Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and "Candide," by Voltaire are both satires that mock man and society. ... In "A Modest Proposal," Swift writes about a possible solution for Ireland's poverty and over population. ... He, as narrator makes this proposal in such a tone a reader with very little education may take him seriously, which was not the intent for the piece. ... Jonathan Swift makes his proposal in the mind set of any politician. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Accordingly, at the request of the Caretaker Government, the SBP prepared in August 1993 a confidential paper containing proposals to give autonomy to it and to separate monetary policy from fiscal policy of the government. When the paper came for review in an inter-governmental meeting, the Finance Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister (Shahid Javed Burki) fully supported the proposals meant to give to the SBP a measure of autonomy but the senior bureaucrats of the Ministry of Finance showed a lukewarm, if not a hostile, attitude to the proposed reforms. ...

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Pretty Woman is an appropriation of the play by Bernard Shaw called Pygmalion, because it's characters, plot and central theme can all be closely linked. Both Vivian Ward's and Eliza Doolittle's transformation into society's "ideal women" undertakes the same central journey, with pivotal moments in character development similar to each other. Both women come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and through the help of their male counterparts, in the text, achieve confidence and self worth. Through the women's evolution of self, the narrative also enables the reader to see t...

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