How does Steinbeck’s detached point of view in “The Harvest Gypsies” help you understand the plight of migrant farm workers living in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s? How does his straightforward style of writing convey facts without emotion? By referring to facts and details in the text, write a brief informative/explanatory essay in which you explain what makes Steinbeck’s detached point of view and factual style of writing so effective, despite his emotional subject--the hard lives of the migrant workers. As you plan and organize your essay, think about how Steinbeck connects informational text elements--individuals, events, and ideas--to analyze the situation of the farm workers. Cite evidence from the text in your response.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. 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. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .