How can culture, sender, nos, media, expectations limit/undermine our attempts at self-definition and self-actualization? Using the reading from "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan; "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments" by Robert L. Heilbroner "The Paranoid Style of American Policing" by Ta-Nehisi Coates; "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" Sherman Alexie; "Aria" Richard Rodriguez