Extra Credit: Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

DUE - Tuesday, July 27      
POINTS - Up to 10 
Length - 750-1,000 words

This exercise is always fun. It raises questions of ideology and 
responses to government power.

Read the following article on Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal"

Remember, this is a SATIRE!! (If you don't know what that means, look it
up!) Papers that fail to recognize it as satire and don't indicate the
point and some brief discussion of the context of the piece will receive
only partial, if any, credit.

And then answer the following in about 750-1,00 words:

1) What is the author saying? (that is, what is satire, and what are the
author's real points?). What's the real point of the piece?

2) Does the author get you thinking about things a new way?

3) In discussing culture and cultural taboos, and then looking at how
we can use extreme examples to make a real point, how might this article
be used to address issues related to criminology?

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