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Ascribed Statuses
The statuses that are apart of our lives help define who we are. The status set that applies to my life today are both ascribed and achieved. The ascribed statuses in my life include and show me being a female who is a teenager, caucasian, mid height who has blonde hair and blue eyes. Some statuses that I have accomplished are being apart of Bellevue’s Future Business Leaders of America, high honors, and varsity in golf, and a Catholic. The achieved statuses in my life have influenced me as who I am as a person today. Out of the list of my status set, being a Catholic, female, and caucasian would be able to be a master status, because they shape my life. Humor has helped me many times throughout my life. A few years ago I had to go stay at
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