Read this excerpt from the story and answer the question. after much thought snowball declared that the seven commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim, namely: “four legs good, two legs bad.” this, he said, contained the essential principle of animalism. what does this decision by snowball foreshadow? snowball will try to get his way by tricking the animals into thinking in overly simplistic terms. soon animalism will no longer be relevant to the animal society. the animals will hold an election to change the commandments. snowball is getting too old to remember each commandment.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .