“This is a case which is about political intolerance, about racial inequality. It demonstrates aspects of American society that then and now still persist. If you espouse the wrong political views, if you are not a conformist-- the chances of your getting a fair trial are substantially diminished and if Italians are no longer looked upon with disdain and contempt like they were in 1920, they’ve been replaced by other groups” Do you think this is true?

If so, who and why? If not, why not?

i think your answer there is c

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