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I would say that the example of satire among these options is d. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
Twain is criticizing and mocking the English for settling everything in such a trivial manner as betting.
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humans are largely responsible:
Steve Jobs got fired from his job and came back with a brilliant invention that has been used over 10 years and has impact everyone
