http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/story.php?

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Johnathan Swift: (1667 1745) was an Anglo-Irish[1] satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer,
poet and cleric.
Gulliver's Travels,
A Modest Proposal,
Commodification, easy solutions of social engineering (targeting the poor), political arithmetic,
poor as animals, ownership of children,
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/

Satire:
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or
vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
strong irony or sarcasm, but also parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison,
analogy, and double entendre
insights into a group's collective psyche, reveal its deepest values, and the society's structures of
power.
Banaszynski
Wainaina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5opSsAYQ3k

Writing Assignment #1:

Write a satire on a contemporary issue. 500 words, more or less, should be long enough for you
to play with irony, parody, exaggeration, etc. Probably you should pick a familiar topic. This
isnt a research paper, but the more you know about how the topic, the assumptions, and the
arguments, then the easier it will be to parody. A first draft is due Thursday for peer review
practice.