Descriptive Essay About Identity

Each of these texts all highlight the importance of identity and names, and how having a name that doesn’t fit European standards can make life in our society much harder. When your name doesn’t fit the European standards it can be harder to get a job, and you become more vulnerable for bullying. Some also allude to the idea that a name is something you must identify with as well, and that it’s a piece of you.

In summary, this reading passage talks about the relationship between one's name and his or her personal and cultural identities. Richard Crasta, the author of reading, introduces the relations between name and three types of personal and cultural identities: The cultural background, the wishes of parents, and the impressions even biases on personality. From my personal experiences, most of Crasta's contentions are plausible, yet some are subjective and obsolete.

This journal speaks on how names are seen as some form of “talent” as it is bestowed upon us on birth. This also has religious implications as some feel as their name is a gift talent given from god. Everyone's name within “their eyes were watching god mean something. An example of this would be Tea Cake. “John Callahan says that Tea Cake "revivifies" names” . The names also have a slightly overshadowed sense of racism, as in a way most of the names given to black people have a sort of dumbed down approach to them. Going back to the complete disregard of the “Afro-American” culture by the

The primary argument that Filipovic gives for the issue is that name is an identity, she states, “Jill Filipovic is my name and my identity. Jill Smith is a different person” (Filipovic 26). This was given as an example for her later statement telling of how most of our individuality is a result of our names along with

When we are born, one of the first things that is required is for the parent is to create an identity for his/her child, after, the doctors identify the child as either male or female. Then, a name is given to the child and eventually the child becomes that person and is known by others in his/her respective community as that person. Nonetheless, a name is not the only identity that we live by. As we get older and live in a specific environment, our identities are altered. Attitude and personality change based on how one is raised and the people they surround themselves with. People start to recognize who they are based on name, a unique

Jane Pilcher is the first guest of the Thinking Allowed podcast. She is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Leicester and she's the author of an article in the journal sociology entitled “Names Bodies and Identities”. She endeavors at showing the link between names and their perception by people.

Identity theft is a term used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain. Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to someone else for their use, your personal data ¬ especially your Social Security number, your bank account or credit card number, your telephone calling card number, and other valuable identifying data ¬ can be used, if they fall into the wrong hands, to personally profit at your expense (Weisman).

Names hold a significance and they tell a story. Even though one story may be different from the next, that name still holds a legacy and can form an identity. Morrison is able to show readers that her “characters must find their ways through the morass of that which defines them” (Lubiano 589). Morrison also shows how many characters become effected negatively when they cannot make sense of their own identity, just as many African-Americans may have faced when becoming free and may still face today as some struggle to know where their ancestors came from. Morrison is able to paint a picture of some of the effects that may have occurred early on in America’s history and she does so, vividly. She also pushes readers to question why the

At the age of twenty-five I became a mother for the first time and reality hit me. As a young naïve woman, I never really put too much thought into important life choices and the long-term consequences of any of my choices, naming my first born wasn’t hard for me because I allowed my sister, whom thought would never have children to name her, with my other two children deciding their names wasn’t about what better opportunities they would have but rather my liking. Although, in contemplating on something as simple as naming one’s child and the effects it may have as they become adults I now realize the importance of my childrens names. I can now hear how the names of my children sound more American than those of some of my friends and family but I not only hear them I understand the advantages or disadvantage that they may face in society. This was again another life choice that I had no realization of how this would affect my children’s future until now.

I have taken on many names, many identities in my years. I have been too many people for one man to be in a lifetime. Yet it’s hardly been a lifetime for me. Whenever I took a new name, I made it my new identity, for it was all I had and all I would ever have. I would sit and think out every small detail of my new character; I would become someone else entirely. Yet, ironically, the one name I could never remember was my true name, the one given to me at birth. For I have a true name, one that only I and the few who know me best know of. I know the sound of this name, how it feels when it rolls of the tongue, but its meaning has been lost to me. This one name, Martin Jacobs, is but an echo in my memory of a past life.

For many individuals, the obsession for satisfaction and stability regarding identity is an emotional longing that will never fully diminish. However, in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, the search for identity is a continuous battle and contains many other factors than simply an inward battle. Throughout the novel, identity plays a large role in the development of the novel as seen by both the physical and emotional insecurities corresponding with a character’s name, by the expectations associated with family ties and heritage, and by the constant struggle between balance and detachment.

Once upon a time, a family name was more than a glorified accessory that hung above our heads; it was an identity, a culture. The surname took

We are all given a name, a name that we will carry on throughout our life, and that one day we might pass down to our future generations. It is the identity we receive, that nobody can share because our name is a part of us, and we own it. Names not only identify who we are; but they are a reflection of our actions.

Hearing the stories behind individuals’ names draws in an audience and makes them interested. Some people have a touching story about a family naming tradition, some people’s names were picked out before they were born, some people’s names were picked based on a remarkable trait at birth, and some people don’t seem to have any reason behind their name. Since I am one of the latter, I have envied people with meaningful names for as long as I can remember. It’s really cool that the meaning of some individuals’ names match their personalities, and some are contradictory. Picking a name just because someone likes the way it sounds is horribly boring, but it’s what my parents did. It’s intriguing, then, that the name Megan Kessen does reflect who

Identities are created through communication, and they do not develop smoothly, but in fits and spurts, over a long period of time. Additionally, we do not have one identity, but multiple identities, which are dynamic, and influenced by