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    My Modern Modest Proposal Moving factories to other countries is exactly what America’s economy needs. Thousands of people losing their jobs for the selfish greed of the government is just all part of the grand plan to get our country back on its feet. There is no better way to improve the patriotism of Americans than by ripping away their jobs and leaving them standing in unemployment lines for who knows how long. In today’s society what is good and fair is put to the side like a rotten piece

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    Jonathan Swift’s‚ A Modest Proposal‚ is a satire about the social‚ political‚ and religious positions of Britain and Ireland. In this Swift proposes that children‚ at the age of one years old‚ should be sold and eaten‚ and their skins be used to make profitable products. He supports this claim by stating that this would help society because it would provide food‚ and take starving children off the streets. Also it would discourage abortions‚ and men beating their pregnant wives because they child

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    Destiny Charles My Modest Proposal Orange‚ peach‚ white‚ brown‚ black‚ or blue we are all human beings. Racism has always been an issue in the U.S. ‚ one that has caused many trials and tribulations such as The Zimmerman Case‚ and …. "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness." This is quoted from the Declaration of

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    In A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift‚ the author proposes a plan to help evoke a sense of pity for Dublin’s poor. A satirical tone is expressed throughout as Swift ‘modestly’ proposes a plan to kill underprivileged children. Through the use of ethos‚ logos‚ pathos‚ and kairos‚ Swift expresses ways to improve his country. Throughout the story‚ Swift uses ethos to help create a sense of credence towards his ideas. Swift’s proposal describes how Dublin could potentially benefit from it. He states

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    Cited: Swift‚ Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal.” 1729.

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    A Modest Proposal The Elderly The sight is found to be sickening for many; driving through the streets in any given American town and seeing‚ fit snugly between the McDonalds and Starbucks‚ some form of facility for housing the elderly. These individuals‚ no longer able to work for a living‚ are locked away in what is comparable to a modern day prison for senior citizens‚ left only to play round after endless round of trivial games such as Bingo and shuffleboard. With their failing eye sight and

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    In The Modest Proposal published in 1729 by Dr. Jonathan Swift‚ he feels pity for the Irish in the sense that they have destroyed themselves by having children who cannot contribute to society. For example‚ Swift proposes that the Anglo-Irish should pity those when “ they see the streets‚ the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex‚ followed by three‚ four‚ or six children‚ all in rags.” The purpose for this was to show how children and mothers are unable to survive as men who

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    beggars‚ at least that’s what Jonathan Swift states in his well known satire “A Modest Proposal.” Ireland was under a british rule since 1171‚ which meant that the irish were being controlled by the british. At the time the british parliament passed on some laws that limited the irish catholics rights. England’s trade policies greatly oppressed the irish economy. Jonathan Swift wrote a rather exaggerating proposal‚ He goes on stating “ that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a

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    In A Modest Proposal‚ Jonathan Swift presents a scheme to rid Ireland of the starving masses leaching off the state by starting a trade that promotes killing and eating the young poor poppers as livestock. Through this message paired with proper and detached diction‚ gruesome imagery and heavy amounts of satire‚ Swift illustrates the dehumanization of the masses by the elite. Additionally‚ he highlights the contradictions between seemingly civilized rules of society compared with the actual corruption

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    Critical Analysis of “A Modest Proposal” John was simply observing what his country was like when he came up with this idea for the Kingdom to look at. He was just thinking about ways he could help his country and people on the wealthier side happy to. First‚ he thought that he would say how many people don’t have money and how to make them useful‚ and then he stated how using these people to the countries advantage‚ and finally explained how he thought how it would be looked down upon. Jonathan

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