Read the excerpt from the riddle of the rosetta stone, by james cross giblin. young had learned to read before he was two, and by the age of twenty had mastered a dozen foreign languages including arabic, persian, and turkish. an inheritance from an uncle left him free to pursue his scientific interests. at various times, young studied the habits of spiders, the surface features of the moon, and diseases of the chest. then, intrigued by the challenge of the rosetta stone, he put aside his other studies and concentrated on attempting to decipher the writing on it. young had read of de sacy's and akerblad's work in paris, and was determined to succeed where they had failed. the details in this excerpt hint that giblin has a

In the following conversation, which group discussion technique does emily most clearly show?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

Analyze identify gandhi central claim in his letter. what key reasons does he provide to support his claim