Definition Essay: Who Is My Name?

With a great name, comes great responsibility. This means that there is a lot of expectations that come with a name. If your name has been passed down from generation to generation you probably understand the feeling of having to meet certain “standards”. If i could count every time someone assumed I was an Anglo girl because of my name using my fingers, I’d have a million hands. The name Samantha has always been a heavy weight I haven't been able to lift off my shoulders because I believe it represents me as a Samantha that carries books and has perfect grades. A Samantha that plays sports and is the president of the student council. A Samantha that has won employee of the month for 6 months straight while, I, have won none. People assume that because I have an Anglo name that I will be fair skinned and blonde. People assume that because my name can be shortened and dismembered that I am automatically their friend. My name, is a burden. A names purpose according to society is to help guide us by giving us a meaning. This means that people depend a lot on their name to describe who they are. Names are not special because they form an outline of who and how we

If people think my name means I’m a strong leader, then that means I must be a strong leader. In our day and age a name can influence whether you get hired or kicked under the rug. In a study done by Laura Shin it was found that shorter and memorable names have a greater chance of getting jobs. For example, names like Bob and Lynn have a higher success rate than Sebastian or Christopher. This means we live in a time where people are not capable of learning longer names due to STM (short term memory), where we hold small amounts of information for a dozen seconds or so. Employers are as interested in knowing what your name means as interested as they are in finding out how many grains of sand are on your local beach; they are