Global Warming Modest Proposal

Global warming has been an issue for a few decades, now. When it first started being an issue, some people tried to reach out to others. Unfortunately, no one listened. People throw trash on the side of the road like it’s no big deal. They also pollute our water systems. There’s much more that comes along with global warming, but I’m sure you get the idea.

Anywho, our ozone layer has gotten destroyed from all the chemicals that were released into the air by us humans. The o-zone layer protects us from the sun’s hot rays. Without the o-zone layer we would end up looking like Venus(filled with carbon dioxide and no atmosphere), and that is not a pretty sight, let me tell you. Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees farenheight around the world since 1880. You know what that means? That even giant ice caps and glaciers are melting.

We are practically killing ourselves and all living creatures. Polar bears are getting stranded and have no homes. They’re drowning because they can’t find solid land to live on. It’s the same with the adorable little penguins. If temperatures keeps rising, and polar caps keep melting, parts of the world that are on the coast, will sink. That will leave millions of people homeless......or dead.

In order to prevent all of this from continuing any further, I have come up with a proposal to stop it all. We all should convert to transcendentalism. We would all shut down any sort of energy, abandon houses, destroy any money, and head for the woods. We would have nothing to do with society. All for one, and one for all. We would raise our children to learn how to fend for themselves and hunt.

Every family would build their houses out of supplies from nature and live without electricity and plumbing. Each family would have their own farms and livestock so they could produce their own food. There may be mass murders because people will be fighting for supplies to stay alive. But hey, the world is over populated anyways. Besides, the most of the reason why the world is so polluted and experiencing global warming in the first place. So, screw it let’s just roll with the punches.

Modest Proposal Analysis

   Shifting from a serious situation to a ridiculous suggestion in “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift uses extreme hyperbole, odd sarcasm, and disturbing imagery in order to use comic relief within a serious problem, so that it seems less stressful. Over population is a huge cause of poverty in Ireland, especially around that time period. Women were uneducated about how to prevent pregnancy and then couldn’t provide for them. It’s a hard thing to deal with and it’s something that should not be joked about. Jonathan understood this, but he took it to a level of where he used slight humor in order to make the situation lighter.

    Hyperbole plays a big role throughout the proposal. Without it, the proposal would have no humor and would simply be a statement of truth of the poverty in Ireland. There is a shift in the proposal from serious to humorous, and that’s where the hyperbole plays in. This is obvious when he says, “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food”. There are two reasons why this would be a hyperbole. The first, because no one would really acually suggest, out of their right minds, to eat a child. The second, because the reader is unsure if Swift has actually met someone who had told him this statement. It seems unrealistic when he says that his acquaintance is an American from London.

    Swift uses sarcasm lightly. Although, it is easy to tell that there is sarcasm, Swift uses it naturally in order to make it sound serious. Swift uses sarcasm when he says, “That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune, though the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat, for a good table. Though the reader knows how ridiculous the suggestion sounds, Swift speaks as though he is having a casual conversation. It’s almost as though he means it and isn’t joking.

    The imagery throughout the proposal is disturbing in two different ways. The first way is in a sad way. He explains the troubles Ireland faces and how it affects the people. It’s sad to see the people, “who walk through this great town, or travel in the country; when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags”. Swift is trying to make the reader feel bad for the people of Ireland by using pathos. The next was is in a creepy, gross way. It’s not pretty picturing a baby being, “”stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled”.

    Though Swift is speaking as though he is being serious, the proposal is humorous. It is humorous in disturbing ways. Weather it’s using hyperbole, sarcasm, or imagery to do so. Swift makes the reader think of how sad it is to be poverty stricken in Ireland and then suggests a way to handle it. The suggestion is silly, but it is told in a casual way. It brings a smile to the faces in need in the 1700’s.

Thesis and Paragraph on Kiss and Tell

Balancing point of view of one character to describe another in "Kiss and Tell", Alain de Botton utilizes comparative characterization in order to display to the reader that even if the moment seems extreme at that moment in time, it happens to almost every young adult in life.
Both the girl on the date and her parents are characterized through the eyes of the boy on the date. The girl is clearly upset that he parents are in the same theatre as her at the same time. She doesn't get along with her mother and it's evident when she insults her by saying, "'And what's that dress? It looks like a willow tree.'" Her mother is then characterized very well. She almost alludes to the fact that she thinks that other people don't enjoy her daughter's company. She automatically assumes that the boy will not like her daughter and won't think that "'she's a lovely girl really'". The dad is characterized as a clumsy nerd who doesn't pay much mind to his daughter's love life and his wife's bickering. This is clear when he isn't paying attention to his daughter's date, but the "'new tungsten bulbs'". All of the characters are fixaded on how different they are from eachother, that they don't realize the similarity they share of wanting to see the same play on the same night.