1. Read the following excerpt: "None of this is new. The United States has always grappled with how to welcome newcomers and protect its citizens
at the same time. It can be instructive to look back at some of those earlier
struggles." Which word from the excerpt provides context clues to the
meaning of the word "grappled"? *
O welcome
O protect
instructive
O struggles

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

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