Autobiography Essay About Myself

Reflective statement on Eva Hoffman’s Lost in translation From my experience on reading this memoir of a young girl moving to whole different place with another culture, another language, and another friends. I myself experienced moving from my original country Egypt to the United States which was a really hard journey for me making new friends and having to live in a culture that is completely different than my original culture. Same with Hoffman and her family, it was really difficult for…

Inherited identities become a reality for many victims of transgenerational trauma victims. In the case of many second generation Holocaust survivors, their parents describe in detail the horrors of the Holocaust, and their family’s losses to the children. These memories of the past are transferred to the next generation unintentionally, and they become engrained within the next generation’s identity. Cited in “Representations of the Holocaust” by Karein Goertz, Nach Der Shoa Geboren who was the…

Ashley kennedy Autobiography of Ashley kennedy I was born on August 24th, 2000 into a family of 4. I came home to a two story house where I sill live in even to this day. When I was 5 my parents decided to get a divorce. Up until 2008 there had always been someone else taking care of me and my brother while we were living with my dad in picnic point. My father met my current stepmom in 2006 through work and she…

Outwardly Brave, Inwardly Weak The memoir Autobiography of a Face, written by Lucy Grealy, is about a girl working towards being brave and overcoming everything that she has been through. Bravery does not always have to mean being strong and never being upset. Bravery is standing up for yourself and even if your break down and open up at times, that makes you a stronger person than someone who bottles everything up. You are controlling how things go for yourself, which is one of the most…

In Richard Rodriguez’s essay, “The Achievement of Desire,” from his autobiography Hunger of Memory, Rodriguez describes how his early life choices shaped and directed him toward both academic success and familial failure. Rodriguez does not hide his conflict between logical reasoning and illogical emotions, and constantly chooses to distance himself from his family to focus on his desire—academic success. While Rodriguez’s decision to become an academic is intentional, throughout his essay,…

Olaudah Equinao was born in 1745 in Guinea, where most slaves African slaves were taken. He begins his story by describing where it is he came from. He goes into great detail about his homelands culture, discussing the women, the men, the children, including the slaves. He tells us that his father is a well respected elder who set policies for the area. Slavery was not uncommon in Africa, however, the idea of white men was. When the europeans, mainly the British founded the African Slave Trade,…

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass was the writer of his own autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born into slavehood, most likely the child of his mother’s master. Of his quest, he says, “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.” He begins unlike many slaves, with a fairly tame childhood. Considering he was still young he was put to work in the house instead of in the field.…

The Success of Maya Angelou Marguerite Annie Johnson, born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri and died on May 28, 2014 at the soulful age of 86. Although we may know her as Maya Angelou, we can relate to her literary works in more ways than one. Her 1969 memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman. She received several honors throughout her career, including two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding…

like the color of your skin, but an ethnic identity stretches far deeper than just skin color. Cultural and ethnic identities are things that are learned over time. They are formed through a collection of teachings, experiences, and choices. This autobiography will explore how my ethnic and cultural identities developed throughout my life. I will focus on aspects from school, from my family, and from my friends that led to the formation of my cultural and ethnic identities. I was born biracial.…

thing. It starts as a diet and then spirals out of control, and before you know it, the person is addicted to losing weight. “I didn’t decide to become anorexic, it snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet.” This quote from Portia de Rossi’s autobiography, Unbearable Lightness, is a key real life example of the way anorexia can get out of control quickly without…