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A summary on 'A Modest Proposal' by Dr. Jonathan Swift.  

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A summary on 'A Modest Proposal' by Dr. Jonathan Swift Paragraph 1 Dr. Swift starts this paragraph of as though it was some sort of essay or political document. It seems to him, as he travels the country of Ireland, that it's a place where woman are beggars with 3,4 or 6 children who prevent them from having a honest livelihood. Paragraph 2 Ireland was a mess and children made it even worse. If anyone could take on the job of finding a way of looking after the children was thought as a blessing by the public and deserved a statue of themselves. Paragraph 3 Jonathan was prepared to help out all of the children. They were born to parents who couldn't afford them. Paragraph 4 The mother could care for her child for the first year of its life. She then passed it on to Swift after its first birthday. From there he would provide for the...

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