My Name Is

The Story of My Search The only thing that cannot be taken away from oneself, no matter the circumstances, is your name. This is why I think it is important for one to know what his or her name means. When I began thinking about my name, I started by interviewing my parents. I knew that I was named after my grandfather and my mother, but I did not know the origins of their names. I researched my first, middle, and last names using the Internet, interviewing my mother, and utilizing the…

the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word “name,” is defined as a word or phrase that refers to or that can refer to a specific person. Almost everything in the world has a name, including people, places, and everyday items. Most names have deeper meanings, but some do not, which made me curious about my own name. My parents named me Madison Elizabeth Hooper on August the twenty-eighth of the year 1998 and I have always wondered what made them choose the names that they did, so I started to do…

ounces, and twenty-one inches long. “It’s a girl!” My father exclaimed, “I know what to name her, it’s perfect.” Names are beautiful things, underrated, overused, and not appreciated. I however, love my glorious name and truly believe it is an amazing written summarization of who I am. One critical part of my name’s awesomeness is it's meaning and origin. According to the website, http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/, means “prophetess”. My name and it's meaning originate from Greece, where it…

A Sadness, A Fear, A Happiness, A Name What is your name? Everybody has a name, but not everybody knows everyone else’s name. Names tell someone who you are, and to a person who knows you well, what your personality is. When you pass away, people mourn the gravestone that bears your name. Sometimes, people have the same name! Names can give someone feelings of fear, happiness, sadness, and lots of other emotions. Where did your name come from? I know where mine came from, and I’m going to…

on my name, I was nervous about what I might find. As I started my research, I was amazed at what I found about my name. The more I researched the more interesting it became to me. This research paper that I was nervous about was teaching me all the things that I thought I would never want to learn. Along with the research I did in books and on the internet, I already knew a little bit about my name. My parents liked the name Caleb and it was used in the bible a couple of different places. My…

So far in my life people either make Mariah Carey jokes after my name leaves my lips or get it wrong and say Mah-re-ah instead of Moh-ri-ah. I let it slip off my skin and carry on laughing about it in the process. I love my name, most of the time, but there is a question that has arisen in my thoughts as of late and it is finally time to provide an answer to that very question. Does my name fit my personality? A name can define a person, sculpt them into the person they are or the name can be…

I do not like my name, although I should be grateful to have a not so common name. I wish I had common names like other people. I wish I would fit in. Maybe having a name like others would help me to fit in. A name like Abigail, Mia, or even Chloe. Names others wish to change, I wish to have. My name means independent. It is brave, it means self-sufficient. It is my dad’s mothers name. My grandmother. She was a strong woman. One with cancer. She was brave. She was independent. I am supposed to…

Vision and Sound: Polyphony in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Vaikom Muhammed Basheer’s Walls The term polyphony, meaning multiple voices, has its origin in Western music. Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian thinker has adopted the term polyphony to explain the nature of Dostoevsky’s novels. In his Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics Bakhtin says that Dostoevsky makes his characters free from his control and allows them to have their own voices. In the same work, Bakhtin later says that…

My name seemingly means noble and strength, but looking at myself, I don’t understand where that is coming from. Saying that I have strength would be like saying the sun isn’t hot, simply untrue. Most people perceive me for being a fairly scrawny person with not entirely a lot of muscle. I went through this horrifying moment at my FBLA conference where our chapter participated in multiple team building activities at the national guard military base, meaning everyone would individually need to…

that naming things are extremely important because words are intricate and complex. Just one word or phrase has major effects in our daily lives; they represent and interpret the world to us. Naming things is hard to do because there can be different names for things and…