Why did young women who were known as "flappers" in the 1920s often face disapproval?
a. they rejected traditional ideas about women's appearance and behavior.
b. they worked together to fight for political rights for the underprivileged.
c. they encouraged thrift when most people wanted to spend money.
d. they protested against u. s. involvement in foreign wars.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion