College is a lot of money, which most people don't have that much money. If you get a scholarship then it's like all your problems go away. For the lower-class people, they need to work harder than the higher-class because they don't have the same privileged as the others. When you don't have the same privilege as others you need to work harder than the others.
"the harsh restrictions provoked anger and outrage in the public," is an independent clause. An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence and does not need any other parts.
"During the long winter" is an adverbial clause, which means it is describing how something is before the sentence. It could be more closely compared to a dependent clause because it cannot act alone in a sentence.
A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
For example:
"John was like an eagle, as he quickly spotted the rabbit, and was able to capture it."
Note that the word <em>like</em> was used, and that it compared <em>John</em> with the <em>eagle</em>
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