Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.
The details from this excerpt best support the inference
that
The following examples show how famine hits the
Cumberland parish of Greystoke. Here "a poor fellow
destitute of succor" is found in the highway and is carried
to the constable's house, where he dies. A miller's
daughter dies in her bed, weakened from lack of food. A
beggar boy from the Scottish Borders is found writhing in
agony in the road and dies soon afterward "in great
misery." Another "poor, hunger-starved beggar boy" is
found in the street and carried into a house, where he
dies. A widow is discovered dead in a barn. A four-year-
old local boy dies "for want of food and means," as does
his mother. A total of sixty-two people die in Greystoke in
just one year-during which time the parish sees no
marriages and only three children conceived. You hear
the story of a man leaving his home and walking
hundreds of miles in search of work or food and
O death from starvation was common in Elizabethan
England
O very few people died of starvation in Elizabethan
England.
O communities were shocked by the deaths from
starvation.
communities tried to prevent the deaths from
starvation.

In this excerpt from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift, which important issue does the writer deal with using a satirical tone? some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. but i am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. and as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. they cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come. a. old, sickly people cannot be hired as laborers because they don't have the physical stamina required for the job. b. old, sickly people and young laborers are useless to the nation because they cannot be productive citizens. c. the economy of the nation is burdened by the poor, the old, and the sickly who survive on charity and handouts. d. the living conditions of the poor and their lack of employment opportunities are serious concerns for the nation. reset next