Can We Decrease Homlessness

Hicks 1 August 16, 2012 Can we decrease homelessness? The essay A Modest Proposal by Jonathan alert is a brutal satire in which he suggests that the poor families should kill their young children and eat them in aver to eliminate the growing number of starving citizens. At this time there was extreme poverty and a wide gap between the poor and the rich, the tenements and the landlords. end-to-end the essay Swift uses satire and irony as a way to attack the indifference between classes.Swift is not seriously suggesting fecal matternibalism he is trying to fetch known the desperate state of the lower class and the need for a social and moral reform. Although this essay was written in the 1700s we still cook the same issues of homelessness and poverty in todays modern society. Anna Quindlen Pulitzer Prize award winner author of Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids, states Today the average homeless woman is junior than ever before, many have been in foster c be or in shelters herself an d so considers a chaotic childhood the norm (345).Quindlen talks round the cycle of homelessness and poverty three hundred years after bustlings essay. Smith goes to extreme measures to explain his new plan to raise the economic wellbeing of his country. He explains what age is too young and what age is too old, in order to eat the Hicks 2 tenants children when they argon at their prime juiciness. He also gives a list of suggestions on how to cook them. A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious alimental and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. (350-352). Although he suggests to deal and cook the homeless babies. Swift is trying to point out the fact that reforms that would be practical and beneficial to the people are being overlooked for the doojigger of the rich. Melanie Scheller author of On The Meaning Of Plumbing And Poverty, writer for North Carol ina Independent Weekly, states My family was visibly and undeniably poor. My clothes were obviously hand-me-downs, I got issue lunches at school, I went to the health depertment for immunizations (356).Like swift Schellar emphasizes on what being in poverty and homeless is like. It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this huge town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every rider for an alms. These m otherwise(a)s, instead of being able to domesticate for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants (349).They are trying to get people to understand that not every homeless person has a way to get out and go find work so they can go find work and provide for their families. Hicks 3 Peter Singer author of The Singer solution to world Poverty, an Australian-born philosopher and bioethicist, states poverty, hunger, illness, and lack of shelter, these are the things that plague a majority of the people of the world and yet most of us are not even aware of it (359).He believes that prosperous people should donate all of the money not needed for the basic requirements of life to organizations meant to help those less fortunate that are homeless and/or in poverty. Life swift he is trying to find a way to help those whom need it. Swift says with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable opportunity of entailing the like or greater miseries upon their breed forever (353). Both Singer and Swift feel the need to help those less fortunate and want other people to know that they can help.The hole meaning is to try and get people to understand that not everyone is as well of as them, that not everyone can just go off and get a job so they can provide for their families and th at is why they end up in poverty and homeless. Swift says I profess in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich (353).If Swift was around today I believe he would be a great president for the United States of America and that he would actually make a great difference to those in poverty and homeless. Hicks 4 Works cited Ackley, Katherine Anne. Perspectives on Contemporary issues, 4th ed. Boston Wadsworth, 2006. Print. Quindlen, Anne. Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids. Ackley 344-346. Scheller, Melanie. On The meaning Of Plumbing And Poverty. Ackley 354-357. Singer, Peter. The Singer Solution To World Poverty. Ackley 358-362. Swift , Jonathen. A Modest Proposal. Ackley 348-353.