A Different Me

The word home can have a very different meaning depending on who you ask. While you might think that what a home is would be a easy definition, there are often discrepancies. Different people may hold different views on what a home actually is. There are many aspects that go into the topic. Food, family, pets, hometown, and country are some of the many factors that go into defining what a home actually is. What is the difference between a house vs. a home? Depending on who you talk to, you

Throughout my life, me and my family have moved around a lot, from Toronto’s east to west end, and even the countryside. While this has helped me gain experience and important knowledge, the challenges of constant moving have affected my life heavily and made me who I am today. I have also experienced multiple viewpoints and how different life is in different places. While this had helped me greatly in life, the difficulties I had to face were also challenging, such as keeping friendships, struggling

paper discusses who I am and how I have become the person I am today through different cultural experiences and my worldview on helping others and poverty. What makes me difference from other people, why Social Work interests me and the criteria to be a ‘fit and proper’ Social Worker. The word ‘culture’ can mean numerous things to different people around the world. Most of us are who we are today because of the different ‘cultures’ we have been exposed to over the years through, friends, family and

America. Finding Ethiopian friends who share the same interest as me, understand their culture, practice their languages, and have interest in returning back to Ethiopia someday, has always been a struggle for me. Most of the Ethiopians who I meet are Americanized. When I was studying at NIU, I was blessed to have a small circle of Ethiopians who grew up there. Spending time with me made me feel secure, like I actually belonged. Lucky for me, I am also a part of the African community. There are 53 countries

my most favored subjects to study because to me it instructs students how to be intelligent, how to become a more creative and critical thinker, and be able to develop ethical values and imagination. You can express yourself more efficiently in English than you can in any other subject. This class has truly made me a more confident writer and helped me express myself in different ways through the different types of papers I wrote. By writing different types of papers I have improved multiple areas

What is my cultural identity? Personally, I don’t think I am completely assured on what my cultural identity is, but I can do my best on explaining it. However, I won’t get started on that yet, first I’ll explain the occasion of me learning about my identity. At almost the beginning of the year, it was announced in our English class that we would be doing an essay on our cultural identities. When my teacher announced this I thought to myself, “What in the world is a cultural identity, or even my

Different personality, believes, identity and behavior makes a person unique. Identity is one's self representation in the world. Who I am, really makes up my identity. Personal traits make me appear towards the world. My worldview incorporates of different concepts and suppositions. It helps to decode my issues in my life. As I continue to evolve, my identity, status and my worldview shape me. My family and my faith status makes my life worthwhile. It's the love and relationship that keeps me bounded

and stress that came with that. I never enjoyed writing or English class in general, but taking Composition I has changed my views on both. This class has benefitted me in several ways, as both a student and a writer. I have learned how to write more effectively, expanded my writing methods, and learned how to properly use different grammar techniques. At the start of the fall semester, I remember doing a ‘Getting Started’ assignment where I described my weaknesses and goals for the course. This

my life truly started shaping me was in the summer of 2004. The summer of 2004 is when I got diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, it was very shocking for my family except for me, I still didn’t completely understand what I had. All I knew was that the poking and pricking with different sized needles was painful. Eventually I began to learn what Type 1 Diabetes really was, and even though i had it, it didn’t slow me down, I focused on my academics and when it affected me I addressed and fixed the problem

and tennis my sophomore, junior, and senior year. I worked hard and put in extra time in order to set myself apart from others. Succeeding in both school and athletics made me a responsible, reliable, and an organized individual. These experiences made me a versatile individual and have given me a work ethic that has benefited me with my academics in college and with my work and volunteer experiences. Occupational therapy is the career that I have always been interested in because it is a career where