A Modest Proposal for Addressing the Lack of Mental Health Resources for Less Fortunate Children

As we have discussed, this assignment asks you to take a problem or situation from currentevents, and to create a mock-modest proposal. Using Jonathan Swift’s famous “ModestProposal” as your model, you will come up with your own modest proposal, ironically speaking.You may make it satirical or earnest. The choice is up to you.This paper is partly an analysis, in which you will use good-quality sources from journalism,scholarship, and other media to create your argument. As always, please use your chosen formatfor documenting sources, with a bibliography and citations or endnotes. As always, please use atleast five good sources, including at least three scholarly sources, not counting basic referencesources like Wikipedia. One difference between this paper and your other papers is that you willfocus more on current events or current situations.As part of the assignment, you will choose a topic you want to write about, and narrow down your focus so that you know what you want to say.Your point of view is up to you, and so is your choice of topic. You may choose any topic fromcurrent events, so long as the topic is one in which you can do research from your range ofsources. We will go over topics in class