A Modest Proposal & Yujie’s Essay

I spoke last week of how anger and humor can be combined with exaggeration or even sature in good writing, and mentioned the example of Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay “A Modest Proposal.” Since I was asked to provide a link, here are a few:

And here is Yujie’s essay, for critique on May 7th.

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