In high school, the only negative reinforcement you get is a trip to the principal's office, which just makes your act seem edgier. And that's the thing -- this act only plays in that setting, because the school has to put up with it, and everybody knows it.n high school, the only negative reinforcement you get is a trip to the principal's office, which just makes your act seem edgier. And that's the thing -- this act only plays in that setting, because the school has to put up with it, and everybody knows it.
âThe Negro Speaks of Riversâ is Langston Hughesâs first mature poem. He wrote it in 1920 at the age of seventeen, while traveling by train to visit his father in Mexico. The young Hughes was inspired to pen this verse when his train crossed over the Mississippi River.
Please try again later. Actor Danny Glover reads Langston Hughes's epic 1934 poem Ballad of Roosevelt.. Part of a May 2, 2007, reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove). http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Peoples-... p/1583226281. or.