Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson

• Environmentalist, Writer

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Introduction

• With her knowledge, ability, and dedication,
  Rachel Carson became the leader
• of the grassroots movement
• of environmental
• consciousness.
• Presented by Melanie Stine

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Topics of Discussion

• Biography
• Historical Setting
• Silent Spring
• The Leadership and Impact of Rachel Carson

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Timeline

• May 27, 1907 born in Springdale, Pa.
• 1928 Graduated from Pennsylvania College for
  Women
• 1929 Spent first summer in Woods Hole
• 1932 Received M.A. from Johns Hopkins
  University
• 1935 Began her job with the U.S. Bureau of
  Fisheries

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Timeline-Continued

• 1951 Published The Sea Around Us
• 1962 Published Silent Spring
• April 14, 1964- died in Silver Spring, Md.

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Childhood Influences

• Rachel Carsons love
• for nature and writing
• The influence of her mother

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Education

• Attended Pennsylvania Colleges for Women
• Graduated with a degree in biology in 1929
• Received her M.A. degree in zoology from Johns
  Hopkins University in 1932

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Career

• Spent her first summer at the Marine Biological
  Laboratory in Woods Hole in 1929
• Began working with the Bureau of Fisheries in
  1935
• Began writing books
• In 1952 she was able to retire to write full time

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Her Books
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The Situation of the Time
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DDT, An Insecticide

• A chlorinated hydrocarbon chemical
• Its usage during World World II
• Savior of Mankind
• Post World War II usage

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Dead Robins

• DDTs effects on the environment
• The disregard of DDts dangers
• Early doubts
• Rachel Carsons observations
• Olga Huckins and E. B. White

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The Leadership of Rachel Carson

• It was a spring without voices.

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Silent Spring

• Her decision
• 1962 Silent Spring is published
• The success of the book
• The controversy it created
• Her response

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Rachel Carson Quiet Crusader of the
Environmental Movement

• Silent Spring revealed to the public the dangers
  of DDT
• Governmental investigation
• The ban of DDT

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An individual who rose to the occasion and became
a leader

• Rachel Carson saw a need and filled it
• Quiet Carson and her reforming crusade
• The effects of Rachel Carsons work

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Rachel Carson