What Are Some Typical Misconceptions and Stereotypes Westerners hold about Islam and the Middle East and Vice Versa?

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

Which words best describes the speakers?

Mr. underwood's editorial defending tom robinson is surprising because he's described as not wanting to be near negroes it's a dangerous stance to take at that time he had been neutral during the trial he wasn't in the courtroom