A Solution for the Day Care Crisis: A Satire
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A five page essay, based on the model of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”, facetiously suggesting that as a solution to the shortage of adequate day care facilities, we should just leave our toddlers home alone. The paper’s real meaning is that working mothers need to assume more responsibility for the nurturing of their growing children. No sources.
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Gulliver's Travels
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In 5 pages, the author discusses how the position of the 'outsider' affects 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Satire Throughout Literary History:
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A five page paper looking at the role satire has played in literature throughout history. The paper covers Aristophanes' "Lysistrata," Shakespeare's "As You Like It," Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," and Syl Jones' "Black No More." Bibliography lists six sources.
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Power and Exploitation in Four Literary Works:
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An 8 page comparison of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Alan Duff's Once Were Warriors, Russell Banks' Continental Drift, and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal in terms of their treatment of the themes of exploitation and power. The paper asserts that it is not only those who are suffering the exploitation who suffer; the exploiters suffer morally as their actions diminish them. Similarly, the exploited morally triumph as they learn to deal with adversity and forge a renewed sense of power out of the shambles of their lives. Bibliography lists five sources.
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An Enlightening Symposium / Philosophy In World Literature
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An 8 page transcript of an imaginary symposium set in an eternal 'now' in which Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Mme. de Lafayette, Jonathan Swift, François Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charlotte Bronte, and a Moderator discuss their philosophies. Special attention is given to the dichotomy of reason versus passion, and of the individual versus society. No sources.
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Rational Versus Irrational Behavior
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In 5 pages, the author discusses rational versus irrational behavior using Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto,” Euripides’ “Medea,” and Voltaire’s “Candide.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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