Everyone has a different way of approaching his or her goals, and at the same time everyone has a different goal. In the movie, Real Women Have Curves, this exactly what we see. This is a story that has to do with teenage Latino girl named Ana, who lives in Los Angeles, in an area, which densely populated with Latino families. As Ana graduates from high school, she gets accepted into Columbia with a full scholarship. Unfortunately, because she is from a lower class immigrant family, her family needs her most and she declines the acceptance and decides to work with her sister in the summer. Also, throughout the book we see that in her household, a man holds the power, and makes all final decisions in the house. This is related to what we have learned in class about “Patriarchy”. In a patriarchal family, the man is known to be the head of the family. Also, it was made very prevalent that Ana’s mother was pushing for her to lose weight as she was worried that Ana would never find a man that would marry her if she remained the same size. This only goes prove even more that even the women in that culture believe that a women should do only what is beneficial to the men of the house or her spouse. In this story we saw that Ana was influenced by both culture, and gender in the process of pursuing her dream of receiving an education. In Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley, we see that Hossfield also paints the picture that women are considered to be the