Modest Proposal Response Emily Pendyk Parsons AP English 11 December 18‚ 2011 Dear Mr. Smarmy: I am writing in response to your request of the elimination of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” from the classrooms‚ libraries‚ and the school system as a whole. Let me begin by telling you that I took what you said into deep consideration‚ but after discussing with the work with some of the English teachers at Martin’s Groves Junior High School and conducting research on my own time‚ it’s
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twenty-five years of age cross many boundaries and test the limits they have long been warned of. What does it take to send a clear message‚ but without having the audience experience life-shattering consequences first-hand for themselves? “PSA Texting While Driving UK AD [HD]” directed by Peter Watkins- Hughes speaks to young adults on many levels all at once in a short span‚ with a strong attention to detail that ranges from how the actors are portrayed to the lesser details that still draw the eye and
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phone and respond to the text but it also takes only a minute for your life to be over. Distracted driving is a growing and dangerous problem in today’s society that can lead to accidents causing injury and even death and is becoming one of the top killers. Thematic Statement My speech today is on texting while driving and I am against it. All drivers need to be aware of distracted driving and take steps to minimize the risk to themselves and others. “I’m asking you today to listen to the
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Message: Jonathan Swift seems to take side with the Irish subjects through the satire and opposes the British ways. He explains how most of Irish’ poverty is much of their own fault and the British responsibility but England doesn’t seems to do much for them indicating that the Kingdom as a whole doesn’t really care about the Irish population‚ so what better to do with the children then to sell and eat them? Only this proposal be the one to end hunger and poverty and societal downfall. In this essay he
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My Modest Proposal Obesity rates in the United States are among the highest in the world. Around two thirds of the adults living here are either overweight or obese and around 200‚000 deaths in the United States are cause from obesity and causes health problems including cardiovascular disease‚ diabetes‚ and cancer. This is a major problem in our society to this day and continues to get worse and worse every year. My modest proposal would be to create a new tax called a “fat” tax that raises your
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- at 55 mph - of driving the length of an entire football field‚ blind… Well I´m sure‚ most of us have texted while driving at least once… Let me tell you‚ that according to the Distraction.gov (official U.S. Goverment website for distracted driving)‚ Texting is the most alarming distraction because it involves manual‚ visual‚ and cognitive distraction simultaneously. If it’s so dangerous‚ why do people do it? Some people still don’t know how dangerous distracted driving is. Others know
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Thomas Swift‚ in his essay “A Modest Proposal” suggests a proposition to turn the poor and burdening children of Ireland into a helpful and productive members of society. Swift opens the essay by explaining the way the poverty stricken families live in ireland. Then‚ moves on to show how the problem could be fixed‚ and why this proposal in particular is not as reasonable as it sounds. Swift has identified that the poor‚ malnourished children who beg and cling to their parents on the street are
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Texting and driving may come off as just a thing that happens and its "no big deal" if we can get anyway with it. Some lives are being taken away by it and we need to take this into consideration. One reply your made to a friend‚ or family member it could leave you dead or someone else. An example of this is Ashley’s story which is a story of a girl would was texting and driving and ended up dead. Something as simple as "yeah" in a text lead to the death of a girl named Ashley in March 2010‚ Ashley’s
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Who will really benefit from Swift’s proposal? In the late 1720s Ireland suffered a great depression. Farmers was not able to pay for expensive rent that landlords was charging. Which forced adults and children to starve and beg for food. Swift had an idea of poor people selling their one year old children for meat to make money to pay for rent. In “ A Modest Proposal” Swift idea of wanting to sell children or money will only benefit the wealthy landlords and not England nor the Ireland’s poor
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I Like My Baby-Back Ribs Eating babies—an idea frowned upon by most societies‚ but suggested by Jonathan Swift in his satirical essay called “A Modest Proposal” in which he argued that in order to prevent “the children of the poor in Ireland from being a burden to their parents”‚ they should be sold as livestock and consumed alongside chickens and cows at the dinner table. In 1729 when the essay was written‚ bitter conflict between Great Britain and Ireland regarding political and religious issues
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