A Modest Proposal: Gun Violence In Schools Over a hundred innocent lives are taken every year at the hands of shooters in school alone. National rifle association has already made the proposal to have armed officers in every American school. Makes sense right? They’ve even went so far as to request for trained teachers and administrators to be allowed carry their weapons. Something’s wrong here but I can't really … put my finger on it. To most this is a big no-no. In my opinion it just isn't enough
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Kendra Monteith B6 February 20, 2013 2nd Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms When people here about mass killings involving fire arms, they automatically think it’s the guns fault. As if the gun fired on its own. This makes people think that our right to own fire arms should be taken away. Take a second and think about this, who was holding the gun? The majority of mass killings are done by someone that has a mental illness. We wouldn’t have to take away our right to bear arms if we figured
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Drug Smuggling Drug smuggling is one of the biggest issues we have in modern America. Constantly day by day illegal drugs are being trafficked throughout the United States. Especially throughout the southern states like Texas, Florida, Southern California, and Arizona. They are the main targets for drug smugglers to get across in our country. Arizona hosts some of the main transportations since it is the closest state to the United States border and it is a major issue in our country that
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exist and it also promotes the implementation of evidence based programs. It has proven effective in preventing youth crime by intervening on the risk factors before crime happens and the government is continuing to promote the program with new proposals and project development based on cultural, sporting, and vocational opportunities ("Youth Gang Prevention
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My dearest Lord and Lady, This new castle that I have designed will be protected both by the way of god and the great deficiencies I have fitted it with. Imagine the greatest architectural achievement in hundreds of years. This great Castle will have many murder holes for invaders, many walls, and sniper towers to fight off the potential attackers. There will be very few attackers that will even attempt to invade us because they will get defeated in an instant. I will now tell you the order
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More Than Modest Proposal to Solve the Ever-Growing Traffic Troubles On average, an American commuter spends around 30 hours per week sitting in traffic going to and from the job that they may or may not love. Commuters in some cities like Washington DC, that is both near and dear to our hearts, can spend roughly 60 hours per week stuck in traffic. Not only is time wasted wasted while commuting, but the gas that we constantly fill our cars up with may as well be flushed down the drain. Following
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Anglo-Irish satirist, political pamphleteer, and priest Jonathan Swift takes advantage of the overlooked pamphlets by crafting an absurd, “Modest Proposal.” Swift does this to illustrate the dire situation the Irish people. Swift effectively displays satire by ensuring that the mockery is evident and exposes and mocks the plight of the Irish. In “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift, Swift substantiates his display of satire by employing irony, sarcasm, and appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos. Jonathan
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the messages that might be dangerous to say directly. Satire such as Jonathan Smith’s A Modest Proposal helps to exemplify the fact that joking about a taboo subject humorously, will allow it to become more of an acceptable thing to say. Comedians also tend to exemplify this statement by humorously discussing controversial topics through their comedy routines. Satire such as Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal uses humor to “convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state
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Critical Thinking July 7, 2014 Abstract In the video John Bohannon, a scientist and writer, gives a presentation which takes place in November 2011 at an international convention hosted TED in Brussels, Belgium. Bohannon introduces a modest proposal for easing our economic financial burden through the use of dance vice power point presentations. The idea first came to Bohannon during a conversation with a friend who is physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His friend
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Candide and Swift’s A Modest Proposal were both satire that questioned traditions and philosophical norms of the times. In Candide, Voltaire mocks the idea that eternal optimism of ones course in life by continuously throwing the worst case scenarios at his protagonist. In the end Candide finds solace in nature and focusing on the everyday tasks. Swift’s almost humorous A Modest Proposal questions the idea of lazily accepting the British rule over Ireland. The not so modest proposal from Swift drew
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