Month: June 2020

Smith addresses the vast class differences he notices in his pamphlet “A Modest Proposal.” The proposer of the pamphlet is painted as a vain, wealthy member of the Irish upper-class, who doesn’t even bother to recognize those of the lower-class. But Smith isn’t just criticizing these self-righteous Irish citizens, he is also urging them to help the poor.

The proposer comments that “landlords … have already devoured most of the (poor) parents.” Of course, Swift doesn’t mean literally that the parents are being eaten, but he implies that there isn’t much difference between the suggested acts of cannibalism and the day-to-day activities of the rich.

Throughout the story, the proposer writes in an analytical tone; as if the matter of the poor people of Ireland is just another math problem to be dissected. This demonstrates that the upper-class are painfully out-of-touch with people lower on the food chain. To them, the humanity of the lower-class is just a number. In fact, the proposer doesn’t bother to do anything although he knows and writes that those who are “aged, diseased, or maimed” are “every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.” Smith is rebuking his pamphlet-readers for doing nothing, except maybe raise the rent, as their tenants and workers live and die in squalor.

The proposer serves as a caricature of the affluent demographic, unable to believe that the impoverished citizens are anything other than mere products, their only use to be bought and sold. Swift suggests that they are by nature predatory and indifferent to others, lacking in morality and common sense though more scholarly than most. Still, he prods them to help out and rediscover their compassion for others. After all, when all the Irish children are devoured, what else will there be to eat but each other?

Having pandemics is a normal thing the world goes through. For example, SARS-CoV is a coronavirus that infected many people in 2003. Now, SARS-CoV-2, another type of coronavirus, is causing a lot of deaths in the year 2020. With all of these pandemics happening, what is used to prevent this, and is it possible to defeat a future virus?

One way that we can do to prepare for the next pandemic is to have the supplies we need ready. Right now, there is a big shortage of masks, hospital gowns, and basic hygiene things. We could stock up on these things in the next few years so that there won’t be a shortage next time.

Another thing that is is being investigated right now is having robots to clean and disinfect places so that it’s safe for humans. There is already a robot called Stevie who helps elderly people feel less lonely in retirement homes or other places. Having an infection is one of the biggest threat to older people so scientists thought about putting a UV light device on Stevie. UV light can basically cut up things at a molecular level that kills bacteria. However, it didn’t work so they put it on a different robot called Violet.

This can be investigated more in the future so that these robots can help sterilize hospitals, caretaker homes, etc. By doing this, a virus could be controlled and pandemics can end faster.

In today’s world, the seperation between arbitrary age groups is prominent. Society has been divided into generations, such as Generation X, who share birth years between around 1965-1980, Generation Y, who have birth years in around 1980-1995, and Generation Z, with birth years in 1995-2015. One might say that it would be excruciatingly obvious that age differences might affect the interactions between generations, but the context of the time period in which these people were born impacts this separation more than that, creating a sort of disconnect that sometimes leads to mild hostility. This bias is fixable if people come together and share their difficulties, instead of berating the other generations on how much harder life was back in the day, which will be beneficial to society.

Understanding why older generations tend to be quite condescending to Millenials and Gen Z relates to the hardships thay faced during their time period, including finacial decline and hard jobs. Today’s media, generally infested with the stench of partisan politics, tends to portray Millenials negatively to for their own agendas, often blaming them for “economic issues,” according to Market Watch, just because they were born in a time where the economy was more stable. Similarly, the TED talk we watched, “Dear Grown-ups… Sincerely, Gen Z,” presented many ways in which parents, often members of Gen X, condescend, patronize, or belittle us children, generally members of Generation Z, putting the responsibility of problems like climate change on our shoulders when in reality it was caused by the sheer negligence of the former generation in the first place.

All of this seems like a valid point when the issue is looked at superficially. The older people dealt with harder problems, and did not have that fancy technology to help them. However, If one would say that the world was better when Gen X was flourishing, they would be wrong in more ways than one. First of all, crime rates are at a low. The world if actually safer than it ever was, apart from COVID, which is a special circumstance, according to History News Network. More people are educated today and technology is developing faster than ever. Unfortunately, some people are still stuck in a pretentious in which everything that is foreign to them would be considered harmful.

Sharing our differences allows us to relate to each other. Instead of Gen X dissing or shaming Internet users for being “lazy,” they should embrace it, as it is a way people learn, work, communicate, and vent today. Likewise the current generation should not gatekeep against older generations, and instead remove hostility, relating to and helping them with comprehending our problems.

Coming together and mending the rift created by media conglomerates and a long-standing rivalry makes society more productive in solving issues such as the current problem of COVID-19. We cannot accomplish much if we are still at each other’s throats, complaining about issues that are rendered insignificant by real social problems.

In this short story, the narrator is writing out a proposal to solve economic crisis and poverty. He wants the poor to sell their children for “food” to benefit both the poor and the rich.

This “solution” of selling children and “eating them” for food is meaning that the poor should sell their children, get a handsome amount so they aren’t poor anymore and the poor would be able to benefit to society. This is technically slavery in its finest but the narrator doesn’t seem to be fazed about that.

This way of doing things could “solve economic crisis” by selling children and making them do labor so both the poor and rich could make a good profitable amount out of us innocent guys and gals.

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The essay, A Modest Proposal, is a satirical essay written by Jonathon Swift. Satire work is used to mock or criticize an aspect on a certain issue. In the essay, Swift saw the degrading lives that many poor Irish people were living, so his goal was to improve the lives of all the poverty-stricken families in Ireland. I was appalled at the fact that Swift thought selling and bartering children was a good solution to Ireland’s poor economic growth. The reason I suspected that it was satirical was because the proposal that Swift offered was so absurd and dishonorable, that no normal human being with morality would ever suggest such a plan. Swift is a good man who knows his morals, and cares for Ireland and its people.

Ireland, as the essay states, was not doing well financially at the time. Swift was aware of this, and used his essay to voice his anger the incompetence of the English and the politicians. To Swift, Ireland has failed on improving the living conditions of many citizens, and he was very angry. The Irish were being useless, and were unable to survive on their behalf. Swift grew impatient and irritated, so he believed something had to be done.

In the essay, Swift mentioned many inhumane methods to help change Ireland and their financial instability. He suggested sadistic methods, like selling children to eat, or make things out of their dead corpses. He stated that Ireland could use children as slaves, or women as breeders. I believe that Swift purposely emphasized how cruel these methods were. I suggest that Swift was trying to warn the leaders of Ireland, that if the politicians and the wealthy of Ireland did not make a change soon, they may actually have to resort to such methods.

Throughout the whole essay, Swift made it very clear that he was aggrivated at Ireland. He showed great compassion for the less fortunate. A Modest Proposal shows Swift’s utter disgust at the Irish people’s seeming inability to mobilize on their own behalf. It is obvious Swift wants improve the lives of all the poverty-stricken families in Ireland. This allows me to come to the conclusion that Dr. Jonathon Swift is a good man.

Many compromises were used in American History to help control the nation. In Jonathon Swift’s piece of writing, A Modest Proposal, he proposes a compromise in order to solve the problem of poverty in Ireland. The narrator suggests poor families should sell their children because they are not rich enough to take care of them. The sold children are then made into food for the higher class to eat. The proposal assumes this will both help the poor and provide food for the rich. Obviously, this proposal is just a joke about how bad the poor are treated, and should not be taken seriously because no sane person thinks eating children is good. Three of the most ironic jokes which were presented are the reasoning behind how eating teenagers is bad, how he thinks the proposal will encourage marriage, and why he will not be involved in the proposal.

When somebody else suggests they should sell and eat teenagers too, the narrator disagrees, and his explanation tops the roof for irony. At first glance, one might expect he decided not to eat teenagers because they are already full grown. In just a few years, they will become adults, so why would one want to kill someone just before their life has truly started. Additionally, killing teenagers is also more painful because they are more aware than babies. Instead of providing the “logical” (Nothing is logical in this proposal) reasoning, the narrator says teenagers should not be eaten because they do not taste good. Not because it is ruining their futures, but because they don’t taste good. This unexpected twist is truly ironic.

The second ironic jokes is when the narrator suggests this proposal promotes marriage. Marriage is something which is done when two individuals love each other. Marriage is an achievement in life, and it shows how one is ready to have children and start raising a family. For many people, marriage is a ways to show the bond of love between a family. In the proposal, the narrator suggests the proposal induces marriage because they will treat their children better. In the world of this nonsense proposal, treating their children better translates to feeding their children more so they can taste better when eaten. Feeding one’s children to other people, that doesn’t sound like love.In the proposal, another reason why the narrator thinks marriage is promoted is because it allows them to sell their babies for money to get rich. Karen Salmansohn, a best-selling book author once said, “When you learn how much you’re worth, you’ll stop giving people discounts.” Life is not something to buy and sell, as it is worth infinite money. Nothing can buy it, and as Karen says, one won’t even dare to give a discount. Irony is shown in every part of this joke.

The last joke is how the writer of the proposal says will not be involved in the proposal. He explains that, “I have no children, by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past childbearing.” His words are basically an excuse that he can not sell his own children anymore. In his proposal, he even writes how it is the best solution ever seen by mankind, and how no counter-argument could possibly poke out some flaws. If a proposal is so “good”, the only possible reason he says this excuse is because he thinks the ideas presented in his proposal are cruel, and he self-contradicts himself. This is ironic because an author with such a strong direct tone towards his claim throughout the entire essay just provides an unresolved counter-argument.

In conclusion, there were many ironic jokes highlighted in A Modest Proposal. His first joke was when he thought eating teenagers is bad because they don’t taste good. His second joke explained that the proposal will promote marriage because the family will want to sell their babies for money. The third and final jokes is when the writer self-contradicts himself without and provides no rebuttal. Ironic jokes are used in literature in many ways, and Jonathon Swift used irony to show that the proposal was just a joke.

I think the idea of a robot healing a COVID-19 patient is pretty useless. I say that because it is completely unreasonable for every patient to have a robot at their side because it would cost billions of dollars. There are many things that can go wrong with this invention. For example if it was not effective, but was in mass production, it would be a waste of money. Another example is even if it did work, I doubt the country can have one robot for the ever increasing amount of COVID-19 patients. Another risk these robots have is their use of UV Radiation. Just find a vaccine for the love of God.

As many people can agree, the newer younger generations do not have a close relationship with the older generation. While this does not pose a serious problem, it does affect certain parts of life. Today, we will be discussing the causes of this.
One of the first causes is technology. Technology rapidly changes, and the new generations follow that change. The new generations will spend more time on that technology, which causes them to spend less time on their relationship with older generations, which do not use technology as often, which is a problem.
Another cause is the academic competition. Many parents have the idea that their child has to be the most talented in every aspect of life, which causes them to pile more and more extracurricular activities onto their children, some of them unwanted. This not only leaves less time to be spent on maintaining their relationship with older generations, but also can build negative feelings directed at the parents, for putting so much pressure onto the new generation.
With this said, the older generations seem to have lofty ideals for the new generation, but they also put lots of pressure on the children to never mess up, while also telling children that it is okay to take risks. This can predictably lead to the weakening of ones relationship with the older generations. I think what we should do is to respect the older generation for caring about us, but also the older generation should listen to the younger generations input, instead of writing them off as too naive or stupid to know about things in the world. The younger generation actually knows a lot more than the older generations think they do, so the older generations should listen to the younger generations input.

Time and time again, adults tell children to act their age or act more mature. What they fail to realize is that children are exactly that: children. Though kids should be more responsible and mature, it is difficult when adults continue to treat us children as lesser-than beings. My parents, personally, have not exactly told me to behave more like an adult, but they have said, countless times, that I need to start becoming more responsible and acting mature because I am “not a little kid anymore.”

It has occurred on the news when adults, specifically baby boomers, feel disrespected by the term, “boomer.” They feel as though millennials and Gen Z’ers should treat their olderldergeneration with more respect, and the term “boomer” simply was not respectful. However, there have been several counter arguments. Such as: “boomer” is just short for “baby boomer.” It is almost like an elder telling younger people not to call them by their name because the elder finds it offensive and disrespectful.

Another example of adults aiming specifically at the younger generation is the fact that answering a question could be considered talking back. It is aimed at the younger generation because many adults believe it is a given for children to respect their elders. Now, this idea may be true in some cases, but not every elder is deserving of respect. Of course, I respect my teachers in school, but I wouldn’t do every single thing they said just because they were older than me; such as fetch them a pint of milk.

My parents are not agonizingly strict, but they do make the imminent future very apparent to me. I am close to entering high school, and my mother, specifically, wants to make sure that I join clubs and am at the very top of my class. Sure, this is ideal. However, it becomes annoying and frustrating when I hear it constantly. Though, being reminded, for me, drives me to work. Only sometimes. When my mother puts in nicer words.

Adults need to realize the sheer impact that their words, or their silence, have on teens and children. The words that come out of their mouths no longer are simply words to us. They are knives. And each of those knives is being thrown at us teens and children and it makes us weaker. Words speak louder than actions, and the older generations need to realize that. Especially during the teenage years where teenagers are still figuring everything out. It is so difficult to go through changes, such as becoming more sensitive and being brought down by heavy words. Respect is earned, not automatically given to elders, and it’s time they realized that.

“The Modest Proposal,” by Dr. Jonathan Swift, is about the a hunger problem and a poverty problem in Ireland and how the poor people’s babies do not have a good family. They have to beg for money and steal to live. The letter also gives a solution to this problem. Although the solution is very inhuman and careless for the poor.

The solution says that they should kill the poor people and make them into food for the rich and treat the poor people as livestock or animals. He also states ways to eat them, like by boiling them, roasting them, etc.. He even had recipes on them.

He also said to make clothe out of their skin. This solution is actually a logical solution IF you were not human, but since we are this solution is out of the question. In the letter it also states the benefits for the solution. It can solve the problem, help the economy, provide clothe and provide food. As I stated before this solution is good if you do not care about human lives.