Cultural Background Paper Natesha C. Robinson SCO/100 May 5th‚ 2010 Leslie Hart University of Phoenix Cultural Background Culture is the totality of learned‚ socially transmitted customs‚ knowledge‚ material objects‚ and behavior. It includes ideas‚ values‚ and artifacts of groups of people (Schaefer‚ 2006). Understanding culture can be tricky‚ ever ask “why do people act the way they do?”‚ “what made me do that”‚ “what was I thinking?” Physical abilities‚ educational background
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Finding My Identity PSY201-01 Human Growth and Behavior Professor Daniel R. Kleber November 30‚ 2011 Finding my Identity James Marcia’s theories of identity status along with Erik Erikson’s identity vs. identity confusion both coincide with periods in my adolescence and middle adulthood life. “Marcia’s theory of identity achievement argues that two distinct parts of an adolescent identity: crisis (i.e. a time when one’s values and choices are being reevaluated)
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2015 The Real Me My personality is what makes me who I am today. Although I may have some weaknesses in my personality‚ I am basically the upbeat type. I try to be as happy as I can most of the time. Everyone cannot please each other but if everyone pleases everybody and are cheerful most of the time. My ethnicity‚ my location‚ sports‚ and my ambitions for the future have shaped my identity. My personality and being a Christian were affected by my adoptive parents. My father is a disciplinarian
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defining my identity are a bible‚ Kente cloth‚ and my college acceptance letter to Holy Cross. These three objects are very important to and have played a part in making me the motivated‚ open-minded‚ and independent young adult I am today. The first being a bible was given to me a church brother. At the time I was building my faith in God‚ it was a gift without the notion of how meaningful the bible would help me to seek God more and find favor in the eyes of others. The book of Ruth has shaped my identity
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Socio-economic class and all that it entails are also related to my social identity and how I communicate. My family and I would be considered middle class. Sources such as income‚ parental figures‚ and society itself have all contributed to my knowledge about social class. My social class is also expressed through opportunities such as the clothing I wear‚ accessories‚ and education. Being in the middle class also has advantages and opportunities that others may not have such as career choices‚
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“belonged” to any of these groups. Rather‚ it seems like I exist in the way things have always been: in the way my life was always meant to be. Nonetheless‚ the following is my attempt to unearth the scaffoldings that molded me towards this set of identities and to expose the ways in which my pathway through engineering has been (and will be) altered by them. The most complicated of these identities is that of being male. I am as comfortable as it is possible for one to be with the chemical
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because‚ well that’s just me. Cultural Identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group. My personal culture is based on the food I eat‚ the clothes I wear and the music that races through my ears and empowers me. One element of my culture is the clothes I wear. Clothes are items worn to cover the body‚ but my clothes are so much more than that. I would describe my particular wardrobe as classy and chill. Sometimes as every girl does I like to go “all out” with my fashion choice. When I was
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The identity we assume can often be a large part of how we see ourselves and how others around us can get a snapshot of our personalities‚ our origins‚ and how we wish to be portrayed. Sometimes the line between distinct identities can be blurred and a person can lose sight of who they are or where they feel like they belong most. Such can often be the case for immigrants as myself‚ who can sometimes struggle to find the identity that addresses the new life they have molded into and most represents
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person. I am extremely shy. I have terrible social anxiety. On my first day of high school‚ I was marked absent for my first class because I was too scared to ask anyone where it was‚ and too scared to ask anyone for a map. Freshman year was not enjoyable due to theses reasons - until my introverted self stumbled across a call board in the director’s classroom for anybody interested in joining the invigorating world of speech. I had worked my way into the theatre world through friends. I determined that
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Writing Assignment 1: My Musical Identity Music‚ in all its complexity can be seen as a living‚ breathing mechanism that has the ability to sink deep down into one’s soul and create feelings of awe‚ excitement and wonder. Music speaks to and connects people of all cultures‚ backgrounds and ideologies‚ creating a common bond between various members of the human species. When listening to a beautifully composed piece of music‚ I myself cannot help but feel connected to the instruments‚ the artists
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