My Personal Identity

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.

I am a student, with a meaningful background and identity. If I did not explain and share my story you would not understand who I am as a person, a student, an athlete, a friend, sibling, or a daughter. Just like any other student I qualify for many titles, but my titles are affected by my identity and background. I am a student diagnosed with a severe mental illness.

To understand others, one must first understand themselves. We are influenced by the ones around us and it shapes us into who we are today. We learn from one another to expand our horizons, to be knowledge and well rounded. Things like our race to our age play major roles in who we are. The three crucial things that have played a significant role in my life have been my family background, my religious views and my personal identity.

"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

Modern healthcare is amazing. We are progressively finding treatments and even cures for diseases and other ailments that were causing widespread death less than a century ago. One of society’s greatest achievements is the dramatic increase in life expectancy. Most children born in 1900 had a life expectancy of around 50 year of age. Now life expectancy is estimated at about 80 years of age. However, the number of people age 85 and older is on the rise accounting for 8 percent of the world’s 7 ¼ billion people (US World, 2015). In many countries this 8 and over population is the fastest growing with projections to increase 351 percent between 2010 and 2050 with a 188 percent increase for the population aged 65 or older and a 22 percent increase for those under the age of 65.

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 world population is growing at an extremely fast rate due to innovation in a variety of fields like health and medical research and

Over the past few years there has been a tremendous increase in the human population, which is having a constant effect on our environment. The “world population is about 6 billion and is projected to reach 10 billion by 2040” (Pimentel). The population growth can be described as either a growth or loss in the population size of living species including human beings. The constant increase can create an issue, thus presenting the importance of understanding how we can cope with the population growth. The human population goes through a natural course of birth and death, which is the leading contributor to the increase of the human population. A leading contributor to the increase of the human population can be related to poverty, lack of knowledge of contraceptives, and urbanization and technology. If there isn’t any progress taken to manage this high increase in the population, there might be significant issues that might come about.

Typically for most teenagers, it is difficult to define who they are as a person... but not for me. I would not define myself in any particular context. I strive for the things I want in life, and do what it takes to accomplish my goals. There are multiple categories I particularly focus on for my own benefits such as, where I have chosen to attend college and the field I portray interest in majoring, how athletics have impacted my life, and the reflection of who I have been throughout my seventeen years of life. When analyzing those topics, I reflect on my past and use it as a reference for how I would like my future to turn out.

Diversity, to me, is still a new concept. For the first 18 years of my life, I lived in a small and extremely religious city in Utah called Provo. My parents first immigrated here in 1983 and have stayed here ever since to pursue financial opportunities. Growing up, I felt a lack of personal uniqueness. I found myself constantly latching on the group identity of others to better fit in. In my hometown, a solid 80% of the residents were religiously Mormon. Not only was I the only Chinese student within my entire neighborhood but I was also the only atheist as well. This absolutely created an inherent barrier between myself and my community. I never had an issue of integrating myself within social groups but it was subconsciously clear to me that my forced social identity would often trump my sense of uniqueness. It was not until I visited California for the first time where I began to appreciate my diversity and social identity. I believe as people; we often find ourselves insecure to fully embrace our unique quirks. However today, I make it priority to always embrace my uniqueness while improving myself based on my experiences of social identity groups.

Women’s fertility has dropped rapidly and life expectancy has been increased to a new level. Fertility and mortality have led to very young populations in high fertility countries in developing world and increasingly older populations in the reach or developed world in past trends. Contemporary societies are now at very different stages of their demographic transitions. Therefore, we have seen from the history that after centuries of very slow growth, the global population reached one billion in 1800. In addition, the modern expansion of human numbers started then, increasing in low of a slower percentage but more steady pace next 150 years became to 2.5 billion in 1950. During the second half of the twentieth century, however, this growth rate dramatically accelerated to a historical unprecedented level, As a result,

Rising developments in technological innovation each and every upcoming year has afflicted the human race in several ways. One such continues to be the chance to conserve lives and build stronger medical attention for everyone. Due to it has improved life expectancy and also the increase of the human population. In past 50 possibly years, the expansion of human population has grown and has now become overpopulation. Within the past of our species, the childbirth and death rate have invariably been in the position to stabilize equally and keep a populace rate of growth that is maintainable.

Looking at the Line graph it can be easily it can be known that even though the population growth rate of the world over the years from 1950’s has been declining the population still seems to be increasing. As in the 1950’s where the growth rate is just around 1.7 the population 2555million and in 2000 when growth rate was just around 1.0 the population relatively high, i.e. around the 6000million mark. This is due to various contributing factors, firstly being the improvement in medical facilities in recent times, as due to which people receive better improved medical facilities as compared to earlier enabling their speedy recovery from illness, As compared to the olden times when people used to die easily due to illness. Another factor to be kept in mind is the war which killed thousands and millions of people, due to which the overall population remained low, even though the