The start to a great English paper

(With special thanks to Andy)

Piers the Plowman works a sixteen-hour shift in the Shropshire fields, goes home to his thatched leaves-and-manure hut and eats a bowl of bland, malnourishing porridge.

Such is life in the Shropshire Ghetto.

Piers, 35, is just one of many impoverished farmers here who are incessantly victimized by corrupt friars, lords, vassals and, um, loan sharks and pyramid schemes....