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    Similar to most colonization‚ this had many negative impacts on the natives of Ireland such as poverty‚ overpopulation‚ and unemployment. In the essay “ A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of the poor people from being a burthen to their parents‚ or the country‚ and for making them beneficial to the Publick” written by Jonathan Swift‚ he convinces the readers that newborns at the age of one should be sold into the meat market for consumption of the wealthy. He recognizes the poor treatment

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    Hannah Patricia B. Tan IV – Electron A MODEST PROPOSAL: FOR PREVENTING TERRORIST ATTACKS AND EASIER AIRPORT SECURITY MANAGEMENT A lot of terrorist attacks have been happening around the world. These attacks cause trauma and shock to a lot of people‚ especially those who are affected. Some terrorists threaten people by doing bomb threats which destroys the infrastructure‚ some kidnap valuable people and treat them as hostages to get ransom‚ and sometimes they kill those people if they do not

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    Modest Proposal Today one of our most growing issues in America is teen pregnancy. Now a day’s media plays a huge role in a regular teenagers life. Television‚ magazines‚ and the Internet have been sending a message that sex is okay. Teenagers think that loosing their virginity before the age of 18 is “cool.” Many teens are put into situations where they feel they must have sex and don’t care about protection. Many teens that have sex without using protection can lead to pregnancy. Being a teenager

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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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    In a Modest Proposal‚ by Jonathan Swift‚ the main objective was to draw attention to the plight of the Irish people and motivate readers to find a workable solution. Swift shows the readers his proposal mainly through irony. Irony can be defined as expressing the opposite of what is meant. This is a great technique of the sense of humor used in the proposal and in Swift. One of the voices that are present throughout the story is that of irony. The story itself is ironic since no one can take

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    death of many Irishmen. Jonathan Swift displays his solution to the desperate times in Ireland in the essay “A Modest Proposal”. The English landlords need to be enlightened on the situation occurring in Ireland and that their desperate neighbors are starving from crop failure. Swift writes how an extravagant proposal‚ including selling infants to be eaten‚ must be adopted to end this economic era in Ireland. Through his use of satire in “A Modest Proposal”‚ Jonathan Swift uses organization‚ diction

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    “A Modest Proposal” is next level insane‚ now I may be wrong‚ but what I’ve gathered from this piece is basically cannibalism of young children. “A young healthy child well nursed‚ is‚ at a year old‚ a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food‚ whether stewed‚ roasted‚ baked‚ or boiled.” Now i haven’t really heard about Dr. Jonathan Swift‚ nor do I really know about his background‚ but his use of satire in this article is preposterous. I only hope this is a use of satire and that Dr. Swift hasn’t

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    the other hand‚ at the same time‚ a famous Irish writer called Jonathan Swift wrote an essay called “A Modest Proposal”. In this essay he proposed a possible solution to the problem Ireland was going through. At the end of his work he said he was open to other suggestions for a better solution to the problem. Today we give different alternatives for the solution of Ireland’s situation. Also‚ we highlight the advantages that each proposal we offer will give Ireland and the world. Let

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