The motto of SUNY Purchase, “Think Wide Open”, is the perfect way to describe how I feel going into college. My interpretation of the motto is that I should be more open minded when approaching new topics or ideas. I do not wish to be a type of person that has a prejudiced mindset and draws conclusions at first sight. Instead, I desire new experiences and exposing myself to new interests. As I grew up, my judgement would often be influenced from everyone’s stereotypical views.…
Will Macintosh I am a practiced musician. I have competed in many chamber music competitions and played in some shows with Shadowbox Live. My parents have influenced me in not only a musical aspect, but also academically. I’ve had a relatively easy school life so far, and it’s because of the help I have received from my parents over the years of my life.…
Psychoanalytic view on Holden Caulfield The way someone is influenced is by childhood experiences and their unconscious desires. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist in the story is a rebellious young man named Holden Caulfield who has a low self esteem and is an underachiever, which drives him into becoming depressed and trying to seek someone he can talk to. In the first few pages of the novel, you become familiar with the fact that something is wrong with Holden Caulfield. Salinger demonstrates that Holden isolates himself from the rest of society by stating, “…I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill……
If I were to ask you, in this moment, which factors influenced who you are today, what would you choose to answer? Most likely, a lengthy list would come to your mind. Each individual is incredibly unique and different to all others, shaped by many factors in their life. It can impact their perspective on events around them, their sense of morality, the values they hold most important, the list goes on and on. Who a person is and who they will become can be greatly influenced by the external factors that they are exposed to.…
Influences are something that every person has, whether it is purposeful or accidental. Influences are in everything, such as family and even work. In poetry, the author sometimes expresses their family dynamics through their writing, letting these dynamics shape not only their lives, but also their works. With some of these dynamics being from the Great Depression, these elements in Hayden’s works through his always working adoptive father, Clifton’s works through her deceased father, and Roethke’s works through his deceased father. Parents are the most influential people in a person’s life, whether it is in a good way or a bad way, and even if they are adoptive parents.…
My mom received her bachelor’s degree in Education at Lubbock Christian University. She has been one of the most influential women in my life and has molded me to be the strong young woman that I am now. Normative age-graded life influences According to John Santrock, normative age-grade influences occur in a similar way for most people in a group.…
People are shaped by their surroundings. These influences come in the form of anything from elementary school teachers to religious awakenings, from mission trips to news articles. For me, these influences come in the form of dance, God, and opportunity. Unexpectedly, dance has made a major impact on who I am. Though I started at age three, I've been dancing at a Vaganova-style ballet academy for seven years.…
Inspiration comes to all of us in many different ways. In my life, there have been many people and things that have a big impact on me. For instance, soccer is one important thing in my life. I have played soccer for almost eleven years, so it has been there most of my life. Even though soccer is such important to me.…
The experiences you have as a child are the ones that will follow you on throughout life. At such a pure age, our minds are so easily shaped and tainted by the world around us. We are constantly observing our surroundings, from the characters on tv, actors in movies, even the smallest gestures made by our parents or siblings. Even now, i find myself feeling very nostalgic for the days when i was able to sit at home and watch Disney characters sing and dance across the screens of the living room television.…
ALPINE FINESSE ‘UNIQUELY FRESH’ ™ This paper is an honest reflexive analysis of my relationship to the product Alpine Finesse, a cigarette brand that I used as a teenager and into my early adulthood. How did the item express your self-identity? As a teenager I was influenced, like most other teenagers by the peers I surrounded myself with.…
A few main things that have influenced me would be family, music, and color guard. All three have played a huge part in my life in some way, shape, or form. Family… Why family? Family is the base of me, family is what helps get me through the day.…
Chandler’s Influence Influence can be defined as “the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself” (Google). In other words, influence is the overall effect one thing has on another. Raymond Chandler’s use of influence within his work is prominent and abundant. The novel, Farewell, my Lovely, displays connections between Raymond Chandler’s life as well as innovations of technology and societal differences from the 1940s which have a major influence on the evolution of crime writing.…
In life, my youth and the people I grew up around influenced the adult I matured to be, from the hobbies I participated in, to my childhood best friends, they shaped me into the person I am today. I have danced my whole life, from competitive dance to my middle school dance team, which lead me to tryout for my high school drill team. Drill team and competitive dance are two very distinct things: competitive dance is stylized where movements are not uniform to the team, and everyone is independent and work hard for themselves, and to where drill team is militarized where you work together as a team, and not only respect your elders, but also your classmates, saying yes ma’am to anyone including the peers you attend school with everyday. At first…
One of my biggest influences was the religion that my parents taught me both inside and outside of the church building. As a child I went to Sunday School nearly every week, which helped me learn about being a caring person and about how to behave and act in the world, along with all the content taught in the classes. I also learned valuable characteristics through multiple extracurricular activities such as music lessons, school sports, and athletic hobbies. I learned characteristics like hard work and dedication, as well as having the opportunity to exercise my brain and help me develop intellectually. Finally, as I’ve mentioned earlier, my family has had a large influence in my education.…
How I am in life is a result from the many different things that influence me. There have been several things in my life that have a major influence on me, so much that it did change me as a person. Without question my mom and my dad are the ones who influenced my life. No matter many trials and tribulations I have they are always there to support me and help guide me through the many mistakes I have made in my youth.…