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.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

After this essay was circulated in samizdat and then published outside the Soviet Union ( initially on July 6, 1968, in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool through intermediary of the Dutch academic and writer Karel van het Reve, followed by The New York Times ), Sakharov was banned from all military-related research and returned to FIAN to study fundamental theoretical physics.

In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled " A. E. Housman's ' De Amicitia '" in the British Library, with the proviso that it was not to be published for 25 years.

The popular view can be summarized in an essay published in 1965, the then Captain Robert O ’ Neill, Professor of the History of War at the Oxford University.

The historian Richard Hofstadter addressed the role of paranoia and conspiracism throughout American history in his essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics, published in 1964.

Linguists Edward R. Simmen and Richard F. Bauerle report the use of the term in an essay by Mexican American writer, Mario Suárez, published in the Arizona Quarterly in 1947.

* The Cohen Award for the best essay published in Ploughshares, 1994

Thomas Malthus wrote two books, An essay on the principle of population, published in 1798, and Principles of political economy, published in 1820.

In 1952 Marker published an illustration essay on French writer Jean Giraudoux, Giraudoux Par Lui-Même.

The banned essay was included in Marker's first volume of collected film commentaries, Commentaires I, published in 1961.

In 1997, Harper's Magazine published an essay, ostensibly a book review of the DSM-IV, that criticized the lack of hard science and the proliferation of disorders.

The Discovery of Dawn was published in 2007, and That Mad Ache was published in 2009, bound together with Hofstadter's essay Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation.

In July 1841, Poe had published an essay called " A Few Words on Secret Writing " in Graham's Magazine.

Bourland, who had studied under Korzybski, coined the term in a 1965 essay entitled A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime ( originally published in the General Semantics Bulletin ).

" Laura Mulvey's germinal essay " Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " ( written in 1973 and published in 1975 ) expands on this conception of the passive role of women in cinema to argue that film provides visual pleasure through scopophilia, and identification with the on-screen male actor.

Niven's essay " Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation " was published in the collection All the Myriad Ways In it he discusses the ideas that underlie his teleportation stories.

In an essay published online in The Lancet, two researchers have warned that exposure to industrial chemicals may be responsible for a " silent pandemic " of brain development disorders.

Blair hated the school and many years later wrote an essay " Such, Such Were the Joys ", published posthumously, based on his time there.

For a while he " went native " in his own country, dressing like a tramp and making no concessions to middle-class mores and expectations ; he recorded his experiences of the low life for use in The Spike, his first published essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ).

His experiences there were the basis of his essay How the Poor Die, published in 1946.

On 24 December 1943, Tribune published, under the authorship of " John Freeman " – possibly in reference to the British politician – the short essay " Can Socialists Be Happy?

Orwell may have been the first to use the term cold war, in his essay, " You and the Atom Bomb ", published in Tribune, 19 October 1945.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

In 1849, shortly after the revolutions of the previous year, Molinari published two works: an essay, " The Production of Security ", and a book, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, describing how a market in justice and protection could advantageously replace the state.

In 1983, a year before Limbaugh debuted as a political talk-show host, anarchist Bob Black wrote an essay called " Feminism as Fascism ".

In 1929 he published his first important essay on econometric methodology, " Correlation and scatter in statistical variables ", followed in the same year by " Statics and dynamics in economic theory ", which introduced dynamics in economic analysis.

In the same year, the German scholar Johann Georg von Eckhart, in an essay published in Leibniz's Collectanea Etymologica, proposed for the first time a relation to the Samoyedic languages.

The House of the Wolfings, printed in 1889 at the Chiswick Press, was the first essay in this direction ; and in the same year, in The Roots of the Mountains, he carried his theory a step further.

He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell ' amor patrio di Dante (" On Dante's Patriotic Love "), which was published in 1837.

In the year following his marriage Mendelssohn won the prize offered by the Berlin Academy for an essay on the application of mathematical proofs to metaphysics, On Evidence in the Metaphysical Sciences ; among the competitors were Thomas Abbt and Immanuel Kant ( who came second ).

In 1972, Derrida wrote " Signature Event Context ," an essay on J. L. Austin's speech act theory ; following a critique of this text by John Searle in his 1977 essay Reiterating the Differences, Derrida wrote the same year Limited Inc abc ..., a long defense of his earlier argument.

Buchan won both the Stanhope essay prize, in 1897, and the Newdigate Prize for poetry the following year, as well as being elected as the president of the Oxford Union and having six of his works published.

The year before Lorca had begun to write his Poema del cante jondo (" Poem of the deep song ", not published until 1931 ), so he naturally composed an essay on the art of flamenco, and began to speak publicly in support of the Concurso.

The same year he published Rufinus, a historical essay ; and a political poem on Duke of Marlborough and his adherents.

A second, enlarged edition with a biographical essay appeared in 1842, the year before Hölderlin ’ s death.

In the same year, an essay in a London magazine, entitled " An Essay On The Theatre ; Or, A Comparison Between Laughing And Sentimental Comedy ", suggested that sentimental comedy, a false form of comedy, had taken over the boards from the older and more truly comic laughing comedy.

The essay was written by British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religious fatwa for Rushdie's death from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini which ultimately resulted in United Kingdom and Iran breaking diplomatic ties to each other a year later.

The next year, he produced a work of popular medicine, An essay concerning the nature of ailments, and the choice of them, according to the different constitutions of human bodies.

Each year, the DAR conducts a national American history essay contest among students in grades 5 through 8.

A student wanting to complete gymnasium-β would have to pass exams in the languages Ancient Greek, Latin, French, German, English, Dutch ( all consisting of three separate parts: an oral book report, a written essay, and a written summary ), pass the sciences physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics ( in mathematics, students were assigned to two of the three sub-fields analytic geometry / algebra, trigonometry, and solid geometry based on a draw ), and attend history and geography, which were taught until the final year without examinations.

He won the university prize essay of the year 1812 by a treatise on the Athenian Law of Inheritance, and a few months later the University of Jena granted him the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy.

degree with first-class honours in both classics and mathematics in 1813, he next year obtained the chancellor's prize for a Latin essay, and shortly afterwards was elected to a fellowship in his college, Keble, Newman and Arnold being among his contemporaries.

In 1877 he published The Unknown Eros, which contains his finest poetic work, and in the following year Amelia, his own favourite among his poems, together with an interesting essay on English Metrical Law, appeared.

* Claud Schuster, John Tyndall as a Mountaineer, 56-page essay included in Schuster's book Postscript to Adventure, year 1950 ( New Alpine Library: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London ).