Writing Four!

To Whom It May Concern:
The following dress code that the Clarke County School District is trying to pin on us as student’s called for. Those that are deciding on this do not know what’s best for us students. Only the student’s and teachers knows what’s best. If the teachers don’t agree with the new dress code it should not matter to Clarke County School District on what we wear. Teachers are the ones that see us everyday, not the board of education and parents.
One thing that I agree to is that students should come to school clean, but then again some student might have it hard and can’t keep their self clean as well as others. Some student’s parents can’t provide them with good clothing; they are probably having money issues. Clarke County School District is going to make it harder for the parent’s that do not make much money, because they will have to buy their children more clothes just because the school district does not agree on what they are already wearing to school.
How students dress for school expresses that they are and not who the school district wants them to be. The dress code that we have now is good enough; they don’t have to change it just because some student parents think other student’s causes a distraction. The parents don’t go to school with us; they don’t have to see us everyday. If they want the student to dress a certain way, then they should dress their own kids the way they want others to dress. I think if they don’t buy our clothes they can not tell us what to wear only our parents can since they pay for them.
Everyday when I attend school, I do not get distracted by what others are wearing or how they look. When I’m inside of my classrooms and someone with a tattoo, I do not sit there and pay attention to their tattoo, I do the work that should be done. Tattoos are not showing any disrespect to anyone. I don’t come to school for a fashion show, I come to show the teachers that I am here to learn what ever they want to teach me. This rule with the earrings is despicable, no hoop earring! Earrings are not hurting anyone in any unparticular way. Hats and caps, we already know we can not wear them, so that’s a rule that may stay.
If they take that new dress code in a consideration, the whole Clarke County School District is going to be ridicules. It is more likely more students are going to make the school drop-out rate even higher with the Clarke County School District stupidity on how they are handling things the wrong way. If teachers are fine with it and say that they don’t see any distraction in their classrooms, I think the Clarke County School District and the parents should think the same way.
Well to whom ever it is that is reading this, I hope you take a time-out and think about the decision you all are making and that it is not a good one. You people might not realize it but everything that you all are changing is making student think twice about their education because yall are making it harder for us to learn coming up with these crazy nonsense rules for no unparticular reason.

Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat"

Her husband like to play little games on her that would scared her half to death. "Some day Ah'm goin' tuh drop dead from some of yo' foolishness". She said that to her husband so he could stop playing around with her and realize she is serious. "Ah been married to you fur fifteen years, and Ah been takin' in washin' for fifteen years. Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!" By this Delia did all of the work and all he ever did was complain and aggravate her his childish ways and making her work more harder to do.

I think he treated her the way he did, because he knew she wouldn't do anything to him. Mr.Syke had the men talking about him and his business. That's not good for everyone to know your business, that makes Delia look bad because she's still putting up with. I would have left him by now, had me doing everything. They wanted to kill him for his ways. "We oughter take Syke an' dat stray 'oman uh his'n down in Lake Howell swamp an' lay on de rawhide till they cain't say Lawd a' mussy.' He allus wuz uh ovahbearin' niggah, but since dat white 'oman from up north done teached 'im how to run a automobile, he done got too biggety to live--an' we oughter kill 'im," Old Man Anderson advised."

He cheated on his wife for another woman and didnt care that he was cheating. "Ah hates you tuh de same degree dat Ah useter love yuh." This showed that she was fed up with and tired of putting up with his stuff. "Well, Ah'm glad you does hate me. Ah'm sho' tiahed uh you hangin' ontuh me. Ah don't want yuh. Look at yuh stringey ole neck! Yo' rawbony laigs an' arms is enough tuh cut uh man tuh death. You looks jes' lak de devvul's doll-baby tuh me. You cain't hate me no worse dan Ah hates you. Ah been hatin' you fuh years." Something like that coming out of his mouth i expected that, because he didnt show her any respect at all. He wasn't nothing but the devil.


"Delia, is dat you Ah heah?" He called for her to help him after all the things he had done and said to her and expected her to help him. I would have just looked at him. What goes around comes around and if it don't do that, it is going to bite you on the butt. That snake had him and she left him to die. Something he deserve and then again no one deserves to die, but that's how life is.

Incident by Countee Cullen

The "Incident" is showing how things come at you so fast with out you even noticing what's about to be done or said. When the man called him a "Nigger", he wasnt expecting that to be said. From him being exposed to that at the age eight, that's all he was entitled to remember from that very day. "I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember."

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

For this poem i think it was saying how he spoke on the rivers and how he flowed. Being by the river or within the rivers he was there when Abraham Lincoln went New Orleans. "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." By this he's saying that how ever long the rivers has been growing, he has been growing with it.

A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

"What happens to a dream deferred?", the dream is delayed. Its deal with the Harlem Renaissance on why it was delayed. They keep putting to American Dream on hold i think. "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run?" By this i think it is saying that they was putting it on hold and then they would get back to it.

Mending Wall by Robert Frost

It's about both of them having an Disillusionment because the writer thought that it was a bad idea about what them man though which was, He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours.” The man in the story didn't think anything was wrong with they way he felt and the writter didn't eith but really they were both in disillusionment because the only time they came together was because durning the winter the fence froze and durning the spring they came together to fix it back. Which means bad fences make good neighbor. This was only once a year when they came together to get this done and was working together which makes the good neighbors.

Richard Corey by Edwin Arlington Robinson

This poem is about Disillusionment how they people saw him rich and living the good life but he wasn't. Only hisself can see how he really felt inside from what others seen him as rich and handsome on the outside. "And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place." He killed hisself because he wasn't living the American Dream as the people thought!

"Boys In the Hood"- Realism

A movie part of "Boyz in the Hood," that shows Realism is when Ricky Baker(Morris Chestnut)got shot when him and his friend Tre` Styles(Cuba Gooding Jr.) was running from so dudes in a car that they notice were their enemies. Tre carried Ricky back to the house where he had died in the sofa. The pain and action that all went down shows Realism within about five minutes of the movie. It was so real when they were just acting the part. Realism shown below in Action.(example)


-Wait a minute. Let's split up. I don't think we should do that. I think it'd be better if we're together. Them fools ain't gonna do nothing. They just showing out and shit. - I'll meet you at your house. - Cool. I'm out of here. Come on, man. Ricky! Ricky. Help me! Help me! Somebody help me! Ricky! Shit! Watch his head. Don't hurt him. Don't hurt him, man. Be careful with him. Watch his head. He's dead. Let's take him home. Mama! Mama! Mama! No! Ricky! Oh, my God, no! Not Ricky! What y'all doing now? Ricky? Oh, my God. Ricky? Ricky, baby, get up. Get up. Wake up, baby. Ricky, get up. Get up. It's all right. Get up, baby. Get up. Tre, what happened? What happened to him? Give me the baby. Give me the baby! Don't touch him! Don't you ever touch him! He don't need to be seeing this! Ricky, please wake up! Mom. - What did you do? What did you do? - It wasn't my fault. - What did you do? - Mama, I didn't do nothing. Oh, my God! What did you do to him? What did you do? What did you do? You did this! You did this! I'll kill you! You did it! I know you did it! You did it! Yes, you did! I told you! Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, my God! Ricky, baby! Ricky!

"The Battle with Mr Covey" - Realism

photograph+detail=realism. Reading realism is much like looking at a photograph; they provide all the details so you do not need your imagination.

"The Battle with Mr. Covey", is about a man fighting with his home owner. In this story Realism was a bit real. It was like you was there with the man and Mr.Covey, seeing everything that happen between them."We were worked in all weathers. It was never too hot or too cold; it could never rain, blow, hail, or snow too hard for us to work in the field. Work, work, work was scarcely more the order of the day than of the night". That is an example on what and where the environment took place at. What kind of day's they worked on. Mr.Covey didn't show no heart for them working in different types of weather like that.

"About three o'clock of that day, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb". That sentence shows how he was feeling and that he had no to strenght to do anything."I told him as well as I could, for I scarce had strength to speak. He then gave me a savage kick in the side, and told me to get up. I tried to do so, but fell back in the attempt. He gave me another kick, and again told me to rise. I again tried, and succeeded in gaining my feet: but, stopping to get the tub with which I was feeding the fan, I again staggered and fell". Him being kicked by Mr. Covey i could almost feel the pain. Things like that seems so real to me as if i was feeling exactly like that man was feeling. Mr.Covey was making him feel even helpless with the kicks he did and that hit when he hit him up side his head. I would have ran away too.

The things that Mr.Covey and his salve was going through was hectic. Sanders gave him that root and it did exactly what he said it will do. He didnt have to worry about getting whipped anymore. They had their diffences but it worked out. Mr.Covey didn't try to whip on him anymore and didn't tell the Master Thomas that the salve had hit him."This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning- point in my career as a slave. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self- confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free".

"A Story of an Hour"- Realism

"She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves." The descriptive setting paints a picture in the reader's mind. It makes him or her feel like he or she is there in the scene.

"She arose at length and opened the door to her sister's importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs." She's trying to get over her husband's death, so she gets up and makes herself strong. She leans on her sister for support. Through the details of Josphine's actions, the reader can picture and infer how the character really feels subconsiously.

"There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination." This is a social issue because she is living for herself, and doesn't need a man to support her. This social issue reflects on women's rights. There is no one around to tell her what to do or what to think.

In this story realism is shown by Chopin's use of description. It provides details so you don't have to use your imagination. She provides strong evidence which describes the details of how Josphine acts. There's also a strong picture of the setting and where she was.

Summary 2 (Diary of a Street Diva)

Since the incident that went on with those boys raping Remy. She has been living with a man by the name Dock. Dock owned a strip club and a few months passed he had her working there, until someone offer her a job cooking dope. Her first dat cooking dope was her last day with Dock. She stayed at the cooking house longer than she had expected and Dock was mad with her. When she became face to face with Dock he smacked her and that's when she left went to Betty Netty house where they cooked the dope at and she started living with her for the time being.

She was working and cooking the dope at Netty until one day a big guy by the name Philly had caught her taking some of their dope and he had got her and took her to Khadafi, the man that was really incharge of the dope. Remy was takin' to Khadafi house which was very nice. Once he seen Remy he didnt want to hurt her he just wanted to have dinner with her. Remy asked him "why are you being so nice to me?" and he told her "your beauty struck a chord with me, i've never seen woman as beautiful as you are. I'll have to say Remy was lucky cause he would have killed her.

About Edgar Allan Poe!

Edgar Allan Poe was a short storywritter, poet, editor, and literary critic. As early as the age of 15, he wrote these words in memory of a female acquaintance, "The requiem for the loveliest dead that ever died so young." He wrote many short stories such as Thou Art the Man, The Black Cat (of course), the black cat was about a crazy man that killed his cats and his wife. He killed his wife because she wouldnt let him kill the second cat he got after he killed the first one. And of course the police found their body when they went over to the man house. The Raven, which was about a lonely man whoses wife had died and left him. A bird and a/the raven was some things that were evil and i think they were trying to scare him. He also wrote a play and a couple of essays and poems.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were actors. His father died around 1810 and his mother died around 1811 leaving three children including him. His brother William died young and his sister Rosalie became insane. They all were put in different homes when their parents died.

He attended University of Virginia (1826-27), but was expelled for not paying his gambling debts. In 1836 he married his cousin, that was 13 years of age. She busted a blood vessel in 1842, and remained a virtual invalid until her death from tuberculosis five years later. Edgar Poe had started to drink alcohol and used drugs. He had an affair with the poet Sarah Helen Whitman.

His best selling was "The Conchologist's First Book (1839). It was based on his friend Thomas Wyatt's work, which sold poorly because of its high prize". He suffered from depression and madness, and he attempted suicide in 1848. Three days after a drink at a party he was visiting to his fiancee in Richmond, he turned up in delirious condition in Baltimore gutter and died on October 7, 1849.

The way Edgar Allan Poe wrote all his stories, essay and poems was based on the things that he went through in his life. How he felt, i think he wrote it out in his short stories, essays, and poems. The two short stories i've read of his has been evil and weird in some kind of way. "The Raven", it was weird about the bird being evil, and it showed that he felt lonely once his 13 year old cousin (wife) had died. "The Black Cat", the man in that story was a crazy lunatic, what crazy man would want to kill his wife over something very stupid like that. That is just pure evil for him to have the heart to kill anything for no inparticular reason.

"The Raven" Edgar Allan Poe

In this poem it seems to me like someone is knocking on this man door and not saying anything. When he speak's they doesn't say a word. "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"- here I opened wide the door;-Darkness there, and nothing more". When he said this, i am thinking no one is at the door. I'm thinking it is a ghost when he say's the name Raven and the only word it mention is "Nevermore".

("Respite- respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.") This Raven thing, i dont know if it's a ghost or what but it seems like it is telling the main character to let a person by the name Lenore go. She don't exist anymore. That's why they keep saying "Nevermore," because she will never be there anymore. He want everything thing that remind him of her out. (im thinkin) That's how i see it.

In this story, i think Anti- Transcendentalist was showed when the bird showed up with it's evil ways and the Raven too. "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! - Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted".

"The Black Cat"

In the story "The Black Cat" was about a man that seem to be really crazy. In this book the main character showed how he related to Dark Romantism a lot, he was insane and seem to not care about what he did. From the beginning of the story the man seemed to be alright. He loved his wife and enjoyed the others pet's they had together. He had a black cat, which he called Pluto that went everywhere he went. Him and the cat was cool until he started acting different.

I think where Dark Romantism really start showing for him was when he started beating his wife and hurting the pets. He even hurted Pluto and that was like his bestfriend in my eyes and how i seen it, they was cool for several years until he started drinking alcohol. "One night, returning home, much intoxicated, from one of my haunts about town, I fancied that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him; when, in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight wound upon my hand with his teeth". After he did that he took the cat outside and hung him. The was pure evil to take you anger out on a cat. "On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire". Someone had set the cat on fire and threw it through his window causing hid curtains to catch on fire.

He then replaced Pluto with another cat, and strated treating that cat the same way. Just right before he was about to kill the new cat, his wife stoped him and that made him even madder. "I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan". That was real unpure and insane to do such a thing to your wife because she wouldn't let you kill a innocent cat. This man seemed to be really out of order and crazy. He thought a maybe nobody wouldn't notice nothing different. Well i'm thinking they did when the police came over to his house. The body of his wife and cat was revealed when it fell from the wall he had done a not too good job hiding them. This is all is a good example of Dark Romantism. It showed this man was everything that Dark Romanicism believed.

Transcendentalist or Dark Romantic

If i had to choose between Transcendentalism or Dark Romanticism, i would be a Transcendentalist. I believe in Transcendentalist because i believe in God and i ask for forgiveness when i do something that i wasn't suppose to do. I think that i am pure and God speaks to me. While i don't believe the human mind is the strongest power in the universe, i believe God is. I am not a Dark Romantist because i don't focus on evil but rather on the good things people do.

Edgar Allen Poe's

Edgar Allen Poe is insane and crazy, this is why he isn't a Transcendentalist. His stories focus on characters who were corrupted by evil. Many biographers argue that every one of Poe's stories represent something inside his mind. He had no good in him at all.

Herman Melville

Herman Melville didn't believe in Transcendentalism, because he wittnesses cannibalism and does not think everyone is good and pure. In Herman Melville book "Moby Dick," Ahab the main character is selfish, sacrificing his entire ship and the men on it in order to obsessively find the whale who eat's his leg. Ahab is not pure in mind or innocent, he believes in Dark Romantism.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's

Nathaniel Hawthorne changed his name so that he wouldn't be associated with his great grandfather who judged the Salem witch trial, hanging innocent humans and dogs for being "evil". Nathaniel was embrassed of his great grandfather's view of Dark Romanticism rather than Transcendentalism. Transcendentalists believed everyone was one hundred percent good.