A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

A Modest Proposal also targets the calculating way people perceived the poor in designing their projects.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

The Reader in A Modest Proposal " focuses on two aspects of A Modest Proposal: the voice of Swift and the voice of the Proposer.

While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".

Louis A. Landa presents Swift ’ s A Modest Proposal as a critique of the popular and unjustified maxim of mercantilism in the 18th century that " people are the riches of a nation ".

A Modest Proposal is included in many literature programs as an example of early modern western satire.

Outside of the realm of English studies, A Modest Proposal is a relevant piece included in many comparative and global literature and history courses, as well as those of numerous other disciplines in the arts, humanities, and even the social sciences.

In his book A Modest Proposal ( 1984 ), evangelical author Frank Schaeffer emulated Swift's work in social conservative polemic against abortion and euthanasia in a future dystopia that advocated recycling of aborted embryos and fetuses, as well as some disabled infants with compound intellectual, physical and physiological difficulties.

The game Orphan Feast on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim website is loosely based on A Modest Proposal.

The Sealab 2021 character Jodene Sparks references A Modest Proposal when trying to convince Debbie DuPree to eat her own baby.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

A Modest Proposal is mentioned in the 1996 film The Birdcage.

*" Black Cadillacs ", a song by Modest Mouse

The song " I know a youth who loves a little maid ," can be traced back to the Bab Ballad, " The Modest Couple ", in which the very shy and proper Peter and Sarah are betrothed but are reluctant to shake hands or sit side by side.

Modest owners do not usually use the phrase " stately home " but are more likely to call their property a " country house ", which might seem an understatement to the objective observer.

McCarron is credited on such numbers as " Fido Is a Hot Dog Now ", and " Eve Wasn't Modest ' till She Ate that Apple ".

The " Death of Wat Tyler ", now in the Guildhall, London, was exhibited in 1787 ; and shortly afterwards Northcote began a set of ten subjects, entitled " The Modest Girl and the Wanton ", which were completed and engraved in 1796.

It was the first Modest Mouse album to reach number one on the US Billboard 200 charts, and had the hit single " Dashboard ", as well as " Missed the Boat " and " We've Got Everything ".

Modest Mouse released singles for the songs " Satellite Skin ", " Autumn Beds " and " Perpetual Motion Machine " in limited editions ( a run of 4, 000 each ) vinyl 7 inches, featuring artwork by art director and illustrator Joshua Marc Levy, J. Alex Stamos, and Natasha Wheat.

*" Novocain Stain ", a song by Modest Mouse from the album Interstate 8

47 ( 1903 ), after Indian epos " Mahabharata ", libretto by Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky after the novel by Vasily Zhukovsky, premiere: January 22, January 9, 1904, Moscow, Bolshoy Theatre )

In March 2005, the New Breed Wrestling Association held the " Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament ", which was won by Michael Modest.

*" A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training ", 1950 ( reprinted in 1991 )

* " Florida ", a song by Modest Mouse from their 2007 album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

Similarly, in the Weeds episode, " A Modest Proposal ", the character Andy Botwin buys a Ms. Pac-Man cabinet.

At a San Francisco performance with Modest Mouse in 2000, Sub Pop's Jonathan Poneman asked The Shins to contribute a single to the label's Single of the Month Club, which eventually became an offer to release The Shins ' 2001 single, " New Slang ", and their debut album, Oh, Inverted World.

He also debuted his new entrance theme " Modest ", a song performed by Hardy himself, and a new nickname, " The Charismatic Enigma ".

According to the Ugly Casanova website, in 1998 a man named Edgar E. Graham, a. k. a. " Ugly Casanova ", impressed himself upon the band Modest Mouse while backstage at a concert in Denver, Colorado.

Two tracks released by Ugly Casanova, " Baby's Clean Conscience " and " Parasites ", appear earlier as unreleased demos of Modest Mouse in the Paracite Sessions purportedly recorded in 1993 at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studio.

* " Might ", a song by Modest Mouse from their 1996 album This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

* " Ohio ", a song by Modest Mouse from This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

* " Object Oberon-A Modest Object-Oriented Language ", H. Moessenboeck & J. Templ, in Structured Programming 10 ( 4 ), 1989.

Major features include significant improvements to the built-in Application manager, incremental operating system upgrades without reflashing (" Seamless Software Update ", SSU ), Modest as the default mail client, and a new version of the MicroB browser with more optimizations and some interface improvements ( though still based on the same Gecko release as Chinook's MicroB ).

* Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and The Predictions for the Ensuing Year ( written as Isaac Bickerstaff ).

* Jonathan Swift publishes A Modest Proposal.

The following year, on 18 September, another Radio 4 documentary was broadcast ; called Thoroughly Modest Mollie, this one focused on Horne's frequent ghost-writer, Mollie Millest, and featured Jonathan Rigby as Horne.

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The unnamed Time reviewer compared the book to Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, noting that, unlike Swift, Kaufman's work was not satirical.

It appears, for example, in Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which Swift repeatedly uses " breeder " to refer to human breeding:

Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist in the 17th century, used scatological humor in some of his pieces, including his famous essay A Modest Proposal and his rather crude poem " The Lady's Dressing Room ," in which the speaker comments on the goings-on in a 17th-century woman's room, including her business in her chamber pot.

* A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift, was ironic fiction proposing the selling of children to save Ireland from starvation ; the proposal was probably not intended to be literal