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Essay Instructions: I need a example essay on "A Modest Proposal" the speaker objects to his friend's prospal of butchering starving adolescents on the grounds that it might be censured as "a little bordering upon Cruelty." Why does he not think of his own propoal as cruel? How does this satire make you feel and why?
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Essay Instructions: Pretend you are a modern social worker, educator. environmentalist or advisor to the president. I dentify and attack an evil you see in the world today and write your own " Modest Proposal" for its solution- a propsal so outrageous that readers will see at once the serity of the problem. Remember that some readers may miss your irony and attack you for being insensitive, just as some people attacked swift. To lessen this possibility. make your moral outrage clear by the sheer outrageousness of your exaggerations.
In your "propsal" be sure to follow the path laid out by Swift. be sure to exaggerate your problem so that its sounds as if it is of : National Importance" that this problem be solved. Describe the depths to which this problem has spread. Then clearly identify your proposed solution, making it as outrageous as your imagination will allow. the point is propose something so bad that people would want ti find something better. once you have identfied your proposal, you must support it using ethical, logical,and emotional appeals. you must make your solution sound believable, and these appeals are the only way to accomplish that goal. Finally , you must identify and dismiss other, more realistic, solutions to the problem. list them but don't explain them. think of real possible solutions. then close your essay with a simmple closing thought that supports your proposal.
Things to Remember:
(1)be sure to create an outrageous solution that can serve as the focus of your entire essay. Unimaginative, boring solutions lead to boring essays. let your imagination run wild.
(2)Make sure you include specific appeals to help support your solution. as a Bare Minimun, you should include at least one ethical appeal, one logical appeal, and one emotional appeal.
(3)be sure to proofread your essay for any spelling or grammar errors. do not trust your computer to do the work for you.
(4)there is no minimun requred length for this essay
(5)Pretend there is a little person sitting next to you asking " Why"?" you need to explain you appeals to that depth.

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high school text book call ( "HOLT" Literature & Language Arts " Sixth Course" )
Pages 431p to 437p reading resource:

Essay Instructions: You have now read Jonathan Swift's shocking A Modest Proposal of 1729, attacking the deplorable state of poverty in which many Irish citizens found themselves due to England's accumulated repressive legal measures and the absentee landlords. Swift used all his powers of satire and irony to bring an entire society's attention to focus on what he saw as the most pressing social issue of his time, and his essay remains amongst the most often studied satirical texts in the English Language.

Now it is your turn to follow in Jonathan's footsteps. One does not have to look far to see that many ills surrounded us in 2011. Now your job will be to choose the societal problem(Local or Global)which you see as the most pressing , and you will present an outrageous, ironic solution to the situation. In the process, you will use the three rhetoric devices that Swift employed: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, and you will follow the same organizational structure in your essay as Swift's.

Societal Problem I chose: Global Warming
Satirical Solution: Keep on using gas to operate cars, and stop thinking of electrical , and H20 operated machines.

Essay Instructions: Choose one (1) of the three (3) reading selections from the list of topic choices below. The focus is on brief but important primary source material written by major authors. Read the selections as identified with each topic below. Write a three to four (3-4) paragraph essay (250 words minimum) which analyzes the ?surprise ending? of the reading selection.

Reading selection of Swift?s A Modest Proposal. It is essential to recognize the genre of this work, as discussed in our class text, which you should consult and cite. Swift promotes a radical solution, but subtle options are mentioned. You are looking for surprise and a point of realization. Read and focus on A Modest Proposal located at http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/modest.html.

For the reading selection you choose:
1. Clearly state in your own words the ?surprise ending? in the reading you selected. Clearly identify the point in the reading when you realized that there were elements in the reading that surprised you. Not all of the surprises come at the end.
2. Evaluate how successful the author was in convincing you to accept the validity of the ?surprise ending? that was different from what you expected.