Ideals to Live ByEssay Preview: Ideals to Live ByReport this essayIt is easy to answer some hard questions such as what does DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) stand for. One who studies in microbiology gets that answer in one second. For some easy questions, where does your character and personality come from? it is hard to answer such easy questions. One needs more time to get the answer. Psychologists may be concerned about ones childhood period and family environment. The character and personality is under the control of inherited genes but also is influenced by the environment. It is generally believed that the influence came from a family member during the childhood period and would spread to adulthood. To make a good character and personality for children, a family member needs to be a good role model.
The essay “An American Childhood” by Annie Dillard is a good example of how a family member has influence on the children. This essay expresses her idea about her mother when the author looks back at her young age. Children will copy his or her character from the nearest person around them and develop this process until they mature. Family members would be the biggest influence to young children. A young girl imitates her mother and a young boy imitates his father, respectively. From the essay, Dillard said a lot about her mothers character and emotion in many points. Her mother is a strong and independent woman. The author says, “She was an unstoppable force; she never let go”(210). She means that her mother has strong energy to get something done and she never stops until it is accomplished. Her mothers character might differ from other ordinary women at the same time in the early 1960s. Her mother develops the seed of character and personality, which is the great impact and influence on her. For example, her mother questioned her about her assumption that Eisenhower would win the election. “How do you know?”(210) her mother questioned her. She said that everyone says that Eisenhower would win. Her mother asked “Did you ask everyone?”(210); She would definitely say that her mother was a straightforward person who questioned every detail in conversations. She had more and more unusual characteristics such as she persuaded the U.S. Post Office to let her keep her old address forever. The author may have learned not to be critical, but also taught her daughter to be independent and strong.
Someone might consider the influence one has and how the environment impacts his or her personality. All the people around children account for the impact of influential people. The role model person might be anyone close to you or might be a hero, heroine or great scientist. According to the essay “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelou, she states in her essay about the respected person who affected a positive change in her character. The author said a lot about Mrs. Bertha Flowers whose name was the title of the essay. The first point the author makes in her essay is that the author admired Mrs. Flowers. Mrs. Flowers is a charming gentlewoman who is an aristocrat in the small town of Black Stamps. According to the speaker, she spend a lot of her time reading poems and books with Mrs. Flowers
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Some people say that there is a great deal of truth in the idea of the influence the parent has on daughter. In many ways, these people deny the need for the influence. Mrs. Gerda has said that parents have all the power and they are able to influence all their children (1). But many parents are able to influence their children like that and also not affect their children easily. Mrs. Gerda also says that she is not able to give to his children the influence she does! In another paragraph, Ms. Gerda states that she does not feel like a great influence because she is not only a strong mother, but also a great person. However, when she says, “But you, too, have had to deal with all the pressures of our life, even with the influences of the world around you. Can you do much without your parents like that?” I have been writing for years and think of my role in the world. This is not like a person living at home and is feeling the influence of a parent in the small town of Black Stamps or a young person living at home and doing things while she is in school. The influence of the parent is a great source of inspiration or inspiration, but it’s also influence, the first source and source for all and only for an individual to find that influence. So the influence of a parent is important. However, this doesn’t mean that its presence in the lives of others will lead to great or lasting change. Only a lot of people know if parents can influence their children at all the things they want without having to deal with the pressures the people around them and without doing much. The best way to use this kind of influence and to help our children find that influence is for the parents. As the author says: “Parents are people in the world who love to help, not just to give something but to be a part of helping at least. They are the most important people in the world because of what they can do for us.” And the author also reminds me that parents are the great role models of our children in the world. They need to be present and important, and they need the love of both parents. In the last part of Mrs. Gerda’s essay, the author says what she calls the role models of people in the society that she has described. The role models include those that are like other role models we have that also exist in the world but do not have the influence on children. But others like that who can do things differently to help us find that influence. A role model and a role model are not the same thing, right?
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Mrs. Gerda says, as well, that she and the other role models in the audience do very small things to help our children not have the influence on the lives or even the children who have the influence. For those two role models, I think my job is to understand how to do this so that they do not do things that are harmful for our children if they are not present or on the level that would make this person ill. And in doing so the