...Assignment #1: Surprise Ending in The Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a satirical story with lots of sarcasm. This proposal was written to shock or force the government into a reaction. As the government read his proposal it should bring about a response. This proposal suggests a “barbaric solution” that amounts purely to cannibalism. Mr. Swift’s idea is to help end poverty and decrease the amount of women beggars by eating babies of the poor. He devised a plan where he would take 20,000 babies and decide how many would be sold, how many would be breeders thus creating a balance between rich and poor. Mr. Swift’s plan would give the poor a means of income and the wealthy would get a fine and delicate meal. He stated that feeding on Irish babies was a treat and the English should be honored to feast on the babies. Swift based his proposal on facts and figures of many years of analyzing the situation. He does seem well educated and well versed on his proposal. He noted several benefits and advantages to his proposal. Some of those benefits included women being more loving towards their children. Another benefit would be more marriages happening with men catering to their wives while they were pregnant. Swift also quoted a friend that was a modern day swindler. The friend was supposedly from Formosa and told a story where 18,000 young boys were sacrificed to the Gods’ and Priests’. The Gods’ dined on the hearts and the Priests’ dine on...
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...Reading Response #4 My initial reaction to a “Modest Proposal was that it was going to be about adoption or child trafficking. But after reading “A Modest Proposal I was very surprise and start to get highly upset while reading it. I don’t understand how Jonathon Swift in his right mind thought it would be okay to make fun of killing children and eating them or wearing them as an accessory. Being a mother I would lose my mind and do life in prison if someone took or even thought about making me sell my child. Johnathon Swift went overboard with his satire because an innocent defenseless child’s life is nothing that should be played with or considered a topic for a satire. After reading the “The Rape of the Lock”, I think Pope was a bitter...
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...World Cultures II: Humanities Assignment 1: Essay Professor Erhart Jasmine Hicks 1/26/16 When reading A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public I found it very interesting. John Swift decided to come up with a scheme to prevent mothers who begged to feed their children and to stop the rise of population. The scheme he proposed was to sell the healthiest children to people who were well off to be able to feed one another. He also would sell them to help in the labor department such as, farming and making clothes for one another. He also proposed to narrow it down to one male serving four women. I found this very surprising because usually when a population is to high many people would just sell the people to different parts of the world. That way you won’t have to brutally kill someone. Although I disagree with the method he proposed, he stated a great response which led to his proposal. He doesn’t want to see the less fortunate beg to feed and clothe the children they can’t provide for. So he found a solution to both stop the population from growing and to allow the less fortune to not caring such a burden. In my opinion he succeeded in trying to persuade me on his decision. I feel this is so because he was not trying to do this for a profit. He simply wanted to help his people and took the conversation he...
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...let women get in the way of them making money, so they tried to make sure they did not have a say by voting. Women had never been allowed in saloons or in bars and did not support them, and usually, only men would drink, so if women had the right to vote prohibition would have started earlier. The Seneca Falls convention where Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave her Declaration of Sentiments was mocked because it “generated widespread ridicule” and for its “hostility” (Declaration of Sentiments). The convention was ridiculed and received negative connotations by religious leaders and the press for not being a modest proposal like women should be. They believe that the way the women went about arguing for rights was viewed as absurd. That if women want to try to promote rights they should go about it more modestly. Many viewed the Declaration of Sentiments to be an “absurdity” of a proposal (Declaration of Sentiments). The anti-suffragist felt that Stanton was asking for too much, asking to be superior rather than equal. Anti-suffragist feared women gaining rights or believed that they were not oppressed to need...
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...western Republicans joined to support passage of an individual income tax. Some observers believed the justices would invalidate an income tax, just as they had done so in 1895. Others however, thought the Court had changed to reflect growing bipartisan and popular support for the levy. A few income tax supporters wanted to press the issue regardless of the Court's likely response, eager to make the case for progressive taxation. In any case, the income tax coalition developed a moderate proposal and sought to attach it to tariff legislation in the Senate. In doing my research I found out that the GOP leaders were alarmed by rebellion in their own levels, with numerous Republican progressives indicating their support for a new income tax. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Nelson Aldrich tried to fend off the income tax proposal, but pro-tax forces enjoyed considerable momentum, this was indicating that the proposal was on its way for the federal income tax. Worried that Aldrich would lose the battle, I believe that the purposes for these income tax are that president Taft convinced the senator that a modest tax on corporate income would siphon off support for general income taxation. In doing so, it would deny victory to the congressional income tax coalition, preserving GOP unity. Framed as an excise tax on the privilege of doing business as a corporation, the levy was carefully designed to sidestep constitutional issues surrounding the income tax. As Taft had predicted, the...
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...Abraham There is a proposal for a $ 50 million expansion for Hanson Private Label or HPL. HPL manufactured personal care products such as sop, shampoo and mouthwash The proposed expansion is HPL’s response to a retail customer’s desire to expand HPL’s share of their private label manufacturing. Consider the firm’s overall competitive strategy and proceed as follows: 1. How would you describe HPL and its position within the private label personal care industry ? HPL is a private label manufacturer of personal care goods. HPL is a private label manufacturer of personal care goods. They started in 1992 with the purchase of Simons Health and Beauty Products. In 2007, they generated $681 million in revenue. The company’s production is estimated to account for about 28% of the $4 billion sold in their product category. HPL was offered the opportunity to significantly increase its share in private label manufacturing by its largest retail customer. It involved quite a bit of risk. It was the largest investment they had seen and it called for a 3-year contract, which is considered short. Termination of business after expiration of the contract and ensuing heavy losses were some of the risk involved. If the company were to succeed, they could ensure long-term business with a powerful retailer. A special quality of the private label business is that manufacturers generally produce at levels demanded by the retailers they produce for. Growth in the market was modest, leaving manufacturers...
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...11:00am-12:45pm BCH 443 Instructor: Brandon Hawk Office: CLAS 151 Office Phone: 860-486-3706 Mailbox: CLAS 210 E-mail: brandon.hawk@uconn.edu Office Hours: Tu 10:00-11:00am (I am also available by appointment--I will be on campus most weekdays, so feel free to contact me to schedule another time.) "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow." -- Lawrence Clark Powell Required Texts (Prices are approximations based on Amazon.com listings) Henderson, Bobby, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (New York: Villard, 2006). ISBN: 0812976568. $11.16. Strunk, William, and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th ed. (Needham Heights: Pearson). ISBN: 020530902X. $9.95. Swift, Jonathan, A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Mineola: Dover, 1996). ISBN: 0486287599. $2.00. Course Packet (provided on first day of class--but which will expand throughout the course). Various supplemental handouts I will give you throughout the semester (all of which you must keep through the whole of the semester). An email address that you check daily. This will be my primary out-of-class form of communication, so be sure to stay vigilant for any and all emails I will send to you. You are responsible for reading all email correspondences and acting accordingly. Course Overview This course is a four-credit, semester-long writing seminar designed to develop your writing and revision processes. To accomplish this...
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...Rochester and is skeptical about their relationship when hints pop up such as saving Rochester from a fire and her torn wedding veil. 2. What happens during Jane and Rochester’s wedding ceremony? When Jane and Rochester are entering the wedding ceremony at the church, a stranger who was already present declares that Rochester cannot get married to Jane because he’s already married. Rochester admits to his mistake but wants to take everyone to show them Bertha and the room where she stabbed Rochester’s brother. 3. Describe how Jane’s reaction and choice regarding Mr. Rochester’s proposal are consistent with her character. Jane is skeptical about the marriage with Rochester, but she still accepts his proposal because she is reliant on Rochester for compassion and social status. Her reaction is consistent with her unsteady, inferior character as she can’t deny a marriage proposal from an older, wealthier man who is the first to offer her love. 4. Describe Jane’s experience as a beggar, and discuss how Jane’s faith in God gives her the strength to survive When Jane is without a home or food, she is caught between the upper class and a beggar because she’s well-dressed and from a wealthy background but is...
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...Methods of Communication Tanmika Lawson HCS /325 November 30, 2014 Dr. L. Jones As a manager in a large rehabilitation center, a proposal was entertained on extending space to include long-term care service for the facility. With information, as such, there are methods and strategic planning implemented in order for a smooth transaction to take shape and flourish. First, there are methods of communication enforced for managers to adapt to in order to get the right people for hiring and training the first time. Methods such as retention, although the go ahead to hire and train new employees is in the favor of the manager. It is an advantage to the company as a whole if the current employees have the same opportunity as a new hire. It gives the current staff the opportunity to improve Use interaction to build trustworthiness. Regardless, the size of the company corresponding is central to increasing and retaining credibility Display acknowledgment by way of reimbursements and assistance. Proposing things like modest salaries, 401k, commission, inexpensive health plan, vacation and paid schooling sends a persuasive word to staff about their significance at the company. Initiating referrals and promoting from within speaks volumes about where a person work. Allowing staff members to refer their friends and families cuts down on what expected of potential employees. According to (Levoy 2007,) making employees feel valued will make them go the extra mile. They feel was responsible...
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...Managerial Decision Making Lucinda Johnson Business Research for Decision Making MGT600 January 3, 2012 Kimetha Scarbrough M Ed Abstract The product needs to be well certain for several companies to be effective, the promotion obverse of the merchandise has to be moderately robust for which the four well-known P's that is pricing, product/service in the contribution, elevation and insertion. No business can ignore whether small or big the basic marketing functions to make the business a success. Individual or business owner must make sure that establishment of properties has to be additional determined on the source opinion that the exceeding said four P's motivation become uninterrupted source. In the contemporary world this modest reasons determination not effort and to improvement continued income, an obscure perfect of corporate examination has to be estimated. Managerial Decision Making To get feedback from the merchant and consumers on the product that is being sold. Analyzing the outside competitors by illustration deduction on SWOT analysis | Responsibility appropriate situation preparation approximation of the four sources which take steps ahead the exacting company and attractive the required major for the company to rise. Thoughtful the inside worth sequence organizations and approximation the openings in it so that incessant maintain purposes be capable of be make sure. Foundations on all these, many inferences are strained...
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...livelihoods and welfare of their people. Climate change is the classic example. Despite the risks involved, donor governments have funded programs addressing global challenges such as climate change at far lower levels than traditional programs of country-based development assistance. The prospects for dealing with such global challenges will depend at least in part on new collective financing mechanisms. In this paper, we examine four categories of existing resource-mobilization options, including (1) transportation levies; (2) currency and financial transaction taxes; (3) capitalization of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); and (4) the sale, mobilization, or capitalization of IMF gold. In the end, we recommend that willing governments utilize a modest portion of their existing SDR allocations to capitalize a third-party financing entity. This entity would offer bonds on international capital markets backed by its SDR reserves. The proceeds would back private investment in climate-mitigation projects in developing countries that might otherwise lack adequate financing. This approach could mobilize up to $75 billion at little or no budgetary cost for contributing governments. Any limited budgetary costs could be offset by using excess proceeds from recent IMF gold sales. In our view, capitalizing a small portion of existing global assets—SDRs with a small back-up reserve of the income from gold already sold—to finance programs that deal with global public goods and bads makes eminent sense...
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...Minimum Wage…Is it Really Helping the Economy Depending on who you ask, there are several opinions to whether there should be an increase in minimum wage. Some believe there will be economic growth because low-wage workers who will then spend the money on things like housing, food, and gas. This boost in demand for goods and services will help stimulate the economy and help create opportunities. Its also believed that increasing minimum wage will decrease poverty. A modest increase in minimum wage of 10% could decrease poverty by 2%. (Bernstein) The other side of the argument is raising minimum wage creates inflation and forces layoffs. From an economic standpoint, inflation can be caused by any number of new or increased costs of production,...
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...persuasion and charisma—not formal authority. Secondly, the communication vehicle that Maureen chose to carry and deliver her proposed plan was ill suited for interconnecting the plan and expectations. Instead of going with the organization’s pattern of utilizing personal relationships, teamwork, and the openness to express opinions and feedback, Maureen sent a memo directly to the titanium extrusion sales representatives. In the memo, she simply gave a rationale for making the change. In response, a District Sales Manager (DSM) called Maureen to ask for a more detailed explanation for the change due to its arbitrary nature. Therefore, Maureen presented her findings to the DSMs in a yearly sales meeting in the presence of the VP of Marketing. CAUSES * Lack of empowerment from authority: Although Maureen’s plan obtained approval from her boss, Hugh Salk, there was never a statement from the VP of Sales to his subordinates (district sales managers and sales representatives) supporting the proposal. As seen in Exhibit 2, Lawrence Israel, the VP of Sales has direct power over DSMs....
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...8 Policy Alternatives………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Evaluation Criteria………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 Policy Recommendation……………………………………………………………………………………………..12 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..13 References………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 Introduction Recent health care reform legislation, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Education Reconciliation Act, which is now being referred to simply as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010. Since the 20th century, several United States presidents have faced challenges in passing national health reform into law. Before the ACA was enacted, national health reform proposals under different governments in the United States faced strong opposition from various stakeholders and multiple interest groups. Therefore, the enactment of the ACA is revolutionary healthcare reform in the history of the United States. Healthcare insurance is a program that assists in paying medical expenses through privately purchased insurance or social welfare programs. In other words, health insurance is a system that provides protection against health costs. This newly legislated healthcare reform offers health insurance for all Americans and legal residents in the United States. Furthermore, the law was enacted to control the constant increase of healthcare costs as well as improving the healthcare delivery system in the...
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...over a dozen existing Acts of Parliament and there is much overlap and duplication between the various statutes. In addition to the primary legislation, there is a vast array of regulations, directions, circulars and guidance. The net result is complexity and confusion for those who have to navigate through the law – including social workers, care users and carers. 3. The Law Commission acknowledged this problem and conducted a three-year review into social care legislation. In May 2011, it published its report with 76 recommendations for reform to Government. 3 As part of its review, the Law Commission completed an Impact Assessment and this document draws heavily on their analysis. 4 The Government has published its formal response to the Law Commission alongside the Care and Support White Paper. 4. The law provides the underpinning framework for care and support and is critical to the way care is delivered on a day-to-day basis to people who need it. It therefore needs to align with and support the Government’s policy objectives for adult care and support. For too long, the law has failed to keep pace with the shared ambitions of Government, the care sector...
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