The film The Other Sister, tells the story of Carla, a young woman with an intellectual disability, and her struggles that involve Erikson’s psychosocial stages, parenting styles, and humanistic perspective. As a developing women, Carla encounters various stages of psychosocial development that result from unresolved conflicts within her life, as well as, her transition into adulthood. In the beginning of the movie, Carla is picked up by her father who she refuses to talk to or make eye contact with. This behavior is associated with the trust vs. mistrust stage of Erikson’s psychosocial development because Carla feels that she cannot depend on her father and does not feel comfortable opening up. Although Carla is a gregarious individual, her …show more content…
inability to feel safe around her father is a result from the unstable environment that she grew up in as a child. Before being sent to a boarding school, Carla struggled to get along with others and felt detached from the rest of her family. After an accident involving Carla pushing a boy down the stairs, Carla’s parents decided that it would be best to send Carla to a school that specialized in helping children with intellectual disabilities. This childhood abandonment left a negative impression on Carla, which lead up to the initial detachment that Carla shows towards her father. In addition to this, Carla must also overcome identity vs role confusion as she attempts to figure out adulthood. As a person, Carla is ambitious and has dreams to become a veterinarian. To help in her career goals, she goes to a college and works hard to pass her first year with flying colors. Along with this experience, Carla begins to notice how other women her age act, in particular how they communicate with men. One instance, is when Carla notices a girl in her class trying to flirt with the teacher by wearing exposed clothing and attempting to get his approval. After noticing the difference between herself and the other girl, Carla begins to build insecurities over her own body. To go along with this, Carla wishes to experience romance and begins socializing with men. She begins to see a man named Daniel, a college student who also has an intellectual disability. Carla’s relationship with Daniel goes along with the psychosocial stage of intimacy vs isolation. Her attempts to find happiness in a companionate relationship is what allows her to fall in love with Daniel and get married. As Carla comes back home to start her new life, she must adjust to living with her authoritarian mother, Elizabeth.
Although, Elizabeth does love her daughter deeply, she is overbearing and often tries to dictate her life. Elizabeth’s authoritative parenting style is portrayed when Carla tells her family about her dreams to finish public high school and become a veterinarian’s assistant. After hearing this, Elizabeth declines to talk about it and attempts to hold control over her daughter. This behavior is shown again when Elizabeth takes Carla shopping and does not let her pick out clothes that she wants to wear. Elizabeth’s controlling and suppressive parenting style becomes too much for Carla to handle resulting in Carla attempting to run away. Elizabeth’s overbearing parenting is heightened when Carla begins dating Daniel. Before even meeting Daniel, Elizabeth was hesitant and weary over letting Carla form such a relationship, however after realizing that Daniel is also intellectually disabled, Elizabeth permits it. In addition to this, Elizabeth agrees to let Carla live on her own in an apartment, but is still controlling and overprotective as seen from the explicit rules and instructions for the apartment. Elizabeth’s authoritarian parenting style is truly tested when Daniel proposes to Carla. At first she refuses to let Carla get married, but after realizing that her daughter is an independent woman, she accepts Carla’s decisions and supports her
marriage. Many of the experiences that Carla faces in her transition into adulthood can be related to a humanistic perspective in psychology. The first that happens is when Carla meets her family after being away for several years. Carla is able to see the family’s maid who has cared for Carla since she was young and treats her with unconditional positive regard. Carla and the maid are able to have a close, intimate relationship because she is able to express herself to the maid without any criticism. Carla’s sisters also treat her with unconditional positive regard because they accept her and support her in her hopes and dreams. Another humanistic perspective concept that can be related to The Other Sister is the idea of self-actualization. Self-actualization, the process of fulfilling one’s potential, is the main goal for Carla as she tries to achieve her ambitions throughout the movie. Although Carla must overcome some struggles to fulfill her potential, she manages to build several positive relationships, become successful in her education, and find happiness in adulthood.
A movie, “The Other Sister,” is about two mentally challenged people name Carla Tate and Daniel. Carla Tate, a 24-year old woman, return to San Francisco from a sheltered boarding school after long years. After rejoining with her overprotective mother Elizabeth, a gentle and thoughtful father Radley, and two young and older sisters, Carla announces that she wants to attend a local school called Bay Area Polytech, a normal vocational school. Nevertheless of her mother Elizabeth’s disapproval, Radley supports her to pursue her dream. On the first day, Carla meets a boy named Danny and helps him when someone calls him “retarded.” They both get close to each other and fall in love quickly. Carla envied Danny for living on his own, so
Since the Mill’s closing the community has gone downhill with unemployment and crime skyrocketing. Carla should speak with Reverend Smith to possibly create programs to reduce the crime such as, after school programs as well as crime watch in community, and more police to assure safety for residents. The matter of lack of care and living alone could be solved by bringing a caretaker into the home of Carla if she’s open to the concept. Carla would benefit from carrying on with her relationship with sister, and improving on one with Loretta, Reverend, and especially
In today’s world there are millions of people who grow up in situations that make them powerless. Poverty, violence, and drugs surround children from birth and force them to join the cycle. In L.B. Tillit’s Unchained a young boy named TJ grows up in this environment. With both his mother and father struggling with addiction, he is often left alone on the streets to fend for himself. He turns to a local gang for protection and a sense of place in Jr. High, but is quickly taken out of the life he knows when his father overdoses and dies. TJ is sent to live in a foster home where he learns to care for others and meets a girl and falls in love with her. However, when his mother regains custody of him, TJ is forced back into the gang where he uses violence and drug dealing to stay alive. With help from his foster care manager he soon realizes that he can make it out of his life and return to his foster home and the girl he loves. A central theme of Unchained is that people have the power to make decisions to determine their future.
“Geronimo: an American legend” is a story of an apache warrior who fought against the United States in order to preserve his peoples culture. The film starts off, ironically, with the first surrender of Geronimo. His people are sent to a reservation called turkey creek. On this reservation they were expected to become farmers that would produce mostly corn. However the apache where not harvesting enough to sustain their community and had to rely on government checks.
In the novel The Sisters Brothers, we learn a lot about the two brothers Eli and Charlie. Their violent history as professional killers as a job leads the readers to believe that killing is a part of them, and nothing will ever change that. In my opinion, I think Charlie would have the hardest time adjusting to living in a peaceful environment, and “’removed from all earthly dangers and horror” rather than Eli having a hard time. From what I know by reading the book, I’ve learned that Charlie Sister is more actively violent than his brother Eli. I believe this is true because in the book during the early beginnings of the story line, their commander they’ve been working with for such a long time gave the brothers a task, and Eli was more hesitant “What if Warms not there? ‘He’ll be there’ ‘What if he’s not?’ ‘God damnit he will be’ ” (Dewitt. 10). As this quote proves that Eli Sisters was more hesitant towards their task to kill Hermann makes me believe that deep down inside Eli wants to change the way they live, and Charlie would have more of a hard time. You could tell that Eli was more eager to find Warm, while Eli contemplated the “what ifs” scenarios. The possibility of Charlie being front man instead of Eli can play a part on why Eli is more resistant than Charlie. Also, the personality that Eli portrays is more of a caring, soft, tender heart but those personality traits can be misleading because Eli still participates in the acts of killing. Secondly, I believe Eli and Charlie cannot remove themselves from the life style they grew up in because; they’ve made many enemies along the way. Hypothetically speaking what if they do successfully open up their shop, and one of the customers they get happen to be an enemy, o...
All these and more evidences used in the book support Peterson’s thesis and purpose—all of them discuss how having a disability made Peterson and others in her situation a part of the “other”. Her personal experience on media and
Kathryn Allamong Jacob’s “She Couldn’t Have Done It, Even if She Did,” reflects America’s history of inequality and gender stereotypes that greatly affected society’s mindsets, even when it involved murder. Lizzie Borden was an upper-class, gentile, unmarried woman who still lived with her father and stepmother at the age of thirty-two. Being an active member of her community and part of the Women’s Christian Temperance movement, she fell perfectly into her stereotypical role as a beloved daughter who, unable to devote her love to a husband, devoted her time and energy to the betterment of her community. Lizzie, being a wealthy and moral woman, could never brutally murder her father and stepmother, she was incapable of even thinking of it, or was she? Jacob’s story of the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Borden in 1893 describes how gender stereotypes can influence the minds of a nation and how the public and media influence, male dominated court hearing, and refute of evidence all lead to Lizzie’s full pardon.
The experience changed her life, she learned to rethink her own attitude and self determination. I learned that people with mental retardation are not to be separated from society or even treated with less respect because of their disability. “Riding the Bus with My Sister” taught me to never neglect people with mental disabilities. Readers learned that people with mental retardation, just like everyone else, have families, desires, and determination. They cry, they laugh, they have emotions just like the rest of us. We can learn new things from those suffering from mental retardation. ‘Riding the Bus with My Sister” taught me that civil rights apply to
Throughout the story, it has been Sister who has tried to persuade the reader to take her side in the debacle with her family. The truth is that it was Sister who caused the entire dispute that is going on with her obsession to compete with her sister that goes back to her childhood where she feels that Stella-Rondo is spoiled and continues to be spoiled up to the end following Sister’s desperate need for attention.
Walking up dilapidated stairs, my friend and I enter into the chapter room of Beta Sigma Psi, where the Little Sisters of the Gold Rose meets every week. The fraternity house smells of stale beer and sweat, and has clear signs of past parties and shenanigans. However, we have officially become activated members of the service sorority and were attending our first chapter meeting with the entire sorority. In that chapter room we discussed future service events, volunteering opportunities, and then went around the room for anyone to share news and announcements with the group. It was at this moment that I felt like a true active member in LSGR, when everyone was interested in hearing about each other’s lives and wellbeing. While as a rushing
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...ter care home somewhere in southern California. Her present condition is debated. One individual hired an investigator in 2000 and supposedly found her to be happy. Another person, this time a psychiatrist, who visited her found her to be silent, depressed, and chronically institutionalized. After watching this documentary, I truly was appreciative to the family care and environment I was born into. The importance of human contact became very evident through the heartbreaking discussion of Genie. I was able to develop successfully though Erikson’s stages as I had a basic trust, a will to do things myself, an initiative to create plans, and a sense of competence. Genie on the other hand has been deprived of happiness, a sense of safety, love needs, human contact, opportunities to learn, and many other factors that makes a healthy, normal, happy human in society.
The three family members are adults at the time of this play, struggling to be individuals, and yet, very enmeshed and codependent with one another. The overbearing and domineering mother, Amanda, spends much of her time reliving the past; her days as a southern belle. She desperately hopes her daughter, Laura, will marry. Laura suffers from an inferiority complex partially due to a minor disability that she perceives as a major one. She has difficulty coping with life outside of the apartment, her cherished glass animal collection, and her Victrola. Tom, Amanda's son, resents his role as provider for the family, yearns to be free from him mother's constant nagging, and longs to pursue his own dreams. A futile attempt is made to match Laura with Jim, an old high school acquaintance and one of Tom's work mates.
The Other Sister is about a family with a sibling that has a developmental disability also known as mildly mentally retardation (MMR), mild developmental disability, or mild intellectual disorder (MID). Carla Tate is our main character that has MMR as a disability. She is a young women, twenty-four years old, with a slender but beautiful appearance. Carla has just graduated from a special education boarding school and is returning home to her family. Carla’s mother (Elizabeth Tate) is overbearingly protective, does not appreciate all of the abilities that Carla has acquired. Her father (Bradley Tate) is a recovering alcoholic who is sympathetic and supportive of Carla, who at the same time has to deal with his domineering wife. Carla has two sisters Heather (who happens to be a lesbian) and Caroline (who is planning a wedding). Carla’s sister quickly bond again upon Carla’s return. They are supportive of Carla and her abilities.
Amanda loves her children and tries her best to make sure they do not follow her path to downfall. Unfortunately, while she is trying to push her children toward her ideals of success, she is also pushing them away. Amanda Wingfield is a kind woman stuck in the wrong place and time; she is trying to make her children’s life perfect while attempting to get a re-do on her love life with Laura and forcing Tom to fill the role that her husband abandoned. Amanda Wingfield was never meant to be in the situation that she finds herself in.