Social/Health issue

Over the centuries, England gradually gained a foothold in Ireland. In 1541, the parliament in Dublin recognized England’s Henry VIII, a Protestant, as King of Ireland. In spite of repeated uprisings by Irish Catholics, English Protestants acquired more and more estates in Ireland. By 1703, they owned all but ten percent of the land. Meanwhile, legislation was enacted that severely limited the rights of the Irish to hold government office, purchase real estate, get an education, and advance themselves in other ways. As a result, many Irish fled to foreign lands, including America. Most of those who remained in Ireland lived in poverty, facing disease, starvation, and prejudice. It was this Ireland—an Ireland of the tyrannized and the downtrodden—that Jonathan Swift attempted to focus attention on in “A Modest Proposal” in 1720.

Blog Assignment 2: What social/health issue is being examined in A Modest Proposal? Explain.

The social/health issue in this Modest Proposal is the eating of the babies. Even though the “writer of the essay” is being sarcastic, it is a bit disturbing. If this were to happen, we as people would be destroying life slowly. It would affect everyone around us. We would be like Cannibalisms, eating one another because we’re poor? Why are people having babies if they can’t take care of them in the first place? It simply doesn’t make any since at all! If people need money, then the government should help out. No child should starve and no child shall be eaten. That is ridiculous and if this were true, then things would definitely have to change!