Describe Yourself Essay Examples

In the summer going into my eleventh grade of high school, a change began to brew inside me. A change that at the time I wouldn’t have expected to make a profound impact on my life and the way I live it. But the effects of this change have helped me to morph into the…

The reflection that I have been instructed stresses the slow improvement of both astuteness and skillful action to help every living being. One must have knowledge to know acceptable behavior, and one must be skillful in completing these activities. One without the other will create not as much as attractive outcomes. By chance, this skillful…

From a young age, my family has never failed to compare the difference in the colors of skin that my sisters and I possess. My oldest sister, Gabriela, is the fairest of us three and deemed the prettiest at every family function because of it, along with her straight hair, rosy cheeks and narrow nose….

“Honestly, you should change the way you speak. You sounded like a pig being slaughtered.” The male judge of my debate round spoke casually, without considering the impact of his words as I tried to suppress down my disbelief and feeling of humiliation of his comment. That was truly eye widening. I had participated in…

Anxiously sitting in my desk at school, trying to understand why the puzzle pieces were not fitting together, I then realized my life was about to drastically change. At eight years old a child does not know how to grasp the fact their parents will no longer be functioning as one. I was a typical…

I take off my shoes upon entering my house and slide into a pair of slippers once through the doorway. The aroma of jasmine rice hits me before I even enter the kitchen which initially appears to be a typical American kitchen however their hints that one is in a Asian household a jar of…

An example of front in my own life is the part of me being a student. Goffman (1959), describes the front to being “the individual’s performance which regularly functions in a general and fixed fashion to define the situation for those who observe the performance” (p.557). When I am at school, I behave in a…

Standing behind the rusty goal, I heard the cacophony of cheers reverberating through the schoolyard. My heart started racing as today, I was one step closer to the final. I didn’t start playing soccer until grade 10. Despite being a popular sport, soccer isn’t as easy as it sounds. Fatigue and soreness became my close…

In exploring the topic of socioeconomic class in the classroom, I have determined that I have a different socioeconomic class than that of my students, however, it is not as drastic of a difference as my students may perceive. Throughout my life, including now, I have been in the lower middle class. My father dropped…

Some people think love comes from the heart and is hard to find. I think that love occurs while sitting in a boat on the lake, watching your ten dollar fishing lure getting ready to drop into the water. The simplest fling of your wrist will propel your bait the length of three football fields…