Katherine Margaret Armstrong Research Paper

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Katherine Margaret Armstrong, or Kat for short, was born seventeen years ago on May 29 and grew up in a supportive household. She lives with her parents and her sister, who is twenty years old. Her family has agnostic beliefs and she was taught to believe in fate and destiny. She was inspired by her mother to be kind to others just for the sake of being a kind person. Her father influenced her love for travel from his interest in it. He is also a “lone wolf” which she inherited from him and it helped her when she had a minimal amount of friends throughout her childhood. When Kat was five, her parents lost both of their jobs at the same time. As a result, they were evicted from their house and were forced to move. Kat was forced to leave her …show more content…

While her mother was unemployed, she became sick and took its’ toll on the whole family. As a result, Kat values her time with her mother more. Due to her illness, her mother could not obtain a job until Kat’s seventh-grade year. Being bullied throughout grade 8, she did not have friends until grade ten when she joined Mr. Leger’s drama class. Since then, Kat has joined St. Peter’s Specialist High Skills Major program in musical theatre with Mr. Leger. He helped Kat notice her potential, he believed in her, helped build her confidence, and gave her opportunities. He taught her the important difference between a dream and the work in reality. In the future, Kat hopes to sustain a career in performing arts, own a house by the age of twenty-five, be healthy, travel, be married and have children of her own. All of her experiences have influenced her present self and her hopes for the …show more content…

He stated that the “self” is a bundle or collection of experiences and is a bundle of perceptions. Individuals experience emotions and sensations over short periods of time. The self is always changing and non-constant. Humans are not directly aware of themselves and they only think about themselves in relation to ideas, feelings, thoughts and experiences. It is how the thought process is like. Only perceptions therefore how can the self be explained as anything else? For example, if a person was asked to describe an object, they would not describe what it is. They would be describing its properties. Therefore, would not self not be the same way? The self is thought to be made up all of the individual’s experiences and that they are nothing without them because there is no evidence of a core in a person's identity. A person’s understanding and growth of themselves is only supported by their perceptions and experiences. They influence the person and become a part of who they