This is a piece I wrote for an English class my second year at junior college. After we had read Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", we were assigned to write a satirical essay. This is the product of that assignment.
The Place of True Freedom
Walking home from work one night, feeling depressed at the state of the world, I saw a sign saying that a man who knew the secret to fixing the world’s problems was here tonight to share his knowledge with us. Curious, I ducked into the theater where he would be speaking and took a seat. The man came out to the podium set up on the stage and began to speak. I leaned back in my chair, eager to listen to this marvelous man who held the secret to a peaceful and contented world. This is his speech.
On Politics and Policies
A Treatise on How to Make Our Country and World Safer and More Fair.
Our world today is filled with injustices and hatred. People are fighting in the streets; children are going hungry while the big-shot CEOs are buying new cars and bigger houses; businessmen and policymakers are showing favoritism when they make decisions. This is absolutely not right. All humans are created equal. We are all brothers and sisters in this world and as such we must join together and help each other, refusing to show favor or preference to one group or another. If we want to make our world a better place, we must embrace unity, tolerance, justice and freedom. Everyone must be free to express themselves without fear of censor or ridicule. All are entitled to have freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom to do and think as one pleases. We must have freedom from
