I Am The Orca
Essay by 24 • April 24, 2011 • 472 Words (2 Pages) • 905 Views
Unit one
Hereditary is what you get from your parents. Good looks and Brains are all things you could be lucky to receive. Environment can affect you in the manner of where you live. For example it is more likely to grow up selling drugs if you live in the ghetto. But who is to say what affects you more? Is it from the natural gifts or the environmental standards?
Heredity, the natural gifts that can make you run fast, be beautiful, or even be mentally handicapped can have a serious impact on personality. For me heredity has played a big role in my life. I have been blessed with a good mind and the assertive personality strong enough to fit my ideas. My parents genes have blessed me with those abilities. These abilities especially my mouth have gotten me in trouble and these troubles have definitely changed my life. If things have been differently, and I was a jock and a mindless zombie, my life would DEFFINATLY be different. Always training for football and worrying about totally different things, all because its what was passed down from heredity. The way I am now I cant even throw a football, but I can program computers, if it had been opposite due to heredity, id probably never be able to do what I like now.
Environment however affects you in a totally different manner. If your raised to believe in something, like god your likely to spent time at church, that affects your personality. If your beaten your whole life your much more likely to be an unproductive member of society, and possibly even beat your own kids. For me however I am raised by a single mother, which sets a good example that if you try hard enough, you can produce good for others, this lesson has made a dramatic impact in my personality and always believed in the helping hand never hurt anybody. How your raised is not the only determining factor, where you live can affect it as well, if your
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