Finding Myself Essay

In high school, I struggled to find myself. I struggled to find what I was good at, and what I loved to do. My first two years, I had convinced myself that I was an athlete. I dedicated a majority of my time to practicing volleyball and softball, only two realize at the end of sophomore year, I was not playing to please myself. I was playing to maintain the illusion that this was something I wanted since I had been playing for 12 years. I was afraid of change, I was afraid of letting anyone down, especially my father, who had been my coach for all of that time. But, the thing that encouraged me to start doing what I love was when I found the art department at my school. My sophomore year, I took my first photography course and I was in my…

Quite frankly I think I can relate to how some of those students felt being placed in an english course that does not count toward college credit. I was never great at math, even when I tried the hardest to remember formulas, rules and even exceptions to those rules. So you can imagine my disappointment when I found myself in taking Pre-Algebra again my freshman year of highschool even though I thought that I could of done fine in regular Algebra my first year. But what I think is kind of…

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw, a dramatist, said this quote. It shows that throughout our lifetimes we develop characteristics. Different events shape us, and some stories show us how we became the person we are today. What kind of person do you think you are? How does your life reflect your personality? I can think of many memories that have changed me, and overtime, different words stood out that reflect me. When asked to find three…

In most my life, I only find myself writing when I need to. Whether it 's answering some homework questions for history or writing an essay for english. Writing was never my favorite thing to do, only because I wasn 't good at it. Although, I hope that by the end of this class, it will change my perspective towards writing and effect me in an essential way that will help me in my future. The way I write is pretty simple, I just start writing, I don 't brainstorm,I just write as I go. Even though…

and academically. Whether that be graduating early or interacting within a group I thought I had nothing in common with. Finding my purpose among others who didn’t share my same beliefs was a difficult task, such as at the gym. I began powerlifting in the fall of my freshman year and it has significantly shaped who I’ve become, but not without experiencing hardship. Being sore wasn’t my only issue, for finding myself within a diverse group was quite possibly the hardest task. The essence of…

Finding Society In the novel of “The Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman, he finds himself in the place of society by in his beliefs. “I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass”. He believes that he is still apart of the world and nature because once the dead people are burry the person body decays into the ground. In the novel of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, Huckleberry finds his place in society by not following the society…

incongruent trials, which is consistent with the results of previous studies (Gratton et al., 1992; Botvinick et al., 1999). The interaction indicated that conflict adaptation had occurred, in that the difference in response times in current congruent or incongruent trials was indeed smaller when the current trial followed an incongruent trial. This finding was consistent with the results of the Botivinick et al.’s (1999) study where a similar interaction was found, but contradicted the results…

The findings from these studies all were somewhat consistent with Merton’s anomie theory, or parts of his theory. Although Baumer and Gustafson’s findings were not consistent with their exact predictions that were elaborated, their findings were on par with other explications of Merton’s theory and “do affirm some of Merton’s comments about the conditional ink between crime and adverse economic conditions” (2007, p.647). Despite not being the researchers initial predictions, the study still…

In my initial years of high school I sought to discover myself. Encountering many challenges within my years. Everyone has a unique way of encountering them, which develops our own character. My greatest strengths being my ambition and persistence to give back communities. My goals for my education is to increase my knowledge to assemble myself for life. Growing up in a family of 5 and being the youngest. In my family I was never opened to the idea of college. It was more of you graduate and…

Blog #1 In the nonfiction book, Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race the author Debby Irving talks about the twenty-five years she sensed racial tensions in her personal and professional life. The story talks about Irving "aha" moment that shifted her world view. In the introduction of the book she lists 5 common beliefs in society today. The most common is that racism is about bigots because bigots are people who show hatred to other groups outside their own and this is a…