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The first movie for this page comes from YouTube, specifically a high school or college-aged student who goes by the rap name of $TRICK9. The movie and rap song this man created is directly influenced by Jonathan Swift's seventeenth century __A Modest Proposal__. Swift used satire to explain poverty in Ireland, and a solution to solve it: selling and eating infants between one and two years old. None of his other reasonable proposes, such as taxes, were listened to by government. Thus, he wrote one of most famous articles in all of British Literature.

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Discussion questions:


 * 1) Why is satire effective?
 * 2) What are the components of his proposal? (How does he introduce the problem, his solution, and his personal stake?)
 * 3) The rapper left out an important section that lists feasible resources Swift proposed while writing __A Modest Proposal__. Why do you think the rapper chose to omit this? Is the proposal more or less effective without this section?
 * 4) When would you consider using satire in your own life?

 I also made a 30-second video from Animoto using wedding photos. You can click on the video below and/or visit the page in which I describe the best time of my life: the 13 months I was married to James Davis before he died.

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