Why would the chemical companies have such a negative reaction to carson’s work silent spring?

How do you imagine life would be without the invention of the typewriter? would computers have been invented?

Why did the other allies like great britain and france not support wilsons 14 points?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is