Extra Credit: Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

DUE - July 5           
POINTS - Up to 30 
Length - 750-1,000 words

This exercise is always fun. It raises questions of ideology and 
responses to justice and government power. It should be VERY easy
because it's material we have covered for two weeks.

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.
(Write this as an essay, not a short-answer response to each point)
 
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) Defend a pro and con view drawing from Peter Singer

4) 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 such issues as social justice, poverty, class or
anything else related to the class.

REMEMBER: This is an essay: DO NOT write this paper as a short-answer
response to each point. Develop it as an esssay.

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