Firoozeh Dumas, in the “F Word” essay written for Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (2003), explains first, what her, her family and friends names mean and what they were called from American people instead of their real name; second her new American picked name so she wouldn’t feel so foreign; third why she switched back to her real name because she wanted to be proud of her heritage. Dumas describes her name and how people always mess it up because it is foreign but has learned to deal with it and has found that “Americans are now far more willing to learn new names.” Her purpose is to show that we as Americans should care about the hard names more in order to let the foreign ones feel more welcomed and how she as…
After we are born, we receive our own names. Names are chosen not by themselves, but by their family member’s. That is the first gift the baby owns and of course, it is free, but not everybody takes the free gift if they don't like it. Just like me and the girl I had read about in the article, “My Name," by Sandra Cisneros. We both don’t like our names because our names are not English names; indeed, it’s the different culture name.…
A. Main Point #1: First, you need to think about how the name sounds when hearing it aloud. i. Sub-point sentence: In order to avoid any questions, when deciding on a name, think about your child’s point of view and imagine how he or she will have to live with it throughout their life. Supporting material: Laura Wattenberg, a writer, researcher, and software designer, wrote in her 2013 book, The Baby Name Wizard, “we may see baby naming as an opportunity for personal expression. Use whatever criteria you like to narrow your name choices, but give the name this final test: if you were starting life today, knowing everything you know about this world, is this the name you would want to represent you?”…
5) is boy named Thatcher. 6) His name after my father. I also have a wife named Jenna.…
Jackson Dean - the first thing I ever learned about myself, something that has always been with me and will never change. Growing up with this name was very typical, it wasn’t like my name was something unheard of, of crazily odd, it was just normal. Other kids complained about their names and how they didn’t like them or how they sounded weird, but I never had that problem. To me, Jackson Dean is just a name passed down from previous generations, I never knew the true meaning of it, or why my parents picked it. Although, my parents did not choose my name because if it’s definition, or background, it is still very interesting to find out the true meaning.…
Take a look back on your life, think about names you’ve been called, variations and associations with your name, labels and roles, your ethnicity, family experiences and events, any connections to your name or identity that have meaning for you.…
My dad was the person that named me Brian. Knowing him, I was pretty lucky to get a normal name. I’m surprised that it wasn’t something strange or funny-sounding. My siblings have pretty normal names too. My brother is William and my sister is Jennifer. My middle name is Robert. It was given to me because it is my father’s name, and his middle name is his father’s name, and so on. I guess my parents wanted to keep the tradition. My last name is Guedes. It has run in the family for as long as I can remember. My last name is Cuban, just like everyone in my family. My parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, ect. are all fully Cuban and I’m proud of that.…
From birth, a name is a powerful piece of who a person is. The name that is given to a person is what helps identifies one from another. My name, Daneisha Chanel Rayford, is what describes me as a person, and I could never picture myself with another one. I would like to consider my first name Daneisha to be unique. It is one of those names that most people fail to spell right. However, I can honestly say there are not many Daneisha’s in this world. In my opinion, how I was given the name Daneisha is the most unique thing about me.…
and so they really liked the name Elijah. They told me that they didn’t have any other options to choose between because they liked Elijah so much. My parents got the name Elijah after the prophet in the bible. Now I know that the name Elijah isn’t a very unique or uncommon name but the thing is, I only know three other…
The discovery of self identity is more often than not a long and painful process that never really ends, it only progresses, but it resides as a testimony to personal growth that everyone must endure. When my sister died in my freshman year of high school I was forced to confront my own individuality and identity without an older sister by my side to guide me as I was used to.. For the first time since I was born I lived in a house as if I were an only child, just my parents and I. It really is a strange thing, having someone there one moment to discuss the prospects of heaven, hell, books, Narnia, and the current crush, then suddenly be left to find your own answers. I was left crushed and heartbroken, and felt part of me had died, too, but perhaps that feeling of nothingness paved the way for me to find out who I truly am, a journey everyone has to undergo at some point.…
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.” - William Shakespeare. So what is in a name? Or more specifically your name? Do you know? The truth is many of us don’t, but why? There are so many interesting things to learn about your name. Where did it come from? What does it mean? I, Olivia Jane Fouty wasn’t even given a name until I was two days old. I’ll explain the choices in the next few paragraphs, along with some new things I learned.…
My grandfather’s name was not always Zera-Yohannes. When my grandfather was about 25 years old, he aspired to become a priest. My grandfather was a very intelligent person, always on the top of his class. Becoming a priest is one of the greatest honors in Ethiopia. However, there was one small problem. His name was “Enque-Bahriy”. In the Ethiopian Amharic language, Enque means diamond and Bahriy means behavior. The name Enque-Bahriy literally translates to diamond behavior. In English, people would call it “best behavior” or “great behavior”. You would think that most people would desire to have such a fantastic name. However, there is an Amharic word called “Enko”, which means monkey. People always used to tease him about his name and call…
Like everything on this planet, not everyone views NYU the same way. For many students, it’s the attraction of the city. For others, the chance to learn at the hands of renown faculty has the highest appeal. While those things are crucial to understanding NYU, I always think back to what initially drew me to the university.…
I have been a student at Americus-Sumter High School for four semesters, and over the course of my stay I have grown and learned more than I thought possible. I came to this school already knowing that I wanted to be an Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU) nurse; I have taken two out of three nursing courses and though I knew exactly what I was headed for-was I ever wrong. Going through the nursing program has taught me so much more than stuff about medical terminology, it has taught me how to eventually grow into being a great nurse. I have learned here how to write med-terms and, how to think in critical situations. Most importantly I have learned how important patients and conditions are.…
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following: understand the logical connections between ideas, identify, construct, and evaluate arguments, detect discrepancies and common mistakes in reasoning, solve problems systematically, identify the relevance and importance of ideas, and reflect on the justification of one's own beliefs and values.…