ENG 2106 Chapter Notes - Chapter NA: Snapple, Scientific Management, Domestic Violence
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This was an attempt to find a fair, cheap and easy method for converting starving children on ireland into useful members of the common wealth. Across the country poor children (mainly catholics) are living in squalor because their families are too poor to feed or cloth them. Opening paragraph offers a starkly realistic, although compassionate, portrait of families of beggars in ireland. Rader is first inclined to identify with the proposer: language provides an induction on the way the author proposal reduced human beings alternately to statistical entitles, to economic commodities and to animals. Argument is an economic argument although the proposal will have a moral, religious, political and nationalistic implications: states that most abortions are due to financial reasons due to moral considerations people"s motivations are materialistic. Swift parodies a pseudo-scientific proposal for social engineering that were popular. This piece is an attack on economic utilitarianism.
