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November 22, 2025

348 public questions were asked on this day.

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Who is Swift ridiculing using satire in "A Modest Proposal"? children who were born into poverty and were not properly fed the English government, which seemed to care little about the Irish people individuals who were u...
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Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." This I freely own, and 'twas indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. I desire the reader will observe, that I calculate my remedy for this one individual Kingdo...
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Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme. He...
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Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." This I freely own, and 'twas indeed one principal design in offering it to the world. I desire the reader will observe, that I calculate my remedy for this one individual Kingdo...
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Which sentence from "A Modest Proposal" is the best example of satire? Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed. Thus the squire wi...
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What is the author’s purpose in writing "A Modest Proposal"? to submit a plan to solve an important societal issue to draw attention to an issue that is plaguing his country to show that only an extreme solution can fix...
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Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome...
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Whom or what is Swift criticizing in his satire, and what techniques does he use to make his point? Write a two- to three-sentence response, using examples from the text to support your answer.
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But, as to my self, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal, which, as it is wholly new, so...
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I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand children, already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one fourth part to be males . . . . Tha...
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That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to r...
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But with due deference to so excellent a friend, and so deserving a patriot, I cannot be altogether in his sentiments; for as to the males, my American acquaintance assured me from frequent experience, that their flesh w...
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Read the excerpt from Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller. Yet, then and only then will mankind be ripe for this, when inward and outward freedom for Woman as much as for Man shall be acknowledged as a rig...
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Consider, Sir, dispassionately, these observations—for a glimpse of this truth seemed to open before you when you observed, 'that to see one half of the human r...
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. And, now that more...
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Read the paragraph. When young people are encouraged to take risks, they build confidence in their own decision-making skills and capabilities. Consider Winston, a ninth grader willing to try out for a varsity sport or a...
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Read the excerpt from A History of Women’s Suffrage by Stanton, Anthony, and Gage. It would be nearer the truth to say the [gender] difference indicates different duties in the same sphere, seeing that man and woman were...
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Read the paragraph. Congratulations on your eighteenth birthday and your graduation! Now what? Well, you can vote in the next election. This will allow your opinions to be heard and reflected in our country’s government....
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Read the paragraph. Every September throughout high school, one of the guidance counselors, whose name I can’t recall, has visited my homeroom. She conducts a series of lessons designed to discourage bullying. During one...
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert tha...
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. For surely, Sir, you will not assert, that a duty can be binding which is not founded on reason? If indeed this be their destination, arguments may be drawn fro...
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Consider, I address you as a legislator, whether, when men contend for their freedom, and to be allowed to judge for themselves respecting their own happiness,...
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Write an objective summary that includes two to three central ideas from the dedication to Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Which describes a way that prevailing winds control precipitation totals in a region? They cause oceanic winds to carry water vapor. They force cool, moist air from oceans to rise as it moves toward land. They increase t...
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Which statement describes solstices? They occur when the Sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky. They affect the amount of sunlight in the Southern Hemisphere in May. They contribute to the cycling of winters...
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