The Restoration

The Glorious Revolution did many things. It removed James the second from kingship, and began parliamentary democracy in England. The Glorious Revolution saw the Bill of Rights instated as well.
The Glorious Revolution is important because, our country to based on the parliamentary democracy that began during the 1680's. without James the seconds overthrow we wouldn't be living in the same place that we are living right now.

Satire is a literary device used to convey criticism of a topic by using comedy.
Some modern day examples of satire are political comics of George bush with monstrous ears, or those making fun of his stupidity.

Response to "A Modest Proposal": This is the most obvious example of satire, because he really doesn't want to eat children, and use the poor as breeding stock. He uses such a cool manner that at first I believed he was serious. He brings to light many different concerns for the poor in that time period, even though those concerns are still here today.

I read "A journal of the plague year" by:Daniel Defoe
While reading this i found that i liked the story about the piper the best. The text says that a piper fell asleep in an alley, had the dead piled next to him, and then was loaded of on a dead cart still sleeping. When he came to the pits he was awoken and scared the cart driver half to death.

I am very happy that i don't have to experience that kind of setting and horror. I wish that they knew what we know now about the plague, that it is carried by fleas on rats, and that fire can remove it.

I don't know what was most important to people living in this era, but if i had to make an educated decision i would say one of two things. The first being fun during the time that you are alive, and the second being the idea of an after life. When i mention the after life i say that it was important to them because they were beginning to question it for one of the first times (in recent history).
IN a journal of the plague year i read a story about one man who fallowed the dead cart that contained his now deceased family. When the cart stoped at the pit, and the cart bearers started chuncking bodies out the grieving man was surprised by the way that the bodies were treated. then he figured that it was the best way to do it, just chunck them into a pit and add lye and dirt.