Prompt on short story After reading "The Necklace" in StudySync, answer the following prompt in a discussion:
In your opinion, when are dreams for a better life beneficial, and when are they harmful?

Consider the potential power that hopes and dreams can have over someone and how these desires might influence them, for better or for worse.

Provide an example to justify your response by using supporting details from the story and/or real life.

basically the story is about a wife who really wants to be rich but is not and her friend is so she goes to a ball and asks her friend to borrow her diamond necklace. she loses the necklace and ends up buying a replacement. it takes her 10 years to pay it off. 10 yrs later she runs into the friend only to find out the replacement was worth 1000s more than the actual necklace

One skater said to be other, "man, that was one gnarly flip out just did! " the skater is using jargon idiom slang general english

What is the first step in summarizing a plot? restating central ideas and key details eliminating minor or unimportant details connecting ideas with logical transitions identifying important words and phrase

Hurry 20 mins left! study the timeline of russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of animal farm. "is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? only get rid of man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. almost overnight we could become rich and free. what then must we do? why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! that is my message to you, comrades: rebellion! " which event most likely influenced the writing of this passage? the 1905 massacre of people who were protesting their poor living conditions the 1917 bolshevik revolution, which was inspired by the ideals of lenin the development of the union of soviet socialist republics by lenin in 1922 the collectivization of agriculture by the communist party in russia in 1928