Half Saudi Arabian Half Personal Identity Essay 3

before you start working on my essay here is some info bout me to write my essay ALSO i will attached some of the online class reading so it can help you write the essay

I’m half Saudi Arabian half Kuwaiti

i was born in Kuwait but reased in Saudi Arabia both are in the middle east but Kuwait is more liberal country

my first language is arabic I’m a female muslim we wear something called abaya and hijab

Personal Identity Essay

In a well-developed essay of at least 3-5 pages (12-point font, Times New Roman, double spaced),
write an essay about your own sense of language and identity. Please also connect your essay to the
texts we have been reading and discussing. Due Friday 08/02/18 by 6:00 p.m. eastern time.

To receive full credit, you will have to address ALL of the following prompts in your essay.

1. What is your cultural and linguistic background? (Discuss this in the context of being
   monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual)
2. How important is your parents’/grandparents’ etc. language and culture to your identity?
3. How important is the place where you were born?
4. Has this class made any difference to the way you think about your languages, your culture,
   your identity and the way you think about the languages, culture identities of others?

To answer the above questions, you may want to think about what factors are important to your
cultural and linguistic background, which may or may not include the following:

• Views on languages versus dialects:

• Places where you have lived or traveled;
• Places you visit frequently (e.g. parents’ home country, state, etc.);
• Your religion, customs, dress, food, festivals, etc.;
• How you self-identify and how you get identified;
• Your heroes, your dreams, or aspirations;
• Your worldviews (e.g. Should immigrants preserve their languages and cultures? Are
  people becoming more alike and is that a positive or negative thing?); and/or
• If you like, you may include on a separate page, as an appendix, a diagram that
  captures how you conceive of the significant influences on your identity
  Bear in mind while writing your essay:

• Do not answer the prompts (above) individually. They should be thoroughly
  integrated into a critical discussion. Do not write a compartmentalized essay.
• Relate your essay to the terms and concepts discussed in the texts we have
  read/viewed.
• Make this essay reflect who you are. Enrich your vocabulary – in other words,
  change plain words to more accurate or expressive ones. Try to think of a metaphor
  that expresses the way you feel about your identity (e.g. a patchwork quilt, made
  from different colors and textures of cloth; or a person pulled painfully in opposite
  directions by two tug-of-war teams; or a sculpture that is being created by more than
  one artist). Open with a “hook” and close on a memorable note as well. Here is an
  example of an excellent opening:
  “Although I write in English, my first language was Chinese. Because my
  parents are from China they praised me, scolded me, told me long bedtime
  stories and recited poetry to me all in Chinese. No wonder then that I think of
  Chinese as the language of my heart. As I grew older, I absorbed Thai from
  interacting with people in the busy streets and marketplaces and temple fairs
  of Bangkok. Thai for me is a functional language and I think of it as the
  language of my hands. Only much later did I learn English from strict
  teachers in school, and so I think of English as the language of my head. ”
  (Minfong Ho, author)