Assignment 1: Self Analysis Of A Registered Nurse

Sara Gutierrez
Vaez-Hourscht
English 103
31 January 2016
Essay #1: “Self Analysis” When I really think about what has influenced who I am today and how I view the world around me, I think about my mother. My mother played a huge part in my childhood and raised me to be both open minded and self aware. She’s able to do almost everything from changing the tires on the car to building a table to sewing up clothes and and cooking full course meals. From her, I learned just about everything I know. I grew up to be very independent and capable of doing things on my own, which I am extremely grateful for. The main reason why I am going to college now is also because of my mother. However, I wouldn’t exactly say I’m following in her footsteps as our career choices are extremely different from each others. She went to cosmetology school and I’m studying to become a registered nurse.

You acquire traits and habits of the people around you and learn how to interact based on the actions and examples of others in your community. For me, I grew up in many, many different places. Because of my father’s work we were always moving and switching schools. I went to thirteen different schools and never stayed at one for longer than one year. But as hectic as it may seem, my school life was fairly simple and easy-going. Unknowingly, I was influenced very much by my peers. At each one of the schools I went to, I met a lot of kids who were very similar to me and those who were very different. I became interested in so many different cultures and languages and also gained a surplus of interests and hobbies from all of the new friends I made. All of the things I learned about other people and how they lived opened my eyes a lot and helped me to become more open minded and accepting of people and their customs, regardless of my own cultural habits and what my family had accustomed me