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  2. A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia

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    A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.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 ...

  3. Essays (Emerson) - Wikipedia

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    Some of the most notable essays of these two collections are Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics. Emerson later wrote several more books of essays including Representative Men, English Traits, The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude. Emerson's first published essay, Nature, was published ...

  4. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    Poorer communities are responsible for a small share of global emissions, yet have the least ability to adapt and are most vulnerable to climate change. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Examples of some effects of climate change : Wildfire intensified by heat and drought, bleaching of corals occurring more often due to marine heatwaves , and worsening droughts ...

  5. Argument from ignorance - Wikipedia

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    Argument from ignorance. Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition ...

  6. The Stranger (essay) - Wikipedia

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    The Stranger" is an essay by Georg Simmel, originally written as an excursus to a chapter dealing with the sociology of space in his book Soziologie. [1] In this essay, Simmel introduced the notion of "the stranger" as a unique sociological category. He differentiates the stranger both from the "outsider" who has no specific relation to a group ...

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  8. Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia

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    Examples of commons-based peer production are Wikipedia, free and open source software and open-source hardware. [ 204 ] Tragedy of the commons has served as a pretext for powerful private companies and/or governments to introduce regulatory agents or outsourcing on less powerful entities or governments, for the exploitation of their natural ...

  9. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Essay. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization ...