Modern readers are well aware that "A Modest Proposal" is ironic, but how do you think readers knew this in 1729? Where in the text does Swift (as author) reveal his true satiric intentions? Cite at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer.
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English, 22.06.2019 15:30
Oceans produce approximately 80 percent of the oxygen our planet needs to support animal life. pollution that reaches the ocean through dumping, oil leaks, runoff, and other processes interferes with that oxygen production and poses a real threat to the oxygen content in our atmosphere. if the oxygen content decreases, it is likely that carbon dioxide will increase. this could have dramatic consequences for life as we know it. which does this passage indicate causes a decrease of oxygen in the atmosphere?
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English, 22.06.2019 18:40
Read the following excerpt from patrick henry's march 23, 1775, speech: if we wish to be free-if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending-if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained- we must fight! which statement best explains how patrick henry uses parallelism in the passage to influence the audience? a. henry carefully lists the principles that all the colonists follow, principles that their british rulers do not share. b. the repetition of the word "fight" is meant to stir up the listeners' violent hatred of the british. ) c. by constantly referring to "we," henry makes it obvious that both he and the audience must sue for peace together. o d. repeating the words "if we" emphasizes the number of values that henry and the audience have in common.
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English, 23.06.2019 01:00
The narrator suffers from catalepsy, a physical condition in which the individual cannot move or speak for hours or, in extreme cases, for months. according to the narrator’s explanation, what are some of the ways that one can tell a cataleptic is still living?
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