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    Assigment 1: Swift Modest Proposal Luciana Quispe Professor Michael Briere HUM 112 11/04/2014 The article by Jonathan Swift begins by making a description of the poor ladies with children and nowhere to stay in the streets of Ireland. The description clearly shows how the families have problems in terms of finding for themselves. With large families of up to six children‚ the poor ladies have no option of feeding their families. Finally‚ the audience thinks that the author would provide

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    achieving the feeling of euphoria since ancient times (“History of Marijuana”). This drug was brought from Asia to Europe at least as early as A.D. 500. People had been smoking marijuana around the world‚ dating back as far as 2737 B.C. China (“Historical Timeline”). The Spanish brought it to America in 1545‚ and the English arrived with it in Jamestown in 1611‚ where it became a major commercial crop‚ eventually replaced in the American south by cotton (Miller). Marijuana‚ then known as hemp‚ was

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    those companies are those that donated medications to us for the medical mission. However‚ we still need to spend money to buy some equipment and medications from our purse and we can do it; he then opened the floor for some QA/Suggestions on the proposal. Question/Suggestion - Question/Suggestion - Ms. Ngozi Anyanocha thanked him for a good presentation and suggested that we buy a land to build the clinic instead of renting. According to her‚ we can all take turns to volunteer time and services;

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    Jonathan Swift – Rhetorical Analysis "A Modest Proposal"‚ by Jonathan Swift‚ is a biting satire about life in 18th century Ireland‚ in which the author seeks to find "a fair‚ cheap‚ and easy method" to transform the sick and starving children of Ireland into productive members of society. Paragraph 20 -26 of the essay illustrates the advantages of Swift’s proposal‚ hardly modest‚ which is to fatten up undernourished poor children and then sell them to more well-to-do families as food. By presenting

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    “A Modest Proposal” A troubled economist‚ Jonathan Swift‚ writes “A Modest Proposal” to sarcastically suggest his solution to Irelands economic struggles. Swift begins his writing rationally and factual; then‚ he continues to‚ not so modestly‚ propose that eating the poor populations children will solve all the kingdoms’ problems. The suggestion is narrated so nonchalantly. He enlightens his readers that selling the children of the poor to the richer will help provide nourishment‚ unburden mothers

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    assigned reading of Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal”. It is apparent that you want Swift’s “Modest Proposal” to be removed from our school district because it contains “blatantly anti-human and sickening suggestions [that will] be read by young impressionable youth.” After a review of the essay‚ we have come to a unanimous conclusion. We‚ the school board‚ have decided that “A Modest Proposal” will not be removed from the curriculum. We believe that “A Modest Proposal” exhibits substantial evidence of

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    Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” During the late seventeenth century‚ political pamphlets were distributed throughout Ireland to promote the ideas of various intellectuals and laymen. However‚ many discarded them and did not pay attention to them. Jonathan Swift‚ author of “A Modest Proposal‚” takes advantage of the overlooked pamphlets‚ and constructs a ridiculous proposal. He does this to illustrate how backwards and bad the state of Ireland is and the social classes.

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    In both A Modest Proposal and The Rape of The Lock irony is used to mock the social/political values of the time. In A Modest Proposal‚ Jonathan Swift proposes that the impoverished Irish should sell their children as food to the rich in order to help ease their economic misfortunes. As enticing as cannibalism sounds‚ Swift hardly wished for the slaughter of thousands of one-year-old babies. Swift’s somewhat brutal satire was created to display the blasé character of society in order to provoke a

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    interpretation. In the short story‚ Swift discusses several resolutions that will come about if his proposal were to be enforced and be successful. He states that if the child were to be sold off after the first year‚ it will bring a profit to the family which they can either use for their own personal satisfaction or it can help contribute to taking care of the next child. Swift also believes that by executing his proposal‚ that the number of voluntary abortions will decline‚ husbands‚ if present‚ will actually

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