Personal Story essays

Personal Story essays I was raised with music, television, and the rapid explosion of information and technology. I am apart of the generation that some my mother calls the first truly multicultural and multimedia generation. I live in a society where I can access technology easily and determine my own potential for success. For the first time in my life, I will experience autonomy and discover new roles in family, work, society, and the Church as I begin college, and journey into my first job, or marriage. I have seen 18 years of life, and those years have been full of life! I have lived the maybe not so typical average white, Caucasian female life. I attended Saint Marys Catholic school, Abe Hubert and then Garden City High School. I like to consider myself just American. I have been so lucky as to have two younger brothers, one which is eleven months younger and the other is fourteen years younger then myself. I also have a little sister, who is a freshman in high school. I, of course am th e oldest in the family. My mom and dad are divorced, but my mother has since remarried, and I love my family the way it is, I would not change it for the world. Choosing a topic is somewhat difficult. My church and family have influenced me greatly. I have chosen to stay a virgin until I am married. When referring to virginity, I mostly use the word itself, but sometimes substitute derivatives of "purity" as a joke. In high school, my friends and I mostly used references to The Big V Club, with people being "in the club" or "out of the club." We also had a Big C Club for (mostly reluctantly) celibate people. These were just descriptive terms; we didn't have club activities or enforce membership or anything. In the beginning, I was not aware that I was a virgin or anything else. When I learned what the word meant, I thought it was risque because it referred to sex. I didn't think of myself as a virgin until it became apparent that people my age ...