Bradley Hall and Victor Ruiz Mrs.Mcelroy Block F/ English 11 AP 11/4/12 A Modest Proposal for Prostitution The current state of our U.S. economy is poor. The unemployment rate is sitting at a high 8%‚ and families are struggling to support themselves. With our country in this great deficit‚ we are in need of a new‚ thriving industry to create new revenue for the federal government. The proposal we have come up with is neither or unreasonable. All parties involved would benefit greatly from
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Jacob Drettwan 1/4/14 English Lit. 5th A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal The border between Mexico and the United States has been left open‚ leaving the entire nation accessible to disease‚ violence‚ and economic ruin. Being able to come and go as they please‚ illegal Mexican immigrants have came to U.S. in the millions‚ and with them they have brought terrors to our citizens. Every year they smuggle millions of pounds of cocaine‚ and once settled within our communities‚ their gangs and
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Cuibuș Amalia Dania 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
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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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One of the most commonly used elements of satire is irony‚ which Swift uses freely to show the monetary and religious divisions in society. After suggesting the idea of eating babies and wearing their skin‚ Swift mentions that “there are more children born in Roman Catholic countries about nine months after Lent” (Swift 5) to show his dislike for Catholics and the large families they produce‚ especially after the “Irish famines of the preceding three years” (Hunting 92). He continues to scorn the
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Jonathon Swift’s A Modest Proposal Week 4‚ Assignment 1 Phoenix University Professor Smith HUM112 January 29‚ 2012 Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal I choose a writing by Jonathan Swift‚ A Modest Proposal written in 1729. The piece starts off innocent enough‚ describing the dark realities of the day. (Swift‚ 1729) The setting is in the year 1729‚ Ireland. (Swift‚ 1729) The poor lined the streets‚ mostly mothers and their children‚ begging for food or money for food and necessities
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A Modest Proposal The Elderly The sight is found to be sickening for many; driving through the streets in any given American town and seeing‚ fit snugly between the McDonalds and Starbucks‚ some form of facility for housing the elderly. These individuals‚ no longer able to work for a living‚ are locked away in what is comparable to a modern day prison for senior citizens‚ left only to play round after endless round of trivial games such as Bingo and shuffleboard. With their failing eye sight and
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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 of Poor People from Being a Burthen
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A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was written in 1720 as a satirical piece to highlight the child abuse inflicted on Irish catholic children by well to do English protestants. Swifts native heritage of Ireland put him in an excellent position as an observer and‚ eventually‚ a commentator‚ on the extreme poverty experienced by the Irish population. This poverty mostly caused by the ‘ruling class’ … the English…and their appalling mistreatment of Ireland‚ its
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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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