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What is Swift's modest proposal intended to prevent?

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The full title is “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of the

Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to Their Public.” Swift emphasizes the terrible poverty of eighteenth-century Ireland by ironically proposing that Irish parents earn money

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