Jeremy wrote an essay supporting having pizza in the cafeteria. Then he found information showing that some types of pizza are unhealthy. His first essay stated, "Our school should serve pizza in the cafeteria every day. Pizza is delicious, and kids love to eat it. Right now, many students do not finish their lunches because they do not like the food that is served. They throw their lunches away, which is wasteful. Pizza is a good food that kids will eat.” His second essay states, "Our school should offer pizza for lunch every day. This will keep students from having to buy food they do not like and then throwing it away. Some kinds of pizza are unhealthy, but the school could offer healthy toppings such as fresh veggies.” Which statement best describes the difference between Jeremy’s first and second essays?

What style should a speaker use when preparing a speech for his or her school's parent teacher association? a. excited b. casual c. strict d. formal

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Which statement correctly analyzes how the passages work together to create a central idea?