A modest proposal

This was disturbing, but I was very relieved when I realized that it was a joke, but a long and drawn out joke at that. The speaker identifies himself as a wealthy Protestant somewhat against the poorer Catholics, and certainly their children. I think that Swift is much more discreet about his possible hate toward the Catholics, where as the speaker is filled with disdain towards the Catholics and wants to give their infants to the rich Protestants to be a luxury food. Luckily as the story goes on you can tell that the speaker is joking about it and making a mockery of the crazy things that people say or believe about other people who are different from themselves. This would have been targeted to the Protestants because even though it is a joke i still think that it's disturbing and offensive to the Catholics and poor Irish. I think that "A modest Proposal" shows that people have always said crazy things against other groups of people that are ridiculously stupid but there are still people out there who will cross that line. It is a Juvenalian Satire because it's making fun of hummanity's will as a whole. Politcally, considering that there is still fighting between the Northen Irish Protestants and Catholics, this story also goes to show that bloodshed isn't worth the hate and that there definetly are men and women in Ireland who think that way, but it's stupid and not everyone is that ridiculous.

Response to Onion Article

I don't think that I really chose the funniest topic to read about, however the Onion still took a chance to be funny about the most dangerous intersection in the country. I believe that this would be considered Horation satire because it's making fun of the fact that no one has done anything about this crazy intersection, and that our soceity likes to watch accidents and are intrigued by them. I guess it's funny, but it's hard to laugh about women dying when smashed by a truck, "Those poor honey's didn't have a chance." It's a weird topic that the state hasn't done anything, and now with this attention they still aren't doing much.

What would I carry?

If I were a soldier and I could only carry a certain amount of things, I would choose to carry an American Flag. Yes, it may be cliche, but when push comes to shove I would be fighting for my country, and what would be a better reminder than that flag that represents freedom, loyalty, diversity all for the country I would risk my life for. Looking at other countries where women are sold to sex trafficing, forced be married, unable to vote and hold any jobs of power, or unable to be educated something would need to remind me of how lucky I am to have my freedom and endless options that have absolutly nothing to with my sex. America is a great country and a lot of people take it for granted and talk about how much they hate it, but it the grand scheme of things we're 300 million of the luckiest people alive to live in the best nation of the world. I would be proud to serve for my country, and to have the flag that represents it all with me.