A Modest Proposal

This week in English 102, Our class assignment was to read and respond to the following set of

questions in Johnathan Swift's article, " A Modest Proposal".

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Question 1:

           The problem that Swift identifies in his society is that women are having babies that can’t even

Support, let alone have the ability to provide for ones child in Ireland. I think Swift considers an

alternative idea of selling the children as slaves, not only does he promote this idea but he asks the

women to "Bulk-up" there child so they can later sell their child to the wealthy. I personally thought

that this idea could evolve into the same situation repeatedly.

Question 2:

           I believe Swifts suggestion was not to be taken seriously because babies were not only sold but

we’re being eaten. The purpose was leaning toward an example that this could be a way of life

if you can’t provide for your family. Swift was making fun of his society to grab Irelands government

attention about this issue that has been ignored for some time now.

Question 3:

          I do believe this situation is logical because women in this society don’t have the money and

support to take care of their child so they have to think of alternative ways to survive. The evidence

that Swift gives to support his position is that babies should not be sold to the wealthy or eaten for

food but be raised by responsible parents who can afford to support them.

Is Dre. Beats Ineffective or Effective?

For English class, We are supposed to take a commercial that appeals to us personally and critique it on whether the video is effective or ineffective!

I chose Dr. Dre Beats commercial because it is a well- known brand for its new line of ear phones/ head phones. I believe this commercial is effective and can be ineffective also.

Effective:
- Dre Beats block out outside sounds.
- Dre Beats are used by various artists when listening and making music.
- Dr Beats let you hear the true music that you don't get with regular ear/ head phones.

Ineffective:
- Dre. Beats are super pricey.
- People don't hear the difference between Dre Beats and regular ear phones.
- Customers are just paying for the brand name.

In conclusion, they are trying to persuade people to buy Dre Beats so that they can hear the true music without any distractions.

Essay # 1 Ideas

For this blog post, we are supposed to share with our classmates what we are going to write our first essay about. Our class was given three thesis statements and instructed to pick one and have the thesis statement in mind when reading the story. I started writting my paper on thesis statement number 3 as followed.....

Bartleby is a martyr figure who serves to expose the ineffectiveness of what claims to be a christian charity in 19th century american society.

 I chose to write about this thesis statement because not only was the lawyer tring to help Bartleby but the lawyer didn't go out of his way to help Bartleby, if that makes any sense. I find it personally funny in some odd way because in certain parts of the story for instance (par.94) the lawyer was willing to help but in (par.190) the lawyer says "In vain I persisted that Bartleby was nothing to me-no more than to anyone else".

So I hope you know where I am coming from, here are my claims followed by evidence!

Claim 1:
(par. 88) Basically the lawyer knows that Bartleby is living out of his office space provided but really doesn't go out of his way to fix the problem.

Evidence 1:
(par. 94) goes into detail how the lawyer tries to help Bartleby but doesn't go out of his way to try and find out why he is living in the office space so with that being said he just left it where it was.

Claim 2:
(par.170) The lawyer is trying to get rid of Bartleby as best he can.

Evidence 2:
(par. 171) The lawyer is starting to care for Bartleby but not as much as he intends to because at the same time he wants Bartlby gone.

Claim 3:
(par.172) The lawyer feels that if he abandons Bartleby, the problem will resolve itself and it will no longer be the lawyer's problem.

Evidence 3:
(par.177) Shows that the lawyer left Bartleby behind which makes the lawyer think he will be problem-free in the near future and wouldn't have to attend to Bartleby anymore.

Claim 4:
(par. 197) The lawyer really didn't care about what was going to happen to Bartleby anymore.

Evidence 4:
(par.190) The lawyer didn't want anything to do with bartleby anymore.