Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone. Then one day a colleague sent him a copy of an inscription that had been found in the ruins of a temple on the Nile River island of Philae.

Which statement best describes the influence his colleague’s act had on Jean-François Champollion?

It was a breakthrough in his research.
It complicated his research.
It made his research worthless.
It was an obstacle to his research.

Read the following passage "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if all the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important.what two central ideas in this story are most closely related? a. the importance of literature and the dangers of miningb. humankind's basic survival needs and independence c. the nature of learning and societal dysfunctiond. the powers of rumors and abuse of authority

Why college athletes should not get paid to play conclusion

Which line in this excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" by t.s. eliot uses synecdoche? shall i say, i have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? i should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.