Personal identity

deeply and sighing, I pick memories from my brain. I felt if it had only been but a day ago when I first learned about identity theft. The same high school classroom where I learned the easy way out. The classroom swirls into a picture in my mind, Mr. Henderson standing in front of our class white board. Diagrams and words are scrawled across it with tips on how to prevent identity theft. “You all have social security numbers, or SSNs. You may not know them yet, but even…

I was assigned female at birth and I was named Jennifer. I hated my name. When I was growing up I would go by my favorite character’s names or my last name. I have always disliked how names and basically everything in society has a “gender.” In my opinion, I find it absurd that things such as certain sitting positions, sports, and colors have genders associated with them. Based off these stereotypes, I mainly did stereotypically masculine things. I love the color blue, I play ice hockey, and I…

personally struggled with being female. I never seemed to feel like I was good at being a girl. I also remember feeling sad and/or angry about those feelings. I can now see many reasons behind all of those feelings that I had. My struggle with my gender identity has been apparent in every aspect of my life. It effected the type of person I was/am, the decisions I made, and it impacted every single relationship I have ever had. The key factors that I think contributed to my thoughts and feelings…

of the people think identity is made up as the individual grows and how life changes them; meanwhile, others say it comes from birth and what we already know by looking at our parents. In reality, identity can be defined as who someone is, the name of a person, the qualities, beliefs, etc, that makes a particular person or group different from others. Identity was never such a huge thing for me since I never thought about it, but I knew it was there. Over the years, my identity always kept…

When I first met Zack, I didn’t think much of him at the time, until one day he initiated a conversation. From the conversation, the way he carried himself and his personality outshines from what I thought based on his appearance. There were hobbies that I could tell were his favorite, based on how he smiled whenever he was talking about them. He told me of his goals and just how he was talking about his goals made me believe that nothing will stop him from achieving his goals. However, Zack…

that these names applied to them. Ultimately, these horrendous names promote that a "man" should never act like a woman and there is no way that a woman can even be evaluated on the same terms as a man. Therefore, throughout my boyhood my gender identity has been formed by the media, peers, and family. Television actively engrained many archetypes and expectations of men into my brain at young age.…

It is the year 3000 and teleportation machines are rampant everywhere. They are the main mode of transportation in everyday life. All you have to do is step into the machine and a bright laser zaps through your body, and a ‘you’ is recreated in another machine. This new ‘you’ contains the exact same pattern of atoms and neural connections as the ‘old’ you, and the ‘old’ you is destroyed by the laser. The question to ask here is, is the ‘old’ you the same person as the ‘new’ you? The new ‘you’ is…

The Distraction Over the years nature has become less relevant to the people. It has been pushed to the back of their minds and forgotten about. What do fill their minds are the technological advances of society. Berry sees this in himself; he sees how his life is being taken over by the society. To free his mind he went off into the woods where he took the time to escape his normal everyday life. He valued his time in solitude and it changed his mind set after the couple days he was there. He…

containers that enclose their unique essence(Steward, 2012, p.78).But Lately, the concept of humans identity and how their communication with others have changed from a singular identity to a relational, multidimensional and accepted as more of evolving entity in response to the people in relationships and institution we an individual relate with(Steward, 2012, p.80). As Stewart (2012) stated that our identity is a continuously evolving and changing which is profoundly influenced, controlled and…

numerous controversies as to how continuity and/or change have impacted the development of personal and social identity in individuals. Family and Kinship, and School as well as are agents of socialization that are believed to influence the development of personal and social identity. Personal identity is the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life, where as social identity is a person’s sense of which they are based on their group membership(s) for example…