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 of Poor People from Being a Burthen
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The Controversial Ending of Shaw’s Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a play that has become a classic in today’s world. It is a retelling of an ancient story‚ of the same name‚ by the Roman poet‚ Ovid‚ in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue he carved. In Shaw’s story‚ Henry Higgins‚ an expert in phonetics‚ happens upon a poor flower girl with awful English and street manners named Eliza Doolittle. Throughout the course of the play Higgins transforms her into an elegant independent
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Compare/Contrast: Modest Mouse Modest Mouse is an indie-style alternative rock band that had its origin in the 90’s‚ and has since been making music with big labeling companies. Most of their music has been hailed by fanatics and critics as sincere and thoughtful art that portrays the pessimistic nihilism seen in most of today’s society. The vocalist/lead guitarist for Modest Mouse‚ Isaac Brock‚ usually prefers to uphold his lyrics on the darker‚ rebellious side of the creative spectrum. There are
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Remove this space James Nuyen Professor Julie Allen English 125 11 February 2011 “The True Ending” Remove all this space. In her short story “Happy Endings”‚ Margaret Atwood uses different literary techniques that can alter the interpretation of the story’s theme. The story starts off with a generic “fairy tale” ending in which a husband and a wife live a happy life together and eventually die. However‚ as the story progresses‚ Atwood’s style and tone makes the alternate scenarios of John
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Catholics. The country was run by a Protestant ruler and was against the Irish. The ruler of Ireland at the time made any penalizations he could at the Catholic people of Ireland which‚ in turn‚ made them extremely poor. Jonathan Swift’s article‚ A Modest Proposal‚ gives perspective on just how strapped these people are by describing the women begging and the several amounts of children they have at their heels. Instead of taking the predicament and eliminating it all together‚ Swift suggests a proposition
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If Swifts ‘Modest Proposal’ is satire‚ as everyone seems to think‚ then I am even more repulsed in the writing than I was before. Everyone at the webinar the other day thought the little baby was such a cute‚ darling‚ little thing‚ and I agree‚ life is beautiful. To find humor in‚ or joke about‚ killing and eating babies is quite disgusting actually. Finding humour in something so disturbing‚ grotesque and violent‚ is quite assaulting to human dignity. The fact‚ that the author distanced himself
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A Modest Proposal - study guide Directions: Read and complete the missing pre-reading vocabulary: a. Alms: Money given as charity to the poor b. Chair: (here) a Sedan Chair - a covered chair supported by poles‚ carried by two bearers. c. Deplorable: worthy of severe condemnation d. Episcopal: To do with (here appointed by) a bishop - the adjective refers to church administration at the time Swift wrote. e. Gibbet: Place where criminals are hanged. f. Importune: To ask for urgently or repeatedly
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In the satirical writing “A Modest Proposal”‚ Jonathan Swift taunts the British policies and taxes set towards the poor Irish citizens. Swift suggests using children as a source of food as well as earning wealth. Swift inserts his use of situational irony‚ metonymy‚ logos‚ and allusion to mock the lack of interest the British government has in reconstructing Ireland. Swift begins his writing with situational irony‚ as he describes his town as great. He discusses the many negatives within‚ as well
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An Evaluation of A Modest Proposal Persuasive Techniques Almost 300 years ago‚ Swift wrote the satirical essay‚ A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country‚ and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick. The title itself is a literary hook‚ grasping the attention of anyone concerned with the plight in Ireland‚ but the title does not elude of its satirical purpose. Swift uses all three modes of persuasion in his essay. While
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MEDIA COURSWORK REPORT INTRODUCTION The aim of my project is to produce a written script of about four to five minutes in length for a typical teenage genre film‚ as well as a production piece consisting of a poster to market the film to target its age group or audience and a DVD cover front‚ spine and back. I will begin my report by providing research into the chosen genre concerning teenage films and provide an example showing the textual analysis of the poster DVD cover for a well known
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