Mulan is an outcast in a society that values feminine beauty, which is shown when her father Fa Zhou says, “I know my place. It is time you learned yours” and when he prays to “help Mulan impress the matchmaker today.” (Mulan). Mulan is a story of a young Chinese girl who tries to find herself and goes on an adventure to bring honor to her family. Mulan is an example of a monomyth because it contains a Departure, Initiation, and a Return, archetypes, and the universal theme of growing up. The Departure begins with the “call to adventure.” According to Campbell, “the adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken or who feels there’s something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members in society.
Case Study Miss E came to therapy for weight loss wanting to lose 2 ½ stone in all. She is 29 and came out of a failed relationship 6 months ago. She is now ready to look for another partner but is scared as her previous partner of 6 years was very controlling and almost seemed to want her to stay overweight. She had struggled with her weight since she was 12 or 13 and her parents badgered her about being unattractive and eating too much. She has tried many diets but always seems to put the weight back on again after a while.
Her father died in 1838 and left them only 20 dollars in his account. The three oldest girls supported the family for several years by operating a boarding school for young women. In one of her books, Dr. Blackwell wrote that she was initially wanted to keep away the idea of studying medicine. She said, she had "hated everything connected with the body, and could not bear the sight of a
As I moved to a public school, I lost friends and lost more of the self-assurance I didn’t even own. I was picked on in school for my weight and for wearing a bra at such a young age because I had more meat on my body than most girls. I would cry myself to sleep practically each night and began starving myself. Starving myself was a perplex undertaking because I was conscious that my mother would quickly discern and I was young, so I would not be able to withstand not eating for such a duration of time, but I kept this up, on and off, for a couple of months. I did begin loosing weight, which generated in me the greatest appeasement, but I would always recoup that weight, and because of that my mother never managed to perceive anything.
She once saved her money for two months to purchase Vaseline for her dry hands. When it came time to buy the item; it had gone up two cents, and she could not buy it. Another health issue was her kids always had runny noses which got worse because she couldn’t afford medicine or even tissues. Finally, if having worms isn’t bad enough, she has no money for the worm medicine.
Women in Northern Uganda are constantly raped but they are never allowed to do an abortion when they became pregnant. Many of the children become homeless because they leave them in the streets (Elisabeth Schauer and Thomas Elbert). Due to these struggles in such young age, children are desperate for some identity. Groups like Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam use their past to make them join their group like they did for Ida. Psychological damage before even becoming a soldier due to their poor and unhealthy Many girls join Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to protect themselves from economic hardships and rape but the military or any civil war groups cannot protect them from the dangers of their own country.
According to the book “Women, Art, and Society”, men can achieve nobility because they are good in art, but women can only be allowed to practice act when she was of noble birth. It showed that people in the past believed women’s success in art was base on the nobility in her family; it means women’s success in art was just part of the property of her family, but not because of her. It was hard for women to prove her ability when everyone believed both males’ and females’ success were credited to male. On the other hand, the economic valuing of Western art was also one of the obstacles which females’ artists had to face. In the text book “Women, Art, and Society”, author mention that “Our language and expectations about art have tended to rank that produced by women as below that
There was also nothing there for the old before that ether, they basically had to work until they died as they had no money otherwise or be sent to the poor house which was embarrassing. The act was passed as the old had to rely on their children who often couldn’t even pay for themselves and they were becoming a burden. You had to be 70 to receive a pension which was far too high as most of the people that needed it had died by then from not having a good standard of living. The age for being able to receive was far too high as people that needed the pension were too unhealthy to live that long anyway. If you were single you got five shillings a week and seven and a half if you were married.
When Barbara found out she was pregnant another time, she felt an abortion would be the best decision because she had little money to support her and her son already, and her mom said that she would not help her daughter with to have another baby. Barbara went through with the abortion, and even though she was set on the idea we could see that she was going through both physical and emotional pain both during and after the procedure. The story of Imaculee was also another insightful story. In this novel we learn that Imaculee was a young girl when the genocide in Rwanda broke out. The Hutu people were killing the Tutsis just because they were Tutsi.
If the foot was too long it was thought that these women would not get a husband. To achieve this, “the usual age for beginning the binding of a girls foot was between five and seven years. It could be done as early as two and attempted up to age twelve or thirteen” (Jackson 27). The procedure performed to achieve this task entails breaking the foot. At the age of six, the “foot is still composed primarily of pre-bone cartilage which is predominantly water, and is therefore more easily molded” (Jackson 27).