My Identity Essay

I feel like my cultural identity is best served with something sweet. My favorite dessert that my late grandmother used to make for the family or friends called “cascaron”. Cascaron is a Filipino dessert that is basically dough balls, made of coconut, flour, and water mixed and deep fried until it’s golden brown then covered with syrup of sugar. When you look at cascaron it’s all golden brown ball with glazed with syrup. What people don’t realize until they take a bite of it, that it’s white and…

At first I didn’t really have any knowledge about transgender identities. Getting to read this article and learn more about it was pretty integrin, and made me become more aware. Its not that I am against transgender its just now a well talked about thing is everyday life. With it growing all over I feel as if it was a good thing it was brought up and able to be leaned about so when we are faced with an interaction we are more aware and not so taken back by it. We really had a discussion as a…

A mixture of the habits I have developed from those closest to me, the cultures of my ancestors and my parents, along with interests that are ever growing. Among these there are a few that were instrumental in the discovery of both myself and what my future held in store. For the past 17 years I have grown up in a household that was much larger than one roof could cover. I was raised by my parents, my tías, and my teachers, and from each have learned something valuable. Through them I have…

about my self-identity since I was a little kid. When teachers asks each student, “What’s unique about you?” or “How would you describe yourself?” I would come up with something ridiculous after spending 10 minutes searching for the answer in my head. As a child, I did not know how to express myself in words; I would just depend on my feelings and sensations to be expressed through body language and face expressions. However, I noticed that my personality changed depending on every phase of my…

themselves to have a different culture than when they were younger. How does one exactly describe their own culture? What is it that defines what makes you, you? When I think of my culture and the things that make me who I am things begin to get a little hazy. I have not always understood my cultural identity, but in looking at my life more in depth it becomes clearer. Society may see me as only a white, Christian, lower-class, female but when I dig a little deeper, things begin to connect in…

I have been searching for my identity part of my life, constantly wondering what is my purpose in life and what do I live behind me when I’m gone. Throughout this semester in writing class I experienced many different answers to that question as while as new ways to express myself with my writing skills. Each essay was like a testimony to what I had kept quiet about, while writing every essay it was like I was feeling oxygen in my lungs. None of my essays were formed quickly each took thought…

years determine whether ones work will poor and thin or rich and fine” elaborated Willa Cather, while discussing her childhood to fellow writer Lewis Carroll. This statement is descriptive of a large element in Cather’s writing, especially in her novel My Antonia, where the protagonists living situation is eerily similar to the authors childhood environment. At age 9, her family moved to Nebraska where her father attempted to farm the land. Willa Cather knowingly or unknowingly inserts her…

at birth state you are. I identity as female, and my sex is female, which makes me cisgender. Identifying this way has made for an easier life, as far as how others treat me. Although our society is becoming more open-minded to transgender individuals, there are still people that are not, and proceed to not treat them as humans. I am therefore very privileged that I identify this way. Identifying as a female though does lead for a lot of cultural norms to surround my life. Often I am seen…

in all the other games I had played... where my identity of being a girl had been revealed. In shock I threw down the mirror and watched as it broke into a thousand polygons before I hunched over and buried my head in my hands, trying to hold back tears while the man responsible for my pain continued with his deathly monologue. I remained with my eyes covered for some time, but I became aware of when Kayaba had finished speaking. I was able to lift my head slightly and I saw him as he faded away…

Locke and Personal Identity Locke presents the idea of personal identity as the question of what makes us the same person over time. How are we able to identify ourselves outside of our physical bodies? Does one remain the same person even if we have physical resemblances and continuity of memory? In the movie Self/Less (Ben Kingsley, 2015), Damian a rich real estate entrepreneur is at the peak of his success is faced with the rough reality of cancer, that is untreatable and consuming his body.…