Heinrich and Carson Readings

This is really ironic that we are reading about Rachel Carson, being that I first learned of her book and her efforts to save the planet in my Advanced Placement Environmental Science class in high school. In my opinion Carson uses lots of argumentative techniques to get her point across about the use of pesticides and the pollution to the environment. One major use of pathos was when she talked about the writers of The Bill of Rights and how they could not have foreseen the problems of the current die of pollution and the destroying of our natural environment. A instance of ethos in this writing is that she understands that she wants to people to use less insecticides but that in some cases it must be used. As this writing relates to the Heinrich readings, Carson uses commonplaces to connect with the readers in addition to code-grooming, especially when she refers to WWII, chemicals, radiation, and Darwin. When she uses these commonplaces and codes she is making use of logos and ethos by establishing credibility and giving evidence that insecticides can be dangerous to humans.

Heinrichs Pg. 79-133

I know that this post is late however I can explain why...very long weekend.

I understand that it is ok to have disagreements this is apart of life, but when a whole group of people have a huge disagreement that could end relationships, it becomes a huge dilemma of who's right or wrong.

This past weekend was a great example of this when my boyfriend and group of best friends(we have all known each other since 7th grade) got into an argument because of me. Neither side could control their volume therefore their voices escalated and with that anger arisen because people didn't have self-control of their emotions. I felt really bad because I really didn't take a stance at the beginning of the argument which made me seem both nonchalant and uncaring towards my best friends' feelings when all I wanted to do was stay out of the cross fire. But what happens when you try to persuade to both sides that they are all wrong, their arguments are irrelevant, and only one side is persuaded and the other one not? I think that you may have lost some very close friends, or at least that what happened to me.