Ethics

Family values and the ethics of my life are extremely important. I was always taught by my parents to be polite, respectful and to give back to others. Many people in this world take everything they are given for granted and don’t fully appreciate things in their lives. The people that surround you on a day-to-day basis such as your friends at school can greatly impact and influence how you should be. Usually the students that have respect for others and that are nice will attract other students of the same personality type.

As I was taught many things by my parents on life and how you are supposed to interact and communicate with others at such a young age, today I tend to be with people who were behave the same way as me. I also have some personal ethics that I can consider are crucial for me to have as an individual. I want to make sure that I try to be the best person I can and that I always work hard and put in effort into what I do.

The main thing is to feel happy and to be well respected in and out of the family. If you have that respect then you will be surrounded with those people who will therefore have a positive influence on your attitude and overall behavior. In the end of the day this is how it works, well mannered and polite people will spend time with the same people as them and people with less manners/respect towards others will be together. This is why choosing who you want to spend time with is more important than you can think. It influences you in ways that sometimes you can't realize.

Langston Hughes/Claude McKay

Langston Hughes and Claude McKay both are quite different poets but they do still share some similar ideas. Claud McKay doesn't have the exact same style of writing as Hughes, he uses a specific style (sonnets) of writing that he is known for. McKay wrote to show the white people that African Americans can actually be smart and educated people. McKay's writing style resembled that of Shakespeare which earned him a lot of reputation at the time. Langston Hughes, on the other hand, is a much more traditional kind of writer that speaks to his people. His writing isn't as sophisticated and precise as McKay's.

Overall both of these poets are writing about the same thing which is about the white and black race and how the whites have the wrong idea on blacks. Their main difference comes down to the writing style. For example, in "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes, he talks about how he wants to be different from the whites, and that whites want nothing to do with blacks as well. This makes him realize that in America there are two races and that it has to be accepted. In McKay's "To My White Friends", she talks about blacks and how they can be just as evil as whites but instead they are trying to be civilized and they just want peace. The whites have in some way gone "crazy" with racial issues and McKay is reminding the whites that blacks can be as well.

The final thing that the two poets have in common is that both poets write about Africa at some point. Hughes writes about it in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and McKay in "Africa".