In the article "What Obama Hopes To Accomplish Before Leaving The White House" The Onion uses accomplishments and fails from President Barack Obama’s two terms as president and puts a lighthearted spin on them using horatian satire. In this piece Barack Obama is putting together a frivolous to-do checklist to complete before he leaves office. The article takes many accomplishments of Barack Obama during his presidency and uses it in a humorous context. This draws on the audience’s pathos and
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Tolkien has experienced a resurgence of interest in the last two decades-in a large part thanks to Peter Jackson’s film adaptations of both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. However I do not wish to look at the movies‚ or indeed at any of Tolkien’s more prevalent work. I wish to focus on his poetry‚ the poems woven into the narrative of his popular novels (including revised versions published in The History of Middle-earth series) as well as his stand-alone pieces that may have little to do with
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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was written in 1720 as a satirical piece to highlight the child abuse inflicted on Irish catholic children by well to do English protestants. Swifts native heritage of Ireland put him in an excellent position as an observer and‚ eventually‚ a commentator‚ on the extreme poverty experienced by the Irish population. This poverty mostly caused by the ‘ruling class’ … the English…and their appalling mistreatment of Ireland‚ its
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Donne’s love poetry and his religious verse have an extremely close relationship and this manifests itself in the presence of religious imagery and reference in his love poems‚ the presence of imagery in his religious poems that is more akin to that from courtly love‚ and in his style and technique. It is this sense of Donne’s individuality that creates two types of poetry that‚ for all their differences‚ are strikingly similar. The holy sonnets refer to the old love poet characteristics
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Montague is telling the story in. Similarly‚ in On Murder‚ De Quincey writes to a fictional social group that can appreciate and understand taste. By doing so‚ De Quincey creates an audience of refined society in his work in order to convey the satirical message on society’s twisted view of murder. He utilizes precise language to describe an instance where a “poor
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class: “Portrait of the Essay as a Warm Body” Cynthia Ozick (196) “Ka-Ching” Margaret Atwood (205) “Afternoon of an American Boy” E.B. White (209) “Guy Lafleur” Ken Dryden (243) “Get Beyond Babel” Ken Wiwa (295) Essay available for self-study: “Elegy in Stone” Steven Heighton (229) “Why I Write” George Orwell (263) “The Not-So-Deadly Sin” Barbara Kingsolver (273) “Wanderers by Choice” Eva Hoffman (306) “Paradise‚ a Poet‚ and Promised Land” George Elliot (327) “Hockey Night in Port Hawksbury” Lynn
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When people are more intelligent or more gifted‚ it is often perceived as a threat. Henry Slesar’s “Examination Day” is an extreme example of this‚ because the government is so threatened by intelligence‚ that they will do anything to keep people from being superior to others‚ including killing preteens. Dickie is a newly turned 12-year- old who must take an official government intelligence test‚ which little does he know will lead to his demise. In contrast‚ Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron” is
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NOTES: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Johnathan Swift writes this satirical proposal to "prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or the country" and to make them "beneficial to the public". Johnathan begins this proposal with a paragraph using violent and negative diction‚ using words such as "beg"‚ "forced"‚ "fight"‚ "thieves"‚ "helpless". Because of the alarming and intriguing nature of these words‚ this negative/violent diction appeals to
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In “A Modest Proposal”‚ Jonathan Swift reaches out to the readers about social problems that the great town and county are going through. I believe Swift is trying to tell the readers in a satirical way that the government and political party are not doing anything in the country to solve the social problems. Swift believed the only way to catch their attention was to write the essay “A Modest Proposal”. Swift used satire in his essay to inform people of Ireland how high poverty‚ hunger‚ and death
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the realistic acting and satirical style make the movie intriguing to watch‚ the plot of the movie is irrational. The first aspect that makes Reitman’s movie intriguing was the genuine acting. Nick serves as the vice-president of the Academy of Tobacco Studies‚ using the skills of a debater to win over his arguments. He always has a smile on his face that makes someone wonder if he is happy or just gloating. Nick faces many
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