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    1729 - first Potato Famine abortions - the scheme will prevent _____ absentee landlords - ________ were sucking the money out of Ireland alive - besides making 8 shillings‚ the parents won’t have to worry about keep the child ____ after the first year alms - money or goods given to the poor; charity animosity - n: hostility; hatred annum - Yearly (as in per annum) appeal to authority - cites "experts" in the field as if this action would resolve the issue appeal to pity - arouses strong feelings

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    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 and figurative language to develop

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    I have received your letter and have taken in your concerns about the assigned reading of Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal. I have written this letter to put your mind at ease and to inform you that the purpose of the reading was to challenge the student’s minds on understanding satirical devices. The students are familiar with the definition of satire and they understand that it is sarcasm used to convey insults or scorn. The full title of the story is “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children

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    The letter from the Birmingham jail still has an inspiring impact on us today. In this letter‚ King makes several points about issues that we still deal with such as inequality‚ injustice‚ and police brutality specifically targeted towards (or what it seems like) African Americans. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality‚ tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly‚ affects all indirectly.” I remember everything

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    Ro-En Anul I Satire in Jonathan Swift`s writing Jonathan Swift is an Irish writer from the 18th century and was known as a satirist‚ essayist and a political pamphleteer. He is the author of Gulliver`s Travels‚ A Journal to Stella‚ Drapier`s Letters‚ The Battle of the Books‚ An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity‚ A Tale of a Tub and A Modest Proposal. His last work‚ A Modest Proposal is an occasional essay in which he gives a response to an economical problem which shatters and

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    analysis of the poster DVD cover for a well known teenage film. I will discuss the targeted audience for this particular genre and finish by analyzing my own film poster and DVD cover. For my research I watched various teen movies from the teenage genre. My proposal is for a teen relationship

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    drug related deaths in our country‚ breaking the deaths down into categories of cause. These categories include tobacco‚ alcohol‚ prescription medications‚ illegal drug‚ and of course marijuana related deaths. Every year the number of deaths coming from marijuana is equivalent to zero. So why is there even controversy over the issue of legalization? Obviously‚ there are still some people out there who believe the drug is a topic for concern in our nation. In recent years‚ there has been tremendous

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    Swift uses satire in many of his works such as “A Modest Proposal”. Satire is the use of humor‚ irony or ridicule human vice. “The true satirist is conscious of the frailty of institutions of man ’s devising and attempts through laughter not so much to tear them down as to inspire a remodeling" (Thrall‚ et al 436). Although he was born in Ireland‚ Swift considered himself an Englishman first‚ and the English were his intended audience. "A Modest Proposal" begins with a description of the state of 18th

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    Rawson described Proposal as an explosive mixture due to the expression of compassion and contempt. Swift has been described as “black humor”. The Proposal has been defined as slavery because of the economy period a culture of enslavement naturally developed. The way that people were calculated as numbers relates to the situation of how slaves were numbered in the real world such as: “slaving company‚ slave ship and slave plantation. Critics say that the amount of satire does not come from fiction‚ but

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    Martin Luther King’s inspiration for writing his‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was mainly to appeal to an undeniable injustice that occurred during his time. His letter was in response tos eight white clergymen‚ who objected to King protesting in Birmingham. Dr. King effectively crafted his counterargument after analyzing the clergymen’s unjust proposals and then he was able to present his rebuttal. Dr. King effectively formed his counterargument by first directly addressing his audience‚ the clergymen

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