Personal Identity

Every year I look back on the previous and I see how much I have changed. I see the friends I have gained and lost. The heartbreak and the happiness. Despite how rough times have gotten, it has truly made me stronger. Everything has shaped who I am today, it has shaped my identity. Identity is a complex topic because it consists of changeable and unchangeable traits and outside internal influences; my own identity has been shaped by going from private to public school, young life camp, and my current friends.

From a young age, I was taught to respect people no matter their station in life. My parents and others I was around frequently, simply did not allow for disrespect, often I was corrected swiftly but fairly. The parenting I received is a large part of the parent I am, as well as, the person I am. I maintain a happy go lucky demeanor, I suppose the nation I was raised in, and along with the fact that I have never really known violence on a day to day basis as too many others in the world are subject to allows me to seek perspective without fear of persecution or bodily harm. I have many friends from various walks of life. I have crashed on their couches and they mine, and security I find in those relationships has helped me through tough times and allowed me to feel good when I help in turn. Being an overall good person without religion being the guiding force in my life is a big part of my identity. There is no fear of “hell” or a bad scenario in the hereafter, so my attitude on life is not forced or faked. One final influence on my identity is my early adoption of technology, I have always enjoyed gadgets and computers and feel it has made me useful and I will maintain that feeling into old age as I understand tech more than most my age I’d speculate. All of this combined makes my identity, I do my best to avoid negative influences, and sometimes positive ones, in order to make up my own mind about each new scenario I am placed into.

1. Any theory of personal identity should be able to solve two problems: first, the problem of individuation; second, the problem of continuity or persistence. How would you in your own words characterize these problems? Also, do these problems matter at all? Are they actually important? Why or why not?

A personal identity is the concept that is developed about oneself that evolves throughout his or her life. This could include uncontrollable aspects such as skin color, religious beliefs, or race.

My struggles with personal identity, at least as far as they relate to Navy SEAL parachuting techniques, all started in 3rd grade.

Identity. Identity is kind of a funny thing. It is the thing that makes us who we are. I come from a ranching and rodeo and logging background. My mom was a barrel racer with my vice principal, Mrs.Fuzico. My dad was a real horseman and logger when he was younger. He had a couple horses and was good no... GREAT at riding and handling horses. My grandma, dad, and childhood have impacted my identity.

Personal identity is something that we originate from many sources in our lives. It can be obtained from life events, experiences, or persons who bring meaning or significance to our lives. Therefore, I believe that we acquire personal identity from not only our skills, occupation, but from all aspects of our everyday lives. However, I also believe that personal identity is obtained from the things that we care most such as family, friends, career, college degree, and social work. Family, friends, career, college degree and social works are sources of identity and are very meaningful part of my life.

In today’s society, one of the hardest social conventions for an individual to overcome has been the systemic stratification and classification of that individual’s “identity,” whether that be by the government, employers, or even one’s own family. A person’s race, religion, gender, sexuality, and economic status have become the defining characteristics of a person’s identity. In turn, this has fostered a society in which the courts actively look to ensure that the rights of certain classes are not either prohibited by others, or conversely, promoted over the rights of others. Recent social movements have been charged by the classes that our society has forced citizens in to, ultimately driving oppressed individuals toward seeking relief from

Our backgrounds is usually what defines; my background is my identity. Everything about my life, my background and weirdly I would like to think my future spells hardship. I on the other hand would like to think that my background prepared me for this. As I look on my childhood, I contemplate what exactly made it enjoyable. Childhood should be simple but as for me, I was consumed with responsibilities, however hopeful for what the future might hold for me. My childhood was instrumental (very significant) in shaping who I have become as a young woman:

An identity that best defines my personal characteristics is that I am a risk taker that loves when challenges come my way. With the difficulties I have encountered in my life span I have managed to enrich my confidence to confront challenges.

Philosophers have been struggling for centuries with solve how personal identity manifests itself in people, but they are especially concerned with how it carries over through space-time as a unique portion of the person said identity originates from. Philosophers are concerned with personal identity 's connection to the physiology of human beings because of the immensely physical nature of the world we occupy. The physicalist perspective is also a stronger rational backing because the alternative perspective to the physicalist perspective, the dualist perspective, offers a more complex explanation of the nature of physical identity. If the assumption is made that the dualist view of personal identity and the physicalist view of personal identity both accommodate the how personal identity operates equally well, the simpler view is the more probable view due to the argument made by Occam 's Razor. This argument is that probabilistically speaking, if there are less things need to be taken into consideration for an argument, the likelihood of that argument being true is greater due to the necessity of only one or a few conditions needing to exist. In this paper, a few popular possible arguments for personal identity in relation to human anatomy will be discussed. The equivalence of a person to his/her theory view will be summarized and a counterexample will be provided to attempt to disprove the brain view, this will also be done for the the memory continuity theory. Then,

I am who I am because of my parents’ influence on my life. Their strengths and weaknesses as human beings have profoundly impacted my personality and my world view in a variety of ways.

“When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have”(Cassidy). The current definition of identity is: “the distinguishing character or personality of an individual” (“Identity”). David Cassidy would strongly disagree with this. David understood how harsh life could be and how it could shape who you are. The true definition of identity is the way your past forms your personality.

I have allowed my appearance to be shaped by my culture and society but also try to adapt and add to the accepted fashion in order to make it my own. I have outgrown old tendencies while still keeping several specific elements of them. Generally what I am is a web that has been weaved with trates of my past self and new influences. Changing who I am visually takes time to fully adapt, the transition is made easier by the adaptation of my old traits.

On my identity collage the things that I put are the ones that are very important to me and the ones that I embrace in my life . Some of the things that are most important on my collage is my culture , religion , family and a little bit of my future . So let’s start off talking about my culture , my culture is deprived of two parts Indian and Fijian . Our culture has a lot do with dignity and respect for ourselves in the world , we are taught moral values that we are supposed to follow through our whole lives . Also the values that we are taught in our culture we are also encouraged to let others know as well as instill these values into our kids for their better future . Some of the values that we are taught is to not eat beef or pork as beef comes from cows and Hindus worship cows as mothers and pork is not to be eaten as it is considered an unhealthy meat and against one of the Hindu gods . So I have learned these values from my culture and this is what we are taught .