What is the main idea of Fredricks Douglass’s Abolition Fanaticism speech?

In the speech, Douglass is responding to accusations that he let down America abroad and speaks about how the English are not perfect but that he was treated better in England than he had been in America. It is sad that then and even today, there is people who care more about patriotism instead of tackling racism.

- "friedan's attitude towards what she calls the 'feminine mystique' is that she sees the ideal of femininity as stiffing women's potential in the 1950's. betty friedan was a writer and activist of the 1950's and 60's."

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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