Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal.”then as to the females, it would, i think, with humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they soon would become breeders themselves: and besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty, which, i confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended. which phrase from the excerpt is an example of verbal irony? a loss to the publicksome scrupulous peopleindeed very unjustlystrongest objection against

you did not put the article. so i cannot answer the question.

the bundle of the sticks, talks about union and how sometimes people need a different point of view. when the father in this story asked his sons to break the bunch of sticks, they could not, but when they grabbed one stick each, it was easier for them to break, because they worked together.

in hofus the stonecutter shows a simple happy working man, but one day when he delivers a load of stone into the house of a rich man, he wishes to be a rich man as well and so the mountain spirit grants him that wish and many others, until he realizes that even getting all his desires and wishes come true, he just needed to be humble and have genuine reason to live and be a better man each day.

in the united states during world war ii, propaganda was everywhere. there were posters with uncle sam on them telling young men to enlist in the military and go fight. there were posters with american soldiers and american flags, with the words ‘buy war bonds’ at the bottom. the japanese navy devastated pearl harbor, and in its wake it left the american people with a passion for vengeance. the empire of japan was violating widely accepted human rights in eastern asia, and its government had been seen by the oppressed as a monster that needed to be stopped. the world was divided between two sides, the majority of the nations of the world supporting the allied powers. if propaganda had not been used to rally support for the war, it is possible that the war effort would not have been as powerful. perhaps it could have been weak enough for the axis powers to continue building up strength all over the world. however, this does not justify propaganda as something that is absolutely ‘good’.