Silent Spring

Examples of Silent Spring in the following topics:

• Environmental Protests

  • Organizations like The Sierra Club and Greenpeace, as well as the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, contributed to the growth of the environmental movement during this time period.
  • In 1962, American biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book that is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
  • In response to the publication of Silent Spring and the public concern that ensued, U.S.
  • In the mid-1970s, independent groups using the name Greenpeace started springing up worldwide.
  • Following the publication of Silent Spring and the public outcry it created, DDT was banned by the Environmental Protection Agency in June of 1972

• Culture in the Thirties

  • Charlie Chaplin, the greatest star of the silent era, successfully transitioned into the sound film.
  • Toklas, and Henry Miller, who in the 1930s wrote and published his semi-autobiographical novels Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, and Tropic of Capricorn.

• Cinema

  • The 1920s are often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood, with "Talkies" and the first all-color features replacing silent films.
  • At the beginning of the 1920s, films were silent and colorless.
  • By the end of the decade, cinema had changed significantly with major leaps in technology that marked the Golden Age of Hollywood and ended the era of the silent film, which itself had ended the previous, widespread popularity of Vaudeville Theater.

• Automobiles, Airplanes, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress

  • Hollywood also boomed, producing a new form of entertainment that shut down the old Vaudeville theatres – the silent film.
  • Even greater entertainment marvels emerged as the decade progressed, the most important being sound synchronized motion pictures, or "talkies," which quickly replaced silent films between 1927 and 1929.
  • The famous clock scene from the popular 1923 silent film, Safety Last!

• The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

  • Ever-growing crowds surged into new movie theaters, and filmmaking was revolutionized in the second half of the decade as sound synchronized motion pictures, or "talkies," replaced silent films between 1927 and 1929.
  • This film ushered in talkies, and signaled the decline of the silent film era.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • Hollywood also boomed during this period, producing a new form of entertainment that shut down the old Vaudeville theatres – the silent film.
  • Even greater entertainment marvels emerged as the decade progressed, the most important being sound synchronized motion pictures, or "talkies," which quickly replaced silent films between 1927 and 1929.
  • Silent movie star Rudolph Valentino was one of Hollywood's first sex symbols, starring in films such as The Sheik before his untimely death at age 31 in 1926.

• The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

  • Jones of the St Louis Post-Dispatch was put on the platform committee and Bryan's plank for free silver was adopted sixteen to one, and silently added to the Chicago Democratic Platform in order to avoid controversy.

• Georgia and South Carolina

  • In the late spring of 1781, Greene led the Siege of Ninety Six in an attempt to secure the village of Ninety Six, South Carolina.
  • The final major battle of the Carolinas took place in Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, on September 1781.
  • Though the tactical victor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs is contested, this engagement so weakened the British that they withdrew to Charleston, where Greene held them for the remaining months of the war.

• The "Color Line"

  • When the silent film The Birth of a Nation premiered in 1915, Du Bois and the NAACP led the fight to ban the movie, because of its racist portrayal of blacks as brutish and lustful.

• Jefferson, Slavery, and Race

  • After 1785, Jefferson remained publicly silent on or did little to change slavery within the United States.