Real Women Have Curves Essay
“Mom it’s not just a phase, this is who I am now and you can’t change who I am.” The very idea of anyone attempting to control our actions can be unpalatable. Every teenager has experienced scrutiny and orders from their parents up to the point where the household begins to feel like a dictatorship. As children, our determination to explore different activities the world has to provide overrides the dictation of our parents. However, we often forget that our parents were once in our shoes and their rules are meant to prevent us from experiencing the hardships that they endured. Although we should respect our parents, we should not abide by every rule that our parents place on us, because they don’t always coincide with our personal goals.
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Unfortunately, we can have obstacles that prevent us from reaching the highest image we have created for ourselves. Fear, monetary funds, and time act as obstacles to that image. However, there is one holds more power than all the aforementioned barriers; our parents. The film, Real Women Have Curves, focuses primarily on the hardships an under advantaged, impoverished, and latina teenager encounters. Her greatest adversity becomes her mother upon displaying her disapproval when she decides to abandon the family’s business to attend Columbia University. In this situation, her mother failed to acknowledge the profit possible from attending college. This is was a rare opportunity for the family to rise above their current social standing and complete the American dream. Fortunately for her family, Ana disobeyed her own blood and managed to take advantage of her full ride. The thought of being financially autonomous is alluring to young adults with extravagant and sometimes risky plans. In my community, many peers have this personal goal for themselves. So, in order to achieve it, they declared independence from their helicopter parents and landed a job. Although this action was not in the best interest of their parents, being occupied allowed the child to contribute to the overall family
Unfortunately, we can have obstacles that prevent us from reaching the highest image we have created for ourselves. Fear, monetary funds, and time act as obstacles to that image. However, there is one holds more power than all the aforementioned barriers; our parents. The film, Real Women Have Curves, focuses primarily on the hardships an under advantaged, impoverished, and latina teenager encounters. Her greatest adversity becomes her mother upon displaying her disapproval when she decides to abandon the family’s business to attend Columbia University. In this situation, her mother failed to acknowledge the profit possible from attending college. This is was a rare opportunity for the family to rise above their current social standing and complete the American dream. Fortunately for her family, Ana disobeyed her own blood and managed to take advantage of her full ride. The thought of being financially autonomous is alluring to young adults with extravagant and sometimes risky plans. In my community, many peers have this personal goal for themselves. So, in order to achieve it, they declared independence from their helicopter parents and landed a job. Although this action was not in the best interest of their parents, being occupied allowed the child to contribute to the overall family