Essays

How have the five major institutions shaped my personality? Firstly, my family is one of the most influential parts of my life. My family has taught me all the values that I think that I would need in life. I was not raised in an abusive family, which shapes my personality by making me less aggressive towards my peers, and teaching me that you can't get your way through force, but, by patience. I think that my family has positively affected my life. A family is an incredible asset in one's life. It is only made possible by healthy and stable relationships between its members, whether there are as little as two members or as many as two hundred. When planning or starting a family, it is important that the parent figure is aware of their responsibilities. The most important thing for a family to be successful is that people involved love each other and have a genuine concern for making the family work. If a family can act as a support team for each other, it has the potential to bring much happiness into one's life. A family does not have to be bound together by a blood relation. There are many incredible families made up of foster parents, adopted siblings, or even just siblings.

Does education really affect the way I am? Maybe not directly, but indirectly. Education is a means of teaching some values, but that is not education's main purpose. Education teaches us about a great many things. In kindergarten, you learn the alphabet and to count to ten, in elementary school, you learn penmanship, and the four basic ways to get seventy through a chain of addition, grammar, and we start to want to do our own thing instead of everything that our parents want us to do.

The second institution that really affect our personality are our friends at school. Our friends will be either our good friend, or our worst enemy by the time we're in high school. Friends shape our personality most outside the family. Another way that our friends have shaped the way that we are is the way they treat us. For example, your friends call you names, talk trash behind your back, and generally talk trash around you. Now do you think that you would have good self-esteem? I do not think that would be possible, even if your parent are always calling you nice things, spoiling you rotten, you would still have bad self-esteem.

The economy is a very essential part of our daily life, it shapes what shape our town or city will be in. If the economy is poor, do you think that it will draw a huge tourist crowd? I personally do not think so. I think that it would turn out to be a heavily gang populated city, with many drug deals and prostitution going on. The economy has shaped the way that I am, by where I was raised.

Where does the government fit into my personality? The government shapes the way I think about other people. If I was raised in a monarch country, and I were royal, I would think of peasants as dirty, filthy people that are not worth my spit. If I were born in a communist country, I would think that everybody deserves an equal amount of everything. But, I am in a democratic country, where everyone thinks that the whole world orbits around them-self, and most other countries either hate or love. But, I also live in a free country, where I am free to make my own decisions. So, that affects the way I make my choices, I think, ok, if I do this, and this, then I will get this I don't think, ok, I can only do this, or this, so that this will happen. It changes things quite a bit. I would say that this has positively affected my life.

Religion, I think, has affected my life the most. It has taught me so many great things, that I can hardly comprehend it. I think that religion has definitely been a positive part of my life.