What can you do to keep your reflective essay focused and headed in the right direction? (Select all correct answers.) Provide just enough background, or context, to help your reader understand the story.

Offer reflections on several incidents in your life that taught you important lessons.

Select descriptive details that further your story line and help your readers visualize it.

Carefully describe in great detail everyone who makes up your story.

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

What is the main idea of “young lions, young ladies”?

In his nobel prize acceptance speech, elie wiesel uses ethos and pathos to achieve his purpose. describe wiesels purpose in this speech. then explain how he uses either ethos or pathos to achieve this purpose. be sure to use specific details from the speech to support your ideas.