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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"rachel carson"”.
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Silent Spring's Metaphors: Insights for 21st Century Environmental Discourse
… Long before the wealth of contemporary analysis, Rachel Carson produced Silent Spring, a book hailed as the motivation for a new environmental movement in the United States. The use of metaphor in Silent Spring is most apparent in the title. The title's focus, however poignant, even moving and …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… Albert Einstein, Fred Hoyle, Robert Oppenheimer, Rachel Carson, Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould. The representations of the contemporary celebrity scientists feature associations with these famous historical figures, associations that provide cultural continuity to science and serve as a means of …
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Storehouse of the Earth : to document the fast-changing environment
In the book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson argues that humans are one species that could modify its surroundings so drastically as to cause damage to the Earth. Currently, as a consequence of accumulated modification, the rapidity of environmental change accelerates and causes hazards all over the …
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Acute Toxicity and Sub-Lethal Effects of Non-Point Source Pollutants on Invertebrates
… effects of non-point source pollution within the Rachel Carson Estuarine Research Reserve (RCERR) were examined at six sites in order to gain a better understanding of the current health of this unique habitat. Of the four compounds tested, only the industrial solvent, styrene, resulted in an LC50 …
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Geotechnical Investigation and Characterization of Bivalve-Sediment Interactions
… Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada, and at the Rachel Carson Reserve in North Carolina. Field sampling techniques included Ponar grab samples, hand-dug samples, X-ray rectangular prism cores, and cylindrical push cores, which were all pivotal to understanding sediment composition, size and shape …
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Mass Media and the Evolution of the Environmental Movement: 1960-1979
This thesis examines how particular forms of mass media spurred and guided the United States environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Its objective is to better understand how mass media contributed to the evolution of the environmental movement. Three particular types of media form the basis …