This was my first essay of grade 10 in English. It was a good experience to have it fresh in my mind again and to be able to advance off these ideas later on. The main core competencies I used in this essay were creative thinking and personal awareness and responsibility. When writing this essay I needed to think back on many parts of my life in order to complete what types of people had authority over me, and more importantly how it impacted my identity. I needed to think about my well being and what my life is like right now and who I am. When writing this essay I also needed to generate ideas about stories and how i can use wording in my essay to make it interesting. Next time when I writ an essay I want to improve more on the senses and more developed language to add more to the readers mind when reading it. This is what I used, learned, and my thoght process when writing “The Authority Over My Identity” essay.