A Modest Video Game Proposal is an allusion to the essay written in what year?
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A Modest Video Game Proposal A Modest Video Game Proposal is the title of an open letter sent by activist/former attorney Jack Thompson to members of the press and to Entertainment Software Association president Doug Lowenstein on October 10, 2005. He proposed that, if someone could "create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006" that allows players to play the scenario he has written, in which the character kills video game developers, he will donate $10,000 to the charity of former Take-Two Interactive chairman Paul Eibeler's choosing. The title of the letter alludes to Jonathan Swift's 18th century satire essay "A Modest Proposal".
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A Modest Proposal 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, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general.
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The Common Pursuit The Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they are involved in setting up a literary magazine called "The Common Pursuit". The title is an allusion to F. R. Leavis's 1952 collection of essays "Scrutiny: The Common Pursuit".
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Federalist No. 36 Federalist No. 36 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the thirty-sixth of "The Federalist Papers". It was published on January 8, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all "The Federalist" papers were published. This is the last of seven essays by Hamilton on the then-controversial issue of taxation. It is titled, "The Same Subject Continued: Concerning the General Power of Taxation."
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Federalist No. 11 Federalist No. 11 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the eleventh of "The Federalist Papers". It was published on November 23, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all "The Federalist" papers were published. It is titled, "The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy."
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Essay (philately) In philately, an essay is a design for a proposed stamp submitted to the postal authorities for consideration but not used, or used after alterations have been made. By contrast, a proof is a trial printing of an accepted stamp.
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The World's Last Night and Other Essays The World's Last Night and Other Essays is a collection of essays by C. S. Lewis published in the United States in 1960. The title essay is about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The volume also contains a follow-up to his "The Screwtape Letters" in the form of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast." The second, fourth and fifth pieces were published in the U.K. in a volume called "Screwtape Proposes a Toast and other pieces" (1965); the first, sixth and seventh were published in the U.K. in "Fern-seed and Elephants and other essays on Christianity" (1975). All the pieces were later collected in the comprehensive "Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces" (2000).
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Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals is a 1962 book of essays on social issues by Paul Goodman.
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An Urchin in the Storm An Urchin in the Storm is a 1987 essay collection from paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould.
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Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles (French: "Lettre a M. D'Alembert sur les spectacles" ) is a 1758 essay written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in opposition to an article published in the "Encyclopédie" by Jean d'Alembert, that proposed the establishment of a theatre in Geneva. More generally, it is a critical analysis of the effects of culture on morals, that clarifies the links between politics and social life. Rousseau relates the issue of a theatre in Geneva to the broader social context, warning of the potential the theatre has to corrupt the morality in society.
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Politics (essay) "Politics" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is part of his "Essays: Second Series", published in 1844. A premier philosopher, poet and leader of American transcendentalism, he used this essay to belie his feelings on government, specifically American government. His impact on New England thought and his views on pragmatism influenced the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, and Frederich Nietzsche, among others.
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Pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that began in the United States around 1870. Its origins are often attributed to the philosophers William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce later described it in his pragmatic maxim: "Consider the practical effects of the objects of your conception. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object."
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A Letter to a Friend A Letter to a Friend (written 1656; published posthumously in 1690), by Sir Thomas Browne, the 17th century philosopher and physician, is a medical treatise of case-histories and witty speculations upon the human condition.
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Federalist No. 26 Federalist No. 26 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-sixth of "The Federalist Papers". It was published on December 22, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all "The Federalist" papers were published. This is the first of three essays discussing the threat to the common good stemming from excessive restraint on legislative authority. It is titled, "The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered."
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Annie Russell Marble Annie Russell Marble (August 10, 1864 – November 23, 1936) was an American essayist, whose work dealt with early American historical figures, authors of the Transcendental movement, some of whom she knew personally, and commentary on literature in general.
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Federalist No. 25 Federalist No. 25 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-fifth of "The Federalist Papers". It was published on December 21, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all "The Federalist" papers were published. It continues the discussion begun in Federalist No. 24. No. 25 is titled, "The Same Subject Continued: The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered."
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The Philosophy of Furniture "The Philosophy of Furniture" is an essay written by American author Edgar Allan Poe published in 1840. An unusual work by Poe, whose more typical works include horror tales like "The Tell-Tale Heart," the essay is essentially Poe's theories on interior decorating.
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Federalist No. 50 Federalist No. 50 is an essay by James Madison, the fiftieth of "The Federalist Papers". It was published on February 5, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all "The Federalist" papers were published. It is titled "Periodic Appeals to the People Considered."
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Federalist No. 40 Federalist No. 40 is an essay by James Madison, the fortieth of "The Federalist Papers". It was published on January 18, 1788 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all "The Federalist" papers were published. This is the last of four papers by Madison examining the authority of the constitutional convention that had produced the proposed United States Constitution. It is titled, "The Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government Examined and Sustained."
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Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants: Essays on Literature, Film, and History is a 1996 essay collection by L. Sprague de Camp, published in hardcover by Borgo Press as no. 26 in the series "I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature". The title essay "Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants" (retitled in this collection) was originally published in the magazine "Analog Science Fiction and Fact", in the issue for mid-December 1987.
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Federalist No. 51 Federalist No. 51, titled: "The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments", is an essay by James Madison, the fifty-first of "The Federalist Papers". It was published on February 8, 1788, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all "The Federalist" papers were published. One of the most famous of "The Federalist" papers, No. 51 addresses means by which appropriate checks and balances can be created in government and also advocates a separation of powers within the national government. One of its most important ideas is the often quoted phrase, "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" and its "if men were angels" argument is famous.
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Gerontion "Gerontion" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920. The work relates the opinions and impressions of a gerontic, or elderly man, through a dramatic monologue which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived the majority of his life in the 19th century. Eliot considered using this already published poem as a preface to "The Waste Land", but decided to keep it as an independent poem. Along with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", and other works published by Eliot in the early part of his career, '"Gerontion" discusses themes of religion, sexuality, and other general topics of modernist poetry.