Why Students Have The Your Lives By Developing Their Own Stories And Identities

In the “The Danger of a Single Story”, Chimamanda Adicie tells her own personal experiences of a single story and how that can become challenging. She talks about when she started reading and writing at a young age. She read British and American children 's books. When she started writing all her characters were white and blue eyed just like in the books. It wasn 't until writers Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye that she realized people like her, people of color, could exist in literature. Adichie 's says “what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story

Lacking a wider variety of stories on any given topic can lead to dangerous misconceptions and casual racism. In her TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story, Ms. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award winning Nigerian novelist and public speaker, uses personal encounters with the effects of a single story to normalize her experiences with her audiences so that they may internalize them and act upon them easier. Ms. Adichie's use of pathos, as well as her comedic tone and understanding of who her audience is makes it significantly easier for her to accomplish the aforementioned goal.

Throughout my educational experience I noticed the discrepancies with regard to the advantages my peers possessed. In high school as I began exploring what career I wished to pursue, I experienced inferiority as my classmates who’ve taken the ACT three times, visited college campuses, and have had resumes ready since the 6th grade unintentionally mocked my lack of college-readiness. However, my ignorance wasn’t intentional, my parents never reached a high school education in Mexico, they couldn’t pass down SAT tips or acquire internship opportunities for me. I realized it's vital to pick up the pace to avoid being left in the dust akin to countless others in my situation. Henceforth, this statement resonates with my experience, I interpreted

Identity-“Ones personal qualities.”Identiy is something only he or she can fully define. My uncle says I am affectionate,cheerful, and calm. My grandmother sees me as slim, pretty and sweet. My dad described me as perky, cheerful and happy, my mom says beautiful, gentle, and self-conscious. These adjectives describe me accurately, yet they are only abstract versions of me. Adjectives cannot begin to describe me and I aknowlege these descriptions for what they are, a condensed translation from my outward self to the world. It is impossible for anyone to understand me completely because nobody has experienced the things I have. My mother has never cherished a raggedy doll named Katie and my father never

My room-mate had a single story of Africa; a single story of catastrophe”. Adichie also tells how growing up in Nigeria reading only American and English children’s books made her deaf to her authentic voice. As a child, she wrote about such things as blue-eyed white children easting apples, thinking brown skin and mangos had no place in Literature. That changed as she discovered African writers.

In her 2009 TED talks presentation,” The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains how a single story presented by the media and books can affect the way a person may perceive others, places, and cultures (Adichie). Adichie is the daughter of a professor and an administrator from a middle-class family born in Nigeria. As soon as she began to write she believed her stories needed to contain foreigners that lived a diverse life, but discovered African books that changed her perspective on literature. She goes into details explaining her point through personal experiences where she falsely misunderstood someone based on a single word she heard

Watching the TED talk that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gave on “The Danger of a Single Story” was powerful. A single story has insufficient primary sources to have the full comprehension of the real story. Seeing Adichie verbalize issues that I have discovered in myself allowed me to reflect deeply regarding my perception of others. Adichie spoke on how her childhood was filled with English stories and how she gained a perspective on their culture through books. Books are truly powerful storytellers and is often forgotten about in a society where books are taken for granite. A book in another one of my classes was based on Adichie’s idea of how English stories only told one side of the story; this book explored the lives an Igbo society and how English stories portrayed them differently than who they actually were. This proved that I am not alone in making a single story, furthermore

In the video “The Danger of a Single Story” on TED Talk published July 2009, the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie agues that stereotypes are often created by the single stories and it is hard to see the real story when people only know about the single stories. When Adichie was a child, she read the Western literature from America and England, and once she started to write her own story, she wrote the story as similar as her books. As she got older, she realized that the characters does not have to be like her books and the characters can be like her after she read African literature. She also realized that her roommate believed a stereotypes story of Africa so that when Adichie told her that she was from Nigeria, she had felt sorry

Adichie brings to light a very important problem in our society. In her speech she talks about the dangers of having a single story for a person or group of people. She told a story of her houseboy who did the chores around the house for them. All she knew about the boy was that he was poor. Later when she visited his family’s house she was shocked to find out that his family could actually make things like artwork or crafts. She had a single story of the boy that he was poor and knew nothing else. Because of this she assumed that he and his family were not capable of making anything beautiful or creative. She learned that there was so much more to that family than what her single story led her to believe.

In the video ’’ Ted Talk “ Adichie talked about the danger of a single story, and she utilized the stories of her childhood in Africa, in university and with her family. Adichie explained how a single story can change people's prospective on a single culture, change people’s thinking about other people. Re-telling or re-creating traditional stories might show how people feel about other people and what they think about them. I have never been a victim of a single story. I agree with Adichie because she was very accurate about how a single story can make people hate or don’t like other people, because it can be a start of many stereotypes, start of racism.

Lastly, the TED talk The Dangers of a Single Story encapsulates what the idea of a single story truly is. The speaker, Chimamanda Adichie, while attending an American college, her roommate asked her to play her “tribal music” from Africa. The author did not know what tribal music meant and proceeded to play American pop songs. She later realized that the reason her American roommate asked her to play tribal music was because in her eyes, all Africans were exactly as how they were portrayed and exactly what her singular idea of them was Chimamanda herself was also the victim of buying into a single story because while growing up in an upper middle class society, she had a houseboy whom she knew was very

Chimamanda Adichie, in “The Danger of the Single Story”, exposes said malevolence by identifying the influence of power in conspiring the single story: “How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power” (Adichie). Literature presents itself as an unbiased curator of knowledge, yet it has been manipulated by economic, religious, and political powerhouses to “dispossess, … malign, … [and] break the dignity of a people” (Adichie). Her urgent tone portrays the issue’s relevance in today’s society and the importance of seeking countermeasures. The dire consequences reaped by said flaw was acknowledged, in our third book club, by my peer: the single story is the premise of social ingroups and outgroups to which an individual respectively belongs as a member or towards which they feel contempt (Nanji, Book Club

There’s a new class rising amongst the generation of freshmen moving into a new world of responsibilities of what must be done to complete college on the winning side of completing college. Anxious, excited and yet nervous, but on top of that, the achievement of getting that acceptance letter can almost lead to a hangover off celebration if not careful. This is a momentous time, but before an extensive celebration there should be a self-evaluation that even Mark Edmundson asks in his text: “Who Are You And What Are You Doing Here?” I was there, in 2013 was finally the time for me to move forward, but it wasn’t sweet. I didn’t graduate high school with my diploma because I didn’t pass the mandatory graduation test. I didn’t want to sit out a semester so

When I started college, I learned I have to do everything on my own. I had no idea what all I needed to do before the first semester began. I first learned that my mom couldn’t keep doing everything for me. It was my job to find out everything I needed. It was a tough adjustment from what I was used to but I was excited to get started.

I really started to go and develop in the 7th grade. I started to take school seriously. Before the 7th grade, I did care about school but I wasn’t serious about it. I used to mess around with friends in class, do my work sloppy, and not taking time to study outside of school. When 7th grade started, I told myself that i gotta focus on my education because it will prep me for the following school years and develop good habits. During the year, I put school as a higher priority than other things like video games and sports. My grades were good except the one C grade I had in English class. Overall the next two years my grades were great, I had only A’s and B’s in my classes. Once I entered my sophomore year at Puyallup High School, my focus