Ms. Randall has suggested that our schools let students take statistics instead of algebra to graduate. Frankly, it is puzzling to me that she thinks algebra is a useless subject.

The Boston Red Sox failed to win the World Series for eighty-six years after they traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Fans believed this to be the "Curse of the Bambino," or punishment for selling "The Bambino" to another team.

My opponent claims that testing products on animals is cruel. But I, for one, cannot support exposing humans to harmful chemicals!

I've only read a couple pages of this book, and I've already found a typo. There's no way I'm reading the rest of this garbage.

I believe everyone has his or her own idea of what's beautiful in the world. After all, it's the individual who determines what's attractive according to his or her own opinion.

My pediatrician says we should stop letting little Lorenzo eat so much candy, but what does she know? She's never been a mother.

Don't feed the dog any scraps. Next thing you know, you'll be setting a place for the dog at the dinner table.

When I was in Seattle for a week last January, it didn't rain even once. Seattle's reputation for being rainy is obviously false.

Eating meat can't be wrong. After all, a majority of people in the United States eat meat.

In September, we removed the vending machines on our school's campus. By April, we saw an increase in the tenth grade boys' math scores on state tests. Clearly, there's a link.

Mr. Patel's class is so boring! Why are all literature classes so dull?

I don't think I would do well in AP Literature—people are good at math, or they're good at literature, and I'm a math person.