read Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and watch Colbert’s address to a congressional hearing on migrant labor found below. Many of the pieces that we’ve read deal with modern issues, use modern media, and engage with us as modern readers. Swift’s essay, howev

English class must cite work must be 300 words

read Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and watch Colbert’s address to a congressional hearing on migrant labor found below. Many of the pieces that we’ve read deal with modern issues, use modern media, and engage with us as modern readers.  Swift’s essay, however, is a historical example of how satire in form and content can use a proposal to attack the ideas that it appears to support.  Your assignment, after reading the texts and viewing the video is to post a 300-400 word analysis of how Swift’s writing and Colbert’s presentation both employ the strategies from Chapter 14 of Argument Today.  Are there any instances in each that are similar or that apply the ideas in sections 14.2-14.4 of the text?  How are the tone and delivery of each piece similar?  Clearly, both masters of satire are using proposal for very different ends than a serious discussion of how their country should address an issue.