Short Answer Response For this 20-point assignment, you must provide an in-depth analysis of the prompt.

Your response should be

a minimum of ten sentences
include at least two blended quotations from the text as support
Remember: This is an analysis, not a summary of the text.
Question

Reflect back on the specific groups of people "A Modest Proposal" suggests as sources of Irish suffering -

landlords (lines 94-96, 147-148, and 282-288)
gentlemen (lines 189-193 and 197-203), anti-Papists (lines 102-105 and 174-181)
merchants (lines 63-68)
How does Swift's description of these groups add meaning to his satire?

Using evidence from the text, explain how he satirizes the attitudes and habits of each of these groups.

Answer and Explanation:

Swift's description of these groups of people reinforces the hypocrisy of Irish society. That's because Swift shows how businessmen, religious people, people considered good and progressive, who promote the advancement of society, are the main culprits for the terrible situation that the poor had to face. In addition to not worrying about the neediest, Swift shows how these citizens judge the poor, do not help them and treat them as a problem, which shows that they are not good people, but hypocrites who only care about themselves.

light-year  

the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year, equal to about 9.46 trillion km (5.88 trillion mi). light-years are used in measuring interstellar and intergalactic distances.  

parsec  

a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.25 light years (3.08 × 1016 meters).  

parallax  

the apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth (diurnal parallax or geocentric parallax) or due to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun (annual parallax or heliocentric parallax)  

absolute magnitude  

the magnitude (brightness) of a celestial object as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.  

apparent magnitude  

the magnitude of a celestial object as it is actually measured from the earth.  

redshift  

an increase in the wavelength of radiation emitted by a celestial body as a consequence of the doppler effect.  

the great thing about your imagination is that it doesn't have to make sense! if i were you i would be stuck in space, no communication with earth travelling around and around, you can only guess how long its been since your communication broke down. you land on an undiscovered planet, you do a scientific investigation examining the elements and conditions. you come across alien lifeforms.  

best of luck!