My Cultural Identity: Modern American Teenage Girl

We finished the season not to well with many losses and little wins. Then my 2nd year of varsity started in 9th grade. This had been my most successful year so far. I do not know why I did so good this however, it had been my hardest. I went from being 110 pounds to 99 pounds at the beginning of the year and it became harder and harder to maintain my weight due to the fact that I had grown about an inch in the middle of the season.

Just like in Jing-mei’s mother in Two Kinds, my parents have always told me I can be whatever I want to be, because this is America. But every day I ask myself, who am I? What is my cultural identity? Just by a glance I am like everyone else, a typical American teenager. A girl trying to make it through school and make my life as successful as possible, and maybe find myself along the way.

It doesn’t matter what you do in life, somewhere along the way you will meet people that help mold and shape you regardless of the amount of time they spend in your life. However, those that are around you more often tend to have more influence than others! Some of the biggest influences in my life other than my parents were some of the most random. Hands down, the three most influential people in my life so far have been my Mom, Dad, and high school football coach Matt Beam. Early on in life my mom pulled the most weight in influencing me if I had to say so.

Because such a high standard of perfection is impossible for most women, failure is almost inevitable. When women constantly fail in their attempts to meet this standard, negative consequences follow. The number of girls with eating disorrders is estimated to several milion. The physical problems associated with dieting include malnutrition, destruction of tooth enamel, organ failure and death. The American Anorexia/Bulimia Association has estimated that up to 10% of those diagnosed with anorexia may die.

“The Big Dipper” scored his 80th point with 7:51 left on the clock. The crowd went crazy because he has already broken his old points record of seventy-eight. Wilt soon later stated “Man, these people are tough. I’m tired. I’ve got 80 points and no one has ever scored 80.”

My dad had played basketball for his entire young life and his whole high school career. I have heard countless stories of basketball from my dad, stories of triple doubles and overtime wins, and I wanted to have those experiences for myself. Naturally, his love for the game of basketball trickled down

Every year, more than 3.5 million children under the age 14 need treatment for sports injuries, with nearly half of all sports injuries for middle and high school students caused by overuse(Inetwork, 2017). This means that kids are being worked out to hard and play too much. Kids should not have to practice their sports everyday. 1.35 million kids a year get a serious injury from playing sports that are too competitive. It is getting to a point where the kids are not even having fun when they are playing sports, they are just playing it to win.

Even the young athletes that play sport for different reasons begin to feel threatened by their performance and well developed physique. In most cases this would be another reason why students are taking steroids, because of the pressure they experience from their peers that are taking steroids. Even though the rate of steroid use for females that play sport is just below 10%, the numbers of high school and college athletes that take some sort of supplement with their workouts is still very high as it falls around the 40 to 50% margin (John Whyte, M.D., MPH, 2011). Other studies have shown that another factor responsible for increasing the numbers of steroid use in students is the readily availability of the drug to anyone.

One group had kids from the age of 10 to 13 in it the other group was slightly younger. The kids were asked how important brands are to them for different kinds of products. In this survey they also asked the kids how important it is that their sports shoes were from a brand. 73% of the older group answered that it is important to them. That’s a really high number which shows just how much the brands have made their way into the sports industry.

Children are the future of the United States. It’s sad to see that a high percentage of them are obese. As a student in Vacaville High School, I am active in sports and enjoy going to the gym. Those activities only take three to four hours out of my day and it’s well worth it. Walking around you can see kids in there teens that are overweight, so their quality of life is hindered.

Throughout my life, I have been identified as a big girl. When I was in sixth grade, my height was 5’0 ft. and weighed 115 lbs. I was bullied by other Hmong children about me being too tall and too fat my grade. As an adult now, I am still facing body image issues. My body size is too big and I am too obese, which it is the result why I am still single and unwed.

Hi, I’m Wilt Chamberlain. You may know me as the hall of famer who scored one hundred points in one game against the New York Knicks in 1962. To start off, I was born on August 21st, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During my youth, I honestly didn’t like basketball because I thought the sport was “for sissies. ”

Another value that I have introduced my current leadership team—Setters Leadership and House—was kahiau, which means to give back to the community without expecting anything in return. I can demonstrate my commitment to this society by being actively involved with events that we plan or attend. I will also share my values and incorporate these values in activities that we do to empower each other through academics, leadership and service. Advocating about my values is a form of leadership that I like to share with others to introduce them to my culture and the values that I stand by. I also want to be involved in planning events to empower not only Lambda Sigma, but the Pace community and Pleasantville

We were Mr. and Mrs. Banks in less than two weeks. We had two kids, Maybelle, our daughter who was a year older than Taylor, our son. They are the best kids you could ever meet. But one day they had broken a window and I couldn’t help myself but to beat them.