Men and Women
By: Janna • Essay • 654 Words • November 19, 2009 • 1,046 Views
Essay title: Men and Women
Men And Women
What influences a person’s identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe
where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from
wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has
the same, is there a point in everyone’s life when they get one? A person’s identity is his
own, nobody put it there and nobody can take it out. Everyone in this world has a
different identity because they all make their own over the course of their life. A person’s
identity also causes a person to have masculine and feminine traits. There is no one thing
that gives a person their identity, there are however many different factors that contribute
to one’s identity.
What is someone’s identity? Is it the way they look, the way they dress, or it
could be many things all put together, or is it none of the above? To me someone’s
identity is a part of their being. Nobody will ever hold it, touch it, or even see it, but it is
there. Everybody has one, it guilds your decision making, your thoughts, ideas, and
dreams. You may think something is terrible while someone else does not even care and
yet another person may laugh, why? The answer is simple, everyone has his own identity
and personality. Everyone feels, acts, thinks, and dreams differently. People may have
some of these things in common with one another, but they will not be totally the same, it
is like a fingerprint, unique.
There are many origins to a person’s identity, their family, friends, home life,
religion, environment and others. But how does it get there, you do not go into a store
and pick on off the shelf. A person’s identity is developed over many years and put
together by the person themselves. It comes from the individuals ability to think, reason
and form an opinion. Nobody has the same mind, or the same or the same conscious, so
how could anyone have the same identity as another. A person’s identity is