2. What were two causes of the poor economy in Ireland? (from print-out)

Which sentence should be revised to include vivid imagery

Does anyone read this story in 9th grade "when mr. pirzada came to dine"

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) which of these is the main idea of the poem?