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Personal Narrative: My Name Offers And Their Meanings

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A common thing I like to do while vacationing is to go browsing in souvenir shops for accessories to take home as a memory. As merchandise is filled throughout the store, the keychains, magnets and coffee mugs always seem to grab my attention. It is has always been a challenge to find one of these personalized items with my first name… Kendall. It always seems to be Kendal with one L, and that is not me. This has become a big game throughout my family and friends to see who can find “Kendall” on any type of merchandise. Throughout my name search on random objects I have realized that not finding my name, Kendall, in any store reiterates me being a unique individual. According to babynames.com the name Kendall comes from the English origin and was derived from a place name and surname 'Cumbrian ', which means 'Valley of the River Kent '. Having my name emerge from a river relates directly to how I express …show more content…

According to kabalarians.com one who is named Kendall creates a quick and clever mind; you are creative, versatile, and independent. I personally love how I am described in this sentence because it completely correlates to the person I have grown to be. The creative mind that I have developed comes with plenty of new ideas and innovations as my eyes catch improvements that can be made each and every day. This includes something as simple as moving a piece of furniture to where I think it would look more satisfying. As said before, going with the flow is what I like to do and I think that being a versatile person fits right into that, which means being adaptable to many situations. Being independent comes with growing up and learning to be self reliant, as I continue to learn throughout my journey in High School. Having independence is a great assurance for me because I am in control of my life, no one else is making my big decisions, this life is mine and I control the destiny of it. I can be described in many words but these three words I can go on and on

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Independence is when someone becoming an adult, where they can handle issues by themselves. This person is able to have their own ideas and opinions when they are making decisions. Many people have misunderstood the idea of being independent, they believe that living apart from their parents means they are independent. In the essay, “Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person” by Lynn May Rivas, she states “Independence, after all, is not simply a passive status: it is something people ‘do’”(76). Being independent is not passive, where someone accepts what happens without any response, it should be a time where the person understands their responsibility and they are not influenced by others.

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It is a very drafty feeling, I feel like I am not a part of this world. Although I have my theories, I know for a fact the truth of why I am named Ishmael Leseur. When I was just a young child, quite fresh out of the womb you might say, I was not normal. I came out of my mother without shedding a single tear and my doctors knew I was abnormal. All I have every wanted was a normal life and to grow up like an average boy but, people have always treated my as if I am borderline stupid.

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My first name Nathan ranks thirty-eighth in the United States and thirteenth in Canada, but that is low in relation to crowning my first name to be the most popular in France (Campbell). I would have certainly not known my name to be so popular in a different country. Since I was born, I have been alien to knowledge of how I came to have my name, how popular it was, and what it meant because of accepting it without any thought. I never thought about how much my name represents who I am and how much it affects me. I wanted to figure out where my name came from; therefore, I found primary research useful by interviewing my mother about family surname history.

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Names are just words. They all have meanings, some do not illustrate the person they are with, others do. My full name is Chloe Dell Carman, I think a name is just words given to someone to address them. Names should not impact you as a person. Finding out the definition of your name should not change who you are, if you think a name changed you then you are an imbecile.

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My birth certificate reads "William Reiss Briggs," a name assigned to me when I was a mere 22 inch, 6.9 pound infant who had no idea of the significance of what I was being called. I was not involved in the choosing of that name nor able to mutter even a syllable in attempt to pronounce it. It was only later on in my life that was told of the sentimental heritage in my name. William came from my grandfather and great-grandfather on my mother’s side, and Reiss was the family surname from which my father’s side originated, Although strongly defining in a historical sense, the names at first seemed to say nothing about my personality. That makes sense too.

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Your name is who you are; it’s the essence of your being. You and your name will go through thick and thin, young and old, and life and death together. You two are forever inseparable, like brother and sister, white on rice, or a fat boy and triple chocolate cake. My name happens to be Mykel. To many people I encounter in life, phonetically pronounce my name as “Michael,” “Mukal,” or even “Mah-Kawyll” by my Southern eleventh grade AP English teacher, Ms. Clawson, who always butchered my name with different pronunciations for the first two months of the quarter, and somehow managed to make it sound similar to an imitation crow call by an amateur bird caller.

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