Rachel Carson
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Rachel carson
(1907 - 1964)
1. Difficult words
sommary
2. Her life
3. Her achievements
4. Her impact
1-Difficult words
DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane): Toxic pesticide
Pesticide: Chimical substance
Insecticide: Pesticide
2-her life
- May 27, 1907
- Springdale
- Family farm
- 1925: High School
- 1932: Master's degree
3-her Achievements
- 1935: Temporary job in the U.S. Bureau of Fisherie
- 1936: Full-time job
Trilogy
Under the Sea-Wind
1941
1951
The Sea Around Us
1955
The Edge of the Sea
- National Book Award
- 86 weeks: best-seller list
Scientific knowledge and poetry
DDT
- 1945: Take an interest in DDT
- 1939: 1st most used pesticide
- 1950: Starts to fight against DDT
- 1962 (next slide)
Silent Spring
(1962)
- Impact of pesticides
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy read it
- Testified in the Senate
- 1964: Passed away
her Impact
- 1972: DDT prohibited
- Relationship between human & nature
- Criticism: hysterical, lesbian and agent for the USSR
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