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This page consists of my first creative non-fiction essay for my FIQWS composition class. We were assigned to write an essay that revolves around our identity and how the media contributes to our identity. I wrote about how the environment, my friends and my education has both a positive and negative impact on my identity. Initially, I started off naming general ideas of identity and I didn’t get into depth on how certain aspects of my life impact me as a person and how it makes me who I am today.

First Draft of Creative Non-Fiction Essay

Creative Non-Fiction Essay Revised

Professor Rodwell named that we needed to be vulnerable and speak from a personal lens. We received an assignment from Professor Rodwell and it was a ted talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who contributed to my creative non-fiction essay as the ted talk revealed the importance of identity and the persona people create on the media.

The main idea of the ted talk is that stories empowers us and is made to help us to gain knowledge. It is a representation of our society’s mentality of how we see others and how we portray situations. The problem is that the media provides us with a perception that is incomplete and could either be could either be filled with knowledge on others which could have a positive and influential impact or it could be detrimental and be biased on what one thinks about another. This relates to our courses explanation because in todays society the media partially demonstrates the lives of others and never the full story which leads to judgment and stereotypes. An example of that is where the talker named that she traveled to Mexico and was surprised at what she experienced compared to what she heard on the media. Which let to her feeling pity and shame because she allowed the media to think for her and create a form of judgement on a specific group of individuals. The author then proceeded on using repetition of the phrase “what if”. I agree with her because what if we didn’t let the internet dictate the real from the fake