Essays on Personal Identity

Introduction The movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a film that resembles the struggles of relationships with conflicting cultures and beliefs among families. Toula, the main character comes from a Greek background with her parents being strict about traditions and belief. She finds a…

Globalization plays a big role in affecting our identities, so each person in each society and in each location had born with specific and different beliefs and values. Furthermore, individual identity advances and gotten to be more complex. With the escalated of globalization through the…

Introduction As a photographer, I prefer to use photographs to record the changes in my life and family, and use them as a bridge to connect memories. Since I often move to a new place and change my living and studying environment, my concept of…

Selfie is the word which a couple of years back was obscure to people yet in a previous couple of years, it has turned into a piece of our life. If a few years back somebody has said to you that you can take pictures…

The idea that being an Indian-American can be confusing is quite the understatement. It is a complex juxtaposition in which I feel that certain aspects of my being do not comply to the mold of what an American girl should be like. On the flip…

“I wrote my first song!” I yelled, as I sprinted up and down the hallways, paper held tightly in my eight year old fist. Of course the song was horrible, and now, being nineteen years old, I can write better ones. However, this epiphany that…

In the article, the author Bourne (2017) addressed that for Muslim woman in the past who wanted to wear hijab and stay fashionable at the same time, there weren’t many mainstream bloggers to look up to, and modest fashion was barely comprehensible on social media…

Identity is dynamic and multiple. By this we mean that identity is not static, but changes as a function of your life experiences. Your identity is a composite of multiple identities, which are integrated, they do not work in isolation but in combination based on…

Namjune Paik is a pioneer of video art from Korea. Being at the center of the Fluxus movement in the 1960s, he arouses creative sensation by potentially experimental performances and displays. Furthermore, he had expanded the definition of arts through various media. Through a closed…

Cell is defined to be the basic component of any living thing or organism which is considered to be a primary part of an organism. All organisms are composed of structural and functional units of life called ‘cells (Msu.edu, 2018)’. The body of some organisms…