How did readers react to "A Modest Proposal" at the time? Did anyone take the proposed solution seriously? Research the reception of Swift's famous essay. Also, find out why Swift stopped writing anything substantial about Ireland after "A Modest Proposal". Report your findings to the class.

Name four invasive species and describe their effect on ecosystems.

Draft a satiric essay of your own, titled "A Modest Proposal.” Offer a ridiculous proposal for reforming a current social or political problem.

How has an insect's modest size contributed to its success?

Writing Persuasively Write a research proposal to the National Science Foundation that details a plan of action and reasons for studying the ice sheet in Greenland.

(a) Why do you think Swift only gradually reveals the real nature of his "proposal" in the essay?
(b) What is ironic, or even misleading, , in the author's use of the word modest to describe his proposal?

What is Swift's proposal for easing poverty in Ireland?

What is Swift calculating in '' A Modest Proposal?''

Change each infinitive into the perfect active form indicated in parentheses. Translate the changed form: opprimere (perfect active third person singular)

A start-up company is about to market a new computer printer. It decides to gamble by running commercials during the Super Bowl. The company hopes that name recognition will be worth the high cost of the ads. The goal of the company is that over 40% of the public recognize its brand name and associate it with computer equipment. The day after the game, a pollster contacts 420 randomly chosen adults and finds that 181 of them know that this company manufactures printers. Would you recommend that the company continue to advertise during Super Bowls? Explain.

What is ironic in Swift's use of the word modest to describe his proposal? (In what sense is he using the word modest?) Why does the speaker express the hope that his plan "will not be liable to the least objection" just before he introduces it?

What are the four principles of building fitness?

Label where in the ocean you might find each set of readings: surface zone, transition zone, or deep zone.

Solve each equation. Give a general formula for all the solutions. List six solutions. $\sin (2 \theta)=-1$