Bathsheba Smithen's Speech

The environment in which an individual grows up in can affect life greatly. Our surroundings influence one’s personality, self-expression, and individuality, otherwise known as identity. Finding one’s true self is the most grueling stage of life and expectations of family and society make the process even harder. One’s true identity can sometimes clash with hopes of others, thus breaking tradition and/or family ties. Pressure to change will always be present, but staying true to uniqueness will prevail.

The speaker of the Ted Talk, “Yes, I survived cancer. But that doesn 't define me” is Debra Jarvis. Debra Jarvis has been a hospice and hospital chaplain for 30 years. In 2005, she found out that her mother had breast cancer, 5 days later she received news that she also had breast cancer. She says that we tend to identify ourselves by our wounds and claim that we are a survivor of something whether it be a rape survivor, holocaust survivor, cancer survivor, or any other kind of survivor. Jarvis uses her personal experiences, stories of patients, and her humor, to make her listeners believe in her credibility. Her appeals to ethos, combined with her friendly tone and light hearted jokes, creates an effective

The death of Marie Antoinette prompted the speech given by Edmund Burke in 1793. The speech was given in Versailles, France following the death of the last Queen before the French Revolution.

As a college student, Emily Vallowe wrote a literacy narrative with a play on words title: “Write or Wrong Identity.” In this work, she told the story of how she believed her confidence as a writer developed; however, she was becoming dubious as to her distinctiveness as an author. Although I have never been a self-proclaimed wordsmith as Ms. Vallowe obviously had been for years, I related to her journey. Not only did she grow up in Northern Virginia like I did, she never considered herself an inept writer—a possibility that I could not fathom about myself. Then, at some point, we both began to question our own ability and to question who we really were. I identified with her soul-shaking experience when she profoundly realized, “It is a strange feeling to grow up defining yourself as something when you don’t know if that something is actually true.” I struggled in an introductory composition course at Virginia State University (VSU), and after giving each assignment my all, still

Joan Didion is known as one of the greatest writers of the twenty first century. Inspired by life events, her writing reflects her critical view of society. Both of her memoirs, The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking, differ in her execution of literary techniques such as tone, character, and conflict but remain synonymous in her themes.

Williamson jumps right in with an alarming contradiction. She argues that what makes us uncomfortable in our lives is exactly the opposite of what we think it is. We are not scared that we don’t measure up to societal, familial, or personal standards. Quite the contrary - we are fearful that we exceed the expectations. The reason it frightens us so, according to her, is that we have the notion that standing out for what makes us unique will cause people around us to feel inhibited. From her perspective, that isn’t the case at all. By allowing ourselves to be wonderfully unique, we “give other people permission to do the same.”

In today’s society the general attitude towards an individual is conform or be an outcast. It is seen in schools where people who do not fit into specific cliques become outcasts, the weird people. It is seen in the work place as well. People have conformed to standards set by society simply because society has said to do so. Society asks people to change themselves to fit in. However, people do not have to conform to the standards set by society.

A set of characteristics by which something is familiar is an identity. People are able to recognize a chair by its flat surface and the legs that support it, however, humans adapt to this identity. For instance, there may be only one leg, but that does not stop it from being identified as a chair. When talking about humans the basic idea of identity tends to become perplexing. This does not stop oneself from identifying various people. It just means people have to be aware that identity runs deeper than the bare facts. There are two primary angles to the concept of human identity; the first being that people like to be perceived a certain way. Whether that is to stand out or fit in, it comes down to the individual. The second aspect indistinctly

People always suggest others to be themselves. To not care about what others have to say about you. People try to ignore society 's opinion about them, not realizing the importance it plays in identity. For a person to feel identified, they must have similarities or differences, and some type of involvement. Identity involves a combination of how you see yourself and how others see you. How others see you is influenced by material, social, and physical constraints. This causes a tension between how much control you have in constructing your own identity and how much control or constraint is exercised over you. How we see ourselves and how others see us differ in many ways, but is an important factor of our identity. “A Lesson Before Dying”,

Polarities exist within everything in our lives, many of them due to different views that were caused by environmental influences while growing up. Likewise, when a majority of a culture is of one, this causes a certain lack of comprehension that generates stereotypes. Certain distress is caused when a race or culture is stereotyped, causing people such as Malcom X and Judith Ortiz Cofer, to undertake their path of resolution. They go on to persuade people of uncertainty, to enlighten ignorant people about their culture. Hoping to reach their audience that they speak out to, striving for the balance that they crave. They bring forth their insight of their struggles with identity, the struggles with conforming to social norms,

If everyone person goes against society they conforming to individuality by being self-reliant. One person originally comes up with the out of box idea there are people that take an idea and transform it into there own way. Everyone first all did have to take the first initial step all the same then branched out into being their own individual. If everyone stays the same and dose not thinks in a transcendentalist way then they are completely conforming.

For me one of the most significant changes was in my face, after only a few months there was a noticeable feminization of my face. Now this obviously at first was such a great thing for me but eventually I realised it was working as a double edged sword.

According to the story,the wife of bath’s.The narrator of the story is the character or voice that relates.The story events to the reader,Many narrators have distinct personalities that are revealed through the subject,matter,tone,and language of their stories.In this story the narrator is the wife of Baths.One of the most charsmatic character in the conterdeurry tales and arguedbly in all of as you notice what she reveals about herself and medieval.Society in her lively take and the contertrarrs.Tales has a sofhisticated structure or organization.

In a time of such desperation who do you look to? As a citizen it 's the person that has sealed their life for the insurance of your safety and protection. Queen Elizabeth I exemplified such raw and passionate traits for her people in an address to her troops during a time of war. The queen 's speech was delivered as a way to show her trustworthiness in the ability of her troops to protect the civilians in the batter against the Spaniards, all the while persuading her people that she were as fit a queen as any king could be during a time when such a dominant ruler was needed. This speech would be one that would not only move the civilians so much so that they 'd put their fate in the hands of the queen and her troops, but also force that would will these troops to be brave and fight with the strength reign through.

Throughout this semester I learned many things. One of the main sources that I learned from was from a book named: “How to Work a Room”. This book gave great me great potential scenarios that I could see myself in. The best part about this book was how within the book it gave me suggestions on how to fix the the wrong things I would naturally do into positive actions I can work on in the near future. My ultimate goal for my final event was to create a plan to help ensure I get the most out of it, and what I did to get a positive experience out of the event I went too.