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Personal Narrative: My Identity

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What makes up an identity? Your friends, family, and culture can all play parts into your identity, but how can you show your identity to someone who isn’t you? By presenting the different sides of you, of course. My project illustrates the amused, serious, playful, and loving parts of me in different areas and situations. I had pictures of me with my friends, family, and some of. It displays my identity in multiple different fashions and therefore deserves an A.

My poster is filled with a variety of different pictures. In the majority of these pictures, I’m smiling. These pictures show my playful and joyous side—the side that comes out around friends and family. It’s a key part of my identity. It gave an excellent (and A+ worthy) insight …show more content…

I was able to organize my poster in an aesthetically pleasing format with design brainstorming, preparation, and careful planning. This helped me successfully lay out my poster. I made sure to make certain pictures stand out over others to signify their importance to my identity. The white space on my poster serves as filler spots for new things that are to become a part of my identity in the near (or far) future.
Although, there are many positive things about my poster, some parts can be questionable. Some might say that I could’ve added more pictures of myself at a younger age or more pictures of myself in a different context. This may hold some truth, however, pictures of me at a younger age aren’t exactly necessary because my identity at a younger age is completely different from my identity now. Pictures of me in a different context weren’t completely necessary either since a large part of my identity is my friends and family so it would only be fitting to have them as the main part of my poster. My poster can also be criticized for the amount of white space left on it, but it was for a reason. As stated previously, I wanted to leave some blank space to fill in for parts of my identity that are going to form in the future. I also left the blank space for reasons of organization and

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