Person Who Influenced Me the Most Essay

just name a few. Through my upbringing, I have been mostly influenced by my family's nationality shaping who I am as a person today. Nationality has been revealed as an important aspect of my culture as I continue to grow, my Italian heritage, and my Irish heritage truly plays a role in my individuality. My Italian heritage plays an important role of my cultural identity. My grandma traditionally makes Italian food for our family on most holidays. Every Thanksgiving she specially prepares her…

tried my way up to speak English as fluent as I can be and try to blend into the society. It progressed well. I was getting accepted more as a person as my language was getting better. However, there is always a certain level of racial discrimination remains the same, bit hidden way. Interestingly, I could relate all my experiences throughout the years to the most of the contexts and novels I have read in this class, African American Culture. The course was examined some of the major debates and…

Detaching myself from the world around me to look in as a third party exposed the culture I have been raised into. To complete this assignments I went to Mirror Lake on campus to observe and document the social behaviors I witnessed. I recorded over a two day span. I first sat by the northern side of the lake on the stone fence, to be aloof from what was transpiring in front of me. The second day I sat on the western side on the grass under the trees to get right in the middle of what was…

Socialization is the process of learning cultures in order to be able to function within a society. It shows someone who and how to be by learning about the different values, beliefs, traditions, and identities found within a society. When someone socializes with another person in the world, they are teaching them how to fit in and grow within their society. Another way to describe people who teach you how to thrive within a culture are known as agents of socialization. There are four major…

culture. Ultimately, “sexuality” is focused on a human’s sexual desires and their choices. For instance, a person’s sexuality could be influenced by whether the person is interested in a female, male, or both (Walden-Hurtgen, 2015, Lecture 22). Furthermore, intersex can be influenced by sexuality as well. Intersex, also known as transgender, could be described as a male who strongly feels the need to have a “sex change,” so that he could be known as a woman or vice versa for a woman wanting to…

are crucial to our being, since to know who we are today as an individual, we need to learn about the person that we have been in the past. My life was influenced by a very special person, that even though she is not related to me by blood, in my heart she occupies the space of a mother. Her name is Maritza, or how I liked to call her Tia. She was a key person in my life, and the one that would spend the most time with me. As a result of, she has the most knowledge on how I socially developed,…

raised was always interesting to me, and I thank my family any time an odd situation arises regarding my cultural heritage, status, or any other issues which had formed in my life. The shift from Philippines to the United States was never a rocky one for me, but I did find it difficult to accept a handful of changes, weather being one example. Another drastic change was living in a rural area to a heftier, urban setting. My social status in society never clicked with me when I was a child…

While technology has given people a longer life span most elderly try to look for the good that had happened in their life. Carstensen’s socioemotional selectivity theory tries to explain that older people are mindful that the life span is very valuable that motivates them to look for emotional pleasure (Bengtson, V. L., Gans, D., Putney, N. M., & Silverstein, M. 2008). Looking back through your past you can find ways that you have influenced people and where they made a difference. When one…

Everyone is shaped by the surrounding world. Whether that comes from one person or several, it is inevitable to deny this fact. Our worldviews are most commonly shaped from those who we are in close proximity to or share deep relationships with. When I think about my worldview and what has influenced it, there are several people who have shaped it to be the way it is today. The two that stand out to me the most are my church small group leader Kari and my high school English teacher, Mrs. Kestle…

Personal Values and Attitudes Every person is unique and has a different set of personal values, attitudes and beliefs that shaped their way of living. As a Disability Support Professional (DSP), I am going to support individuals with mental, physical and intellectual disabilities, who may have a different set of values and beliefs as compared to my values and beliefs. As a DSP, I should keep in mind that the person I am going to support has his/her own values and beliefs and I should respect…