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Lottery story because there isn’t any educational point to it. Also, it’s rather quite violent especially to elementary kids. I know being shot to death is also violent, but it’s rather a quick and painless death unlike being stoned to death. The Modest Proposal was educational for the history of Ireland and England back in the mid-1700s and proved that what they were going through was rough. Therefore, I’d ban The Lottery because of its harsh scene at the end and the no educational perspective of

At the end of the 17th century, political brochures were dispersed throughout Ireland to encourage philosophies of different savvy intellects and layman. Nonetheless, most people didn’t focus on the brochures, so Swift, who is who wrote “A Modest Proposal” takes advantage of the ignored pamphlets and develops a ludicrous suggestion. Swift’s motivation in the article was to enlighten the one-sidedness against the Irish, especially the individuals who were disadvantaged. He argues that something

Discovering the metaphorical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was a long and arduous journey for Irish immigrants. The journey was full of unexpected obstacle to overcome on the path to freedom in the land of opportunity known as America. Of factors leading the Irish to emigrate from Ireland to America in between 1700-1800, the most significant were due to political and economic misfortunes suffered by Irish residents who fell victim to English rule. The film, “The Irish in America” notes 1800

students to read “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift has been widely debated among fellow school board members and me for an extensive amount of time. I understand that you have your own opinions on the subject stated in your letter, but the majority of the school board agreed, “A Modest Proposal” should be kept in the curriculum. Some members of the board might disagree with the statements in the piece of literature, but they are simply not appreciating the outstanding irony in “A Modest Proposal”. This

Satire Mini-Unit: Questions 1. Swift identifies that there are too many impoverished children in the streets of Ireland, these children are too much of a burden for their parents to handle. 2. When a poor child grows to the age of 1, they should be slaughtered, sold, eaten, and skinned to provide clothing. This eliminates the need to feed more mouths and provides a way to benefit society. 3. This proposal will also prevent voluntary abortions and the murdering of bastard children. 4. Swift is using

exceeded the carrying capacity of our land”.(Hardin 169) It is believed by Hardin that there is limited resources and if we helped the poor it would be ineffective. In contrast, Swift thinks that limited resources are not an issue. In Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, he says that the children, who are of poor decent, use them as income for the poor and the children will be a commodity for the rich. Swift did not literally mean for this to happen but that the proposal to sell the children was absurd

In 1729 Ireland was overpopulated and riddled with poverty. Women and children lined the streets begging for food or money. In his disturbing satire, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift suggests a unique solution to this dire situation. Swift uses specific language and calculated arguments to vent his anger with the Irish government and to create an effective argument that makes readers aware of the severity of the situation. Swift takes a cold and distant approach to his argument. His argument

A Modest Proposal examines the attitude of the rich towards the poor children in their society. There are many rhetorical devices effectively affectively used to highlights Jonathan Swift proposal. He uses metaphors, repetition, logical fallacies and humor, parallelism, sarcasm and satire tone to highlight the negative attitudes. He starts his proposal by blaming and mocking the children’s mothers by informing them that instead of begging for alms (aka money) they should just get engaged or find

thinking about ending poverty and starvation? In “A Modest Proposal,” Jonathan Swift proclaims to the people that sacrificing young children to be eaten will help end the starvation in Ireland. Swift is trying to shock, but at the same time inform the Irish about the dilemma. Also, the narrator shows his seriousness by providing statistics on how some children cannot be eaten because of disease and how the others can be sacrificed. In "A Modest Proposal," Swift uses ethos, pathos, and logos, and

In Jonathan Swift's satirical essay “A Modest Proposal” he addresses the issues of the nation of Ireland and the problems that it is having with its government because it is doing nothing to help their people come up from issues such as poverty, overpopulation and other crudely addressed political issues. In an attempt to solve these national problems, Swift comes up with a very unique and intense proposition on how the problem can be fixed and dealt with. By providing the reader with a combination