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    era, the Irish government tried to solve the controversial issue of poverty. In a satirical essay written in 1729, Jonathan Swift, an Irish minister, wrote about a solution for Ireland’s extreme poverty issue to mock and bring attention to how the current government was handling the issue. Swift highlights the severe poverty problem of Ireland through strong factual evidence, creates an emotional and then satirical tone through his diction, and causation to convince his audience, the Irish government

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    food and house, they were in the hands of charity or the government. This eviction was the death sentence for the great majority. During each year of the Hunger, thousands of Irish migrated, fistly, to the bigger cities in Ireland, and then to Britain, North America ands Australia, places where they were not welcomed. Many Irish who settled in America, bored a hatred feeling for the policies of England

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    and neglect has not transformed the Irish people into “civil” citizens, but instead that it has evolved them into the “barbaric” and “animalistic” people they were once accused of being. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the tension between England and Ireland was a prominent issue. The English did not think highly of the Irish and often referred to them as “the other” or the “inferior” people to their own civility. Not only did the English think of the Irish as “inferior,” but they also believed

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    people of Ireland and England an absurd plan that will achieve the ending of the Irish man's poverty, in doing so the people of Ireland will have to make the ultimate sacrifice by choosing to feast upon “a young healthy child well nursed” because they will certainly make a “nourishing meal”; Jonathan’s satire proposes the idea of cannibalism to decrease the starvation, Swift hopes to bring awareness to the inequality the Irish are facing by using appeals to logic, credibility, and emotion. First and foremost

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    world-wide that affects everyone in its vicinity. However, violence and war have been known to blossom awe-inspiring art from people who want change. Ireland and England have had hostile relations for hundreds of years that still continue to this day. Irish artists have a way of writing songs that keep their history alive. The Cranberries are no exception. “Zombie” by The Cranberries was released in 1994 and continued to be popular throughout the rest of the decade.Before this song came out, the majority

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    Swift’s proposals were to encourage the Irish industries to fix the problems they were facing. No one was listening to Swift, so it infuriated him because he was not being listened to. Swift was not being heard, so he wrote “A Modest Proposal” to try and grasp the people’s attention. There is

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    University of Phoenix Material Reliable Sources Worksheet Locate three sources in the University Library on a topic of your choice. Provide the required information for each sources. Source 1 Author: Wang Ying; Zhang Hai-feng. Date:  Mar 2012 Title: The Application of English Movies in Higher Vocational English Teaching. Publication: Mar 2012 Peer Reviewed? No What words did you use to find this article? Movies What type of article is this (research, summary, reflection, essay

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    barely afford to pay. England imposed extremely high taxes on Ireland and the English laws which restricted Irish trade made it impossible for the country to ever prosper. In general, the English had, at this time, a negative attitude towards Irish people,

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    past that they were not a part of. This work was so important to Boland that it was it was referenced in her book of essays, A Journey with Two Maps. I will use this piece, and Boland’s comments on it, to shed light on the struggle Boland faces as an Irish woman writer and how that appears in her poetry. For Kay, it is not just gender that complicates her identity as a Scottish poet, it is race and sexuality as well. The question of who is and isn’t Scottish and who can and can’t claim that history and

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    the biggest being financial aid and this type of aid was collected by members of the Irish Diaspora in the US then given to various different nationalist groups. Seldom was the money given to violent groups like the IRA but instead was given to other groups and in turn led to the purchasing of arms or goods and stuff like that which the IRA could use. One of the major organizations that did this was Noraid or Irish Northern Aid. The true purpose of Noraid dealt with arms smuggling and fund raising

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