chaper+summaries

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__Chapter 1: __ Rachel Carson was the youngest of three children, to Robert abd Maria Carson. She grew up on a farm near the village of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her two passions were writing and nature. Her mother Maria was a major influence in her life and for her education. At age 11 she got her first writing piece published, "//A Battle in the Clouds"// in St. Nicholas Magazine. At 18 she went to collage at PCW (Pennsylvania Collage for Women). PCW brought together two strands that later defined her career- her ambetio to be a writer and her love of nature and science. By her junior year she also decided to major in biology. She decided to skip her senior year at PCW and follow Mary Scott Skinker (a teacher at PCW that helped guide her career) to John Hopkins. She could not aford J. Hopkins so she went back to PCW. She graduated from PCW in 1929 with honors. Later she re-applied ot J Hopkins for graduate school and was admitted to the zoology program with full tution. Her family including her mother Maria moved to Baltumore to be with her. She was paid to publish several pieces including "//Undersea"// in Sept. 1937. In 1941 " //Under the Sea- Wind"// appeared in. This was a very important writing. I think Rachel will continue to write about the sea, nature and ways to help to enviornment. I also think her sucess will increase and more of her books will become published. =====

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__Chapter 2:__ One month after "//Under the Sea- Wind"// was published the Japanease bombed Pearl Harbor, therefore the reading public was distracted from Carson's story of the oceans and their creatures. Carson still worked for the Fish and Wildlife Services and in three years went from assistant to associate and then to full aquatic biologist. Her father died unexpectately and her sister Mirian died too. On July 1, 1951, //The Sea Around Us// was featured in the New York Times Book Review and was praised for its high quality. It also got a National Book Award for Nonfiction. I think Rachel will be happy with the sucess of her book, //Under the Sea Wind.// =====

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__Chapter 3-__ Carson had independent income now with the sucess of //The Sea Around Us//. It gave her financial opportunites that she did not have as a child. She left government service and became a full time writer. Her mother was 83 and very dependent on Rachel now and still wanted to be the center of Rachel's life. Her niece Majorie had a son, Roger, out of wedlock. Family matters and responsibilities took a toll on Rachel. In her next book, "//The Edge of the Sea"// she examined the shoreline throught a microscope and wrote about what she saw, smelled, touched, heard and sometimes tasted. Carosn's friend, Olga Owens Huckins led her to the subject of pesticides next, because she owned land near a bird santuary and many of the birds died when the government sprayed the land with pesticides. I think Carson will find a lot of information on this problem. I think the next chapter will be about her later years in life. =====

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__Chapter 4: __Carson committed herself to a crusade driven by a sense of moral outrage. Her friend, Dorothy Freeman refered to Carson's next book as the "poison book." Carson set out to build a case against those who used dangerous chemicals in nature including DDT. Her mother, Maria ,died in December 1958. Carson had adopted her nephew, Roger after his mother had died several years earlier. Rachel continued to work and do research for her book which she intended to call //Man Against Earth.// She started to write about groundwater, inscect resistance and soil contamination. She became sick herself and needed surgery. She hired an assistant to help do some of the research for her book since she was in a wheelchair and too weak sometimes. When her book was ready she called her poison book, "Silent Spring." She wrote about DDT and the threat of pesticides to human health. Carosn was the only woman on the President's Science Advisory Committee in 1963. In 1964, Carosn's cancer had been spreading and she was weak and suffered a fatal heart attack. =====