Analysis Of Lose Your Mother

Psychological disorders are very real and present in many people we come in contact with daily, however, are very rarely talked about. Learning about these disorders can help us to understand others and ourselves better by telling us why we do and think the things we do. One effective way that we can observe and learn about psychological disorders is through movies. “Mommie Dearest” was directed by Frank Perry. It is centered around the actress Joan Crawford, who suffered from various psychological disorders. Joan’s daughter, Christina, wrote a book about her mother and her many problems and it was later turned into a movie. It is very effective to use movie analysis as a way of learning, especially in psychology, because it provides a great way to observe without distractions. When you’re looking at disorders, it’s difficult to find a person who has many of these disorders and will allow you to observe them. Psychological disorders can be split into two major groups, personality disorders and mood disorders. Personality disorders are patterns of traits that can get in the way of your social or work life and may interrupt the individual’s normal lifestyle. Mood disorders are inconsistent and unreliable changes in mood by the affected individual. (Rathus, 1998). With all of this being said, it brings me to my point that I will be talking about for the rest of this essay. Joan Crawford demonstrates the personality disorders of histrionic, narcissism, and OCPD. When it comes to mood disorders, Joan demonstrates bipolar disorder.

In the book “mama might be better off dead” written by Laurie Kaye Abraham, tells a story of Jackie Banes and her family, and their struggles to hold the family’s health together. Her grandmother Mrs. Cora Jackson, who pretty much raised her, has suffered the amputation of one leg because of uncontrolled diabetes. Jackie’s father, Tommy, who has suffered a stroke because he didn’t care about the consequences of high blood pressure. Jackie’s husband, Robert, who has a progressive kidney disease. Abraham has gone out of her way to find more about the American health care system in North Lawndale, Illinois. Throughout the book she talks about how the health care system in America is so unfair and unsatisfactory to the needs of poor people such as the Banes’s Family.

The way Bechdel decides to depict the characters through her art is a major factor in how the characters are developed, and can be a major factor in how the story is perceived. At a first glance, the depiction of Bechdel’s persona, Alison, in “Are You My Mother?” appears to have very masculine features. An uninformed reader may at first assume that the story is about a man. However, through the dialogue and narration it is quickly revealed that the drawings are depictive of a homosexual woman. Bechdel’s portrayal of herself in the graphics as having very masculine features says a lot about her self-perception. She creates her own persona, so the character seen in the cartoons is Bechdel in her own image and likeness. Clearly, Bechdel illustrated her comic so that the character bared a strong resemblance to her own self-image. Later on in the story, starting on page 83, Alison is depicted wearing glasses and she bears a much stronger resemblance to actual pictures of Bechdel. In several scenes throughout the story, including the opening scene, Bechdel has dreams of herself as a child. These scenes showed a young Alison, dressed in what would widely be considered boys clothing (Bechdel 73). The illustrations as a whole are very sexually ambiguous. This may be perceived as an allusion to Bechdel’s struggles with her own sexuality. However, the refrences to Bechdel’s struggles go beyond the art.

Imagine your own family member constantly manipulating you into thinking you were going to be forever young. Now imagine that person telling every individual that you cannot care for yourself nor will ever get better. To be completely honest, that is a scary thought, not having any control over your own body and believing your caretaker that you are mentally incapacitate to care for yourself. The documentary I chose to watch and write about is Mommy Dead & Dearest, this documentary was released 11 March 2017 and the director is Erin Lee Carr. In this documentary, we see Dee Dee and Gypsy’s narrative who brings Munchausen Syndrome by proxy — a form of child abuse that involves a caretaker making up an illness for

Only in the late 18th and early 19th centuries did ideas of affectionate marriages and loving, sentimental relations with children become dominant in American family life. These attitudes first took hold among the urban, educated wealthy and middle classes, and later spread to rural and poorer Americans. This change was due to the growth and increasing sophistication of the economy, which meant that economic issues became less pressing for families and production moved outside the home to specialized shops and factories.

Antigua is not England, and hence becomes a non-place. Its failure to become England marks its failure to have any identity whatsoever. What was not England, according to Kincaid, was destroyed in the process of colonization, leaving behind a vacant, peripheral space that could be defined as “not-England” but not as a place with its own political or social distinctive-ness, cultural history, or position of cultural centrality (McLeod, Corinna, 2008). Kincaid’s used language as a rhetorical

In the story there are a lot of surprises. The most surprising part of the story for me would be when Eulinda found her brother dead. After the Civil War ended the prison let out all of the prisoners and allowed them to look for their family/ friends. With the help of her friend Clara Barton (who worked for Red Cross) she went looking for her brother and the ring he had told Eulinda he still had in the letters he wrote her. Later, they found his body and the ring with a note attached to it. The note told her to use the Ruby ring to live and to be free.

As I signed up for a class called “Embodied Discourse” I had no idea what to expect; the only informatioin I knew was that I was about to take a Goal 1 course. If someone asked me on week one or even two what “embodied discourse” meant in terms of this course, I believe my response would be something along the lines of: “I don’t know, but we do yoga every day!” As the course progressed, if someone asked that same question, my response transformed more to: “It’s about integrating your mind and body into writing,” but I always remembered to mention we did yoga every time we met as a class. It has taken me awhile to realize that embodied discourse is more than just a class I’m taking to help me incorporate my mind and body together into writing. Much of the content we have discussed has been eye-opening to me, regardless the topic, or of it was a discussion, listening to an interview, or digging deeper into my thoughts through meaning making journals. By living our lives in ways that de-center ego and create a sense of integration, we free ourselves from a “default” mode that David Foster Wallace articulates. Realizing that college graduates are equipped with an educated mind, Wallace encourages us to think about our thinking. Since thinking inwardly is natural, it requires refocusing of ego to think outwardly. Wallace’s ideas are a leap towards a better sense of integration of the mind and body. Acknowledging that our minds and bodies are subconsciously weaved together means

1. "See," I said, "you don 't have any family and neither do I. I 've got the preacher, of course. But I don 't have a mama. I mean I have one, but I don 't know where she is. She left when I was three years old. I can 't hardly remember her. And I bet you don 't remember your mama much either. So we 're almost like orphans" pg 21.

In her article, “Why Are All the Cartoon Mothers Dead?” author Sarah Boxer points out that when it comes to something as simple as cartoon movies, the uncanny trend that they all share is the fact that there is no main maternal figure present in a majority of films: “Bambi’s mother, shot. Nemo’s mother, eaten by a barracuda. Lilo’s mother, killed in a car crash. Koda’s mother in Brother Bear, speared.

In Jamaica Kincaid’s essay, “A Small Place”, she is acknowledges how the Antiguans hurts themselves, as they fail to see the pathetic irony that exists within their country. According to Kincaid, the Antiguans see slavery as a time in which a bunch of ships dropped off slaves, the ancestors of the Antiguans, to work under brutal conditions for many years. Then, as though it were magic, all of a sudden the day of “emancipation” arrives, in the eyes of the ignorant Antiguans, and all the slaves are freed. As Kincaid notes, the Antiguans speak of emancipation “as if it were yesterday” and as if slavery was a recent occurrence to their peoples, when, in actuality, the slaves were freed roughly one hundred fifty years ago. However, at the

Last Year when Bad Moms was released, I stated that the film felt like an R-rated version of Modern Family, sitcom-level writing trying it’s hardest to be edgy. Lo and behold the story hasn’t changed much with A Bad Moms Christmas as you have much of the same except it is exponentially worse. Riding on the notion once again that the most difficult job on the planet is being a mother, the two horrible mothers along with their semi-competent friend are back this time dealing with the pains of their own horrible mothers, it’s like a pattern. There isn’t much of a plot here, it is the same crude humor and f-bomb dropping every third line that makes this feels like a 90-minute sketch some Viner on YouTube would put together (and those videos are

I think this author was quite subjective in his descriptions and also really biased in some source. I’m getting more information about the Europeans than the Africans. I feel like the author felt that the Europeans were being cheated. With this assumption, he is trying to inform others on how to avoid it. While his writing may be based on his own experiences, the tone seems supercilious. His style of writing is really vague. It does not really give the reader all that they could know. This might be based on the time period in which this was written. In the beginning of the document, they state that he describes better than other writers of this period. I think this would better be achieved it was more detailed from both views. What I see that he did was separate each paragraph based on the country he is describing. This makes the writing to flow better. Lastly, this was published in A. and J. Churchill’s Collections of Voyages and Travels in 1732, which tells me that this might have been written for the Europeans thinking about going to West Africa during the slave trade period. This must have been one of their many guides to use as they made these

The film All About My Mother is a drama which sees a mother, Manuela, on a search to find the father of her son. This journey comes after her son, who has always desired to meet his father, was tragically hit by a car and killed while chasing down actresses of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. This play, which Manuela was an actress in twenty years earlier, becomes small piece of her son she holds, since it was the last thing she did with him before he was killed. This desire she feels to be complete is a trait which recurs in a few other characters during the story. The characters that the desire to feel complete is most shown in is Manuela, Esteban (her son), and Huma.

The journey of self-discovery of identity and culture is a very challenging process because it involves discovering and revealing the good and bad experiences that shaped us as human beings. The effects of self-discovery includes: happiness, disappointment, clarity, enlightenment, and even self-fulfillment. However, it also entails fear, doubts, confusions and misunderstandings. Most importantly, it also means finding our ultimate purpose of life. According to Abraham Maslow’s arguments, in “The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing,” boils down to finding our inner and outer knowledge of oneself. He concludes that “all factors that permit courage, freedom and boldness will thereby also free our need to know.” He argues that when we safely release ourselves from unnecessary fear and pain, it is one way of freeing ourselves from mental and emotional traps. He asserts that by bravely re-visiting all our choices of life, digging deep into our childhood, and even exposing our unpleasant experiences will eventually make us wiser and stronger. He emphasizes that each approach could be culturally diverse and is also based on individual’s needs. For example: In “No Name Woman,” Maxine Hong Kingston argues that a ghost haunts her for publicly revealing the family’s secret about her aunt disgraceful past. She recreates the events of her life, both imaginary and factual stories to help her better understand the Chinese culture as well as to figure out what part from her identity is