a billion people, two-thirds of them women, will enter the 21st century unable to read a book or write their names,” warns UNICEF in a new report, “The State of the World’s Children 1999.”
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, points out that the illiterate “live in more desperate poverty and poorer health” than those who can read and write. The shocking number — 1 billion people illiterate — generated frightening headlines in major newspapers.
Poverty in the poorest countries is indeed something that ought to concern all of us, especially in a season when we pause to remember the less fortunate. But as usual, there’s more to this striking statistic than UNICEF tells us. Consider three points.
The Good News. Bad news sells, news watchers tell us. And 1 billion people unable to read and write — about 16 percent of world population — is certainly bad news. But let’s deconstruct the news.
First, UNICEF’s actual number is 855 million, a figure that did not appear in major newspapers. That’s still a large number, but it is 15 percent less than 1 billion.
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B. Friar John is quarantined and cannot deliver the letter to Romeo.
C. Romeo is impatient and acts as soon as he hears that Juliet is dead.
E. Romeo behaves rashly and buys poison from the apothecary.
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I think the answer is B.
Explanation:
I think that because his watch made a QUEEN jealous.
Swift made an effort to challenge societal standards and overthrow the oppressive English government in "A Modest Proposal." Dreadful situations demand desperate measures to make one conscious. Satire is one of such techniques. There is no tolerance in satire.
The essay A Modest Proposal, which is disguised as an economic dissertation, suggests that Ireland's poverty be reduced by killing its underprivileged children and selling them to the English landowners as food.
Swift's proposal is a stinging indictment of England's illegal and economic abuse of Ireland. Its full title is A Modest Proposal for Making Children of Poor People Beneficial to the Public and Preventing Them from Being a Burden to Their Parents or the Country.
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The answer is: C. Romeo is now married to Juliet
