How is the connotation of the word "vigilant" used in the following sentences. "After the burglary, the neighbors united to keep a vigilant
watch over each other's houses."
A. Positive
B. Negative
C. Neutral

Ineed to write a write a 4–5 paragraph compare and contrast essay that addresses how anne frank matures over the course of writing her diary. it's also a compare and contrast essay i just got put into this new class and i don't know if we were supposed to already be reading and the essay is due today and i haven't even started it nor read the book, someone me what do i do

Today’s readers have more scientific knowledge than readers of previous eras what effect does that have on their reading of science fiction stories

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme