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Boggs obviously believed that a woman should be able to do anything a man could do, such as go to school and work in certain jobs. However for raising a kid she thinks that "a mother should be there the first couple of years of a child's life," (30) Does this mean that she did not think it was a man's place to raise a kid? Obviously she felt that a man should help, as Josh helped plenty with Tad but their was never any mention of him giving up his education or his job. - J Rowley | Boggs obviously believed that a woman should be able to do anything a man could do, such as go to school and work in certain jobs. However for raising a kid she thinks that "a mother should be there the first couple of years of a child's life," (30) Does this mean that she did not think it was a man's place to raise a kid? Obviously she felt that a man should help, as Josh helped plenty with Tad but their was never any mention of him giving up his education or his job. - J Rowley | ||
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I am not the world's biggest environmentalist and I still loved this article. Rachel Carson did an awesome job defending herself against her critics in this article and for some reason I was in disbelief that even back then people questioned the existance of environmental problems like pesticides and pollutions. Ridiculous that her response "No, the problem of pesticides is not merely the dream of an avracious author, out to pile up royalties by frightening the public- it is very much with us, here and now" (page 229) even has to be made. Her proof of the levels of toxins in the dying animals was disgusting, to say the very least. and I completely agree with her statement that "A world that is no longer fit for wild plants that is no longer graced by the flights of birds, a world whose streams and forrests are empty and lifeless is not likely to be fit habitat for man himself, for these things are symptoms of an ailing world" (page 228). She certainly won me over. (And I would especially buy some more Samoas to support her environmentalist cause.) --Ssellers | I am not the world's biggest environmentalist and I still loved this article. Rachel Carson did an awesome job defending herself against her critics in this article and for some reason I was in disbelief that even back then people questioned the existance of environmental problems like pesticides and pollutions. Ridiculous that her response "No, the problem of pesticides is not merely the dream of an avracious author, out to pile up royalties by frightening the public- it is very much with us, here and now" (page 229) even has to be made. Her proof of the levels of toxins in the dying animals was disgusting, to say the very least. and I completely agree with her statement that "A world that is no longer fit for wild plants that is no longer graced by the flights of birds, a world whose streams and forrests are empty and lifeless is not likely to be fit habitat for man himself, for these things are symptoms of an ailing world" (page 228). She certainly won me over. (And I would especially buy some more Samoas to support her environmentalist cause.) --Ssellers | ||
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I know that earlier in this class we had talked about how women were often linked to the environmentalist cause so I tried to keep that in mind when I was reading this piece. I am not sure if I could picture a man writing this with the same effect. Most of the points she makes are very strong and she even seems to go against the point that she is saving nature only to save the beauty of it. However, if women were still connected to the environmentalist cause would she have an easier time winning them over because she was a woman? Would she have a tougher time gaining support from men? - J Rowley | I know that earlier in this class we had talked about how women were often linked to the environmentalist cause so I tried to keep that in mind when I was reading this piece. I am not sure if I could picture a man writing this with the same effect. Most of the points she makes are very strong and she even seems to go against the point that she is saving nature only to save the beauty of it. However, if women were still connected to the environmentalist cause would she have an easier time winning them over because she was a woman? Would she have a tougher time gaining support from men? - J Rowley | ||
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| + | J Rowley--good questions. What if Silent Spring had been written by a man? Gotta love theoreticals... I agreed that this was a very strong answer to all of her critics--stronger still because she didn't specifically target any one person or company, and made it clear that she was not taking any of the criticism personally, and was thus not bothered by it: "I am confident that the verdict of history will show that we..." She invokes history to her side, claiming that time will tell, as it ultimately did. Very smart. --Sarah Smethurst (Samoas FTW) | ||
==Louisa Randall Church Explores the Duties of Parents as Architects of Peace, 1946== | ==Louisa Randall Church Explores the Duties of Parents as Architects of Peace, 1946== | ||
