He served the Tory government as editor of the party organ, the Examiner, and as author of its most powerful articles. 2 With the fall of the Tory party in 1714, Swift became an important critic of the new Whig government and its chiefminister Sir Robert Walpole. ... As he sets out on his first journey to Lilliput, we recognise as contemporary readers that he is an average civilized human being with whom we can identify. The strange new country in which he arrives, would have been recognizably similar to the contemporary reader's own culture. ...

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• Approx Pages: 40
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• Grade Level: High School

Poets like Arnold of nineteenth century started to hold a very pessimistic view about the Victorian crisis, and in almost all his poems, he seems to express only a negative attitude toward his contemporary age. But we see a quite dissimilar attitude in the poems of his most renowned contemporary, Alfred Lord Tennyson. ... He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. He tries to portray in his poems a real and clear picture of the problems of contemporary age in an implicit way, and t...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is about freedom in the future, and his prophetic warnings about the loss of freedom due to increasing population, dwindling natural resources and advancing technology remain relevant and contemporary in today's world. ... Aldous Huxley wrote in 1958: In the contemporary world the population problem has not been solved. ... However, as these authors point out, most deaths from starvation since 1975 have resulted from political strife in countries like Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia (23). ...

• Word Count: 2421
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School