Gender identity

Chaya Edelist. Oct. 19, 2014 Abra - East of Eden It took me my whole life up until a few weeks ago to realize who I truly am. Some things I've always known, but these are the sort of things everyone knows about themselves. For instance, my name is Abra Bacon, I’m 17 years old and I've lived in Salinas Valley for my entire life. I had a fairly normal, and I'll admit, privileged, life when I was a child. My family was very well off and my father was part of a large company. I thought both my…

individual’s job to define it. Therefore, I often like to compare one’s identity to a house. You see, the memories we have are the foundation, the wisdom we acquire makes up the house, and our passions give the house character. Likewise, you can never stop improving a house, just as you are never really finished reinventing yourself as a person either. Thus, the affair that helped me “build my house,” and construct my identity, was when I witnessed my father’s journey through entailing a major…

Who I am today!!! As I grew older every day with my friends and family, every day I would notice that I’m someone who can take on the world and wait for days like these to come and show me who I am. I know that I’m going to grow up and be who I want to be and show everybody that I’m going to take on the world. I am Harmony Nounnan and this is who I am today. I believe that anybody can be anything and that the will show the world that they can do it. So on my mandala I put a life symbol to show…

The loner’s guide to changing the game in the party. Every time you think of the word party, it always has a connotation of exhilaration and a celebration of a triumph or just any other event. In contrast, it is very frustrating going to a party by yourself without knowing anybody around you. Millennials nowadays are very fearless and inquisitive in breaking orthodox. The feeling of belongingness in a social event is imperative as a person and also the influence of social media. I used to…

Everyday, I tend to overlook and ignore what my culture has to offer me because in my perspective, my cultural identity never had significant value. I just never questioned the importance of my cultural identity. But as we slowly visit the individual cultural topic, I realized the many aspects of how my own cultural identity is influenced by my family names, religion, and food. My cultural identity is a simple strawberry. A strawberry can be frozen, chocolate dipped, topped with sprinkles or…

“Identity politics” has enabled groups who have been marginalized by society to ban together over certain shared experiences. By working collectively, these segments of the population are able to raise awareness and are instrumental in securing certain freedoms, already enjoyed by the rest of the population. While some may label these freedoms as “special rights,” in realty, that are simply the rights guaranteed by law. While there are numerous benefits to “identity politics” there are also…

Identity is not only something that represents a person, but also defines a person. It contains the past life experience of an individual and what this individual has had an effect on. It all forms together to create the make-up of the individual's identity. These stories, formed from our past, define who we are and who we will become. A major influence from the past can change everything, for example: if my father was still alive today, would I be the motivated individual that I am now? Or…

on their different experiences. We all share this fluidity in our personalities by the way we see ourselves and the way the world perceives us. This is called our identity. Our identity is everything that makes us different and what ties us together in groups, clubs or even countries. I see myself as a very dedicated person. This identity I have formed for myself has shaped the way I interact with classmates, friends, and family. It defines who I am today. Dedication has pushed me, kept me back,…

Sometimes, it can be difficult for a person to understand their own identity. Being in the state of mind of completely accepting who they are is by nature a difficult thing for a person to do. So, to assist people in their process of self-love, they can use inanimate things as outlets to express who they are. This could be an object that has significance to their life or a hobby that they are skilled in and passionate about. Authors often use this technique to define characters who may not be…

Following this further, Boeker (2017) demonstrates from John Locke’s notion of personal identity in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, suggesting that the theory of personal identity very much exists as being classified as a combination of what he’s coined as sameness and closeness. In this case, sameness and closeness represent in a similar fashion what the soul-continuity theory initially did, that the relationship between the two and their distinctions exist as a fusion resulting from…