From the very beginning Stacy portrays herself as an overachiever. She is driven by a strong personal sense that was built by the words and teachings of those close to her during her early development. She stays committed to her goals through junior high school and high school fighting against whatever negative input she receives as she begins to rely on support from her mother and boyfriend. These special relationships connect with Marcia's expansions on the theory of identity formation. Stacy is still young during this time of her life, and has yet to create an identity for herse

lf. Being unaware of such existential concepts but fully committed to something such as her academic studies indicated Stacy's status as a foreclosure subject. Although Stacy seems to be a success in school, her personal development is yet to be fully realized as quoted from Marcia's Expansion: "The foreclosure subject has not yet experienced an identity crisis/exploration but has made definite commitment to goals, values, and beliefs... However, the commitments that emerge- in contrast to the commitments of identity achievement- are not the result of any truly personal searching and exploring." . The difficulties and battles Stacy undertakes in school aren't connected with her personal life. Though she seems to have a clear set of crises in the form of certain academic difficulties she seems to overcome them quite simply through a commitment easily made to engage in hardened studies. The real crises she encounters with her personal life doesn't truly develop until her senior year of high school when she begins to realize her lack of faith in God. This is when her personal life and development begin to take hold.

Stacy's status on Marcia's expansion table takes a definite turn as she begins to engage in certain life changing experiences. Among these life changing experiences, we find her battle with racism, her acceptance of her lowering grades and her excursion to Taiwan: "Looking back, it seems evident that in Taiwan I learned more about myself than I ever thought possible. This knowledge helped me to gain increased confidence and direction...all th

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