December 9th, 2020 
Read the following articles and identify the main argument in each article and compare between how they use language:
Reading 1: Walt Whitman. Slang in America p. 440 – https://archive.org/details/jstor-25118543/page/n1/mode/2up
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal p. 370
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/30827_modestproposal.pdf
Reading 2: Orwell, Shooting an Elephant p.272
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/shooting-an-elephant/
Lars Eighner. “On Dumpster Diving” p. 144
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1539&context=nejpp
Which article have you found the easiest to read?
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