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Distortions and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how Swift employs distortions in this satirical work in terms of offering deeper insights into t...

European and Chinese Culture in The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence

In five pages Spence's portrayal of culture in Europe and China is discussed. There are no other source listed....

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr. on Responsibility and Freedom

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...

Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this research paper discusses Spence's text in an examination of how the author presents the Chinese historical peri...

Irony in 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper discusses the author's use of irony in the essay 'A Modest Proposal.' One source is cited in the bibliog...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Relations Between Tenant and Landlord

In 5 pages this paper discusses Swift's satirical depiction of Anglo Irish landlord and Irish peasant tenant relations in A Modest...

'Enlightened' Satire of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Swift and Voltaire satirized 18th century Enlightenment philosophies in their literary works. ...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the Idyllic Houyhnhnm Society

In five pages Part IV of Gulliver's Travels is analyzed in a discussion of the social ideal represented by the Houyhnhnms. Two so...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...

Jonathan Kozol and Stephanie Coontz on Social Problems and Family Failure

In seven pages social problems and American family failure are considered in a comparative analysis of Kozol's Amaziing Grace and ...

Analyzing 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

all. He knew that writing a political text lamenting the plight of the poor would generate little interest, so in "A Modest Propo...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

Soft City by Jonathan Raban

centers and the changes that occurred in the national identity. Raban wrote: "For the new arrival, this disordered abundance is ...

Plot Analysis Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver travels to Lilliput, where the normal-sized man is regarded as a circus freak by the six-inch Lilliputians. They cant fi...

Evil and Pride in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

of Belindas bedroom, and how Ariel, her guardian sylph, awakens her. Pope describes the other sylphs that also guard Belinda and t...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Theme of Pride

1931). The Lilliputians are also petty and small-minded, easily susceptible to corruption and think nothing of going to war over ...

Yahoos in Book Four of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

considers himself to be a far more civilised specimen of the human race than the Yahoos, he cannot deny that their way of life is ...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Directions for a Birth Day Song by Jonathan Swift and Irony

Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...

'Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift' by Jonathan Swift

as literal descriptions of Swifts feelings (Jonathan Swift). However, there is also a note of truth behind these statements that...

Wealth as Viewed by William Bradford, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, and Jean de Crèvecoeur

commoner was forced into a position of submission by this fact in Europe. Cr?vecoeur realized immediately that in America land ow...

Religious Satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide

a "scathing response" to those who followed ignorantly (Family Education Network). In this simple critique we can see that relig...

Eighteenth Century Literary Satire in the Works of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(1) The Rabelaisian joke has often been deciphered in the light of early eighteenth-century topica...

Choosing a Manufacturing Site

are better suited to more developed economies. Central and Eastern Europe Central and Eastern Europe hold a mix of nations ...

Jones & Moody/Known World

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

Comparing Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

virtue and happiness. However, some may dispute the presumption that the desire to reflect another is at the root of ones disloya...

Oppressed Peoples and the Sympathetic Words of Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

"good" people of the country should think seriously about using infants at the age of 1 as sources of food and material. The entir...

A Civil Action by Jonathan Herr and Lessons Learned

after hearing of the deaths of the children and the illness in the community (Trevino, 2000). Today it has been proven that there ...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...