Answer the questions below with the readings provided.
“The Obligation to Endure” by Rachel Carson
COMP:
1. How, according to Carson, have people “acquired significant power to alter the nature of [the] world” (1)?
2. What does Carson mean when she says that “in the modern world there is no time” (3)?
What environmental issue today is as serious as the one Carson discusses in her essay?
“Long Live the Albatross” by Olivia Judson https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/long-live-the-albatross/592768/
COMP:
2. In what sense is the albatross ”at once majestic and mythic” (2)?
3. How did the word albatross come to mean a “terrible burden” (3)?
4. Judson sees Coleridge’s poem as “a warning against ecological destruction” (8)?
5. Is this essay’s central focus on the albatross’s value as an enduring literary symbol or on its status as an endangered species? Explain.
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