Journal 29 (Private)** 15192343 1. Write about a recent time when you experienced overwhelm‚ anger or resentment‚ sadness‚ or depression‚ fear or anxiety. My weight has been like a yo-yo of emotions. I never know when I try clothes on if I need the same size as yesterday. But every day I eat healthy‚ go for long walks and drink lots of water. My weight is kind of like the rest of my life. I make mistakes‚ I learn from them; I pick myself up and try again. I no longer base my weight on a number
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creative smart kid‚ Who knows what he wants in life and will get it if it’s the last thing I do. A mandala is a representation of who you are and what you want people to know about you. My mandala represents what I am at this point and time in my life. It has a picture of me with my sister (family)‚ a music note‚ Chicago‚ the world in my hands‚ me as a baby‚ me graduating‚ my neighborhood‚ and my lord. My mandala tells a story all within its self. The music symbol represents what music means to me. I love
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Mandala Autobiography Project How do symbols come together to communicate the “essence” of who you are? Over the next few weeks‚ we will looking at different aspects of an autobiography. At the end of the unit‚ you will be creating a mandala and an autobiographical essay that reveals some aspect of your life. Quick Writes: You will be given a series of quick writes that will help you in your essay. These will be turned in as part of your grade for the Mandala Project. Also included in
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A mandala‚ a concentric structure that offer balancing visuals‚ symbolizing unity and harmony. Each individual mandala can have different meanings‚ but its goal is usually to symbolize something or someone. For example‚ my illustrations on my mandala represents a basic concept of who I am. In my mandala‚ it looks similar to Yin and Yang ; One side portrays me while the other side shows my opposite. Using the symbols of an animal‚ a plant‚ a color‚ a number‚ weather‚ a shape‚ and a phenomenon‚ I
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I have separated my mandala into different‚ yet diverse sections‚ each section representing a large‚ important part of my life. I have divided my mandala into five sections‚ four along the edge and one in the middle‚ symbolizing how my life mostly revolves around my riding. Then other sections‚ such as‚ the top one is my family‚ the left side being the different places I have traveled‚ the right being some of my characteristics‚ and the bottom being things I dislike. The top section has my family
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My Mandala BSN-1206-003 September 26‚ 2013 Who am I? Who will I become? Why am I here? Where will I go? What is my fate? These are all questions in which we ask ourselves when trying to self- reflect. “Self- reflection is careful thought about your own behaviour and beliefs” (Merriam-Webster‚ 2013). When doing my own self-reflection I took a mirror and stared in it‚ the first couple of things that came to my mind that meant something to me or had significance
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Sylvia Hernandez Avid 1st Period Mr. Grobey 12/02/2010 My Mandala Have you ever felt like you just can’t do it anymore? As in whatever you want to achieve is just way too far and you can’t make it. You give up to whatever you wanted to do without even trying hard enough. But there’s a saying that my sister told me once‚ and I always keep it in mind when I’m ready to give up. “Nothing is impossible”. And in this Mandala I’m going to talk about five symbols that are really important in my
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Andrew Pham‚ author of Catfish and Mandala‚ is on a journey of self-exploration. Family dysfunction‚ the illusions of the past‚ and the inability to move forward and find meaning to life when living between two cultures‚ are all catalysts’ for Pham return Vietnam. Contrary to being welcomed with open arms‚ Andrew is referred to as Viet-kieu when he is in Vietnam‚ a derogatory term meaning Vietnamese-American. Vietnamese people feel that the Viet-kieu abandoned everything about their culture when
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A mandala‚ or a diagram displaying a representation of the characteristics of a subject on one side and the other side describing its opposite‚ metaphorically symbolizes an object through various categories. Instead of writing to show who I am in the mandala‚ I drew pictures of sun words in the mandala to represent me‚ and on the other side‚ I depicted the opposite by drawing shadow words. Each object symbolizes a specific characteristic that all together define who I am. Symbolism is an important
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The American novelist Thomas Wolfe once wrote‚ "You can’t go home again". Andrew Pham proved that wrong. "Andrew X. Pham‚ who came to the United States when he was ten years old as a ’boat person‚’ returned to Vietnam 20 years later on an extended bike trip in order to understand better his cultural identity" (Pearl 208). Despite the fact that Pham‚ like so many others of his generation‚ were forced to flee Vietnam‚ somehow they never lost the sense of identity with the homeland they only remembered
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