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A Modest Suggestion: A Play in 3 Scenes

A Modest Suggestion: A Play in 3 Scenes

Ken Kaissar

Ken Kaissar
2014
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A Modest Suggestion is an absurdist comedy in three scenes. In an anonymous conference room a group of businessmen meet to discuss the next item on their agenda. As the four yes-men weigh the pros and cons of one pretty tough question, 'A Modest Suggestion asks: Why do racism and anti-Semitism exist? What does it mean to be Jewish? How does racism turn into violence? And, do Jews eat bacon?
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A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

Classic Books Library
2018
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Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, "A Modest Proposal" (1729). Referring to the worsening state of poverty amongst families and children in Ireland at the time, Swift's proposal is to solve the problem by feeding the children of the poor to the rich. Throughout the text he uses statistics, data, and various methods - including recipes - to evidence the economic viability of his suggestion. The essay was received with humour, yet Swift's powerful critique of social welfare and political injustice is clear. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was a prolific writer, poet and political pamphleteer, born into the Anglo-Irish ruling class. He is most remembered for his scathing satirical style and other famous works: "A Tale of a Tub" (1704) and "Gulliver's Travels" (1726).
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A Modest Homestead

A Modest Homestead

Laurie J. Bryant

University of Utah Press,U.S.
2017
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Stories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing on men and women in positions of power and influence, the emphasis here is on the lives of people who built their sturdy, simple homes from mud.A Modest Homestead provides architectural descriptions of ninety-four extant adobe houses. They are as basic as the people who built them—small tradesmen and farmers, laborers and domestics. Author Laurie Bryant discusses the neighbourhoods in Salt Lake City where adobe houses have survived, often much renovated and disguised, and she showcases the houses not just as they appear today but as they were originally built. Almost all the houses now have additions and improvements, and without some dissection they are not always recognisable, often being both more comfortable and pleasant than might have been the case in the nineteenth century. What emerges through Bryant’s research is an enlarged picture of the roughhewn life of many early Utahns. Includes 120 historic and contemporary photographs.
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A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

Paul V Bandini; Andrew R Dittmer; Fred Zimmerman

Nimble Books
2023
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This 2007 thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School provides instructive review of the reasons the US Navy has historically taken second place to the US Air Force in providing and utilizing military access to space, then puts forward proposals for improving the situation, notably, the formation of an independent Space Corps. Nearly twenty years later, the context has shifted, with the Navy ever more dependent on satellite services, and space-based surveillance a key element in the new "kill chain" of anti-ship ballistic and hypersonic weapons. The Navy, whose mission uniquely involves slow-moving persistence of large, not especially stealthy, objects over the vast expanses of the world's oceans, is also uniquely sensitive to the adversary capabilities afforded by small, extremely-fast-moving objects passing far overhead. Future naval wars with peer competitors will be inextricably connected with US military space capabilities.This document proposes an alternative construct for the organization and utilization of Navy space resources. It discusses the history and development of space systems in the United States, including the Navy's involvement. The document emphasizes the need for a stronger Navy presence in space and the potential establishment of a U.S. Space Force. It provides information on various organizations, programs, and concepts related to the Navy's space program. The document also discusses the roles and responsibilities of entities within the Navy and the Department of Defense related to space systems and communications. It highlights the importance of the Navy Space Cadre and the need for clear goals and objectives for their effective management and operation. The document addresses the challenges and issues surrounding the control and operation of satellite systems within the Department of Defense and suggests consolidating these functions under one organization for improved efficiency. Overall, it emphasizes the need for a more streamlined and centralized approach to satellite control and operations.This annotated edition illustrates the capabilities of the AI Lab for Book-Lovers to add context and ease-of-use to manuscripts. It includes five types of abstracts, building from simplest to more complex: TLDR (one word), ELI5, TLDR (vanilla), Scientific Style, and Action Items; four essays to increase viewpoint diversity: Context in the Discourse, Formal Dissent; Red Team Critique; and MAGA Perspective; and Notable Passages and Nutshell Summaries for each page.Original contains several color images (simple PowerPoint charts) which are reproduced here in grayscale as it was judged that the benefit did not justify the printing costs's significant impact on list price.
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A Modest But Crucial Hero

A Modest But Crucial Hero

Judson I Stone

Aviva Publishing
2023
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Heroism comes in many shapes, sizes, and degrees of significance. You can be a hero through your service to others. A Modest But Crucial Hero: The Life and Legacy of Rev. George E. Stone (1873-1899) tells the dramatic story of a young man who chose to serve others by accepting an unexpected assignment that led to his heroism.The book traces George's journey from Mexico, New York to Hamilton College, Auburn Seminary, and a two-month- journey to the Persian Gulf. He took this journey because he had joined the Arabian Mission to share the good news of Jesus Christ with Arabs. It was not a popular aspiration then, and it still is not today. He said he was going to Arabia, "Because while I was unwilling, God kept laboring with me until He made me desirous of going."After arriving in the island nation of Bahrain in October 1898, George started the required one-year rigorous Arabic language training, making tremendous strides in a short time. His friends and family knew his knowledge, skills, experiences, and fortitude held promise for a long, productive career.In February 1899, George accepted the reassignment to replace the married couple at the mission station in Muscat, Oman. They needed to leave due to serious health issues. The mission needed healthy leadership to oversee the house repairs and the eighteen rescued slave boys in the mission's school. George's service allowed the couple to recuperate and serve an additional forty years in the Middle East. The coworker scheduled to replace George failed to arrive for several weeks. This situation created the perfect storm for George's modest but crucial heroism to show itself then, and now, in this full-length account of his short life.The reader follows George's journey to England, France, Egypt, India, Bahrain, and Muscat. His hometown newspaper printed excerpts from his letters to his parents in Mexico, New York. They give the reader a glimpse of a large portion of the world in the last years of the nineteenth century. George's cultural and religious convictions encounter a foreign world as he learns Arabic and makes friends with his neighbors in Bahrain and Oman.A Modest But Crucial Hero shows human nature has not changed since George's days with its slavery, epidemics, quarantines, international conflict, and religious dialogue and debate. He said, "Christianity will have no walk-on in Arabia, but what is the fun of playing an easy team?" Serving others is not always an easy walk-on.
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On Modesty

On Modesty

Tertullian

Lighthouse Publishing
2018
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Modesty, the flower of manners, the honor of our bodies, the grace of the sexes, the integrity of the blood, the guarantee of our race, the basis of sanctity, the pre-indication of every good disposition; rare though it is, and not easily perfected, and scarce ever retained in perpetuity, will yet up to a certain point linger in the world, if nature shall have laid the preliminary groundwork of it, discipline persuaded to it, censorial rigor curbed its excesses--on the hypothesis, that is, that every mental good quality is the result either of birth, or else of training, or else of external compulsion. But as the conquering power of things evil is on the increase--which is the characteristic of the last times--things good are now not allowed either to be born, so corrupted are the seminal principles; or to be trained, so deserted are studies; nor to be enforced, so disarmed are the laws. In fact, (the modesty) of which we are now beginning (to treat) is by this time grown so obsolete, that it is not the abjuration but the moderation of the appetites which modesty is believed to be; and he is held to be chaste enough who has not been too chaste. But let the world's modesty see to itself, together with the world itself: together with its inherent nature, if it was wont to originate in birth; its study, if in training; its servitude, if in compulsion: except that it had been even more unhappy if it had remained only to prove fruitless, in that it had not been in God's household that its activities had been exercised.
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A Modest Project to Save the World

A Modest Project to Save the World

Warren Johnson

Archway Publishing
2023
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Most Americans cannot imagine getting by with less, or that it could be an easier and more relaxed way of life while using less of our diminishing supply of resources. Our descendants will thank us if we do that. But it won't be easy, given the many changes in our ways of life that it will involve, and will benefit the environment too without the harm it would have done to our descendants without it, and also the more relaxed ways of life that we can live in the times ahead, rather than causing the collapse that we are moving toward now. The world is much too beautiful to risk that, as we are doing now. This is the subject that is being written about ever more frequently now, especially as the climate changes have become ever more damaging, with higher summer temperatures and winds, colder winter temperatures, and more extremes of all of them, and will become steadily more difficult to overcome, as has already become the case.
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