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Essay 1
Balance of Values and Independence
A young teenager seeks independence as she applies for her first job. She seeks
individuality and an identity as she first steps into her college life. She finds love and
decides to take her traditional role as mother and caretaker, conserving her traditional
Latina values. But what if she wants to continue studying and pursuing a career? What
happens to a Latina who is shunned by her family because she fails to follow in her
mother’s footsteps?
Many Latinas suffer tremendously by taking on designated roles, and have further
progress to make in asserting their independence. mon ideals about women’s
weaknesses and proper roles must be challenged because we are stronger than society
believes us to be. Yet, it is impossible to give up traditional values because they form the
respect and close familial ties that are mon and cherished in Hispanic families. Is
it possible to balance values with desires? The film, Real Women Have Curves is
exemplary of the potential that women have and the struggle, along with the sacrifices,
that must be e to make use of it. America Ferreira’s character, Ana, has a
pessimistic relationship with her arrogant mother who wants to draws her back from
continuing her higher education. In Dreaming in Cuban, Celia tries to enforce the Cuban
revolution upon her daughter, Lou