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    many people go for vacation to rest and see the beautiful land. There was an law passed long before I was born that took many rights from our Irish people like voting, being able to defend ourselves with weapons, receiving an education, and enrolling in colleges, gaining employment. Because of the many rights that were taken away there was forced military service among our men leaving young mothers without fathers for their children, famine which is not enough food for everyone and many people…

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    Therefore, this brings economic complications to the Irish. One of the most noticeable problems the author perceives in society is the significant growth of beggars living in the streets. Nevertheless, he highlights, the real issue is that children are living in those poor conditions as well. In order to solve this matter, the narrator brings forward a proposal which aims to make children “beneficial to the public”. He openly proffers to provide rich people from England with children’s meat. As…

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    In Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, he uses a satirical form to exemplify the harsh reality of the treatment of the poor in 1700 Ireland. By proposing the inhumane practice of the selling of poor infants to the rich to be sacrificed to cannibalism, Swift mirrors the devouring nature of the economy by the rich that leaves the poor with nothing. Swift’s objective of such an absurd idea does not serve to be taken seriously, rather than to bring attention to the poor Irishmen by using the idea of…

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    children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country and for making them beneficial to the public focuses on the ills that befell the society. The author uses satire to highlight the issues in the society and he proposes a radical solution. The thesis of…

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    calls to me. I get emotional every time a see it. The Scottish and English have been fighting over freedom for over a hundred years. England owns Scotland and in doing so have been very cruel to the Scottish people, have raped, murdered, and taken control in every way of the Scottish people. During this time Scotland has decided that they no longer wanted to be ruled by a tyrant and have rose up in hopes to gain their freedom. S-Situation. This scene takes place on a beautiful hilly field in…

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    One of the most controversial events was the Irish famine in 1845-1852. This was because of conflicting national pride and lack of sources that made it difficult for either side to state what really happened. This eventually led to the three historic views, nationalist, revisionism and post revisionism. With passing time each view blossomed into a new statement and belief. PART:A Nationalism was the historic view of Irish citizens. They personally told their own reasonings to what actually…

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    Eating Children

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    England, some policies of England kept the Irish poor and hungry. Eating children will be unbearable, that was a thing that no one even should think about, a thing that would be unforgivable. The Irish probably thought it was bizarre and weird that someone would want to eat children. Something had to be done about all these problems, and a lot of proposals were made, but not one was heard. That is why an outrageous solution had to be implanted, so all the people in England will listen to the…

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    Irish Catholic Religion

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    Finally, Irish Catholics in Toronto were not completely without support, since Quebec embraced Irish Catholic culture through the dominance of Catholic cultural ideology amongst the Francophone population. This type of political, social, and economic support defined one reason why the Catholic Irish in Toronto was alienated, yet not without some resources to countermand the sectarian oppression of the Orange Order: In time the appearance and plight of these faminites became a lens through which…

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    Swift however, does not intend us to emulate either Yahoo or Houyhnhnm behavior, but rather to take the positive aspects which each portray, and dilute them into a compromise that befits the healthy functioning of a human being. Williams agrees that Swift is creating a novel whose moral is to say, “Passions and affections, carefully guided, are treated as necessary in creatures who are imperfect and interdependent” (Williams 286), and likewise the “Houyhnhnms, far from being a model of…

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    In his essay, "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift proposes a plan to bring his home country, Ireland, back to order after years of extreme poverty. Swift's purpose is to convey the idea that sacrificing the children of poor citizens is the only solution to improve the country's economy and correct the "deplorable state of the kingdom" (832). Swift adopts an insincere and ironic tone to reveal his frustration with society and present his "modest proposal". Swift begins by establishing a…

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