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Id. at 1035. Unlike the victim in Parkins, in the instant case, Swift did report the sexual harassment to a person who had the ability to hire and fire other employees. (R. at 19). Conway had the ability to hire and fire attorney support staff at Frank & Moore. (R. at 14). Conway’s ability to hire and fire some employees at Frank & Moore made it reasonable for Swift to believe Conway had some authority to handle the report. Hence, Swift provided Frank & Moore with notice when a letter was sent…

archaeologists because they did not think that the Swift Creek culture were able to mold pottery into these 3-D vessels (Pluckhahn 2007). Mound E Mound E was a huge burial mound where the Swift Creek buried the natives in their group as they died. The graves of several individuals were excavated, and grave goods were plentiful buried alongside their loved ones in the mound (Pluckhahn 2015). Archaeologists soon came to discover that they Swift Creek buried their loved ones with very sentimental…

concern in society. As society expands, scientific advancements create more problems in society. Problems also existed back in 1667, when Jonathan Swift was born in Ireland. Events such as his father’s death before his birth and how “following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Roman Catholic faction focused itself on Ireland” (Bate), influenced Swift in his satirical writing. His best known satirical novel is Gulliver’s Travels. The scientific research done in the third book of Swift’s…

something a reader can for one, understand and two, be interested in. What Swift did with his "A Modest Proposal" is exactly that. While I do not necessarily like the way he came about it, he did peak my interest through the whole thing. I do not think that would even be remotely okay to do in real life but his piece was meant to be sarcastic and honestly a little humorous. What else is up Swifts sleeve? What I think Swifts real views are on this subject is to come up with an outrageous…

In the novel, Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift expresses his ideas about politics, society, and the presumed self-righteousness of human society. The effects of social darwinism are profound and are evident within the characters in the story. Throughout the story, the desire to rise to a higher social standard is the driving motive behind the character’s actions. A main theme of the novel is how an individual can become distorted by their own thirst to climb up the social hierarchy. In her…

certain morals or values they believe in. Each of these authors anthropomorphize different animals in their stories; Cervantes uses dogs and Swift uses horses. In each of their respective works, these authors select the animals they anthropomorphize for opposite reasons. Swift chooses horses because their qualities directly contradict the manner in which Swift employs them in his story, whereas Cervantes chooses dogs because their qualities…

In 1726, Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels, unaware that it would become one of the most well-known satirical pieces, even centuries later. Part of the reason Gulliver’s Travels is still popular today is the appeal the plot has to a multitude of different audiences. Children become infatuated with the adventure and humor in Lemuel Gulliver’s hijinks, while adults are intrigued by the satirical and philosophical perspectives that are weaved into the novel. Some of the most eye-catching…

It goes on to describe a woman as some horrid animal, and this experience ruins women for Swift completely. The writing of this poem is in such a negative slander and shows the ugliness of women in Swift’s eyes. He even states “such gaudy tulips raised from Dung” (line 145), explaining that he cannot believe something so ugly came from something that is supposed to be beautiful. The statements that Swift stated about this woman would be enough to cause most women of today’s society to have a…

significant impact on people’s attitudes toward the maltreatment of, domestic place of, and liberties of women. Literature such as Jonathon Swift’s The Lady’s Dressing Room, denigrating women, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s, The Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem called the Lady’s Dressing Room, vindicating women, and Eliza Haywood’s, Fantomina, masquerading of women, brought awareness of the wit, blamelessness, and power that women hold both in the literary and real world. Although…

at a very young age, and without any sort of formal education or training became one of the greatest mathematicians in history (Swift). Germain fought against gender stereotypes during her life and fought for recognition as a female mathematician (Swift). Throughout her life, Germain refused to give up, even when her lack of formal education put her at a disadvantage (Swift). Throughout Germain’s life, it is clear that she was determined and dedicated to the study of mathematics, never letting…