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Rachel Carson. Cate Hendren 2005. Childhood. Born in Springdale, Maryland on Was youngest in family Loved birds and nature Slim and shy as a girl Wrote through her adolescents. Education. Graduated from Pennsylvania College for women(now Chatham college) in 1929 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Rachel Carson
Cate Hendren2005
Childhood
Born in Springdale, Maryland on
Was youngest in family
Loved birds and nature
Slim and shy as a girl Wrote through her
adolescents
Education
Graduated from Pennsylvania College for women(now Chatham college) in 1929
Studied at the Woods Hole Marine Lab
More Education
Received MA in zoology from John Hopkins University
Was first a writer then a student of marine biology
Young Adult Life Was hired by Board
of Fisheries to write to write radio scripts in the depression
Wrote some feature articles for the “Baltimore Sun” on natural history
Adult Life In 1936 became scientist and editor for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Later became Editor-in-chief of all publications for the Fish and Wildlife Service
In Free Time
Bird watched Turned
government research into Lyric Prose
Books Rachel Wrote #1
1941-Under The Sea Wind
1943- Food From The Sea Fish and Shellfish of New England
Books Rachel Wrote #2
1944- Food From The Sea Fish and Shellfish of the South Atlantic
Books Rachel Wrote #3
1951- The Sea Around Us
1955-The Edge of the Sea
1956- “Help Your Child To Wonder”
Books Rachel Wrote #4
1957- “Ever-changing Store”
1962- Silent Spring
1965-The Sense of Wonder
A Clean Sea
Silent Spring #1
Highly controversial but popular book
Took four years to complete
Wrote it when a friend complained of large bird killings as a result of DDT Spraying on Cape Cod
Silent Spring #2 Explained how DDT
entered the food chain and built up in the fatty tissues of animals
Showed how DDT can cause cancer and genetic damage
One chapter entailed how a town is silenced when all the birds die because of DDT
Silent Spring #3
Showed that only one spraying of DDT could contaminate the environment for weeks, months and even years when it was diluted with rainwater
Lasting Effects
Thanks to Rachel Carson’s books and constant work the public is now more aware of the state of our environment ,of how we are slowly killing our only home and how to stop poisoning ourselves.
DDT Used with other
chemicals to enhance agricultural productivity
Available for civilian use in 1945
kills insects that cause Malaria
Side Effects of DDT
Hurts the ozone layer
Poisons rivers, lakes and, people
The Controversy
Her findings were a huge controversy then
Companies are still trying to prove her findings wrong
Support Was supported
by Greenpeace, Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund and many other individuals
Death
Rachel Carson died in 1964 at age fifty-six of a cancer that may have been caused by the pollutants she studied.
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About the Author
My name is Cate Hendren. I am 13 years old. I love my family,chocolate, soccer, my dog and my cats. Friends are good too.
Bibliography Budwig, Lisa. Breaking Nature’s Science
Pennsylvania’s Rachel Carson. October 22, 1997. May 02, 2005<http://depstate.pa.us/dep/PA-Env-Her/rache/.htm>
History. RachelCarson biography. May 02, 2005.<http//www.llwdp.org/wihohio/car-rac.htm>.
Lear, Linda.Biography Rachel Louise Carson.1998.April 25,2005.<http.//www.rachelcarson.org>.
Bibliography Matthiessen, Peter. Rachel Carson.
March 29, 1999. May 02, 2005.<http.time.com/time/time/bo/scientists/profile/carson.html>.
Weiss, Don.Ecology Hall of Fame Rachel Carson. January 18, 2002. May 02, 2005.<http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/carson/>.
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