Reading Comprehension (RC) | Traditionally viewed as the mindless defamations of mutinous teenagers

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[align=justify][box_out][box_in] Traditionally viewed as the mindless defamations of mutinous teenagers, graffiti has rarely been the subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Fortunately, the discovery of graffiti on the walls at the archeological site of Pompeii has been the impetus for a wholescale reconsideration of the relevance of graffiti to archeological and historical studies. Yes, graffiti is (and probably always was) mostly done by hormone-addled teenagers, and yes, the concise nature of graffiti does not lend itself to the type ofexegesis to which most academics are inclined. But graffiti, especially graffiti on the walls at a cherished historical site, can lend insight into the powerless voices that would otherwise have been censored by most ancient societies. By examining a culture's graffiti, we can understand the discontents of that culture in a more organic context—one free of the posturing that is all too pervasive in preserved historical documents. Perhaps graffiti will not tell
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