ethics

I think that the way that I act is mostly affected by the people I'm around. I remember reading "The Social Me" in Mr. Priest's class last year that dealt with this kind of idea. Ever since i read that piece, the ideas have stuck out in my head as the only way to explain my actions towards people. When I'm around people that are higher up than me, such as a teacher or adult, I tend to, believe it or not, not talk as much. I think things through because I know they have more power over me. Around friends and family I'm more open and say whatever is on my mind. I feel that no matter what I say the person I'm talking to won't put me into a place I don't want to be in. Around people like cops or other authority members that I'm not completely fond of is when I'm at my worst. My body shuts down and for some reason I stutter. Being around these people puts me into a terrible state where I can't think because I know that whatever I say has to be perfect or I'm screwed. What the short writing said was true, no matter how hard we try to not act to best suit the people we're around, we'd still be acting like we don't care. This way of showing how I react to people is odd but seems to be best explanation of why I act the way that I act around people

english freakin b

What does a school mean?
Does it mean waking up at 6:37 sharp, lying down for 5 more minutes, and coming to your senses and making your way to the shower?
Does it mean driving to school with all the slow traffic and worthless school zones that make life almost unbearable?
Maybe school means getting to the last class and realizing you have to run at least 3 miles after; out in the cold; and maybe the rain.
Possibly ohhh possibly, maybe school is getting in your car right after running and sticking to the seats while you try and cool the car that's been cooking up since the beginning of the day.
School is all of these to me.
but once it does end you realize that home is the place you can finally get to, a place that has the perfect temperature where you don't stick to the seats, where you go and take a long nap to makeup for the terrible morning, where you do your homework but mainly live off of ichat.
Home can never be like school.

hughes and mckay

An obvious fact about both of the poets is that they both compare the white and black races to each other. Another item of business that both authors felt they needed to address was what life was like back in Africa and how it compares to here. Though they both discuss these things, they go about it a different way. Claude Mckay uses sonnets to convey his message to the people in order to show a sense of high class. Sonnets are the same form of writing Shakespeare did, which is why that type of writing was looked upon so highly. Langston Hughes didn’t really stick to form of writing and didn’t really focus on making sure it rhymed or not. Both of the authors both had different messages in addition to the difference in how they conveyed their messages. Mckay talked about how the black race was basically better than the white race. The black race can do all of the things that the white people do but they choose not to; they choose to be the better people because they feel that fighting back would just continue a horrible cycle. Langston, on the other hand, said that blacks and whites trying to live together at all is just a lost cause. He thinks that it’s worthless trying to force these two races to live together when clearly both of the races hate each other. He feels sort of the same way DuBois felt about the African Americans. Both DuBois and Hughes felt that the blacks should just start a new community because the two races will never be able to live together in harmony.