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Describe yourself using a famous quotation and explain your reasons for selecting this quotation. Until the End “To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting” E.E. Cummings. This quote means a lot to me because it is something I try to remind myself of in my everyday life. It seems like in the world today people including media and other forms of advertising, are trying to push people, into one general category. I believe this quote is powerful because it isn’t telling you to go with a new trend or to start your own but to stay true to who you really are regardless of what “group” that puts you in. There is a lot of emphasis put on young people to be “individuals”, in and outside of the classroom. I feel that in the classroom I strive to be true to myself and show that through my work. The reason I think it is so important to be yourself is because everybody is different, yet everybody strives to be the sam