So now that it's taken me 50 years to FINALLY figure out that i was doing the wrong thing and using the completely wrong email to try and log onto Google I have now wasted almost a half hour of my life. Thankfully, there's not much to lose there (: But that's not the topic of this post.
I just recently had to read "A Modest Proposal" by Johnathon Swift in my literature class. Now for those of you who do not know what this is, trust me it is most certainly worth your time to look up. However, if you have heard of this then you know the naturally disturbed feeling I got from reading the essay before I got the explanation. Basically in the Age of Reason 1600-1800, essays were a very popular form of writing and satire was the theme. Satire is simply an overly exaggerated way of making fun. I.E. if your topic was obesity (don't get panties in a wad, this is just an example) you could send all those people to training camps for X amount of time. If they did not meet the requirements that you had set for them by then, you could send them to a concentration camp. Crazy right?
Swift thought that the problem his country had was not worrying about it's own problems and trying to intervene into other countries. Ergo he wrote a very controversial essay about saving people's time and money. His solution? Eating babies, but only up to one year old because after that they had too much muscle and were chewy. SAY WHAT?!?! Yeah, i thought the same thing, until I found out he wasn't at all being literal, he just wanted to grab people's attention by saying something so outrageous and then presenting the real problem to them. When in reality all he did was piss a bunch of rich white people off (completely understandable.)
Which brings me to a dilemma. I am having to write, with a partner, my own Modern Proposal. In some cases might sound easy, but you almost have to be crazy to make a logical proposal such as the one that we had to read. I did not want to go for the obvious topic, national debt-or anything political for that matter- so as of right now I have decided on government entitlements that are abused. Welfare, Food stamps, disability, etc..
Whatever one is chosen, I'll have to get crackin' since it's due tomorrow. I'll update on how it went tomorrow... I may end up posting it. Today i also took a trip to the Federal Reserve, which might I add was the longest bus ride ever and probably the most boring thing I have ever had to sit through. But hey, who's complaining we all got to skip a whole day of school. Alright it's past my bedtime and day two has a big fat DONE stamp across it! Pat on the back Abigail.
>Here's the link to an online text****
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
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