Do students have the right to their own language?

Jayson Hughes

English 1100

Prof. Young

Language

September 17, 2015

Should students write with their own language

Have you ever felt that you should be able to say whatever you want to say? Maybe you feel like you shouldn’t be restricted on what you can say. There have been quite a few discussions on whether or not students should have the right to what they can say in class and when they are writing. I do believe that students have the right to their own language. You know why? Because I don’t want to limit our generation on what they can say. I feel if students have the permission to write whatever they want they will write more natural and wont feel like they have to robot and do exactly what it is right.

I have had some teachers that just tell me to put down whatever comes to my mind on the paper. To create original ideas and other things. I like it. I do not like when teachers tell me I have to write five paragraphs and have to follow a whole script on how to write.  It makes me feel like my brain cannot wander freely and be able to write well. I like writing, but if I can use my own language and talk free and use my own slang in my writing, ill love it. I wanna be able to write with my own style, talk about something I saw to was so fresh and maybe how shawty was trippin earlier in they day. I just feel like I’m being myself and not what other people want me to be. I feel like it the most important thing, to let writers have their own identity because if they didn’t, everyone would sound the same and books would be boring.

Identity

Jayson Hughes
English 1100
Prof. Young
Identity
3 September 2015
        Identity to me means a whole lot. It is everything. Being yourself, being able to do whatever you want and just knowing deep inside that it’s you. You’re not trying to be anyone else but the real person you are. People always say there are three different types of a person, one is how you act when you are with your friends, the other is how you act in front of your parents, and the third one, the one that is the most true to yourself, is how you act when you are alone. I believe that to be true. I see people all the time act different for different kinds of people; for instance, they change how they act when they are around certain kinds of people. For me, I believe I always act the same; I don’t try to fit in for anyone or anything. I don’t conform to what people believe is right, if I think something is right I will do that, not what others want. Just how the dentist was trying to control Gloria’s tongue. That wasn’t right, “’were going to have to do something about your tongue”. Like what is that? She can’t help that. Language was everything to her, it was her identity.

      My identity is a basketball player, who ever would of thought? I really don’t look like I play basketball. I mean look at me, not big, not tall. Just average. That’s why it is always hard to tell someone’s identity. Sometimes to figure out someone’s real identity you have to sit down and talk to him or her. I have seen some very Hispanic looking people and they do not speak any Spanish at all. All I know is I love talking to people that are from different areas and just getting to talk to them and discover their true identity.

       In “how to tame a wild tongue” language was a very big part of Gloria’s identity. She’s always saying how you can tell how someone is from the language they speak. She says, “ When other races have given up their tongue, we’ve kept ours.” She’s proud of that, as you can tell. Language means so much to her. But, she still says the struggles of identities are still there. “Yet the struggle of identities continues, the struggle of borders is our reality still.”