Which of these is the main idea of the poem?

a. take pride in being a human being.
b. music makes people happy.
c. life is short; laugh and be merry.
d. fighting doesn't resolve problems.

laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.
laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.

laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain

The pop quiz surprised natasha more than read the sentence and choose the correct pronoun.

Read the sentence from last lecture by randy pausch. all right, so what we’re not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer, because i spent a lot of time talking about that and i’m really not interested. pausch tells his audience this because he wants them to know that

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