Pink Slime in School Burgers

As most of you have probably already heard, many meat packing companies mix their meat with a man made, artificial ingredient known as "pink slime". The USDA has allowed for companies to use pink slime in their products, and for years it has been sold in grocery stores and served in schools. Recently, because of the publicity of the pink slime, the USDA said that schools can pick whether they want to serve that type of meat or not.
This news really bugged me, what other disgusting ingredients are there in the food I am eating? It is so upsetting that the USDA, which is supposed to regulate what goes into our food, allows all of these nasty ingredients. This is just meat, who knows what we will come to know next. I think the USDA should start getting regulated.

SOAPST

We are reading the Great Gatsby in Miss Kirkmans AP english class. The book was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and it takes place in New York (Long Island to be exact) in the summer of 1922. The audience is who ever is reading it and the speaker is Nick Carraway. Nick lives next door to Jay Gatsby who is rich and throws lavish parties at his house every weekend. Gatsby is the exact opposite of Nick and is also in love with Nicks cousin, Daisy. The subject is mostly about Gatsbys life and about the rich people of New York. I am eager to read the rest of the book and put all the pieces together.

Argumentative Essay

Now that I am writing a short paragraph on language, I am definitely paying more attention and trying to analyze the way I speak. I feel as though I just had an epiphany, I have never really payed much attention to the way people speak and how it portrays their character. As I analyze myself, I realize that I speak differently based on my mood, the occasion, my environment, etc. When I am confident about something, the words roll out of my tongue so perfectly and loud, when I am unsure, I tend to speak in a lower tone and use the word "like" repeatedly, which is really bad!
I have noticed a long time ago that people who try to use big vocabulary words while having a normal conversation with their peers look awfully stupid rather than smart. There was this boy at my old school who desperately sought to have the title as the "smart one" and would always use terms that were unheard of to try to impress everyone but it would not really work out because people are able to tell the artificiality of his language.