Thursday, January 24, 2008

DEAR MR. ROMERO I FINSHED ALL THE ESSAYS EXEPT THIS ONE. I KNOW IM BEING VERY LAZY BY NOT COMPLETING THIS ESSAY BUT IM AND SO TIRED AND HAVENT EVEN ATE YET.EXEPT IM MAKING IT A VERY SHORT LETTER. I HAVE WORKED MY BUT OFF AND REALLY THINK I DESERVE AN A. I ACUALLY ENJOY COMING TO YOUR CLASS AND DO ALL OR 99 PERCENT OF THE WORK YOU ASK ME TO DO SO PLEASE MR. ROMERO GIVE ME AN A CAUSE IF NOT WERE GONNA HAVE TROUBLE. SIKE JUST PLAYING LOL
PS. IF U GIVE ME a B THAT WILL BE OK TO BUT AN A IS ALWAYS BETTER LOL.

child abuse

should parents beat their children for discipline?
yes and no. i think that beating a child can be be both a good advantage and a bad advantage.

first of all i would say yes parents should be able to beat their children because sometimes screaming doesn't work and the kids get way out of hand and then there's which is the only thing left to do after trying everything else. i think hitting a child is fine as long as the line isn't crossed.

second, i would say that parent hitting their child is bad because some parents get out of hand and beating or hitting turns into abuse.some parent have very low patience with kids and get carried away and abuse their children. when i was younger my mom hit me and 99 percent of the time it worked, but at other times it just pushed me away to disobey her even more.

in conclusion hitting a child can be at a good and a bad advantage.
Huck Finn essay

Should huck Finn be taught in chs?
No, I do not think Finn should be taught in school because of its language and its use of racism.

My first reason why I think huck Finn should not be taught in chs is because of its language. The author has and interesting style of writing. I think his purpose was to brink back the language from the time in the book. Although his writing is interesting and creative; it still very hard to understand. Another reason why the language is a bad advantage to the story is because so much time is spent on trying to read and understand the language rather than enjoying the book.

My second reason why huck Finn should not be taught in chs is because of the racism used in the book. Although the author might have just been trying to bring the vibe of racism used back in the time the story took place, it still might and is very offensive to some people. I think the author could have easily wrote a note to his writers in the front of the book telling how his purpose of the racism in his novel was not meant to offend anyone but only to create a wonderful book.

In conclusion I think the story huck Finn should not be taught in chs because of the hard to understand language and the use of racism.

Sterling A. Brown

sterling a. brown was born in Washington d.c, in 1901. he was educated at Dunbar high school and received a bachelors degree from Williams college. Brown spent most of his life as an English professor at Howard university, where he taught a wide range of Shakespeare. brown grew up in the the black middle class of Washington, DC, but his interest in the lives of common folk took him from the lecture hall to the barrel house and the barber shop. while being influenced by such poetic masters such as Robert frost and Edgar lee masters.

In 1918 brown earned a scholarship to Williams college, where an essay in 1922, "the comic spirit in Shakespeare and Moliere", and election to phi beta kappa won him a Clark fellowship to Harvard for graduate work. In 1932 his first book, southern road was published. Jazz, the blues, spirituals, and work songs influenced brown's poetry. brown was and is known for his unsentimental and frank portraits of African-American people and their lives and experiences.

If i was telling someone about sterling a. brown and they knew nothing about him the one thing that i would most want them to know would be how he captured the dialect of rural black folk, and event though this was an unpopular style of writing his wonderful talent and ability to reveal humanity won over everything. the most interesting thing about sterling a. brown was that he was inspired by music and by that wrote beautiful poems.

In conclusion i think sterling a. brown was a wonderful writer and would love to read more of his inspiring work.