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In five pages this paper discusses the importance of setting to the history presented in Waterland by Graham Swift. There are no ...
away. Its progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress is the reclamation of land. Which is repe...
In 5 pages this paper discusses Swift's satirical depiction of Anglo Irish landlord and Irish peasant tenant relations in A Modest...
readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...
people to propose a number of ill-conceived schemes that would "fix" social and economic ills with miraculous ease (Wittkowsky 85)...
"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...
voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...
is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...
convinced that they have achieved unity between these often disparate political entities despite the obvious fact that nothing cou...
This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...
In five pages this paper presents a satirical version of 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift....
as an attractive rationally conducted people" but then "in chapter IV we learn of their violent internal factions, unceasing civil...
uses his videotapes to overstep personal boundaries with women. Important to note in his interactions with women is his revelatio...
Greek legends and even Biblical themes. Her style was unique to say the least. Graham used her body in a...
In three pages Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is featured in this comparative analysis of Joyce's and Graham's perceptions ...
In five pages this paper examines how Martha Graham's artistic inclinations and motivation were influenced by her early childhood ...
in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Repub...
In five pages this paper creates three modern dance companies each based in New York City and incorporating influences of Merce Cu...
the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...
a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...
cronyism of the royal court and how the British government functioned, making people "jump through hoops," to use the clich?, in o...
This essay focuses on the prejudice displayed toward Gulliver by the people of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Th...
speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch ...
personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...
"good" people of the country should think seriously about using infants at the age of 1 as sources of food and material. The entir...
As Gulliver learns their language he has come to hear the word "Yahoo" over and over and he has little understanding of who or wha...
not the only way, and it may not be the best way of thinking either. Although one may argue he does not transform completely and u...
form of thought a solution may be found to this problem. At this point he notes that a child, just "dropped from its dam" would ...
not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at post-Revolution Britain and the satirical literature that emerged from there. Gay's ...