Beauty was defined by, as a society, the media. but companys are breaking out to show beauty as looking past flaws.
Denial was defined as sort of a moral disaproval.
Evil is defined as macro and micro evil. where one is on a small, more personal level to the other being large scale genicide.

Definition thing

1. It isn't really "fresh" but it is unique i guess. As it states, it's an old thing, not commonly used. I wouldn't really know how to define a "Yankee" besides a baseball team, play, or fan out of New York.
2. I have no idea what allusions are...
3. the writer uses extended definition techique. and i think that explaining what a yankee is no helped understand what a yankee really is.

A modest proposal questions 1-4

!) He mocks the English political and cultural invasion of Ireland.  The thesis for Swift is the idea that human problems cannot be solved by rational thought by itself.

2) The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children,

there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born.

3) Most readers probably realize that he is using irony and writing satire when he actually reveals his "modest" proposal

4) The women of Ireland are the ones that are being victoms through irony in a way. The Irish as a people are both victoms and to blame

5) I think this whole thing is a serious solution and should be taken into consideration word for word. just kidding. but yeah there aren't any real solutions to anything anywhere.

6) To say that he isn't serious or a monster or a malevolent human.

7) i dunno. prolly not.

8) Well, first off, we'd have to have a secret sector in the FDA. then they would take care of brain washing us and whatnot and make it ok.

why i want a wife

1) i think the thesis to this essay is "I want a wife because she'll do eveything for me" more or less.
2)Repeating "i want a wife" in the essay brings attention to the fact that the wife does everything for the spouse.
3) I think she wrote the essay to make fun of the standards that spouses want their wife to have, and not actually have one whos like that.
4) I think the's picturing the wife that an ideal stay at home mom should be, plus getting a job to pay for things when the spouse isn't there.she's making fun of what someone would expect from a wife at different times of lives and for what reasons.
5) I think this is a good essay to show how much the spouse expects from a wife and the presure i guess you could say is put on them and the responsabilities put upon them. i think it paints a good image in the heads of readers.

After reading these, choose your two favorite stories from these.  Why were they your favorites? What suprised you in them? what was Thurber making fun of? Did he use another fable or fairytale as his basis?

The Little Girl and the Wolf

I thought this story was funny because the girl failed to see the fact that her grandmother had been eaten but instead shot the wolf for trying to trick her. Thurber was making fun of the goody-goody-two-shoes we all thought little red riding hood was and having her pull a gun on the wolf. He used the fairy tail of little red riding hood.

The Unicorn in the Garden

This story kinda confused me. I didn't quite understand it but it was pretty interesting. The whole story surprised me, the ending especially. I honestly don't really know what fable or fairy tail this was pulled from either. but it was a fun little stry to read.

The Stag at the Pool  
A Stag starts talking bout how his feet suck and how is antlers are so big and awesome and a lion comes so the stag runs into the woods but gets his big antlers stuck in the tree and his feet aren't able to get him out.

Moral of Aesops Fable: What is most truly valuable is often underrated.

The Fox and the Cat

A cat and a fox talk about how they can escape enemies and the fox had 100 and the cat only had one. some dogs come to kill them and the cat ran up a tree but the fox tried to think of which of the 100 ways he would use to escape and died.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon

The Two Pots 

Two pots float down a river and talk to eachother. they said they won't try to hit eachother but if they do the weak pot will die no matter which one hits the other.

The strong and the weak cannot keep company

The Horse and the Stag 

A horse was chillin in a field and a stag came up but the horse didn't wasnt the stag there so he went to a man and asked him for help and the man said "he but you have to carry me places and i'll kill the stag" so the horse went along with it then realized he was enslaved forever.

He who seeks to injure others often injures only himself.

The Two Frogs

So two frogs were chillin in a pool but it dried up from the heat and so they left to find another and they found a really deep pool big enough for them both and one frog was like "looks pretty good" but the other was like, "bro, what if it dries up? we'd be stuck there forever."

Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.

The Dogs and the Hides

 

 

Some Dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cow-hides steeping in a river. Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river; but it fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before they reached the hides. Attempt not impossibilities.   The Fisherman and the Little Fish  This fisherman fished a small fish and it asked him to spare his life and that someday he'd become a bigger fish and he could catch him again but the fisherman said "nah, imma cut ya up now. cause ya prolly won't get caught no mo'." Do not forego a certain gain for an uncertain profit The Fox and the Lion  So a fox was walking and came across a lion and ran away. the next time he just hid. the third time the just passed eachother without a problem. Familiarity breeds contempt The Eagle and the Arrow  And eagle was chillin in the air and was shot by an arrow that had been made witht he feathers of another eagle. We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

Fairy tail poem

The net came dow, violently onto the lions head with heavy weights on either end, he couldn't move. The mouse jumped down upon his head with joy knowing he had trapped the beast that has been terrorizing his little mouse town.

her hands on my back, slowing petting me, putting me to sleep. But i couldn't sleep. I had to stay awake to protect her! these are dangerous forests, she can't be left alone to fend for herself.

I was slowly drifting away from what was left of my boat. up in flames, what had happened?

Where did this grass hopper get i tiny fiddle? And a tiny bandana? it suits him well but it would take increadible skill to make either item. For a human to make it it would be near impossible it create a fully funtioning fiddle in a size suitable for a grasshopper, and for a grass hopper to make it without thumbs is just nonsence.

Every morning she lifts me out of my nest and puts me in a comfy little basket she carries upon her back. she coolects the eggs i had layed and puts them in the little basket next to me. not fully awake yet i just doze off to the sound of her bear feet slapping th eground.

**The witch appears every morning out of the mist, near the old ruins that have long been covered by moss. she runs through the fog in her bright red hooded gown to no-knows-where.

Why I'm hanging out with the crazy girl and OCD rabbit is beyond me. I just want to have a nice meal with tea but this chick, i swear, puts LSD in the food and we all go on these unbeleivable trips. Maybe the rabit isn't even here? He might just be part of my trip..

Today has been a tremendous day for our village. what started off as a panic has now died down into something more along the lines of facination. A giant has appeard in the feilds right outside the market place! he seems pretty harmless and just as confused, if not more, that us!

I have not had a good nights sleep in forever! every matress i get is just as terrible as the first. I try it out for a couple nights until i have to get a new one. I'm too lazy to get rid of the old ones myself so i just pile them on top of one another. eventually it got too high fo rme to simply walk onto so i had to get a latter to hop into bed.

I woke up today in the forest, without any recolection on how i had gotten here. it was beautiful tho.

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Every morning she appears just before the sun,
Out of nowhere you'll hear the pitter patter of her feet as she begins to run.
I see her every morning by the old ruins I stay,
I'm as quiet as a church mouse when she passes, for in fear I lay.
I'm cursed by this witch, I'm not allowed to leave,
I shouldn't have done her wrong, but her words I didn't believe,
She said "while you're with me, you better not take another to bed,
and so help your soul, if you do, your lifes as good as dead."
So here I am,
a cheating man,
who knows of nothing and nothing knows of me,
I should have listened for I may still be free.