For many years Champollion’s progress was blocked because, like de Sacy and earlier scholars, he believed the hieroglyphs represented things, not sounds. Then, in 1822, he reversed his position. Some of Champollion’s rivals sug­gested that he had gotten the idea from Thomas Young’s Encyclopedia Britannica article. There the English scholar explained how the hiero­glyphs in Ptolemy’s name stood for sounds. Champollion hotly denied these suggestions, claiming that he had arrived at his new position entirely on his own.

—The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin

How was Champollion’s early work similar to the work of de Sacy?

Both men thought that hieroglyphs stood for things rather than sounds.
Both men believed that hieroglyphs stood for sounds rather than things.
Both men used Akerblad’s demotic alphabet.
Both men discussed their ideas about the stone with Thomas Young.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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the words “strangest” and “unusual” suggest that the narrator is about to tell the story of an odd or puzzling group of people.

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question: energy distribution provides utilities, which are

answer: electrical utility industry is a major provider of energy in most countries.

explanation: they use this energy for company's so they distribute this to companies in other companies

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