My Personal Identity

Need a hook In this essay I will be talking about 3 major aspects that make up me. The 3 key aspects of my identity are running and art which are my abilities and reading which is one of my values.

Identity is what makes a person who they are. It is a complex relationship between a person’s personality and their appearance. Personality can be broken down by how that person acts or feels. This aspect of identity can be impacted by mental health and disabilities. The appearance of a person can also be broken down by how a person looks and how they dress. Physical appearance can be impacted by genetics and outside influences; accidents, diseases, sickness, etc. With the combination of the two we have the third influence on a person’s identity, personal choice.

As far as identity and experiences go, I can easily follow how their effects mold my values and perception of the world. Many aspects of my education and childhood, for example, correspond pretty directly with general areas of privilege. I am White, able-bodied, and have always lived in relative safety. These are traits that I, and others like me, often take for granted, paying little attention to the societal structures that arbitrate them as advantages. Even among the places where my identity does deviate from dominant culture, many seem trivial within a bigger picture: born while my mother was in college, only one parent with a degree, a young childhood with much less money than I remember having in my later years. These, and many others, of course, had their impacts, but not on a scale that prepares me for bigger issues. In many ways, I have led a privileged life, and truthfully, this has made me apprehensive about whether I actually have any qualification that legitimizes me as an authority over countless students whose stories I can barely even fathom in the abstract.

I hate when people say “I don’t care if you’re Black, White, Asian, etc.” You should care. Do not erase who I am to make yourself feel comfortable. Do not erase my identity by saying race doesn’t matter. Colorblind ideology will not fix racism. Do not ignore my identity or anyone else’s identity because you’re uncomfortable. Recognize my race and ethnicity and respect that.

Many pieces of my personal identity make me who I am. I am a twenty year old, Caucasian female, who is currently striving toward a higher education. I am proud of the person that I have become and am aware that because of who I am, I fall in the line of simultaneously being privileged and oppressed. Being so that I am primarily privileged the factor of me being a female is enough to make me oppressed in certain aspects. I do not have to fight for things as much as other women do given their race, but I still feel females as a whole struggle as well as they have privileges that we do not even make note of because they are almost normal in our everyday lives.

We all have unique talents and interests, and it is essential for each one of us to determine our own true identity and talents. My math and problem-solving skills define an essential part of my identity. This is where I excel, and I am told that I have a unique way of explaining it to others.

It is easy to see oneself as the same person we were ten, twenty, or fifty years ago. We can define identity through our physical presence, life experiences, memories, and mental awareness of self. One can testify our persistence as a person through our existence as a person. But what makes us the same person? In this paper, I will argue for the “simple” view of the persistence of identity – that it is impossible to determine what single thing that makes us the same person over time. I will support my claim with the refutation of the main complex view claims of the body, brain and psychological continuity criterion.

“He who loses his individuality loses all” (Mahatma Gandhi). A fight that has raged on throughout the dawn of time is the ability to choose for one’s self. Striving to determine a separable destiny that one idiosyncratic being may reap the rewards from. This ability to be unique comes with it an unwavering document of unwritten law. By which, one must respect another’s agency within the bounds of written law. We have lost the importance of personal identity in our day. The treasure that it is to be distinct and for others to do the same. The ethos of being a law abiding individual is all, but gone. We must realize the importance of individualism in our society today. That equality in all things is impossible, the consequences of how we spend

"Social networking in real life looks absolutely ridiculous," was unquestionably funny! I related to her being “connected” because I personally use LinkedIn often and have made many connections in the work place through this social media. Also, the “endorsing” of your skills comment was right on the nail. I always feel that if someone endorses me I in a way also need to go on their page and endorse them as well. So Jenna wondering out loud if the other individual in the coffee shop was going to endorse her was something I’ve also thought about. I found it hysterical when she decided to “poke” the guy on the street, which was a reference to Facebook, but more importantly he said “this is weird though I don’t even know you” and once again her answer

Every person builds their own identity; Now which one am I ?  We build our identity by every choice we make. Our identity is the image that we project out into the rest of the world as an image and or reflection of ourselves. Identity is something you have after you are born. It is your personality, your ability to do things, your behavior, appearance choices, and beliefs. I myself am the image of a Mother which society sees as caring, lovable, and protectant; but there’s is more to my identity than these two little human beings of mine. I am also women, a student, daughter, wife, and a friend. I am more and I will continue to stretch beyond their childhood when they no longer need me. Who am I? I am part of my family, friends, and society and my

There are status and symbols that are associated with ethnic people. These status or symbols are sometimes positive and others are negative. Therefore, these labels only hinder us from achieving our potential. Stereotypes about minorities are imposed by other cultures. This is also true of gender expectation.

What makes one the same person as one was ten years ago? What is it in virtue a person can persist over time? In discussing these questions, we are approaching the subject of personal identity. Philosophically speaking, personal identity is concerned with the qualities that define and make up the persistence of our personhood (Olsen, “Personal Identity). In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke offered his theory of personal identity. In which, he believes that consciousness alone, not the soul or the body, constitutes self-identification. In the following essay, I will argue that that while consciousness plays an essential role in understanding personal identity, it cannot sufficiently establish a criterion of personal identity due to its transient nature.

My purpose is to show my individuality and to express myself. This is for others including myself, to see and to remind us that our identity is very complex.

Everybody has an identity, it makes them individual and unique, and it defines who you are as a person. This project about my identity showed me what makes me unique. I would have never known how much my friends mean to me or how my identities connect with each other. I have three identities that make me who I am, cultural, personal, and social. A specific quality that covers my cultural identity is being Czechoslovakian. Both sides of my family have at least a part of Czech in them. My great-grandparents are from Czech Republic and my grandpa was the first generation in America, he was born in Ohio. This is very important because I have always identified as Czech and it is a big part of me, as I am so interested in ancestry. For my personal identity, the biggest part is my personality, being loud and outgoing, has always been important to me. The reason being, it is how people view me. A lot of people know me as the loud person or the person who talks a lot. That is meaningful to me considering I like people to view me in a certain way The last identity, social, is one of the most important to me because it involves my friends, and through this project, I learned how vital they really are to my social identity. I realized that I have a good amount of friends in this project. It is nice to have people as a support system and to relate with. These qualities show that I value being loud and outgoing. It also says that I value my family and they are a big part of life. The last one, social, ties in with the first one because it shows I am outgoing and friendly.

The concept of a personal identity develops as we grow. In this way, our identity shifts and changes because as we grow, we change. This evolution brings up the question of what makes up our personal identity. Is our identity qualitative in the sense that if we look the same as we did yesterday, we are the same? That theory has some overt problems in that twins, for example, may look identical, but they are not in fact the same person. Personal identity can be considered numerical in that we are actually the same person we were yesterday. This is based on more ways than just appearance. But how do we know that? What theory can propose concreate reasoning that gives continuity to our personal identity as time passes and we change? There are many, but one of these is the Memory Theory