
professional growth and improvement in my teaching. Because I regularly think about how I teach‚ I better understand my students’ learning goals‚ preferences‚ and challenges. Through reflective practice‚ I have figured out what works well in the classroom and what needs to be changed to help students learn more. Reflective practice has enabled me to adapt my teaching to evolving student needs and classroom contexts. I have made wise choices about instructional design‚ classroom management‚ and evaluation
Premium