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Jonathan Swift Research Paper

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Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish Satirist and Poet living in Great Britain at the time of the early 1700s, was disgusted and repulsed by the rules Britain enforced on The Irish, for example, in 1720 Britain passed a parliament stating that Britain had the bow to bind Ireland with laws it chooses such as the Penal Laws. What these laws did was diminish any power ireland could’ve had by eliminating their political presence and catholic land not being able to be passed down to single heirs, making these lands unproductive and ripped them from their rightful owners, catholics, but I digress. Living in a time where all of this is taking place in his own homeland and all he could do is watch has britain destroys his people, Jonathan has decided to
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