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2. A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia

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   A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, [1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift in 1729.

3. Free writing - Wikipedia

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   Free writing is traditionally regarded as a prewriting technique practiced in academic environments, in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time with limited concern for rhetoric, conventions, and mechanics, sometimes working from a specific prompt provided by a teacher. [1] While free writing often produces raw, or even ...

4. Essay - Wikipedia

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   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, length ...

5. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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   The five-paragraph essay is a form of essay having five paragraphs : one concluding paragraph. The introduction serves to inform the reader of the basic premises, and then to state the author's thesis, or central idea. A thesis can also be used to point out the subject of each body paragraph. When a thesis essay is applied to this format, the ...

6. Voluntary childlessness - Wikipedia

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   Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness [1] [2] describes the active choice not to have children. The word childfree first appeared sometime before 1901 [3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s. [4] [5] The suffix - free refers to the freedom and personal choice of those to pick this lifestyle.

7. Short story - Wikipedia

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   Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...