...My Name My first name is Isabella, but I prefer to be called Bella. My middle name is Grace, and my last name is Affrunti. I have not been confirmed yet but I have already picked the name Teresa. I received the first name Isabella from my mother. My grandfather wanted to call me Bella because Bella means “beautiful” in Italian (Affrunti, T). He passed away almost two years ago, but I still remember him calling me “Bella Mia.” That is Italian for my beautiful. The name Isabella in Hebrew means’ oath of God or God is my oath (Campbell 1). In Italian, the name Isabella is derived from the name Elizabeth (Richman 112). Isabella’s etymological origins are from Italy and Spain (Stafford 421). Isabella is the Latinate form of Isabel (Campbell 1). The name Isabella or Isabel was worn by many medieval royals (Campbell 1). I think that my first name has foreshadowed that I would become a follower of God. My name means God is my oath, and I go to Mass to worship God and follow his teachings....
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...Jacobi Adams is my name, but what is the real meaning behind such a unique and interesting name. When Mrs Beddingfield assigned this essay, I didn’t know anything but a few pieces of information about my name. Cornelius was just a name my mother gave me because she knew I would be smart so she wanted a name to fit in with that, and Cornelius sounded quite interesting and intelligent. I really don’t know anything about my middle name, Jacobi,except for the fact that it just sounded good. My last name, Adams, comes from my grandmother’s name. Adams was her name when she got married and she had it ever since. I would like to discover more about my name and the real meaning behind it. I would also like to know where my name came from and where did it originate from. By using the Internet, a personal interview, and a book, I discovered interesting fact about my first,middle,and last names. What I Learned My first name, Cornelius is not as popular today as it was in the 16th through the 18th centuries. It is found in the bible. In the new Testament, Cornelius is found in Acts as a wise...
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...Names Ever since I was a little boy, I always remembered wondering how and why things were named what they are; also why/ how the words were formed. On long road trips/ vacations I would look at street signs and store names in foreign places and wonder why things were named as they were. A group of people I thought who put a lot of meaning into what they named things were the Native American Indians. All of the places, people, even animals they named were very symbolic, and had an important meaning. I feel as if in today’s world we don’t put as much thought into the things we name. Even when parents name their kids, some just slap a name on their forehead (not literally.) They don’t think about how they want their child to be raised, or they want them to become as an adult. My good friend was given a made up name when he was born because his father was drunk. To me that’s just cruel. For one thing, it would be rather hard for him to complete an essay like this, but also knowing your name which is a big part of you, has no real meaning. My name, Owen, was passed down 3 generations before me. I asked my father “why has our name been passed down this long? Why did you name me it?” he told me that his great grandfather was born into slavery and explained to me how he was not given a name until he was released and shipped to Jamaica. There, he was adopted at a young age into a family. The family said my great grandfather was a fighter; taking a lot of abuse and seeing a lot...
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...ever wondered what your name means? This question was posed on me by my English teacher, Mrs. Beddingfield. I didn’t know much about my name before my research began. My last name was taken after my mom and I was pretty sure my name came from a baby name book. I also knew that I hadn’t met anyone who spells my middle name the same way I do. Before I began researching, I was given a list of things to look up about my name like it etymology, popularity, and famous people with the same name. After researching what was required to research, I learned a decent amount about my name. The first thing I did was conduct an interview with my grandmother. Since my parents are out of the picture, I had to ask my grandmother about the history...
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...I picked scene from the movie Pulp Fiction, this movie is mainstream example. My attention draws the dialogue between Butch and the cab driver. -So Esmeralda Villa Lobos, is it Mexican? –You mean Spanish, but I’m Columbian…and what is your name? –Butch. -Butch, what does it mean? - I'm American, honey. Our names don't mean shit. Butch covered Americans perspective to the name purpose, by saying the name doesn’t mean anything, but in other hand we have Columbian cab driver and she where more detailed about her ethnicity. She had been care about roots. Butch assumed she is Mexican, what is rood way to call Spanish. After what she specified she is Columbian. From her perspective name and the name roots had to be respected. Butch didn’t...
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...it comes to learning new material. I was always a step behind when it came to educational milestones and struggled to keep up with kids my age. Although I wasn't a poster child for learning, I do credit myself for my creativity when I was younger. I always had these crazy thoughts and ideas running through my brain. All these thoughts eventually turned into stories that I would add to daily. Even though I had all these creative stories, I never wrote any of them down due to my lack of knowledge. While others were reading words and signing their names...
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...The Amity and Wild Pinder Michael Pinder Period 1 9/15/11 3……………………………………………………………….. Introduction 4……………………………………………………………….. Family Name 5……………………………………………………………….. Coat of Arms 6……………………………………………………………….. What’s in a name? 7……………………………………………………………….. Personal Alphabet 8……………………………………………………………….. Unfinished sentences 9……………………………………………………………….. Picture this 10……………………………………………………………….. My own list of lists 11……………………………………………………………… What my name means 12……………………………………………………………… Symbolic Recipe 13……………………………………………………………… Autobiography intro. 14……………………………………………………………… Cont. Autobiography intro. Introduction I chose this title because it describes me in full. Since I was a toddler up to now as a teenager I have been doing crazy and adventurous activities. I’ve slept on a private beach in key Biscayne and walked 6 miles to the brickell bridge, jumped off the middle of it and walked another mile to the bus stop to get home with an injured back that was hurt for months. I’m the type of person that is down for anything fun and dangerous even if...
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...unless this observer keeps his/her personal perspective away and practice the self-awareness. If I am visiting a so called Nacirema society, my perspective of viewing at their culture would be totally different than how I would see this culture as soon as I would realize that it is actually world famous American culture. There are a few rituals that I would like to observe from that individual’s view who have never been to Nacirema society before this. The “use of expensive magical charms and potions” and “spending quality time in shrine” would make me think of this society as a magic ridden people who are shallow and superficial with their appearance. They would make their body go through extreme pain by following some rituals, such as, going to” holy-mouth man to get the painful procedure done”, “putting hog hair in the mouth” and ”women boiling their heads in ovens.”(Miner) Being an outsider in this culture, I might quickly attribute these strange rites as supernatural rituals because these rituals and their names are unfamiliar to me. My first impression would be “What is wrong with these people? Why do they go to this holy-mouth-man to get tortured? Why do women put their heads in ovens? Are these people ignorant or superstitious?” I would be really confused and feel awkward about all these rituals. In order to get the right meaning of these rituals, I...
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...Every quote has a meaning, and sometimes that meaning is not directly stated; you may have to look at the quote from a different perspective to understand its meaning. “Don’t’ judge a book by its cover, it’s what’s inside that counts.” Everyone judges others without stepping into that persons shoes. They judge not only by assuming, but also by the way they dress, act, and the people they associate with. Every person you meet judges whether it’s judging someone good or bad. To start many people judge others because of the way they act. Because kids want to fit it, they try to act like their friends. As a gymnastics coach I see this happening a lot with the kids. For example one day I had a girl come to me complaining that there was a girl making fun of her gymnastics leotard. Each time she took a turn again she would say another girl’s name that had joined in making fun of her. Because not all the girls had joined in, I had overheard one of the girls telling their friend that the girl who started it was probably always mean to people. Not only do people act to fit in, they also act because of something that may have happened in...
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...inspiring works of American literature began to emerge. It was also a time when America had not completely separated its literary heritage from Europe, partly because there were successful literary genius’ flourishing there. Melville proved to be a genius of his own, with his many works such as Moby Dick, Billy Bud, and Bartleby. Three distinct themes could be seen throughout most of his literature; whales and the whaling industry, commentary on the universe and human destiny, and ideas about God and nature. Moby Dick is an incredible work by Melville most often referred to as an epic, a tragedy, a novel, an exposition on the whaling, and a spiritual autobiography. It is often overlooked that a deeper, more symbolic, meaning may have been the driving force behind Moby Dick. Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, to Allan and Maria Melville. He was the third of eight children in the Melville family. He was generally described as silent and slow; his mother thought him to be a very dull child. In 1832 Melville suffered tragedy when his father died. Finishing school when he was fifteen, Melville took service as cabin boy aboard the St. Lawrence. After returning to his home in New York for some time after serving as cabin boy, Melville took berth as an ordinary seaman aboard a whaling ship called the Acushnet. After approximately four and a half years as a seaman on various ships, he set down, again in New York, to write of his experiences. Within six years he had published...
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...that our personal views start to develop with a base. It then becomes a personal journey to expand on this base and to form individualized and critical views on what is believed to be justice, injustice, right, or wrong. My views have been shaped mainly on environmental aspects, which include: family, upbringing, social class, religious affiliation, education, social norms of my generation, and taking bits and pieces of other views from those who I respect. As with many others, my personal views of justice started to develop at an early age with my family and environment. Family plays such a vital role in forming an individual in numerous aspects, especially from a psychological point of view. In fact, psychologist Erik Erikson formulated his psychosocial theory and stages on the conflicts a person experiences in his or her environment and its influences on human development. Keeping this in mind, it is easy to look back to see how my environment affected my views of what is considered right and wrong. My parents taught the importance of acting as a role model and setting a good example, especially to my two younger brothers. This importance set by my parents played such an fundamental role in my current beliefs that it is imprinted in almost all aspects of my life,...
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...In Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” there are many symbolic features that serve to enhance the description of Phoenix Jackson’s journey to town. From the biblical references and birds, to the protagonist’s name, and the windmill, Welty effectively implements a series of symbols to further develop the true meaning behind Jackson’s journey. There are many examples of symbols in “A Worn Path,” that symbolize biblical events. Phoenix says, “…and the good Lord made his snakes to curl up and sleep in the winter. A pleasure I don’t see no two-headed snake coming around that tree, where it come once. It took a while to get by him, back in the summer” (385). The snake symbolizes the serpent among the Garden of Eden who tempts Eden to stray from her intended...
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...i'm dictionary,I have many nick names wordstock, wordreference, wordbook,lexicon and vocabulary. I have meanings for collection of words. Students, teachers and many common peoples use me to search for meanings of many words. I have listed the words alphabetically so u can easily search a word from me. i also provide you the definitions, pronounciations and phonetics for words. There is a big history behind me, I was found by akkkadian empire in 2300BC. and in later centuries i was configured well by many peoples in different languages using different set of words. My name dictionary was created by john of garland in 1220. I born as an English dictionary during 1592. At the first, I have only 8000 words which are listed in non alphabetical form and I am purely formed as an alphabetical english dictionary on 1604 by the Englishman Robert cawdrey. I was again written in the name “A Dictionary of the English Language” by Samuel Johnson in 1755 with textual reference for most words. Mr. Samuel johnsons master work made me more modern and I developed a lot and I finally released in the oxford English dictionary(OED) by Oxford University Press and remained the standard of English language for 150 years. They took 50 years to complete me an released me on 1928.and I am updated every three by a dedicated team. The main contribution is given by William chester minor. The above things I said is about one of my type English dictionary, I have...
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...finding the courage to do it.” -Katniss Everdeen (Catching Fire, Pg 118) As I read The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins my mind was constantly bombarded by violence, tragedy and a deadly love triangle. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay were all emotionally difficult books to read, but they were also very powerful books that made me really think about my reality. The Hunger Games Trilogy also made me think about the meaning of the titles and what significance they have. Words with simple meanings like “hunger” in the title The Hunger Games and “fire” in the title Catching Fire can become vastly complex when used literally and figuratively in a very interpretive context. Before I read The Hunger Games I knew that the title was the name of the games that Katniss is partaking in, but after reading the book I realized there were so many other interpretations of the title. The Capitol’s “hunger” for control is how I depicted the title. The Capitol wants control everything and anything. The Capitol seeks to control how Katniss lives her life. Katniss is constantly told what to do and when to do it, but from a young age she has deliberately disobeyed the laws that the Capitol has forced upon the citizens of Panem. The Capitol claims that they rule Panem in their selfish way for the benefit of the Districts, but there is an underlying meaning to their obsessive control. The Capitol’s selfishness is disguised as false well-being for the Districts. The Capitol’s selfishness...
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...Five years old and sitting at the lunch table, I hear boys jeering, “Your mother is a whale.” Rather than expressing my anger, I suppress the hurt. Later, I debate in my heart my passiveness versus speaking my mind-not getting into trouble versus morally upholding my mother’s name. Not saying “no” to those immature boys actually helped to develop the diversely independent woman I am today. Now, I realize that the inaction of not yelling at those boys actually created an affirmation of my maturity. At seven years old- I was learning to write letters, develop sentences, and understand the meaning of everything I read. My parents dictated my career choice, as they told me that I “will be a doctor.” Rather than shun the idea, I accepted the role...
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