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Genes vs. Environment (This essay is about nature vs. nurture)

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:24:41
Category: / Social Sciences / Current Issues
Length: 4 pages (1233 words)
I generally regard myself as a disorganized person. I believe this is an innate trait for me. As far as I can remember, I've always been disorganized. But throughout my life, I developed some ways to cope with it, especially after having some negative experiences. So what was the main factor that made me disorganized person? I strongly believe that it was a combination of both nature and nurture, but if I had to choose …
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…this tendency was dominant enough that even my parents' well-intentioned efforts to canalize me towards being organized did not work. Maybe that even backfired because of my adolescent emotions and parent-child conflicts. So, in a way, the same environmental factors that worked positively for my brother did not work for me. And this leads me to believe that nature played the most important role on this trait. Environment could only shape it to an extent.
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