Kairos refers to a special rhetorical moment where the audience and time of event play a major role in the text or image. In 1960's the energy and sensibility fueled the civil rights movement, counter culture, and the New Left stimulated an environmental movement. Many were aroused by the publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring , which postulated chemical pesticides particularly DDT, caused cancer, among other ills. Public concern continued to grow during 1970's as many became aware of other pollutants around them- automobile emission, industrial pollutants- that threatened their beauty and health of surrounding. As of in New York itself air pollution inversion took life of 405 people. During 1970's people are more concerned about air pollution due to heavy industrialization and auto-mobilization.
Really like how you started the whole blog with a presentation/definition of what you were going to explain - helpful for a person who isn't in the class and for some reason was reading the blog. I think you took great advantage of linking out at at various places where more elaboration would be useful because you didn't have to explain something that was already explained wonderfully somewhere else.
ReplyDeleteI think that transitions between your different ideas should be worked on a little bit simply because your ideas are well thought out but need to flow better together to keep the reader more engaged.
Overall I think you did a great job!