Factors That Have Most Shaped Your Personal Life

    Maturity is not a fickle expression such as happiness or frustration, but rather an inherent quality one gains over time, such as courage or integrity. Before maturity can be expressed, the one who expresses it must have significant confidence in himself, since self-confidence is the root of maturity. Being flexible and formulating one's own opinions or ideas are aspects of maturity, but neither is possible without self-confidence. The greatest aspect of maturity is the ability to make decisions which society does not agree with. Whether or not one follows through with these ideas is not important. What is important is the ability to make the decision. These decisions represent the greatest measure

To attain maturity, you must have a loss of innocence. For example, when a kid finds out that Santa Claus is not real, he is disappointed and cannot believe the fact that there is no Santa Claus, because

Maturity is a part of everyone’s lives, and one day or another everyone should experience it. Maturity is someone’s overall growth. It is important to be mature because you are trusted and self-aware of your actions. You are trusted more when you are mature. For example, in the book, “The Glass Castle” there was a poor family, consisting of four children and two dysfunctional parents, who never grasped he chance to succeed.

“It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things,”. Children mature as they grow older. Manifestations of maturity include; overcoming adversities, perseverance, and making decisions that positively impact one’s future.

Evolving towards adulthood is certainly difficult at times. It is remarkably complex due to the fact that adolescents are taught so many different lessons simultaneously, causing it to be too overwhelming when trying to make the right decisions. It makes this process even more complicated knowing there are many different views on what is right and wrong. Two great examples of this confusing, but worthy, journey reside in the lives of the protagonists of two classic novels. The first being Pip in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, a novel in which a young boy describes his life as he's developing. And the second is Scout in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel that’s told from a young girl’s perspective as her father tries to prove a man innocent after being unjustly accused of rape. Both authors do a splendid job showing the process of the characters’ maturity from when they were children, to when they are adults. The two characters face a few similar situations, while at the same time learning a great deal throughout the novels. They do this until they finally reach the final stage of maturity.

maturity is a complex concept, only activated and defined by the experiences that one endures. In other words, as a child, we begin life as naive individuals but as time progresses our lives are influenced by our exposure to significant events, the people that we encounter and the consequences that we learn. Slowly we surpass into higher levels of consciousness that can ultimately represent the stages of maturation. Society attempts to artificially provoke this coming of age using physical time in order to dictate the level of maturity that should be attained by the individual at different stages in their lives. Coming of age is an natural process and will only truly occur when the individual awakens from the unconscious state of candor.

A person whom I believe has gone from being less mature to more mature is Jeremy “Jem” Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird. At the start of the novel, Jem was the age of ten, and was as immature as any ten-year-old can be. Jem had not once turned down a dare his friends had thrown at him, without thinking about the consequences or trouble it could get him into. The spreading of rumors regarding Boo Radley also shows his childish personality. However, the events Jem faces throughout the next three years help him to mature greatly; following in his father’s footsteps, becoming a man. Jem learns about bravery while watching Mrs. Dubose fight her battle against her morphine addiction, his father, Atticus, kill the mad dog despite his hatred

Propaganda in general is the idea of getting others to believe in one’s own beliefs. Propaganda is the “attempt to influence behavior…by affecting through the use of mass media of communications, the manner in which a mass audience perceives and ascribes meaning to the material world.”1 Propaganda was a major part of Germany’s way to brain wash people into following Hitler and his army. The theme of Hitler and Goebbels, (Paul Joseph Goebbels, was appointed Hitler’s Reichspropagandaleiter, the Nazis national director of propaganda), using propaganda, “was to merge the traditional German patriotism with Nazi ideological motifs”2, this was basically used from1919 to 1945.

There was a crucial period in my life when I felt dependent on my parents: preschool. At that time, my mom quit her job to become a full time mom and my dad

During Shakespeare’s time, there were only a few curses that had occurred. The curses that had happened were the Macbeth Curse and the curse that was written on Shakespeare’s grave. The Macbeth Curse was a very dangerous curse because their were many famous occurrences of the play that led to disaster, the curse on Shakespeare’s grave would curse anyone that had dug up his grave and moved his bones. There may not have been many curses during Shakespeare’s time, but the few were curses you would not want to mess with. There have been many famous occurrences of the Macbeth play throughout time and each occurrence has led to disaster.

I had always been mature for my age; I started kindergarten when I was four and I made up for that age gap by acting a little older. However, the true maturity that I hold now, the maturity people refer to when they say I am “wise beyond [my] years” did not develop in kindergarten, or even in school.

Overtime, ones approach towards the way they handle certain things change and they developed a more mature personality. Maturity can be shown in many ways. One way is being willing to learn from your past mistakes and make better decisions for the future. In Harper Lee’s

Being two parents at the same time to two growing boys, twenty-four hours a day isn’t a walk in the park. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love what you are doing or learning to do” One of my favorite quotes by the soccer player Pele. I purposely bolded the words sacrifice and love because my mother had to sacrifice so much to keep my brother and I afloat. I didn’t realize the hardships my mom was going through until I got a bit older. She was struggling in what seemed like every aspect of life and she’d never take it out on my brother and I. She always put us first, she would come to every parent teacher conference and to every soccer game. Even if it meant she had to work late other days to be able to attend these events. In my eyes a soccer game and a parent teacher conference seemed so trivial. Why go to those type of events when you could be catching up on sleep? Because her kids are her number one. When I first moved to North Central, I was happy to be free of my mom and to finally be able to be my own person. At first, it was great being able to do whatever I wanted without my mom lurking over me to tell me what to do. But about a week into preseason I noticed that I was making my bed everyday, cleaning up after myself. My mom always exceeded those things of me and I never actually did them at home. I felt like she was nagging me, but now I realize that her intentions were for my best. My respect for my mother and any other woman who works as hard or harder than she does is unparalleled. I know it may seem like I ranted about my mom a lot but I really wanted to give you a taste of how passionate I am about what she taught

Some of the things that have shaped me into the person that I’m today are my family, the people that I grow up around, some of the events In my life. There are many events that have shaped me in the the person that I’m today. Also the people that I have grown up around has dramatically helped shape me into the person I am. My family is one of the main things that have helped shape me into the person I’m today. One of my early memories are of my mom working and going to school at the same time to take care of eleven kid son her own. We also used two have a garden and we would go there everyday to take care of the plants. But my mom started to work all of the time so we were no longer aboul to go there so me and my sister made a garden in the back yard so that when my mom had time we could still garden. That is why one of my hobbies is gardening.

Well, looking in that perspective how is emotional maturity different from physical maturity? Emotional maturity could be the “full growth and development” of a person’s mind and conscience. Obvious enough, but the key is to figure out and understand the deeper meaning of emotional development. Unlike physical maturity, mental and emotional maturity is not easily defined. Emotions are unstable, volatile and hard to comprehend. Even though everybody views this subject matter in a different way, I will present you with some of the opinions or axioms that make the most sagacity. Firstly, development occurs through time. With time at a still, there can’t be any growth, no advancement, and no progress. Another build that comes with the passage of time is experience. We as humans experience a whole lot of things: Affection, success, detestation, calamity. So, in other words we could also say that we develop with experience. This makes us understand that mental and emotionally maturity comes from experience. Regardless of this, another notion on the matter is that experience can trigger detrimental changes on our attitudes that can obstruct our road to maturity. In other words, experiences can hinder our emotional