Does the author of “Some of the Ills That Beset America’s Arch Jester” succeed in making Twain appear to be a poor decision-maker?

The lines "original! we're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. we're like patterns stencilled on a wall. can't you and i strike out for ourselves, may? " reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century american literature?

Nthis poem by ruskin bond, what does the use of the word heart-beats suggest about the narrator's attitude toward life?

Unit testactivelike sparkling stars strewn across the night sky.their brilliance catching the corner of my eye,making me slow down, just to look at them a little longer.in my awe of the sheer beauty of merely broken glass,i couldn't but thinkhow someone else's tragedycould be so beautiful to me.source: t., jennifer. "irony." teen ink. teen ink, n.d. web. cjuly 2011.the poem is an example ofexternal conflictinternal conflictdramatic ironysituational ironymark this and returnsave and exitsubmit