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 * __//Answering The Questions Assigned to Us://__**

The question this group, this page, was posed is as follows: Provide three examples of "expedients" that Swift lists at the end of the proposal. What is the purpose of the list of "expedients" that Swift includes?

In "Modest Proposal" Swift gets on his soap box and puts forth his ideas for a solution to the impoverished state of his people. His proposal is to feast on the offspring of the people as a mode of creating not only food but also jobs for the citizens. However, towards the end of the proposal Swift lends actual ideals or "expedients." The purpose of these expedients is to offer rational solutions to a real problem occurring in his country.  Three Expedients Included in Swift's "Modest Proposal" 1. "Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound:" 2."Of using neither clothes nor household furniture except what is of our own growth and manufacture:" 3."Of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shopkeepers:"



"For cannibals, every fight is a food fight." Demetri Martin


 * //__The Proposal of Modest Proportions:__//**

The age we find ourselves in demands action of a different kind altogether. This page is the beginning of the rebellion against time. Time is a menace of epic proportions and it took me 3 years to figure that out. Those 3 years are years that I will never regain. Instead of seizing the time we have left in our lives, we have proposed a new type of idea altogether. We have decided that we are going to eliminate time completely and in its place put nothing. Absolute nothingness. Night will be day, day will be night, Arick will be Anthony. No longer will any time constraints hinder our ability to interpret and analyze the classics of British literature. One may never need to ask oneself why time itself is the enemy of any mortal or being. Time is the culprit behind every failure in history. It is because of deadlines that men have always crossed time, unaware, and unprepared. The only solution to such failures, such as the end of Rome, or Mozart's unfinished requiem piece, is to leave the system of human time altogether. This movement amongst the people, rich and poor, of all races and creeds, will complete them. There can be no more struggle over dwindling oil supplies, as nothing can dwindle or deplete in the timeless abyss. Such dramatic change, nay revolution in human thinking would take place under a banner of basic necessities that humans have been deprived of. Without time, one can never fail at a project in his or her school. Without time school itself would take as long as any person wants it to take. So it is impossible for any child to be "Left Behind" in public schooling. Since there are no deadlines in this new world, students can study longer amounts of time for tests, and they would never be late in turning in any project, thus doing better in school. With learning of such strength and magnitude, one must guess at what we as a race will accomplish. Lovers and loved need not worry over each other with this move. Time itself will not exist, so they are forever preserved. And this relationship they have, no matter the kind will last as they want it to last, and the happiness and joy will follow. A more loving and together population is one at peace, and this would change all aspects of life. Crime would decrease, as would depression and suicide, but in a natural uncontrolled manner, one left to nature. Humans would experience a renaissance in art because of this widespread love, discovering themselves and the cosmos that surround their planet. The implications are immense for such a revolution in art and love. Poverty stricken workers without time will be no longer poverty stricken. Factory workers who slave day to day for their wage, they will be paid in different way altogether, one that does not always depend on the amount of hours they are at the job, but how much they contribute. Men and women of the working force will have no more need to unionize, harmony will be had at the workplace, because pay will be more equal. There can be no more strikes about excessive amounts of time spent working for poor wages, as there is no time. Humans can not be trusted with anything, and the evil force of time taught us that. The modest proposal to eliminate all time from existence would allow us to live in a dream, one that has no poor people, or homework. Such a primitive dream can only be realized by today's best and brightest.


 * //The Rape of The Lock//**

Question 6 (B) The letter that begins the piece serves to provide background information. In addition, it showcases some of Pope's personal feelings about his work, as well as explaining some Rosiecrucian beliefs and doctrine.

//-"It will be in vain to deny that I have some regard for this piece, since i dedicate it to you." -"...it was intended only to divert a few young ladies, who have a good sense and good humor enough to laugh..." //
 * These quotes show Pope's intent of his piece and opinion of it.

//-"The Rosicrucians are a people I must bring you to be acquainted with." -"According to these gentlemen (Rosicrucians), the four elements are inhabited by spirit, which they call, Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders." -"The Gnomes or Demons of earth delight in mischief; but the Sylphs...are the best conditioned creatures imaginable." //
 * These quotes show Pope's introduction of the Rosicrucian people and their beliefs.

All quotes (pg. 1137, no line #'s or in any Cantos, in the letter to Mrs Arabella Fermor)


 * //Dictionary of the Present Day Student//**

//Did you see Bruce's profile picture on **Facebook**//? //Arick: Yo Son, I'm **mad** tired of mad. Phil: Say what?// //Anthony: Yo Son, What is **is**//? //Arick: *Head explodes*// //Very few people in high school say the word **Existentialism** at all, let-alone on a day-to-day basis//. //I saw this wiki page and it made me **LOL**// Ex. Yo dawg, you tryin' to bounce out of this piece? Yeah yo, let's roll. Ex. Check out my grill, the orthodontist took my braces off. - 2. - (V) to stare someone down Ex. Yo that cop is grillin' us. Yeah dawg we better bounce. Ex. Yo man I can't pick you up after school today because I don't have enough gas. You're mad weak dude. Ex. Yo Francis is bein' such a scrub, he doesn't even brush his teeth anymore. Ew yo. Ex. Yo I don't know how he gets all those girls that dude slacks mad hard. True, all he does is sit at home all day on his couch.
 * Facebook** (noun) Online networking website for the anti-social, yet social crowd.
 * Mad** (adjective) Overused word with teens, used to describe an excess of something, such as the frequency of the actual word being said.
 * Is** (verb) Another overused word, commonly used as a linking verb, and form of the verb to-be.
 * Existentialism** (Noun) Philosophical and Intellectual movement that holds humans create their own meaning for their lives, not external deities nor authorities.
 * LOL** (verb?) Acronym for "Laugh(ing) Out Loud" used to express joy, indicate one is laughing, or to dodge any real response whilst conversing.
 * Bounce** - (V) - the art of exiting or leaving
 * Grill** - 1. - (N) a person's mouth
 * Weak** - (Adj.) - used to describe a person's extensive slacking
 * Scrub** - (N) - a person suffering from severe amotivational syndrome
 * Slackin'** - (V) - the art of not doing any work, yet getting by in life

-__On Apparitions__ The article begins with the narrator describing a supposed haunted run-down abbey. He uses great detail to describe the path lined with aged elms and talks of the crows who make noises that the narrator relates to Psalms in the Bible. The narrator then delves into the report of how he heard that abbey he walks alongside is haunted. He recalls a story of how a friend of his warned him to not go there after sunset as his friend heard of a man who was scared "witless" by a headless horsemen. Another story told by the narrator is of a maid who was bringing home milk only to leave it in a wake of fear from hearing a loud rustling amongst the bushes. After hearing his recollections of reasons why the abbey might be haunted, we are shown his opinion of the whole matter. It is one of obvious skepticism as he comes right out saying that he finds the abbey not a place where a ghost would reside. With such a feeling he decides to research the matter more extensively. In his research the narrator finds that the owner of the abbey shut off any room where a person died making sense of the fact why the abbey would be run down. He also finds a cow grazing in the field where the account of a headless horsemen was given. The narrator comes to the conclusion that the cow could possibly look like the horsemen after sunset. The story concludes with the abbey's shut off rooms being opened once again and the chaplain exorcising each room regularly. Overall the narrator disproves and is correct of his hunch that the abbey isn't really haunted after all. In the Age of Reason everything was based off, reason pretty much. The main idea centered logical answers to illogical situations. This story goes hand in hand with the beliefs during the Age of Reason because the narrator has a logical mindset when it comes to the mysteries of ghosts and hauntings. He right away thinks that there is an explanation for all these scary accounts he hears of. With his research he finds a logical solution and explanation to an illogical situation. This is something that any person during the Age of Reason would have done when faced with such a situation. The concerns of Addison and Steele in //The Spectator// are similar to modern ones, almost identical. They have concern regarding the excesses of their society, they satirize the hoops women go through to attain "Beauty", they talk politics, and debate morality. They also make clever observations, and debate and critique art. Though the debates may have changed a bit since their time, most of the topics (Such as Morality) will continue to be debated today. Their format presented in //The Spectator// allowed them to debate such issues that continue to affect our people.
 * //Question 5 (Addison and Steele)//**

-__On The Exercise of Hunting__ This article details the life of a man who has been an outdoorsman throughout his entire life. It begins with an explanation between the difference of labor and exercise where labor is turned into exercise when the motive is changed from necessity to recreation. Throughout the man's life, who's name is actually Roger, he has hunted and captured and stuffed and pelted animals from all over and displays a collection of animals throughout his humble abode. The story tells of a stuffed otter that Roger has on show in his house at his mother's request. As it goes, the otter was slaughtered by a dog who belonged to Roger in his boyhood and when the dog killed the otter Roger's mother insisted that it be stuffed and displayed as such. Then the author goes on to describe the marriage between Roger and his wife and how any shortcomings in their relationship would without a doubt end up with a smaller amount of foxes around the property than began with. As the story winds to an end readers find Roger old and clinging to his youth, unable to venture off to hunt like his younger self but still clutching his gun and picking off anything that comes by his house. There are not really any major connections between this story and modern day issues people are faced with other than small scale moral issues such as taking credit for something that is not their's as Roger does with the otter that was in reality killed by his dog when he was a boy. Or the crisis of age, where it seems that Roger does not know where to give up the past times of his youth and accept his seniority. Other than these minor issues no real connections can be made.

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