Income Inequality The poor just keep getting poorer and the rich just keep getting richer, it’s a...
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Income Inequality The poor just keep getting poorer and the rich just keep getting richer, it’s a vicious cycle. “The man of great wealth owes a peculiar
Income Inequality The poor just keep getting poorer and the
rich just keep getting richer, its a vicious cycle. The man of
great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he
derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
Theodore Roosevelt U.S. President (1858-1919)
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Race and Politics in Obamas Presidency The power and symbolism
of Obamas election is compromised by the extent to which his
presidency has been shaped by white expectations and white racism.
Chen
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Ryan Barbera
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Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson - Inspired EPA, Clean Air
& Water Acts WOMEN VOTERS IN 1962 : 45% The Feminine Mystique
(1963) - Betty Freidan - INFLUENCED POLICY ON REGULATION OF
PESTICIDES - CREDITED WITH CREATING CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM - FOUGHT
FOR PRO-CHOICE LEGISLATION - PUSHED FOR WOMEN TO BECOME LARGEST
VOTING DEMOGRAPHIC ECOFEMINIST PIONEER:LEADS TO EXPANDING # OF
WOMEN IN SCIENCE JOHN KENNEY
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Criticism of Rachel Carson A spinster was so worried about
genetics -Erza Taft Benson As for insects, isn't it just like a
woman to be scared to death of a few little bugs! -Letter to the
New Yorker Whitney-Perry
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Landfill Energy Recovery As part of our commitment to creating
cleaner, greener communities, were continually researching,
developing and implementing innovative technologies to help us
preserve and conserve our natural resources. - Ted Neura, senior
director of sustainable business planning and development for
Republic Services.
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Henry David Thoreaus Walden To front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived I wanted
to live deep and suck all marrow out of life to know it by
experience and to be able to give a true account of it in my next
excursion. Rachel Carsons Silent Spring To the bird watcher, the
suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter,
the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that
destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has
deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate rightOver
increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes
unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are
strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of
bird song... Can anyone imagine anything so cheerless and dreary as
a springtime without a robins song? Christopher Cerovac
