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!