Fetus. Kill it. Don't you think abortions are a waste of an innocent life? Instead, sign up your unwanted children for military school or the spy kids' program. It is time to reconsider our moral values and find a place for our “mistakes” instead of taking the easy route: aborting. Previously in 2014, about 652,639 successful, legal abortions were reported. Picture the countless lives that could have had the potential to change the world into a more harmonious place. If the government raises them…
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Outline: A Modest Proposal I. Introduction A. Audience Participation 1. How many of you see poverty and hunger as a problem in the world? How many of you think that you cannot possibly help solve this problem? B. Introduce self and topic 1. According to an article written by Jason M. Breslow, as of 2011, children had the highest poverty level with over 16 million children living in poverty. That is just in the United States. Imagine the number of children living in poverty in the entire world…
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Jonathan Swift shares with his audience a satire entitled "A Modest Proposal." Swift’s purpose of his writing is to enlighten his audience of the situation of his people and to bring about the seriousness of their situation. Within Swift’s community poverty and starvation are rampant. Through his satire he discusses the "consumption" of the children as a solution to the poverty in Ireland. He shares with his audience, the members of his community, "benefits" of his solution as well as how they would…
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their Parents, or the Parish, or wanting Food and Raiment for the rest of their Lives; they shall, on the contrary, contribute to the Feeding, and partly to the Cloathing, of many Thousands.” Swift thinks that by step one of his proposal he’ll stop abortion in his words, “prevent that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas!” Then Swift goes off to explain more about his proposal using statics to calculate how many breeders who can have babies and then subtracted thirty thousand…
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The Philippines Cultural values Filipino culture is characterized by openness to the outside which easily incorporates foreign elements without the basic unconsciousness of one culture core. Filipino characteristics such as out warm and person orientation out devotion to family, our sense of joy and humour as part of our culture and reinforce Strengths of the Filipino Charter Pakikipagkapwa-tao is demonstrated in the Filipino’s ability to emphasize with other, in helpfulness and generosity, in…
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constantly pleads and confesses the girl can choose whether or not she wants to follow through with the operation. The boy uses this mask to provide comfort, which ironically is the reason the girl gets frustrated. The boy wants her to go through with the abortion seeing it is in his best interests failing to understand the damaging and traumatic experience the women undergoes, as well as the critical social interpretation dismissing those who proceed with the operation. World War I was a brutal war both Harry…
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readers to do was to take action to make Ireland a better place. Ireland in the 1720’s was going through another famine and had beggars with children littering the streets. His absurdity in his writing lets the reader infer that this piece is in fact a satire. If someone were to honestly propose this they would be out of their mind. Swift wanted the English gentry, who owned most of the land, to react to the famine of the people and do something to make it better. Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” to demonstrate…
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During the time of Jonathan Swift, late seventeenth century pamphlets were handed out throughout Ireland to encourage the ideas of political and various intellectual people. Although many pamphlets contain important information and ideas or talked about great problems happening in the world or their nations, many people discarded them and did not pay attention to them. As a way to take advantage of the overlooked pamphlets handed out, Jonathan Swift author of “A Modest Proposal” sets out to write…
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A Modest Satire A Modest Proposal begins with an account of the impoverished state of many in Ireland. This satirical essay goes in depth about the consumption of babies that written to bring light to the discontent in Ireland and how there was no real action to change that. The writer, Jonathan Swift, expresses sympathy and the need for a solution. This proposal hopefully will decrease the number of abortions performed by poor mothers. The writer first calculates the number of infants born in Ireland…
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bit of a shock. I always believed I was more of a “radical”. I never thought of moderate as really an option. I agree with hard-core liberalism on every social issue (i.e. death penalty, sexual orientation being protected by civil rights laws, and abortion as a woman's right) as to where hard-core…
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