Tom Hanks Says Community College Made Him Who He is Today

[Stuart G]

5. I atttended a community college in 1964, I think it was the summer.

The professor had us read a book of stories, one of which I will never forget because of the impression it made on me...Oddly, it dealt with satire, biting, vicious satire.....

Jonathan Swift..." Modest Proposal" for dealing with the problem of ..the Irish ..in what was called "England" How to deal with the overpopulation of the Irish, and I suppose the hatred the English had for the Irish. It was just a made up story.. one of the greatest satirical pieces ever written, and I read it as a project at "community college"... It is a classic..if you want to read it, here it is written, 1729...odd, this kind of writing is still in the news...about 25 to 30 paragraphs if you have time: (warning, this is ugly, mean, vicious, NSFW, and so on...but, it is truly great)

Title: A Modest Proposal

by Dr. Jonathan Swift

For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country, and for
making them beneficial to the publick - 1729


http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1080/pg1080.txt