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The Science of Pesticides
One of the great insights of Silent Spring is its grasp of the pesticide problem as a compound...

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Silent Spring Homework Help Questions

Carson explains the title of her book. Why is it called "Silent Spring"?

Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was a landmark in the history of the environmental movement, not only for the quality of its scientific research but for the poignancy of its writing. The book...
In Silent Spring, how does Rachel Carson appeal to authority, especially in paragraph 27, and...

In two early paragraphs from her book titled Silent Spring, Rachel Carson employs the rhetorical techniques of appeal to authority and use of statistics to strengthen her arguments. Thus, in the...

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