What Is Identity?

What is an identity? Some people claim you’re born with it, other says that your identity is molded throughout your lifetime. An identity is what makes you the person that you are. When someone describes you to someone else, they are describing your identity. The morals that you live by, and the way you live your life is your identity. Many different factors make your identity different from everyone else’s. I think this because everyone goes through different events in their life and that’s what alters a person’s identity.

What identity means to me is how a person or thing describes itself or is described. A person’s identity is based on their personality and who they are as a person. If a person is kind to other people and helps others this shows the person is caring so one of the person’s identity is that he/she is caring. People might identify themselves by saying that their compassionate, courageous, easygoing, determined, sensitive or even that their independent . Three words that identify me are that I am venturesome, ambitious, and athletic.

Identity. The definition of identity is The fact of being who or what a person or thing is. Identity is who you are. Your fingerprint is different. Your DNA is different. Even your eyeball pattern is different than the guy next to you. Some things that i like to do that not all people might not like are to play football and basketball, do water sports like ski and wakeboard and go hunting and fishing. Three things that make me unique are that i'm an athlete, funny, and laid back.

Growing up, my parents were both construction workers for a company named, Motec, and it was a good paying job. As kids my parents would buy my brother and I any toys we dreamed of and they had no limit on giving us what we wanted but that job did not last because it ended up closing down and firing all their workers including my parents. My parents did not have a job for a while and my parents were desperate. My dad's sister came over with her husband one day and brought a brand new white van and I was excited at the new sighting because the first thing I thought of was that we were going to go on roadtrips and we would travel to new places but I never thought that they would fill it up with items such as clothes, toys, etc and go to the swap meet to sell it. Every Sunday they would get up at 5:00 in the morning and drive to the Orange Show Swap Meet in San Bernardino. They sold about $300 worth of stuff every

she took the money and walked away not a single thank you was said to us. My mother told me some people don't realize or appreciate the things given to them. We kept walking and went along with our day. When we got home my mother told my dad what had happened although it wasn't that much big of a deal, my parents shared everything with each other. Which at that moment taught me about love. Love is a funny thing it could hurt you so much but also fill the emptiness and sadness inside you, seeing how my parents are able to share every detail of their day and how they are able to handle the situation in a good manner showed me something that I would use my whole life. I mean my mom could have taken the money back, she could have been rude back but she wasn't. She decided to leave it as it is because in life you never really know what someone has been through, whether they had a bad day or they just don't have manners. Well anyways as my mom sat down with my dad she explained how it all went down and that she needed to go back to the store and get some things the next day because we had forgotten about buying milk. I

Identity. What is identity? One will say that it is the distinct personality of an individual. Others will say that identity is the behavior of a person in response to their surrounding environment. At certain points of time, some people search for their identity in order to understand their existence in life. In regards, identity is shaped into an individual through the social trials of life that involve family and peers, the religious beliefs by the practice of certain faiths, and cultural awareness through family history and traditions. These are what shape the identity of an individual.

When we arrived at the food drive, it was packed full of people, from old men to children, waiting for food and plenty of volunteers due to the upcoming holidays. As I entered I prepared to help however I could. I served food for hours to people and they all were very appreciative and spoke about this will be their only meal today. I continued to serve food to everyone then suddenly I saw a family approach, a girl who looked about my age came with her mom and little sister up to the serving area and I immediately took notice to them. I

Back in the days, my wonderful Grandmother died in 1980 and left a few things around. My Mother went to her house to find out what she left in her house. I wasn’t born then but my mom told me what happened we really miss our grandmother and how she made us laugh and cry at some times. When my grandmother was alive she used to tell us how slavery was back in the days. We used to actually cry when she told us that we couldn’t believe how they use to get treated back in the days .My grandmother was a helping kind lady that helped us when she could that was the only person that looked out for us. She was the best in the world I know everybody else in the world wish they still have they grandmother. Whenever we didn’t have anything to eat my grandmother would make us something

It was a hot, Texas summer afternoon. All of the family was sitting together, enjoying each others company. We were watching TV. We joked and laughed with each other. When my grandpa arrives from work, he rushes upstairs to get ready for guitar classes, and says he will be back for dinner. For us, it was a normal Wednesday. Afterward, my grandpa comes down, and sits at the table. He was dressed casually, and is ready to eat. He gets settled and tells me he has something exciting to tell me. We are eating at the table, each of us are enjoying the meal. While we are eating, I notice my grandpa getting in a position as if he were going to say something. He looks at me, along with my mother. He says,"Karmin, would you like to go to guitar classes?"

In the coming summers, I started going to our gas station with my dad in the afternoons. Since we had bought a house in Southaven, MS, the distance to the gas station had doubled allowing us to converse for almost an hour. Because we both shared a passion for sports, my dad explained to me the game of cricket, while I shared my obsession with Lebron James and basketball. Soon enough, we formed our individual opinions which led to some heated debates. Due to the bond we had formed, I think my dad realized I was ready to learn the "business" aspect of the gas station. Later that summer, as soon as we entered, my dad would hand me a brown paper bag from underneath the cash register full of money. I would go to the kitchen and recount the money to make sure it was the same amount as accounted by the

What is identity? The definition as a person’s own sense of whom they are, which their past defines them. Identity is very important in our society, no matter your social status. I can attach identity to belonging to something or a place. As a human race, we feel the need to belong to a group or place. Because belonging to a group or place, give us the sense of identity.

When people from spanish-speaking countries come to America they try to be like everyone else. Language is one of the most important things you can have in life and no one should be able to take this away, however sometimes people lose values of what they want and have in life. Your identity is what makes you unique and what makes everyone different, and there is nothing wrong with being attuned with your roots, you should not give up on your ancestors that easily. In “And Then I Went To School”by Joe Suina, “Daughter of Invention” by Julia Alvarez, and “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez, language and power complicates how people see themselves and the world by making them question their identity and history.

At a young age, I saw my grandma doing selfless deeds all the time. They were things she never broadcasted to the world, but were big enough to change someone’s life. She married my Grandpa at the young age of seventeen. Since my grandpa was deployed in the military, she had to meet him in Germany, where she travelled alone to get to him. During her journey, she couldn’t get a hold of her husband so she had to go through many people, many of whom who did not speak English, and somehow make her way to the military base that he was staying at. She told this story to teach me not to be scared of what lies in front of you. She was able to figure her way out of a very difficult situation to get to what she wanted.

Identity is what evolves us, it is what makes us think the way we do, and act the way we act, in essence, a person’s identity is their everything. Identity separates us from everyone else, and while one may be very similar to another, there is no one who is exactly like you; someone who has experienced exactly what you have, feels the way you do about subjects, and reacts the same to the events and experiences you have had. This became prevalent to me as I read through many books, that everyone goes through the process of finding who they are. A prevalent theme throughout literature is the idea that over time one develops their identity through life over time, in contrast to being born with one identity and having the same