Essays on Identity

Ideas and practices have an intriguing way of emanating and spreading across communities, countries, and geographical regions. Numerous diffusion events are highlighted occasionally in mass media as it shapes and radically transforms the daily lives of multitudes of people around the world. Notable examples include…

Looking back on the lives of children 50 years ago versus today, the difference between the two are significantly shown. Specifically within girlhood. Girls before did not have media, or any other forms of technology to dictate how they were supposed to look, or how…

Many times things go wrong in life, a person always try to escape from these situation, sometimes he or she may achieve in this battle but it always don’t go in same way. Everything in life happens for some reason that gives us a new…

In almost every society, from Baltimore to Beijing, boys are told from a young age to go outside and have adventures, while young girls are encouraged to stay home and do chores. In most cultures, girls are warned off taking the initiative in any relationship…

To start, I suffer from acne and my skin has always been the reason I don’t feel confident in my own skin and people have mostly negative perspective on me because I don’t have “flawless” skin like them. When I was 13, my face started…

In the current society, our bodies and physical attributes are increasingly under scrutiny with the judgments getting harsher. The body and society compare to each other in a way that ensures everyone in the planet is unique and different. Based on that, someone’s body image…

There is some point in our lives, where we come across a someone who will leave a powerful impact on our lives. For me, this person has been there since the day I was born, my mom. She taught me everything from my first few…

It’s the beginning of sophomore year and my whole life flashed before my eyes. I’m all alone with nobody for guidance. This was it, I was really going to have a record, and it’s not for the music industry. A couple of weeks into sophomore…

Hours have gone by, you have spent almost all day getting yourself prepared for a job interview. Attempting to foresee every potential question that may be asked, thinking intensely about every detail: When giving that handshake make sure to make eye contact, remembering to sit…

A rite of passage in which I have experienced in my life is the marriage of my older cousin to his wife. This was a traditional Christian wedding but instead of having it in a North American church in Canada it was held in a…