Participles? what are they

Japan is a part of what culture region

For which cause did swift not write? the tory government the devaluation of irish coins the whig wars under william iii the starvation in ireland

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?