The Other Sister Essays

  • The Other Sister

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    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

  • The Other Sister Sparknotes

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    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

  • The Other Sister Sparknotes

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    Summary 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

  • The Other Sister Analysis

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    The movie, The Other Sister, truly displays the struggle people with disabilities have due to what stigmas we have attached to them. It shows how the main character, Carla Tate, is a victim to the stigmas society have created but also illustrates the empowerment she is able to gain due to accepting her disability. The psychosocial aspects Carla faced was heavily due to the stereotypes placed on her. The movie depicted intellectual disabilities in a positive uplifting view and explored the psychosocial

  • Analysis Of The Other Sister

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    The Other Sister Movie Review Aly Daniels In the movie The Other Sister, two characters were portrayed as having mild intellectual disabilities. Between these two characters some accuracies of intellectual disabilities are portrayed, but also some of their characteristics appear to be inaccurate or inconsistent. For example, throughout the movie Danny and Carla both have limited vocabulary and their language is more immature. Also, Danny and Carla both display learned helplessness. Carla outwardly

  • The Other Bronte Sister: Charlotte

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    even in the writings her poetry. Charlotte “Jane Eyre” Bronte was born April 21, 1816. She was born the third daughter out of six children. In 1824, Charlotte and her older sisters, Maria and Elizabeth Bronte, enrolled in the Cowan Bridge Clergy Daughters’ School and obtained their education. Soon after Charlotte’s younger sister, Emily, joined them at the school, Maria and Elizabeth became very ill. Charlotte’s father, Patrick Bronte, requested for Maria and Elizabeth to be sent home to be taken care

  • Comparison Of Lorenzo's Oil And The Other Sister

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    with a disease that did not have a cure at the time but many scientists were running research studies and tried to help the Odones. On the other hand, in the movie, The Other Sister (1999), Carla Tate, a young woman living with a mental disability, has ambition to become independent and seeks love. This paper examines Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) and The Other Sister (1999) and the way each movie portrays the story of having a child in the house suffering from a disability. Lorenzo’s

  • Family Dynamics: Navigating Favoritism and Sibling Rivalry

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    get along. Other times when family members dislike each other and things are bad the rollercoaster moves down. No matter what most parents manage to get their families through the ups and downs that the life throws at them regardless of the difficulty. One of the things that makes raising a family more difficult is when then younger sister/brother is more spoiled than their older sibling. If the parents are not careful in how they raise their kids and they spoil one more than the other these could

  • Sister Wives Case Study

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    Things are really going to heat up on Sister Wives this week between Kody and Christine Brown. Last week on Sister Wives they headed to Galveston, Texas to work on their marriage, but it wasn't enough. These two are still having problems and this week on Sister Wives, Robyn Brown gets right in the middle of their issues. Sometimes another wife stepping in is a good thing and others it is really bad so viewers will just have to wait and see how this turns out for them. Robyn stepping in looks like

  • Why I Live at the P.O.

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    is favoritism or preferences in our family, especially among other siblings. Most of the time it is our immaturity or jealously within ourselves that leads us to these conclusions. Moreover if we neglect others for our own selfish reasons, or if we choose to see things only from our point of view we usually end up by ourselves, longing for the presence of our family. In Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.”, the main character Sister, cannot step outside of her own perspective and is unable to

  • The Dysfunctional Family in Why I Live at the P.O.

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    and bringing her small child who she claims is adopted, much conflict in the family increases. Stella-Rondo turns every family member living in the household against Sister, her older sister, and every family member betrays Sister by believing the lies Stella-Rondo tells about Sister to them. Through much turmoil and distress, Sister becomes so overwhelmed with the unending conflict that she feels she must leave her home and live at the post office. In “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Eudora Welty strongly

  • The Qualities of a Good Sibling: An Evaluation Essay

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    for each other, willing to drop anything to help one another. Having a strong bond between siblings is one that can never be replaced. Even through tough times, siblings can overcome their differences. Most importantly, siblings provide each other with a built-in best friend. These are all important principles for a good sibling. I believe I am a good sister because I fit the criteria for what every sibling should meet. First, I am a good sister because I am always there for my sisters, no matter

  • Conflict In The Rez Sisters

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    The Rez Sisters by Cree playwright Tomson Highway, the family road trip promotes each woman’s understanding of their relationships by creating an environment for personal growth and discovery. The road trip, with the help of Nanabush, helps reconnect the sisters and strengthen their bond so they are prepared for Marie-Adele's death. The inter-family conflicts show how the sisters encourage each other to be better people, survive the struggles of living on the rez, and support each other through hard

  • False Accusations in Doubt by John Patrick Shanley

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    sustaining as certainty". (Shanley 6) Sister Aloysius Beauvier is a strict traditional nun, who was declared to protect and secure St. Nicholas Church School. Father Flynn seems to be the protagonist in the play and Sister Aloysius is the antagonist. The whole play, sister Aloysius Beauvier suspected Father Flynn of molesting a 12-year-old boy named Donald Muller, who is the first African-American student in the St. Nicholas Church School. I think that Sister Aloysius’s overreacting, because Father

  • Eudora Welty's Why I Live At The P. O.?

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    story begins with Sister explaining the series of events which lead to her living at the P.O. after her sister, Stella-Rondo, had moved back home with her adopted daughter. The story is written in a first person point of view, so Sister has the only voice that is objective. The voices of others are subjective and are very possibly misunderstood. The narrow mindedness and the unsubtlety Sister has towards others shows that she is an unreliable narrator. During the story, Sister hastily questions

  • Eudora Welty Why I Live At The P. O Summary

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    perspective of Sister, the narrator, who never mentioned her name in the story. She communicates to the reader that she is the victim of the absurdity of her family. However, her sister, Stella-Rondo, would bear a contrasting viewpoint of her time reunited with the family, and she would convince the reader to empathize with her. The mother of the two sisters also would have expressed the accounts of the story in a different manner, and be more sympathetic to Stella-Rondo than Sister. Each character

  • What Is Buck Like In The Call Of The Wild

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    of the Wild, Buck is pushed to be the strongest and most respected dog because he fears that if he isn’t, he could die. In contrast, my sister had to persevere and overcome her shyness and make friends no matter how hard it was. Buck and my sister have their differences, but they both had to deal with the loneliness and cruelty of the world. Both Buck and my sister had to persevere through the fears and struggles of day to day life at both suburban school and the snowy woods of the Yukon. In The Call

  • Sister Relationship Essay

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    Studies show that sibling relations last longer than any other relationships. Through this period of time bonds are growing stronger than others, which is why Marry Cary, current college student, relationship with her sister made the biggest impact on her life. Marry stayed Hartford, Connecticut and attended Bulkeley High School. Her parents were Bill and Sue Cary. She stayed in a small area where everyone was close, but didn’t always get along, so family always meant so much to her. Growing up

  • Antigone Protection Quotes

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    boys Polyneices and Eteocles killing each other in a battle over the thrown. This causes a disruption of emotions and personalities which causes them to change; Whether it is absolute willpower, stubbornness, and the act of protection. We can find many of these changes in Ismene and the other characters. We see Ismene’s intentions is the beginning of the of the play when Antigone asks for help with something that is deemed forbidden. Ismene:Bethink thee, sister, of our father’s fate, Abhorred, dishonored

  • A Short Story: Analysis Of Sister Love Story

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    Analyze of Sister Love story Sometime it happened that two persons fight with each other because of a person whom they love his or her, but it is not common between two sisters which they love a person and become enemies of each other. I saw in most story the same case, which is two sisters or two brothers loved a person, but it is not common in real life. Although, the tenderness is usual and common between two sisters, but sometime in some cases due to jealousy or egoism two sister become opponent