I think the biggest thing I learned about myself was that I am truly concerned about the environment and I need to find ways to help. Knowing that I can’t save the world and the environment on my own but every little bit helps. The thing I learned about the world is how we are destroying it, one step at a time. I think we should quit treating the world like we own it and focus more on living as part of a living world. The biggest thing that I learned about learning is that there are many methods of learning and teaching.
Exposure to high levels of radioactive waste can cause birth defects, cancer, and death. We all need to be aware of these dangers that exist across the country. It is imperative that we rethink our visual communication effort for warning current and future generations of the imminent danger below. The comic strip is a great medium to get across a point to many levels of audiences. In this cartoon I attempt to send the message that nuclear power will kill everything, even innocent cockroaches.
Earth symbolizes perverse nature because throughout this book, soldiers have deprived the Earth of it's beauty and life. Soldiers have done this while in the process of trying to kill other people. Specifically, by throwing bombs, craters and holes have been made in Earth's surface. These imperfections made on Earth had taken away it's beauty and life, which certainly makes me believe that the theme perverse nature is being shown in regard to Earth as a symbol in this book. By this, I mean that perverse nature has been displayed by the fact that Earth has been damaged as a result of human actions.
Ridley Scott uses major imagery in the film to prove his ongoing point of what the world is on its way of being. The Introducing scene alone shows you how dark and corrupt the world had become. Throughout the film you never see any sunlight or any form of life other than human. The world is so terribly corrupt that a blimp in the beginning of the film is advertising off world colonization. The planet earth has become so over populated and torn by human selfishness that we need to advertise for people to leave that planet for hope of better off world colonies.
She elaborates on the issue of spraying chemicals and if it is increasing or decreasing the progress in the world. Carson’s article states that we are hurting ourselves more than we benefit ourselves from the spraying of harmful chemicals, and that we endanger our environment with these chemicals. In order to persuade the progressive intellectuals of this argument, Carson provides data to show the actual harm the pollution from the chemicals is causing, and provokes fear in her audience. In order to make her argument appear reasonable, Rachel Carson uses scientific observation to demonstrate how chemicals are the cause of killing pests. Carson provides rational examples to show the harm that pollution is causing to the earth and pests.
Understanding the growing anti-Americanism is imperative in finding the correct solution to the growth of American hate. As Professors Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane define Anti-Americanism, “a psychological tendency to hold negative views of the United States and of its American society in general”, it is a growing need for the United States to find what truly ails it, and cure the disease that has turned the world against it. As greater emphasis is placed upon the understanding and theorizing of the causes of Anti-Americanism and its root instigators, it is simple to see the divide within the hatred. With the spread of disapproval, out of the multitude of divided groups of anti-Americanism, America’s fears lie with one true enemy. The Radical Anti-Americanism believe that no solution could ever exist with the infidel Americans, and with whom persuasion is futile.
In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson uses the apocalypse trope, logos, and ethos to grab the general public’s attention and to inspire the necessity for changing the way the environment is treated by mankind. The apocalypse trope is implored right from the beginning before Carson even starts writing. She dedicates the book to Albert Schweitzer who said, “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” This quote gets the reader thinking before they have even turned to page one. In Ecocriticism, Thompson writes that in the apocalypse trope “violent and grotesque images are juxtaposed with glimpses of a world transformed” (Garrard 86).
A Modern Modest Proposal In our world today, we have an ongoing problem with pollution. In the past decades, the pollution caused by our human race has continued to show an impact on our Earth. Every day our beloved planet is getting hurt more and more and this is making it harder for life to be sustained here. Soon, planet Earth could cease to exist and human life as well as all living species could become extinct. I propose that we eat all of the pollution waste, causing all of the waste to disappear from the Earth (logical appeal).
Common sense says you shouldn’t discover where the edge is by passing over it, but that’s what we’re doing with deforestation and climate change” (553). Desert is considered hot, and now it’s hotter; it also affects the quality of agricultural land. Nature will be destroyed, and the world economy will be going down. Global warming is one of the most challenging environmental problems in existence today. Our life, animals’ life, and plants’ life are becoming worse because we are destroying the environment.
The Clay of Human Nature In M.T. Anderson’s novel “feed”, the zealotry of science represents the imminent eradication of Human nature at the hands of technology. Karl Marx once said “ If you want to understand an age in history you must understand the technology.” In this age of the feed, People are overridden by the technology they have and become slaves to it as a result. And this slavish behavior eliminates the nature of humans, effectively making them hollow people. People no longer learn of our history in school, they no longer learn of math, they learn of how to use the feed, and privacy is a thing of the past.