“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.” – V for Vendetta. Each person possesses different characteristics that make them who they are. My hand represents all of my important qualities. Each part of my hand symbolizes a specific quality of mine. All of these attributes make me who I am. I am a dancer, a learner, a daughter. I am cheerful, happy, and creative. This is my story to tell. The thumb is the most important part of our hands. It would be very difficult to live without our thumbs. Some things that I can’t live without are my family, my friends, my phone, and my music. To me, family is everything. My family is not the most perfect one, we do have our ups and downs but I know that at the end of the day they would never let me go to bed feeling alone and to me, that’s very important. My friends are also one of the most important things in my life. I absolutely adore my friends because I feel most myself when around them; I don’t have to try to be someone I’m not. Everything comes easy with my friends and that, I value. The next two symbols drawn on my thumb are, my phone and music. My phone holds the things in my life that are significant to me. They hold memories. Pictures, videos, notes; they all document the special moments in my life. My mom’s birthday, sending my brother off to college, my friends and I laughing, quotes, lists. They might seem like small things to other people
My newly attained scar is a part of my story and a part of who I
Throughout our lifetime, us as people decide to admire different objects, ideas, and people due to what pleases their thoughts and actions. The infinite examples of things we could’ve valued could’ve been toys, friends, book, etc.. But then we began to mature and begin to come out of our little shells to discover new products, views of the world, and new ways to advance in our technology and therefore influencing what we value today. And as I matured in my lifetime, I established a novel value to my parents the greatest.
My phone is an artifact of my life. It is a iPhone 5s and it has a blue Otterbox case on it. Without the case, it is silver and white. The screen protector has a couple of cracks across the middle and a crack at the home button. It’s important to me because my phone has all my public and private information on it. Also, it’s meaningful because it has all of my social media and music on it. My phone is an artifact of my life.
What really makes an event crucial to who you are? That was the question I had to ask myself as I wrote this paper. I can recall the first time I had truly felt proud of something I had accomplished. As a young child, starting in kindergarten, I had always exceled over my peers in reading, and writing. Reading and writing just clicked for me. I understood that when certain letters are put together it makes words, and those words made stories. This paper will compare “my story” to the Jung personality test, as well as, Sherman Alexie’s story “Superman and Me.” I will explain the similarities/differences between each.
1. Gavel - A gavel represents equality. People nowadays aren't so fair to other people just because of the way they are. That is unacceptable. I think that everyone deserves to be treated equally in the right matter. I like to have peace in my life as you can see.
that we hold, whether we realize it or not, that shapes our view of and for the world. Everyone
The world is inhabited by people of unique personalities and traits. People notice one another’s physical appearances, talents, and habits, but their stories are unknown to the world’s prying eyes. A secure world never allows an individual to go out of their comfort zone. Only in times of trial will an individual grow and prosper. Such adversity develops and molds a person’s character, revealing obscure skills and dexterity.
A miniature, developing hand, pristine in condition transforms into a full-grown, wrinkle filled hand; writing the story of our life as we continue to experience it. Every hand begins in a similar way, holding our mother and father tightly as we depend on them to support our weight in only their two arms or hip. Then soon, squeezing our guardian’s hand with all our might as we take our first steps across our home. My non-dominant hand tells a lifelong story with every wrinkle, freckle, dark spot, and scar. Each of our imperfections makes us who we are. People around the world under appreciate the miraculous uses our non-dominant hand has to offer, and do not realize the necessities and benefits it provides us in our everyday lives. In the past, I neglected the wondrous uses my non-dominant hand had to offer, but as I began to reflect on past experiences, I realized the amazing actions it had already done for me and what it will soon face in the future. My left hand represents my whole life and the entirety of events I have experienced. My hand will forever continue to tell a story.
An artifact that I have to share from my life is the hobby of playing baseball. Baseball is my favorite sport to play, it is played with a bat, a fielding glove, and a baseball which is pitched to the batter to see if the batter can hit the ball within 3 strikes so the person batting won’t strikeout won’t strike out. This is crucial for me because my dad played baseball when he was younger and was really good and that makes me want to strive to get better. Also, this is key to me because my coaches and teammates on my team are the best and it makes me want to get better for them. All in all, baseball is the sport I love and care the most about, so that edges me want to go all out to get better and not let my teammates or coaches down.
In answering the critiques and critical misinterpretations of her work in ‘Gender Trouble’, Butler here further illuminates the nuanced formation of the gendered (and sexed?) self and subject as act of power within powerful repeated acts. This critical observation – that “(t)here is no power that acts but only a reiterated acting that is power in its persistence and instability” is important in thinking through gender identity formations for both transgender and cisgender populations. For if performativity is an enacted/embodied constructionism in service of cultural intelligibility and recognizability then there is no identity or body inside of culture/society that escapes this dynamic. (That trans* and non-normative bodies are held up as perfect if not sole exemplars of this dynamic by a cisgender society speaks to the Foucauldian insidiousness of discursive power.) That the same rewards and punishments (and internalized Panopticon influences) that shape transsexual identities would also concurrently shape cisgender ones is an aspect of social control that is notably absent in arguments
Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist once said, “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Mead’s quotation defines the word unique as an essence, and it is shared with millions of people. Unique ranges in a number of vivid interests, from literature to artistic abilities. Everyone is distinct in their own fashion, regardless of interests. It is when we reveal our own sense of originality that we sprout from the crowd below us. Uniqueness is a widespread characteristic in which we let our imaginative minds paint over the canvas of normality, allowing for a new perspective.
When the story of our lives is completely written our gifts may be found less credit for our success, and it will be understood that what set us apart is the incomparable quality of courage.
This symbolizes friendship. My friends are another immense part of me. What this symbol represents me in my life is how my friends support me and help me. They can be my emotional support, and are always there when I need them. My close relations help me improve me strength by cheering me up and helping me. The next symbol is the triangle symbol. It is a Celtic symbol for family. This symbol also speaks to me because I am Irish. My family is my biggest support system. They are the reason why I am here. My family is also one of my main symbols out of the
Everyone has a natural gift, something that makes us “unique” and precisely beneficial to others. A gift is not a strength, it is fueled by our deepest passion and yet, many people go through life without having the knowledge that indeed, they possess a gift. This paper will focus on my gifts, the types of gifts I have inherited it, gifts that I have developed throughout the years and the gifts that my love ones identified in me.
Everyone has formed some sort of special connection in their life. These sort of connections can come in any form. Whether it’s a person like your best friend, object like a camera or favorite pair of shoes, or a feeling/spiritual connection. These connections can impact your life, your character, and may have an influence on the person you become later on in life, even if you don’t notice. I believe in the special connections in life and how they impact you.