The Other Sister

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 film The other sister follows a mildly mentally disabled girl in her life after getting out of a special school. The film takes you through her issues between her mom, going out and living on her own and even getting a boyfriend. Through the character Carla many different aspects of psychology are displayed. Upon Carla getting out of her special school and coming home she must overcome the difficulties of having an overbearing authoritarian mother. She thinks she is wrong when her mother is

Introduction The Other Sister is a film about intellectual disabilities. It stars Juliette Lewis as Carla who has an ambition to train as a veterinarian’s assistant. Her mother is opposed to the idea but her father believes she can go for it. Carla eventually gets into the local polytechnic where she meets Danny and they eventually become friends (Hammer et al, 2000). They both face discrimination by people around them. They soon fall in love and become sexually active together. Carla motivated by

Other Sister was released in 1999, by Touchstone Pictures. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and featured Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi. The Other Sister is a heart-warming and humorous movie about two young adult’s journey to find their independence. It also happens to feature two main characters that have intellectual disabilities. The Other Sister is a movie about a young woman, Carla Tate, who has an intellectual disability. The movie begins with Carla’s father, Radley, picking her up

The movie, The Other Sister tells a story about a young woman in her early-twenties named Carla Tate, who struggles with adjusting to normative societal constructs after being institutionalized for over ten years. Once Carla graduates from the institution she is quickly reintegrated into her family’s first-class environment with the help from her overly protective mother, her passive father, and her uninvolved sisters. Carla is determined to work for her independence by going to school, obtaining

today. A child with special needs bring a whole new life to those who they are around. They light up our world when we are around them and do not see when there is trouble with different issues. After watching the two movies, Lorenzo’s Oil and The Other Sister, my eyes were opened even more about living with children who have special needs. Lorenzo’s Oil is based on a true story of Michalla and Augosto Odone and their son Lorenzo. When Lorenzo is just five years old he is diagnosed with a disease called

is a differential gap between the two sisters who come from two different sides of the world. A lot of differences between the two sisters and their personal lifestyles comes from one sister living in America as a Chinese-American and the other sister living in China. In the story Brave Orchid who is the sister that is brave, outspoken, and sometimes cruel sees life as a bundle of opportunities to take with no regret. However, it is different when her sister Moon Orchid comes into town from China

When one becomes a sister, a seed is planted in the depths of both of their hearts. In order to grow, the seed requires the warmth of the other’s love, a dousing of compliments, and a breath of encouragement. After some time, the seed blooms into a beautiful flower and gains the gazes of many. It is the job of the other sister to protect her flower, so that it never gets picked. I am a sister. The day I became one, was the first day I left the house without a doll in tow. “I’m gonna have a new

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ever again…? (Pause)). Discuss the presentation and role of Rose in this extract and elsewhere in the play. Although mentally handicapped, Rose Mundy is perhaps the most fearless of all her sisters. Her role in ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ is key in highlighting the morally and religiously restricting traits in her sister Kate as well as outlining the confining constraints of living in very rural Ireland. As the plot unravels, the audience become increasingly aware of Rose’s dispersing innocence when symbolic