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    In his essay, “A Modest Proposal,” writer Jonathan Swift uses in the form of an extremely absurd advice issues the sound of his heart, his “advice” is full of irony skills which are camouflage and irony. First, in order to achieve the effect of camouflage, Swift does not direct give his “advice”, instead, he elaborately creates a convincing and authoritative “adviser” who looks like peaceable. However, this “adviser” have to catch the reader’s heart in their intangible consciousness, and lure…

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    A Modest Proposal and Other Satires by Jonathan Swift is an accumulation of six of his satirical essays. The six essays that make up this satirical collection are: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of Books, An Argument Against the Abolition of Christianity, A Modest Proposal, A True and Faithful Narrative, and A Meditation Upon a Broomstick; each dealing with satirical— meaning sarcastic or ironic— views on either political matters or religion or simply society as a whole, often combining some of…

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    My Wiffle Ball Game

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    Our daily wiffle ball game was about to start. There was a wiffle ball game every evening behind the apartment complex I lived in. The game was played in a luscious green grass field with a monstrous hill in left field. The usual squad was myself, Ricky, Justin, Michael, Jonathon, Latrell, and occasionally Greg but his parents usually make him stay inside and play monopoly or some other dumb board game. Our teams were always different from the last game. This time I was teamed up with Ricky and…

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    When you think of what you will do for the day, do you think of things to better others’ lives or your own? In Tartuffe and A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift and Moliere speak of ways of living and human nature. Tartuffe speaks of a man who is supposed to be a man of God but is only trying to better his own way of living and take away a man’s own home. Swift as well speaks of living and human nature but not of a man but society as a whole and how they look at a certain group of people. In this…

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    a female figure is always directed towards a female’s body, what a female wears and what she does degrades her image of being the delicate goddess she was created to be. In the poem “The Lady dressing room” by Jonathan Swift and an essay titled “A Modest Proposal” also written by Jonathan swift. He uses tone, form and style to share a social problem of the time in which women are being morally attacked and degraded by man. The poem “The Lady dressing room’ is a satire about woman’s…

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    Distributing limited resources among our rapidly growing economy has always been a cause for concern. There are new lives being brought into this world everyday even though our resources are dwindling down as we speak. In “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift and “Lifeboat Ethics” by Garrett Hardin, each author uses a different method of appeals to propose to their readers a way to help our ever growing population. Hardin uses more of a logic based argument, using facts and figures to back up…

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    Jonathan Swift had many beliefs he expressed in the book Gulliver’s Travels. Some of these are that humans are animals, but that humans are also capable of reason. Swift convenes these beliefs in the travels that Gullivers takes and his adventures. Gulliver meets many different human like creatures as well as humans themselves. Swift uses these characters like pirates or Yahoo 's, to show that humans really are just animals. Swift wants everyone to know that humans think of themselves as above…

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    In his paper, "A Modest Proposal," writer Jonathan Swift uses as a to a great degree foolish guidance issues the sound of his heart, his "advice" is brimming with incongruity abilities which are cover and incongruity. In the first place, keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish the effect of camouflage, Swift does not immediate give his "advice", rather, he extravagantly makes a persuading and legitimate "adviser" who looks like quiet. Be that as it may, this "adviser" need to get the reader…

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    We live in a capitalistic society that requires jobs and more successfully a career to make it the legal way in America. In America we have the choice of which profession you want to pursue while in other countries they pick it for you without your consent. Since we have this choice we should pick things we are passionate about and not what other people want us to be. Some people want to be pastors, coaches and politician however all those careers require different educational levels and…

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    This interview was conducted to discover and examine the myriad administrative duties and responsibilities of organizational leaders. I interviewed Mr. Dan Phipps, who is the Athletic Director for Muscatine Community School District. He is also the Dean of Students. This double role makes for an extremely busy day. As it turned out, he has served in the military. He was a sergeant in the Marine Corp, serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. I started the interview by asking about the hiring and…

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