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Caleb Brown Ella Glinski Shauvien Lowe Dr. Greene 8 February 2025 Conversion Stories      Lauren Winner, the author of her autobiography, Girl Meets God (2002), discusses her back and forth pull between Judaism and Christianity and the factors that ultimately led her to put her faith in Jesus. Winner went all the way back to her childhood, when she was first named an Orthodox-Jew, all the way to her college life where she met Jesus in her dreams about being a mermaid. The purpose of Winner’s autobiography was to tell her testimony and show people that you do not have to be born into Christianity in order to believe in Jesus. Winner’s intended audience is all of the non-believers, and believers of Christianity.        From my perspective, Girl Meets God offers a unique and deeply personal insight into the struggles of faith and identity. Winner’s journey resonated with me because it showed that faith is not always straightforward—it can be full of...

Caleb Brown Ella Glinski Shauvien Lowe Dr. Greene 1 February 2025 Imbalanced Identity     In an anonymous author's article titled The Imbalanced Identity: To First-Generation Immigrant Parents  (2022), the author addresses the struggles between immigrant parents and their children. The author uses personal experiences of how her and her sister had to learn how to live what felt like a double life as American-Pakistanis because their parents don't understand the culture of the new country they live in. The purpose of this author's article was to give immigrant parents advice on how to raise their children who are living immersed in two cultures in order to help the parents maintain a healthy relationship with their children. The intended audience for this article are immigrant parents.      I have lived in America my whole life. Unlike the anonymous author in The Imbalanced Identity: To First-Generation Immigrant Parents , I cannot relate to the struggle of ...