My Views On My Family 's Economic Standing

I was born with my identity and at the same time influenced and made the choice to do what I do. My identity was created by all three assumptions of identity while with others it could be just one or two assumptions that made who they are. I was born with me living my life in the fast lane. I have to keep on moving and trucking without ever stopping. I was born with my killer instinct and passion for competition. My involvement in mixed martial arts was influenced and a choice. Everyone has their niche in life. Some people are good at football, others in academics, while I was good

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Throughout my nineteen years of living I have gone through many events and have had many influences, both good and bad. Only a few of these events I would consider significant. I believe that both nature and nurture played a role in these significant events. Nurture had the biggest impact in my life and how I am today.

Between the years 1900-2014, Chicanas/Latinas have defined themselves as strong, independent females in mainstream American society. For many years, Mexican women have fought against stereotypes, oppression among other obstacles in life. Chicanas are expected to portray a certain norm of the ideal Mexican women, mother, daughter, wife. They have resisted and fought back against oppressors and patriarchs that have implemented and molded females to become a “virgin”. This repression has altered identity formation of women, especially among the Mexican community. Society, their culture, family, community has influenced Chicanas identity. Throughout the years, Chicanas identity has changed, especially during the Chicano Movements. Where

“Cut from the same cloth”, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”, “A chip off the old block”; most of us have heard these types of idioms at one point or another, ways of likening us to our parents. Sometimes they are right, while other times it couldn’t be farther from the truth; leaving us to wonder, “what is it that makes us who we are?” Are we simply the product of our environments, a collective sum of our interactions and experiences? Or, do our genetics pre-determine who we are, complex variations in our DNA that dictate our individual personalities? Some scientists argue on behalf of the nurture theory, that our personalities are continually changing and growing, influenced by the world and people around us. Others believe that we are pre-wired by genetics alone, that while external factors may magnify or diminish some aspects of that wiring, everything we are is already programmed into us from the moment of conception. So, who is right?

I am a young female Hispanic of Mexican decent that I am indeed proud of even though I never wanted to admit it due to all the negativity going on with being Mexican. I am considered a first-generation American born in Georgia and raised in the Rio Grande valley. I am the youngest and only female of three, sadly but fortunate they left a permanent impact on me both positive and negative. They are a big part of my life that have helped mold me into the women I am today. I am grateful that I am the youngest because older siblings just consistently make mistakes after mistakes and thanks to those mistakes I learn from them and I’m careful not to commit them. I am also considered a minority due to my gender and roots, which is sad and completely irritating because being labeled as a minority isn’t really a good feeling, making me feel like if I am less and powerless just because of my gender and ethnicity. Having to hear all the negativity occurring in the country towards minority and women and all the inequality occurring, I would have thought that in this era all the unequal treatment over gender and ethnicity would be vanished but as I grow older I realize that has

Historically different philosophers and theorists have disagreed that we are born to be the way we are. Other theorists have argued that it is the way we have been raised and the environment we have lived in that influences and makes us who we are. This argument is known as the nature-nurture debate.

For many years psychologist, sociologists, novelist, students, people in general have debated over which side, nature or nurture makes us who we are. Each side of the debate has compelling arguments and facts to support their claims, however it is foolish to say one has a greater impact than the other. I believe that humans are the product of society and biology, and that they come hand in hand. That both nature and nurture make us human because there are too many facts from each side of the argument to say that one is more influential than the other. Our biology is what differentiates males and females, and our sense of self develops from the interaction with other humans and society.

“Nature is all that man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence from without that affects him after his birth”. -Sir Francis Galton Nurture is situations that affect who you are. As an example Mary Shelley shows how a character can be nurtured to who they will become. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein who is a young doctor becomes intrigued and obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. He creates a “monster” who comes back to life wich Victor abandons. The creature is than left to defend and learn by himself which than he had to interact with humans who violently injured him. The monster in Frankenstein is who he is because he was nurtured specifically he has learned from the people who have hurt him and they have shaped his identity.

As you can see Nature vs. Nurture has a big role in my life, it’s how I was developed and how I live my life. To the family I was born with and who I grew up with to the media and my schools I’ve been

What plays the biggest role in making you truly who you are? The topic of Nature vs Nurture is one that has been talked about for ages because of its ability to be related to almost any human interactions. In the book called Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, takes readers through a tragic incident involving young children on an island left with no supervision or adults. With this, characters like Ralf, Jack, and Piggy are forced to react to their surroundings to survive and eventually reach safety. Each of these characters has different interactions with things among the island effecting their personality to change drastically by the end of the book. Making their time spent on the island either have a huge effect on the type of

When we look at the science of human development, the main consideration is how people change over time. In the age old question of nature versus nurture, there are some that believe the characteristics and traits within us are innate, meaning we are born with them. Still others feel that nurturing, our environmental influences like friends, community, schools, media and even parents affect who we are. This is a false dichotomy, it is not which-but how much of each because both play crucial roles in our development (Berger 2015).

We are not what we will be. We are who society remembers us to be. The reactions from society for our activities are what gives us our feeling of self. Without other individuals your personality does not exist for it is society who recognizes or denies the individual their character. We are who society permits us to be.

ENVIRONMENT: Most time people are usually the product of environment where they grow up. The environment where we grow up from have a way of affecting our development.

I believe that people are creatures of habit and their environment. As a child, I became a product of my surroundings. For instance, because I was brought up not having too much I learned to take pride in all of my achievements and that holds true today. I was raised with morals, norms and values which impacted the way I handle situations.