Essential Elements Of Emily Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper 2: The Essential Elements of Emily Identity is described as the qualities, beliefs, and traits that make a particular person or group different from others. Every individual has a defining set of attributes that distinguishes and them from their peers. Throughout this paper, I will be discussing a few public essential elements that help shape who I truly am. The variety of statuses I hold are immensely influential to my reflective image. I am a daughter, a sister, a girlfriend, and a friend, as well as a nursing student at Husson University. All of these statuses characterize who I am or what I am doing at this time in my life. Some of these are ascribed statuses, such as daughter, which means I was appointed them at birth, and some are achieved statuses which means I discovered them with time. One of my biggest achieved statuses I have is being a student in the Husson nursing program. This has also helped shape some of my characteristics like being a hard-worker. In order to excel in the program and complete the roles that go along with being a student, one must …show more content…
Throughout our lives, we have been taught to follow the set of norms in society and to fit in. If society says look a certain way, more times than not, you will conform to what they 're saying. I can relate this to my own life in times such as middle or high school. If there was a fashion trend going on at the time and you followed it, you were considered to be “cool”. Our identity also is significantly impacted based on who we hang out with. Your friends have a huge effect on your thoughts and how you act, especially in a developmentally critical time such a middle and high school where you are changing the most and becoming a young adult. You are essentially growing together and helping each other develop certain traits so if they act a certain way, you are most likely going to act