Personal Narrative: My Name

To begin with this post, I have chosen the quotes from Ann Landers; she quotes "Maturity is the ability to do the job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear injustice without wanting to get even.". I think this quote means to be mature, is to understand. This quotes speaks to me on another level, because now that I have grown from certain stages in my life I can confidently say that she states a true statement. I have been working at my first job for about seven months now and I can proudly say that I have not spent one dime on anything I've ever wanted.

“Act your age,” a common reprimand we have all heard or been told at one point in our lives. Many people believe that getting older guarantees a higher level of maturity. However, someone’s maturity does not depend on their age, but rather on their environment and mentality. Not all children are raised in a perfect and loving family; some children are forced to “grow up” faster due to difficult family situations. Children are heavily impacted by the environment they were raised in, for it affects people’s mind psychologically, thus causing different levels of maturity in each individual.

This memoir should be assigned to rising seniors for summer reading because it’ll show seniors that they should thrive for more, push their limits and how important it is to prepare for the future. Jeannette Walls explains the hardships she went through when growing up. Moving from place to place, not having fresh food to eat, getting bullied, and having to mature quick. Some teens don’t have to wonder about where they’ll stay or if they’ll have a fresh meal, so they get comfortable and rely on their supporter. Some teens end up staying in their comfort zone and settling when they can strive for more.

My first name Nathan ranks thirty-eighth in the United States and thirteenth in Canada, but that is low in relation to crowning my first name to be the most popular in France (Campbell). I would have certainly not known my name to be so popular in a different country. Since I was born, I have been alien to knowledge of how I came to have my name, how popular it was, and what it meant because of accepting it without any thought. I never thought about how much my name represents who I am and how much it affects me. I wanted to figure out where my name came from; therefore, I found primary research useful by interviewing my mother about family surname history.

While I have not experienced discrimination of any kind due to my name, over the years I have had to learn to always correct people when they are mispronouncing it, to show respect for my culture and heritage. This is something I did not always do, as I believed that the correct pronunciation of my name was not a big issue. However, through reading literary works such as ‘give your daughters difficult names' I have begun to understand the cultural significance of names and why it is important to always pronounce them

My birth certificate reads "William Reiss Briggs," a name assigned to me when I was a mere 22 inch, 6.9 pound infant who had no idea of the significance of what I was being called. I was not involved in the choosing of that name nor able to mutter even a syllable in attempt to pronounce it. It was only later on in my life that was told of the sentimental heritage in my name. William came from my grandfather and great-grandfather on my mother’s side, and Reiss was the family surname from which my father’s side originated, Although strongly defining in a historical sense, the names at first seemed to say nothing about my personality. That makes sense too.

The National Honors Society requires and represents four important core values: Character, Leadership, Service, and Scholarship in which I believe describes myself as a person on many levels. Of a person, their character is what makes a person unique, which I believe undoubtedly is one’s most important trait. Therefore, I believe my character consists of many components, being able to welcome and help others without hesitation would overall be my best characteristic. For example, if I was to encounter an individual struggling with a situation, whether it be physically or emotionally I am always there to help, no matter the consequences or hardships that may come along with the task. As a student, I would be best described as determined due

What 's in a name? According to the authour of the name therapist a whole lot. To be honest I never had any issues with my name growing up, it 's rarely misspelled and almost never mispronounced. In fact I couldn 't imagine having any other name. My parents, who were immigrants picked it because of how easy it was plus it easily translated from English back to Vietnamese.

Her mother gave her the name and in Persian it means “Turquoise” , but in America Firoozeh means “Unpronounceable” (63). Most kids at her school called her “Ferocious” and mispronounced her name. Because of this Firoozeh, at the age of twelve, decided to add a basic name (Julie) to ease her burdens at the time. By adding a

Subsequently that day they the students made fun of my name and continually call me Dik-ia. I honestly dislike when peers say my name wrong, it has five letters and two syllables (De-kia) it is not difficult to say.

A name used too often by the inconsiderate becomes petty; soon you succumb to wonder of the etymology of your name. In response to the wondering you begin a spiritual journey to answer the questions that revolve in your mind and yearn to discover your

I quickly finished tying my shoe and hopped onto my purple mountain bike and we were off. Logan my brother who I love sometimes,Cassie My best friend, Easton Cassie’s brother,Sawyer Cassie’s brother, Mr. Wychers and I were going to ride our bikes through a trail off in the woods and go to Whistle stop and then cut through town and head to Houseman's. The sky was cloudy and the daylight was being blocked by a thick dark cloud, which looked a lot like a rain cloud. We started to cut through a dead cornfield, lifeless tall brown and crusty plants sat in a single spot and as the soft wind blew the once luscious herbs. I felt the dead greens slap me in the leg and burrs got stuck to my pant leg.

Names/Nombres written by Julia Alvarez is a short story regarding a little girl, Hooleetah, moving with her family from the Dominican Republic to New York City in the 1960s. It is extremely clear within the beginning of the story that the girl absolutely despises it when people pronounce her, or her family's’ names wrong, this is proven when she corrects the customs officer under her breath when he mispronounces her family’s last name. “At Immigration, the officer asked my father, Mister Elbures, if he had anything to declare... but I said our name to myself, opening my mouth wide for the organ blast of trilling my tongue for the drumroll of the r, All-vab- rrr-es (Alvarez 1). As the story continues each member of her family is assigned with many different American names, as people found it hard to pronounce their actual names.

Firoozeh Dumas writes her article with the intention of getting her point across without an aggressive approach. Being humorous, she begins her article with examples of distasteful names that are used to replace foreigner’s hard to pronounce names. Dumas states, “My cousin’s name, Farbod, means “Greatness”. When he moved to America, all the kids called him ‘Farthead’” (Dumas 605).

I went over hundreds of names in my head, from Kris to Kendal to Kenneth, but no name I thought of seemed to fit me very well. I knew I wanted it to start with a “K” and it had to go with my middle name (which is Nicholas, the American, masculine version of my Russian middle birth name: Nikita.) So in a last ditched effort to fine a suitable name for myself I turned to the only place I had left; the internet. Several hours and thousands of names later I found myself staring at a somewhat simple name that had appeared on my screen. “Keegan” it read.