Essay of Myself

While I can be told of the prejudices black people face, I will never experience it for myself. People can dislike or hate me because of my skin color, but my life is not in danger because of it. If anything, I am more in danger due to my gender, as the society we live in is more favorable to men than women. Even though my personal experiences are not as dangerous as others, I still understand and realize the smaller instances of sexism that lead to far more consequential outcomes. I am safe…

My whole life, I have been labeled and stereotyped. I am Asian, which means I always get straight A’s. Since I am a self-proclaimed geek, I am not supposed to be an athlete. I must be spoiled and stuck-up because I am an only child. In reality, none of these things are true. I do get high marks in school, but I’m not perfect. I have spent hours curled up with a Harry Potter book, but I have also spent hours every week in sports practices. I may not have siblings, but because of my upbringing, I…

Diversifying Myself I knew having a diversity course was going to be challenging for me. I never realized exactly how challenging it would be, however. Last semester when we did the PCP groups, I struggled to understand some of the things people had been through. Overcoming my own beliefs about how the world can be has been something I have thought long and hard about this semester. Looking back at my journals, I really struggled the first month of class. White privilege is not something I…

When asked to define myself in one paper, I find it hard to show the details that I want to in the right light. When asked about my future after high school, I also have a hard time describing everything I want to get done because there are far too many things to name. The quote “ _____” (i want to be everyone and do everything and there isn’t enough life to do it all in) describes me to a tee, and I believe this college is the place I could do this in. Being a shy person for most of my life,…

white, able-bodied female. These are assumptions based off what one can see, but I would reason that people tend to stereotype me as also being upper-middle-class, Christian, and heterosexual. While many of these are accurate, I would still identify myself differently. I am a white,…

I have always considered myself a leader especially because of the environment I grew up in. The ability to become a leader amongst my friends, family, and my organization are all attributed to the choices and effects on other people that I had growing up. When it comes to my organization I have no choice but to be a leader, you can’t just settle for being a manager because people may not truly respect you. As a leader in my organization, I am able to influence not only my supervisors, athletes,…

Whitman’s pioneering style and untraditional subject matter, depicted in his renowned poem “Song of Myself,” has paved the way for many future American writers. Furthermore, his poem has had an enormous influence on Allen Ginsberg, whose controversial poem “Howl” echoes many of the characteristics of Whitman's verse. However, while the form and content of “Howl” may have been influenced by “Song of Myself,” Ginsberg's poem signifies a transformation of Whitman's use of the line, his first-person…

The poem “To Myself” by W.S. Merwin had me very, very confused the first few times reading through it. It wasn't until I payed closer attention to the title of the piece that it all came together. I, at first, could not for the life of me figure out who the author was referring to in the poem. I thought, maybe a lost love one or maybe some abstract idea such as death or time. By the time that I actually got around to reading the title again I felt like a total buffoon. Throughout the duration of…

Middle school has been some of the hardest years of my life. I was never looked at as popular or cool like everyone else. I desperately wanted to find where I fit. One story called “Just Be Yourself” really shows the struggle of fitting in and the stress of growing up during a rough period in your life. During a rough period in my life I felt completely lost and couldn’t find where I belonged and this story shined a light through the darkness and showed me that fitting in isn’t the most…

I would compare my self to Abigail Williams because when we where both smaller we would get in trouble a lot. We both had different childhoods but I would like to get into lots of trouble but there are consequences for my actions, most of the time I would get get sent to my room, but Abigail wouldn't get in trouble nor she would get caught. She would only get caught if she would tell a lie or someone would catch her. Abigail would send John Proctors girlfriend to trial because she blamed her…