David Brooks - "Our Founding Yuppie" The final paragraph functions as

1. A repetition of the views previously established
2. A diatribe against those who devalue Franklin
3. An authorial judgement about a preceding conversation
4. A critique of Franklin's autobiography
5. A controversial conclusion to a contentious debate

The final paragraph says - "Much of the admiration is warranted, and too some of the qualms. But the lessons from Franklin's life are more complex than those ususally drawn by either his fans or his foes. Both sides too often confuse him with the striving pilgrim he portrayed in his autobiography." -

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

i think you may have asked this twice, but i answered one of the

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