Select any exhibit and analyze it with 300+ words. Use the "Critical Lenses 101" handout. Look in the EXACT way the "Critical Lenses 101" handout tells you to as a critic. Ask the EXACT questions the "Critical Lenses 101" handout tells you to ask. Have the "Critical Lenses 101" handout with you as you study your exhibit and as you write this blog task. If you do not refer to the "Critical Lenses 101" handout enough or effectively, your grade will be cut in half because you are not following directions and are not thinking in the directed way.
“EXHIBIT” = novel, play, song, sculpture, film, poem, concert, painting, myth, sketch, poster, artwork, photograph, t-shirt, television show, biography, speech, advertisement, board game, military situation, college visit, event, place/building (school, office), game, brochure, practice, rehearsal, ritual, haircut/style, website, routine, suit coat, celebrity (like Lady Gaga, pictured)...
“EXHIBIT” = novel, play, song, sculpture, film, poem, concert, painting, myth, sketch, poster, artwork, photograph, t-shirt, television show, biography, speech, advertisement, board game, military situation, college visit, event, place/building (school, office), game, brochure, practice, rehearsal, ritual, haircut/style, website, routine, suit coat, celebrity (like Lady Gaga, pictured)...
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Phillips period 7
I pick Lady Gaga to be my subject. I have always been fascinated by her music and her music. There are a ton of hidden messages that just hit home with how people feel and want to believe verses what this woman is actually saying. In one song in particular “Bad Romance,” I find that she is only stating that every young woman and man has experience a horrid romantic relationship, or will, in his/her life.
Lady Gaga is inspiring and somewhat eccentric. She is just expanding on the thought of wanting to be different and less constrictive in her music. Now “Poker Face” explains that she “enjoys” the company of men and women. There are many sexual innuendos in her music, like “Disco Stick.” Lady Gaga uses the male part as a phallic symbol for representing what? Maybe the fact that she is women and even we have the power to persuade the minds and ideas of men; or saying that no matter how you dress, act and write stay true to yourself above anything else the media has to throw at you.
This mysterious yet disturbing woman has captivated us time and time again. I wonder why she chooses to exploit herself. Is there any big money in it for her if she does? What purpose dose this serve to young women? Does it give the men an image that most women are sleazy and are bi-sexual? As strange as Lady Gaga maybe, she has proven to be herself and, to most young women, to enjoy life as you were given it. To embrace the power, sensuality and passions that comes with it. As young girls of the 21st century we have only one life to live so live it to its extent and fullest.
Groninger Pd. 2
I am going to analyze Two and a Half men the TV show with a Marxist lens. This show is about two brothers Charlie and Alan and Alan's son Jake. Charlie is a player who drives a mustang and drinks this could imply that having a fast car and a nice house with money will impress women and get them in bed with you along with drinking to show that you can forget having troubles and just give in to your ID. While Alan on the other hand is the brother that has failed in marriage and in life because he follows the rules and cares about people which is portrayed as being dorky and a failure. He gets kicked out by his ex and has to move in with Charlie along with having Jake come to visit where in episodes they proceed to teach him about sex, sex, sex, and booze. Almost all the jokes are sex jokes, which show that this show is aimed toward a male audience. Also Alan's wife takes most of his stuff (house, car, money) which makes it seem that women who are you divorce will take all of your stuff in the settlement especially if your the average guy. The lessons these two brothers show to Alan’s son give the impression that you need a beach house and fast car to get chicks and their feelings aren’t important and respect aren’t for them is nonexistent in this show. Later on in the season Jake starts doing what his uncle Charlie does and starts to become and womanizer. I think that it shows that young men are influenced by who they are around and this also sends out a subliminal message to kids that it’s ok for a man to take home different women for one night stands.
Bratland Period 3
I am going to analyze the sport of wrestling. Wrestling is the oldest, and one of the toughest sports out there. The ancient Greeks wrestled, and from there on wrestling has become a sport of a dying breed. In a Marxist lens, a Marxist critic would say that two men step on a mat and prove to everyone and each other that they are the "alpha-male" and that they are better than that other person. The two wrestlers would be like lions fighting for land or lionesses. This could also be referenced to the movie "The Lion King". Mufasa could be the stud, or a five time state champion. Nobody would want to mess with him; he had the strength, the talent, and got all the girls because he dominated anybody who tried to surpass him. Scar could be the decent wrestler, but nothing like the state champion. Scar was never supposed to become King of the Pride lands. But, Scar surprises everybody who has ever seen "The Lion King", and defeats Mufasa to become king. The same scenario can happen in wrestling all the time. Some wrestlers can surprise you because the kid, who is the odds end favorite to win, could become more cocky and overzealous just by looking at the kids stature, and his record. Then, due to the kid's cockiness, he ends up losing the match and the underdog ends up winning state that year, or some really big tournament. But, a Marxist critic would say that whoever is the "top dog” will end up getting all the fame, the scholarships, the girls, and the attention. A Marxist critic would also say that now, wrestling has become a less socially acceptable sport to participate in. Quite frankly, they would even say that, "wrestlers are gay". People say this because, they judge wrestling by two men in tights (singlets), rolling around on a mat with each other when you are all sweaty and gross, and trying to lay on top of the other. Most people that judge wrestling to be gay have probably never tried wrestling ever in their life, or are just too afraid to try it. They would also say that wrestling is now a nonconformist sport these days. Most children, teenagers, college students, and even some adults do not wrestle; they conform to society by playing football, basketball, track and field, volleyball, etc. But if you were a nonconformist to the system, you wrestled because you wanted to try and stick out from the rest of society. A Feminist critic would ask, why is wrestling such a man dominated sport? Well, that really isn't the case these days. Men and women all over the world wrestle now. There is Olympic Gold medalists from the U.S.A. in wrestling that are women. But they don't get the same amount of attention and fame that the male Olympic Gold medalist does. To a Feminist critic, wrestling is a very sexist sport. A Freudian critic would wrestling brings out our animalistic side of men, and now women. They would ask, "Why would any male and or female, want to risk getting hurt and beat up, just to prove they are 'better' than you?" That sounds like they are using their id to help them boost their confidence in themselves, other than using their superegos to just play a sport that wouldn't get you hurt as easily and still get recognized.
Hanson, 6
For my exhibit I analyzed the quote, “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” This is a branch off from Babe Ruth’s quote, “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” When we break the quote down, we can tell that it means don’t let the fear of failure keep you from taking risks and trying new things. Or in this case ‘keep you from playing the game’; the game being life. But what kind of game could it be?? A board game? A card game? Not a board game because generally we have to roll dice in those games and those dice decide where you end up. Life is not like that at all. You cannot just roll a dice and have everything decided for you. Where to move, what to do, how much money you have. It’s all just a fantasy! As for a card game…it depends which kind of card game. It couldn’t really be like go fish, but maybe it could be a gambling game. Because that’s what life is. You have to gamble and take chances to determine what you will do with your life. It’s all one big game!
But anyway, I analyzed this quote through two lenses: mainly Feminist and a little Freudian. To start with, this quote is obviously targeting athletes, even if it was not intended. By using a sport reference they are singling out only the people that understand the sport. Some people may not even know what a strike out is, no matter how un-American that may be!
They could have used any sport that is both male and female and that has the same name for both genders (such as track, cross country, golf, basketball, or tennis). But they chose baseball/softball instead. Therefore they are making the reader chose which one the quote is referring to. So which one is going to get the most attention??? From the feminist lens we can say that this quote could be referring to baseball OR softball but which one do we see on T.V. more often? Which sport gets more attention? The answer to both of these questions is simple…BASEBALL—the man’s sport (more often than not). Woman’s softball is not on T.V. nearly as often as baseball and when it is on, baseball gets all the attention anyway!
But why do we (females) always get the short end of the stick…we are always doubted for our abilities. Males often make fun of softball because the ball is bigger and we have less distance to run or pitch. Well men, we may have a bigger ball but you baseball players have bigger bats! And yeah we do have less distance to run but as far as pitching goes, that is no advantage. It just means that we have less time to react to the ball than you boys do! Baseball is often noted as “the greatest game ever played” but why can’t it be softball? Softball players’ work just as hard, and both sports have the same objective: hit the ball when batting, and get three outs when fielding. Is it because society is trained to like baseball more because it’s typically a man’s game, and we live in a man’s world? I mean think about it; we don’t study her-story. We study history (his-story)!
Bachman
Pd. 3
I chose the show SpongeBob Squarepants as an exhibit to examine. I found that the characters in SpongeBob are much like the 7 deadly sins. 1. Sloth-Patrick. Sloth is the sin of laziness, or unwillingness to act. Obviously this is Patrick. He lies under a rock all the time and doesn’t really do anything. In fact in the episode “Big Pink Loser” he got an award for doing nothing the longest. 2. Wrath-Squidward. Wrath involves feelings of hatred and anger. Squidward hates his life, usually hates SpongeBob, and is pretty much angry most of the time. 3. Greed-Mr. Krabs. Obviously Mr. Krabs is greedy and desires money. How could Greed not be Krabs? He actually sang about the power of greed in “Selling Out”. 4. Envy-Plankton. Plankton is envious of Mr. Krabs because The Krusty Krab is a success while The Chum Bucket is a failure. His envy drives him to try to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. 5. Gluttony-Gary. Did you ever notice the running gag in SpongeBob where they say, “don’t forget to feed Gary” or Sponge says, “I gotta go feed Gary”. Gary even ran away that time when SpongeBob forgot to feed him. Gluttony usually refers to the overindulgence of food so I’m guessing this one fits him pretty well. 6. Pride-Sandy. Sandy takes a lot of pride in who she is and where she comes from. She takes pride in the fact that she is from Texas and likes to let everyone know it. She also takes pride in the fact that she is a mammal and a land creature, like in the episode “Pressure” where she tried to prove land critters were better than sea critters. 7. Lust-SpongeBob. Lust in one definition is “excessive love of others”. I think this one works best for SpongeBob. He shows his love of others with his over eagerness to do good and help people. If anything is true about SpongeBob it’s that he loves everyone around him, even if they don’t exactly love him back. 8. Despair-Ms. Puff. The list of deadly sins traditionally included Despair (a.k.a. Depression, Sadness, or Acedia) which was later replaced with one of the current seven. However you define it, this is Ms. Puff. She’s always unhappy and especially around SpongeBob. The only time she is ever happy is when she’s in jail or SpongeBob is cut out of her life. One definition of this sin is a mental instability and in one episode Ms. Puff started seeing things while in jail.
Freudian lens then, Bachman? Fascinating analysis.
--MC
I am going to analyze Brett Favre using a Marxist Lens.
How does money matter/function in this exhibit? Well, money matters in a lot a ways for Brett because money gives him a big house, lots of food, and making himself a millionaire. Money functions as he plays he gets paid and when his contract is up he has 3 options: Free Agency, Re-Sign Favre, or retire. Favre right now is in his 20th season in the NFL and in his last yr. of his contract, so he is going to retire he said at the end of the year. How does a power system matter/function in this exhibit? A power system works in this exhibit by the Head Coach has all the power in calling the plays, the offensive coordinator suggesting plays as well as the defensive coordinator. On the field, however the quarterback owns most of the power by calling in the plays to his players and executing thI plays rightfully or wrongfully. His offensive players also have a duty to protect him as well. If they don’t protect he will never win. How do social classes interact with each other? Is there any greed? I think the Social classes are the offense defense and coaches and I think that they all interact well with each other because if they don’t interact well with each other, they won’t win any football games. I think every once in a while there is greed with the quarterback and the head coach wanting to go for it on 4th down even though they are ahead. They go for it because they want to run up the score and thus unnecessary because you could lose football games doing that. Is a system oppressive to its members? The system of ownership could be oppressive to the coaches because the coaches are low on the totem pole and if the team is not performing at the level it is supposed to then the coach will get fired and thus oppressive. Also it could be good to the system because if they succeed they will stick around the team longer. For example, Brad Childress has been good to the system because each year he has been head coach, they have increased their wins and last year they made it to the NFC Championship game but lost because they made the wrong mistakes at the wrong time.
Francis 6th pd.
I’m choosing to analyze marching band not just our show this year, but also marching band in general. Using a Marxist lens it’s easy to see how power is functioning and how it matters in marching band. In marching band the power falls under control of the commanders when the band is on the field and warming up for the performance. They, the commanders, are the faces of the band. They represent the band because they are the ones who accept the awards and who are dressed differently from the rest of the band. If there were no commanders the band would have to rely solely on the director of the band who already has to put together the show and make sure everyone gets everywhere they need to be on time. He or She is important to running and forming the show and the rehearsals and what we do in these rehearsals. This leaves the members of the band who are all individuals outside of band but have to come together for however long need be to perform the task at hand. Be it rehearsals or a performance at halftime or a competition these are the ones doing the hard brutal work. They have to march charts that they have had to memorize along with playing music that they also had to memorize. The members also have to stay instep and act as one or else it ruins the whole effect of the show that there director has put together for them.
The show this year is entitled “Check Mate”. It includes for movements and it’s about chess. Chess is a tough game to play and it requires mental strength and endurance to get through. That’s why it is making a great marching band show. The theme behind our show is the ‘black’ king and his minions kidnapping the ‘white’ queen. It is battle between the ‘black’ and ‘white’ kings who are struggling with who should be in power. The more I think about it I believe that the “black” “white” struggle could be a symbol of how the white man has oppressed the black man (or any one of different skin color or any other kind of difference). The ‘white’ king wins in the end, but why do the ‘whites’ always seem to win the power or the ladies? Is it because our society is subliminally racist? Or is there greater meaning behind all this? I do not know the answer to these questions but I would dare to speculate that we have all grown up to be a little, or subliminally, racist; maybe not of just skin color but also of people who are different then us. Using the word racist is the right term not that I think of it the word should be prejudice because we put racism in the meaning of skin color and prejudice as in any one who is different.
Now using the feminist lens we see how a woman, the queen, is the one being rescued. But isn’t the queen the most powerful piece on the chess board? She can move in any direction and how ever far she wants, while the pitiful king and only move one square at a time. Basically what I am trying to say is that the queens are the ones that should be fighting and not the kings. The kings are pretty much powerless to any piece while the queen can escape and move freely and swiftly. This also goes back to society though and how we’ve all been taught that woman are the ones who need to be saved, and the men are the ones who are to fight and save the woman. Women are smarter and wiser when it comes to running things in an orderly fashion. Making women more efficient and better suited to run or manage a kingdom, country, and business anything that is.
Koens
Pd. 3
I am choosing to analyze Serena Williams. She is a female, high ranked, professional tennis player from the U.S. Serena Williams has been a long time favorite player of mine. She is a well rounded great tennis player; I believe in her and she has always been a big influence to me. This is a main reason why I am choosing to analyze Serena. I will analyze this subject through a feminist critical lens.
Serena Williams is coached by a male. Serena is being told what to do, how to do it, and when to do it by a male. This shows male dominance. Serena could be coached by a female that knows just as much as her current coach and do just as well as she has done. I think it could also benefit her to have a female coach. Having a coach of the same gender could help her. They might be able to understand each other better, knowing that at one point she might have gone through the same things.
Serena chooses to wear dresses and skirts with a cute top while she plays. Naturally women often wear these types of clothes, when playing tennis, while men wear shorts and a t-shirt. Not many, if any women professional tennis players wear shorts and a t-shirt like men. Women feel like they have to show their feminine side through their clothing. Serena tends to wear outfits with ruffles and cute designs you would not see on any guys clothing. This separates her from men playing tennis and makes her stand out. Also, Serena and many women tennis players wear bright “girly” colors. They wear a lot of pink, yellow, baby blue, and bright greens. Women feel like they have to stand out because men’s sports tend to be what are popular to watch. Women can get people to talk about them and their sport with the stand out clothing they wear. People like to comment on what other people are wearing and if it is stylish. This is how they feel their recognition. Men get more recognition because their sports are more interesting, or so people believe. Everything is a fight for women to get recognition in many sports.
Kramer pd.7
I will be analyzing professional basketball in general. First of all a Freudian lens would look at how kids usually play a sport and stay with it because they enjoy playing and being part of a team along side of their peers. As they grow older and see that they are pretty good, Freudian would say that subconsciously they see themselves playing that particular sport for money and fame.
Now Marxist comes in, you see many athletes today are looking to make it to the pros as soon as possible. Why is that? The minimum salary for a male basketball player today in the NBA is 474,604 dollars ( I did look it up) for a single playing season and it increases every year. Therefore, Marxist shows that the big reason players these days are usually going to college for only one or two years is the money. Why is that? They’ve been living just fine on an income of a fraction of that most of the time but today everywhere you look people see the lifestyle that the pros live the fancy clothes, nice cars, huge houses, and impulse buying whatever comes to your mind. Marxist shows how athletes are looking forward to the cash more than the feeling that “I get to play basketball today,” which most have lost long ago.
Now to compare and contrast the WNBA and the NBA using a Feminist lens. To start next time you see a WNBA game on look in the crowd and see how many people are there, usually not even close to half of the arena is full. Now look at a NBA game and most of the time the seats are usually sold out or nearly full depending on what teams are playing. A Feminist would ask why is it that women attract less of a crowd? In my mind, you look at how in history men have always been put above men and still today are in some cases. Is it because they are bigger, faster, and stronger? Everyone has his or her own opinion, but yeah in my mind that is the big reason why. Do most people want to see just normal basketball skills like dribbling, shooting and defending, today people want to see more like highflying dunks, amazing blocks and over all athleticism. This is why there is an overwhelming difference in men vs. women in basketball today.
Joey Boy Pd.3
Kurt Cobain is who I analyzed for my blog task. Kurt Cobain was the lead singer/guitarist for the early 90's rock band Nirvana. Analyzed in the Marxist lens we see that Kurt Cobain rebelled against the social classes of the United States when he became a super star in the early part of the 1990's. He pushed away from conformity and order when major record labels asked him to sign with them. Instead he signed with a smaller record company and rebelled the order of the music industry. In 1991 Nirvana released their album, "Nevermind" which became an instant success and coaxed Kurt Cobain up the social ladder. Cobain was now reigning king of the charts after kicking Michael Jackson out of the number one spot. This could be compared to social anarchy because the king was stripped of his throne, since Michael Jackson was, "The King of Pop". Kurt was not happy with his sudden push to power and really tried to push away from it.
In the Freudian lens we see that Kurt Cobain was a very troubled individual and expressed a lot of anger and feelings from his life into his songs. In his early childhood Cobain was said to be happy and a very good artist, but at age eight Kurt's mother and father filed for divorce. After the divorce his mom said that his attitude changed drastically. She said he became very secluded and withdrawn. A Freudian critic would realize the mental anguish and hardships that Cobain would be experiencing. Nirvana came across the public scene with Kurt's painfully-emphasized voice and lyrics as a new genre of rock called grunge. Although he was at the top of his career, Kurt struggled immensely with drug addiction. This started at an early age probably because of his parent's divorce. Heroin was his main addiction. Cobain let his id demolish his everyday life, his superego was slowly murdered, starting with the first injection of heroin. Kurt Cobain's id took over as dictator and killed off every bit of superego that he had left. The heroin injections created an id only equivalent to that of the late Elvis Presley's. He was the king of his generation and a superstar (similar to Elvis Presley) but his id was so powerful that on April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain killed himself.
Martin-Pd. 3
I am going to analyze the movie The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg. In the movie, you see an everyday African American woman live through days of abuse, and emotional distress in the household of an overbearing, and possessive man. Is it true than in most cases, the African American man is know as being abusive towards their wives, be it both physically and mentally, therefore disrupting what could have been and somewhat stable household (one person destroying a stable environment). We see this in cases like Ike and Tina Turner, the soul belting singing duo, that behind the scenes things were not as they seemed. Along with drugs and R&B music, which was popular in this era, Ike had been presented as an overall loving husband, who gave his wife everything, but behind closed doors, he was the complete opposite. Another case would be Tiger Woods, and his wife. Though this case not so much about the physical abuse, what was it that set Tiger off to betray his wife, and make her think that she was not good enough, or was it just simply the manly urges that we men have, and therefore can’t control ourselves to the point of no return?
Martin 3
Celie Johnson, the main and primary character in the movie, was from the very beginning of her life set up for nothing less than the bottom of the barrel. Growing up with a father that gave her two children of her own, and not by choice, she was constantly dealing with turmoil, and abuse just from her own home. Once it was set for Celie to marry Mr. Johnson, who really just wanted nothing more than Celie’s younger sister, Nettie, but not being allowed to for the simple reason that the father of both Celie and Nettie had desires for Nettie and could not let her out of his site. Once married to Mr. Johnson, Celie’s life of abuse continued. She was told to work, and keep her mouth shut. If she did anything aside from this, the hand would put her in her place. At any point, was Celie seen as a woman who slept around, and went behind her husbands back to fulfill her own guilty pleasures. Never! But for Mr. Johnson he was allowed to do so. What makes him so superior for these things, and not Celie? The only reason that comes to mind is the fact that Mr. Johnson is a man, therefore it is allowed. Before Celie ever married Mr. Johnson, he has a son named Harpo, who as soon as Celie enters the household, proceeds to throw a rock at her, causing a gash in her head. Now is this the real act of a 12 old boy, who in reality should be taught to treat women with respect, or it the act of a boy who is whole life saw his own mother being mistreated, and every boy wanting to be just like their father, follows in his footsteps. Later in the movie Harpo marries a woman, Sofia, who has grown up to have to fight her brothers, uncles, and cousins in order to stay alive, so has become a fairly tough woman and fighter by herself. This causes complications in the movie, because as we have seen already the woman is not supposed to fight back, but just take it and be happy with it. Sofia refuses to accept his role and goes on to beating her husband just as he beats her. Now here is when the feminist woman would be cheering like the Yankees had jus won the World Series, but did Harpo have a choice in whether or not to fight his wife. Why stop doing something that you have grown to be so comfortable with? All Harpo knew was abuse, that is what he came to know was the right way to act.
Does Celie ever have the option to leave this situation, and if so why doesn’t she? She doesn’t leave because for one, she has fear imbedded in her that if she does anything out of the norm there will be hell to pay. But it is the second reason that I would much rather follow, which is she is a woman who will stand by her husband through the hard times, which they mostly all are, and try to make the man himself believe that she can be this ideal woman that he is sought after. The question that constantly beats in my head, and was asked at the beginning of the analysis was is it true for African American men to be know as abusers towards their wives? Is it the men themselves that have acted out on this role and made this question a fact, or is it society itself that has made the question a fact? In The Color Purple we see it both ways. Celie, becoming the triumphant one in the end, has shown that his question is true, both from her father and her husband. Was it necessary for her to go through all of this in order for her to come out as strong and powerful as she did? She sticks her hand in Mr. Johnson’s face to show him that she has overcome all he put her through, and look at her now. Do women have to suffer pain in order to come out strong? They have to fight for what they want, but does it have to go to the lengths that it does in some situations that we see here, in order for them to come out on top? I answer this question with strong emphasis, and it is no they do not!
Engebretson, 7
I’m going to analyze Taylor Swift as my subject. Taylor is a young, beautiful, successful music artist (not to mention a female.) Along with her success, Taylor has a music publishing contract with Sony/ATV Music and she has written over 200 songs for Big Machine Records. Also, she has won nearly 50 awards since the start of her career, six of them being AMA’s. Analyzing Miss Swift through a feminist lens first, she is a female making just as much success if not more than most of the male and other female artists. This was proven at the 2009 VMA awards when Taylor Swift won Best Female Video and Kanye West decided to storm up on stage proclaiming that Beyonce had the best video and she didn’t deserve it. Gender in this exhibit matters because like in all situations, girls are compared to men, and Taylor Swift has proven they can be equal in the music industry. Women are depicted as not be as successful just because of their gender when in fact they get a majority of the votes at award shows and for music videos. Taylor is a great role model with a clean past and present and continues to win the hearts of little girls (and guys) all over the world.
Through a Marxist lens, Taylor is an extremely powerful person! On a daily basis, she continues to climb the tops of chart soaring past other artists, and making money regularly off every single ever produced. Money matters in this exhibit because it is another source of proof for her showing people and male artists not only her potential, but her success. A power system matters in this exhibit because without a record label, fans, or the support her sponsors and other music helpers, Taylor Swift would not be who she is today. Miss Swift is going to continue obtaining this success through her powerful songs, gorgeous self, and showing herself as a great role model.
Johnston pd. 3
For my blog task I have chosen the wonderful, talented, amazing, one of a kind, Sandra Oh. Sandra was born in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, to a middle - class Korean immigrant parents who came to Canada in the early 1960’s. Her father was a business man and her mother was a biochemist. Sandra took up ballet and acting at an early age. She realized later in high school that she wouldn’t be good enough to be a dancer, so she focused solely on acting. Against her parents advice, she rejected a four - year journalism scholarship to Carleton university to study drama at the Nation Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. She paid her own way through and told her parents that she would try this acting plan out, and if it failed, she’d return to school. Soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she stared in a London, Ontario stage production of David Mamet’s Oleanna. Focusing on the Marxist lens, I look at this tidbit of information as a power hunger strife from Oh. She wants what she wants and she will do anything, including rejecting her parents hopes and plans, to get it. She worked hard, and didn’t give up. Climbing up the social ladder is crucial in the acting society. In many cases, you must “run over, to get across.” Or, kick people in order to get what you want. She later became viewed from American standards, and became a big hit with big talent. She gets better and better. In a Freudian lens, the fact that she’s willing to do anything to get what she wants, shows that she serves her Id drastically. She gets what she wants, and she is willing to do anything to get it. This is not necessarily a shallow point of view but it’s very selfish. Thanks to her selfishness we as outsiders are privileged to watch her talented entertainment. She followed her dream. And she looked at two things she could have had, and chose the one she wanted to have. In the feminist lenses perspective, you’d see that since she’s a woman, it must be difficult to be this famous and accepted in society. She’s a woman, yes but in the acting world, she has no limits. Another view would be her ethnicity. Because she is Korean, she can’t do many roles in her career. But Sandra has proven that theory wrong time and time again.
Ryan Rohrbach period 3
In Halo reach there is a difference in social classes like the difference between civilians and military, military and Spartans. The same goes for the covenant with Grunts and Drones, Drones and Jackals, Jackals and Skirmishers, Skirmishers and Brutes, Brutes and Hunters, Hunters and Elites. There is greed but it is between the covenant and the humans, the Elites are looking for ancient artifacts because there religion is based on how the people and aliens lived way back then, probably in the years of 2100 to 2300. For the humans they have a chance to climb the social ladder, either they were taken away from there family when they were young or they choose to join the military. For the covenant there is but only for certain ones like Grunts, Brutes, and Elites have a chance to climb the social ladder by becoming higher rank for there species. there is oppressive in the systems, like the Brutes and Elites will send the Grunts first to see if there is anyone in a room that they need to kill. The upper ranks are happier because they get better guns then the lower ranks, Generals for Elites get a fuel rod guns (which are plasma rockets like the rocket launcher), concussion rifle (which is a mix between a grenade launcher and a rocket launcher) or energy sword, then the minor Elites get only a plasma repeater (the plasma repeater is a fast rate of fire gun that only shoots little plasma bullets). The Brutes also get better weapons the higher rank they are like they either get a Gravity Hammer or a plasma launcher (the plasma launcher is the same as a grenade launcher but with plasma grenades), then the lower ranked Brutes only gets a spiker (the spiker shoots little crystal spikes). The upper ranked Grunts also get better weapons like the fuel rod gun and needler (needler shoots crystal spikes that explode if a certain amount of spikes in one person or alien), then the lower ranked Grunts will only get a plasma pistol (the plasma pistol is a slow rate of fire gun that shoots little plasma bullets).
Randolph period 3
While watching the Fast and Furious movie (the new one) I noticed a lot of money and power change throughout the movie. Therefore analyzing in a marxist lense I noticed that Vin Diesel and his crew, at the start of the movie, had the power over the petroleum transporter by taking his rig two trailers at a time. After successfully taking the mans fuel rig they through a big party that was in honor of them and there success in making that much money. Everybody looked up to them but that soon changed when they realized the cops were onto them. Vin Deisel left the money and power to save his friends and family from being sucked into the trouble he had gotten into. After leaving the girlfriend, Lennie, tried to get Diesels criminal record cleared by running drugs over the boarder in which the power was held by the drug cartel. She was sharing information with the cops to get the record cleared. After being chased down and shot by a mafia member Diesel comes back to find her killer. He first found the man in power and got involved himself (under cover) and traced the same steps that Lennie did and soon found who shot his girlfriend and how she was shot. He and a cop took the money and fled back to the United States taking power and money from the drug runners. The drug runners of course wanted the money back for their power and pride so they met up with them into a trap where then the power switched over to the swat team who was going to bust them. In a feministic view the woman working with Diesel had just as much importance if not more than the men did. She did the risky job of breaking all the trailers free for the men. However after the first scene the movie appears to be somewhat sexist. All the woman after that were used for sex and there weren’t any woman drivers. They were all men. I have respect for Lennie because she was the only woman in the movie that played the same rebellious roll as the men and the only one who attempts to save Vin Diesel.
Mitzel Pd. 6
I chose to analyze a Miss Dior perfume advertisement. All advertisements are done for a specific reason, there is a purpose for every person, object, and expression. Whether we subconsciously think/see it or notice it right away, everything is done to sell. Advertisers only have a small amount of space to portray their messages. In the Miss Dior ad there is two separate sides. One side shows a seductive women almost kissing the bottle of perfume. It is a love, when you wear it you will feel this sensation. She has messy hair and a rose plus its stem falling out of her hair. It can be inferred that she just got done doing something sexual. In contrast, the other side shows a women floating away with balloons, you can see the large city of Paris in the background. On this side, the girl looks happy and relaxed. She is having a great time and is experiencing the world on a whole other level. She is above everyone in the town, superior to what is below. The colors in the ad are all pastel. It is very natural and relaxed looking.
Feminists would say they this ad is powerful to them. This shows a women in both sides, gender matters, a women is in control. This ad is for women. It shows a women is above the town. A women could have power if she wore the perfume. It makes her happy, relaxed, and sexual at the same time. It is the best of every world.
Freudian critics would say this ad tweaks with the interworking of the brain. There is women satisfying her Id and superego. Her Id would tell her buy the expensive perfume, wear it while she goes flying above the city/world. There is no danger in her life this way. The superego would then be saying save the money and buy a cheaper perfume elsewhere. Use the money for more important things and don't risk your life flying away with balloons that could pop. Freudian critics would associate the left picture with sex. The perfume led her to sex drives coming from the brain. The women in the picture achieves narcissistic bliss wearing the perfume.
Marxist critics would associate the ad with money and power. How do they function? Money shows power. Wearing the expensive perfume makes you powerful. You can do dangerous tasks and be a risk taker. Power is shown through the girl flying over the city. She has control. In society, this women is wealthy and in the upper class. She has it all, the look, the wallet, and the clothes. She is satisfied in her life style.
Everyday ads influence what we do and purchase. Every ad is directed at a specific group of people and for a specific reason. There is no mistake in any part of the advertisements. They want to sell and show that people are fearless, powerful, and happy with that product.
Danielson Pd.3
Analyzing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 through the Marxist Lens
Through the Marxist lens people would discover a hidden meaning throughout playing Call of Duty, a power struggle. This power struggle happens in any of the three places; campaign, multiplayer, or spec. ops. In the campaign you play as two different characters working for the Army Rangers and Special task force 141. As you play the story line goes through and these two forces work together to help take down an ultra-nationalist, Macarav, who is known to have nuclear weapons. Macarav will do anything to stay in power; he oppresses his forces and will get his hands dirty if needed to get the money he wants. Macarav’s forces and the two American forces go through many encounters and there is an epic struggle to maintain power. In the Multiplayer aspect of the game several people throughout the world play and verse each other using any force necessary to take down their opponents. The more powerful players are most likely a higher level or get to a higher level faster and the higher level and more powerful of a player you are the better guns and gun attachments you get. Some online players know each other personally and will form clans and will have battles with other clans to try to prove that they are the most powerful. This is a less obvious struggle for power but it is one of the most important in the game because of the fact that there are over a million people who play online that go head to head every day. And finally in spec. ops there is power struggle between one or two players verses multiple armies through multiple side missions to show that they have what it takes. the missions have three different difficulties to test the players ability to the fullest from recruit being the easiest to veteran being the hardest.
Jess Peterson 2
I chose to examine the song shake that a** by Eminem. This song without a doubt can be viewed through the feminist lens. The song is about Eminem looking for the hottest girl on the street trying to get her to have sex with him. As he quote on quote says “I’m lookin for a girl with a body and sexy strut.” He also says, “He’s lookin for a girl that’ll do whatever the F*** I say everyday she be givin it up.” So by him saying those words Eminem obviously doesn’t care what the girl looks like and doesn’t respect her. He just wants a girl that will get with him. Eminem speaks very crude and portrays himself as a man whore. Now when women listen to his song they pretty much feel like they are going to get raped. The real question is, is Eminem letting his ID get to him? Will the guy ever get married and do what’s right or will he forever be looking for one night stands? Another thing he says in his song is that he gets more A** then a toilet seat, which I happen to think is creative but a toilet seat contains many germs and is dirty, so does his wiener contain many germs and is that dirty? On the other hand, why are girls willing to put out for him? Is it because he is rich, famous, and has a lot of nice things? I’m pretty sure girls can do a lot better then Eminem. He isn’t even that good looking, girls should be strong and not promote his dirty lyrics. My question is, what does Eminem’s mom or grandma think of this song and how he treats women? Was the kid raised wrong? Did he even have a good family life?
Ellis pd. 2
I chose to analyze Lil Wayne with the Marxist and Feminist lens. Weezy is one of the biggest sex symbols and drug symbols we have in this world. In all of his songs its about sex, drugs, killing, and of course money. Yeah his life was more then likely very hard when he grew up and its fun to flaunt it now but do it in a good way that kids will be able to benefit from it, not just showing how much money and sex you have. By using the Marxist lens you can see he is flaunting all of his money and his power over people who will listen to him all the time, sell out his concerts, and buy all his cd’s. In a lot of his songs you can tell when lil wayne is coming to sing because there is a sound of a lighter and its basically saying he is living the life on drugs and nothing else.
From the Feminist lens you can see all he wants is sex from any woman, he says in a song “ I make you ride me like I’m sea biscuit” which is saying that he will make you have sex with him and he will have sex with anyone. Its more depressing that girls will just have all intercourse with him and then notice later they have an STD and a kid on the way with the other 26 kids he has from other women.
His criminal record is also terrible if you read that it shows where his raps are coming from, many possession charges on his record which doesn’t surprise many of us since we hear a lighter starting in his songs. Why is he able to set such a bad example for teen’s and many people in this world?
Kendra Hatle pd. 7
Movie: Pretty Woman
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere
Marxist:
Money and power are the main items in this film, so how they matter in the movie is they sustain life basically. For her she does ANYTHING for money just so she can pay her rent. For him money is something that comes easy, he does his job and has abundance of money. As for power he knows he has it and could use it on anyone at anytime, he runs big business and deals with people day in and out. She on the other hand has only the power of persuasion, which to some people I guess it could be a big deal but others think money mean more.
Feminist:
Gender role is pretty important in this movie, thru out the whole movie it is pretty much between one couple (male and female). Through a girls view you could just say he is using her and she is getting what she needs money. You could also say that it looks as though he is using her but really he loves her and will fight anyone for her and even saves her life from another man. Another way of seeing her is that she fends for herself she needs no help from anyone (besides her “job”) she finds ways to pay her rent without help from friends or family.
Freudian:
When it comes to Richard I think money goes to his head very quick, he likes money and uses it to his advantage. When labeling the characters I would put Roberts as the ego and Gere as the id. For sex symbols she is it, she is the one putting herself out there for guys to get money in return. She knows how to work guys to get them to pay her and does that as a way to pay for life. The power she gets when she has those guys could mean that likes to choose who she has power over and she doesn’t like to be controlled herself. It could also mean that she was controlled as a child and is trying to reverse that pattern.
Bob Marley/ Lion Picture
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Marxist
This famous piece of art brings man back to a primitive state of mind. It shows Bob Marley’s face with a lion’s face, facing the opposite way. It brings the two, to the same eye-to-eye level. It only serves one large cause: to compare Marley’s thoughts and power to the thoughts and power of a lion. The lion is the king of the jungle, and is always at the top of the food chain in nature. This picture presents the idea that Marley was, in his own way, the king of his own environment, at the top the social ladder, only able to be brought down by himself. There are no systems accompanying the telling picture, only pronouncing the point behind the art it’s self.
Feminist
Women’s roles are noted scarcely in this exhibit. The man’s role in society and life in general is extremely profound in the piece, through their masculinity, which is celebrated in the picture. Both Marley and the lion have common masculine features, including the black beard on Marley and the white “beard” on the lion. They both also have a small mustache of sorts. The only feminine feature on the piece, is Marley’s long hair. Perhaps this is to give man the sincerity and caring that most wouldn’t give to a lion. The feminist role is only limited to the extent, of such few female qualities expressed in the piece. The only privilege granted in the exhibit is the privilege it’s self to be thought of to have the power of a lion. A man has the ability to be “king” in this exhibit, though, where a women does not. Gender expectations set out in the piece tell men that to be a “real man” they need to have a lions roar and be able to stand for what they believe in the way Marley did, if they ever want to be the king of their environment.
*Freudian
This exhibit shows me at first glance that Bob Marley must simply be going off of his ids in life, yet when I look at his facial expression it makes me think the exact opposite. The essence of having Marley one with the lion creates the allusion of Marley thinking by instinct, for the greater good of himself and his people, the way a lion looks after his pride. Yet I can see the way he has his eyes lightly closed, and lips slightly parted, as if exhaling from a breath of consideration. It is as if he is excepting for the first time all of the hurt of the world and not only understanding, but mending his thoughts with those in pain, and excepting that pain as his own. He is letting go of that pain, oppressing the very thought of such tragic past to create the ultimate sublime. In this doing, Marley has such surreal spiritual uplifting in his meditation, he becomes unstoppable. He becomes the lion looking down the social ladder at all opposing forces. It is expressed that Bob Marley is in caught in his own narcissistic bliss.
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Jessica Johnson pd6
Nick Karber
PART 1
For my first blog I am going to analyze an indie made video game called Limbo. It is designed without a huge storyline so that the player is given the chance to interpret it and formulate their own opinions and speculations. Below is my analyzing and speculating.
First, I used a Marxist Lens approach.
1) Is the system oppressive?
Yes, the game takes place in a monochromatic atmosphere known simply as Limbo. Limbo is obviously a direct reference to purgatory, as the little boy you play as is, at the end of game, literally thrown back into “Limbo.” Through my interpretations I have come to see that the main character must have still had too much sin to be admitted to permanent paradise, therefore he must go through purgatory until he fully absolves himself of his wrong doings. This however doesn’t seem entirely possible as he was thrown through a window back to where his story began.
2) How do social classes interact with each other?
Ironically enough, the boy encounters a spider in Limbo. This spider is about ten times the boy’s size, obviously showing that their roles in Limbo’s society have changed. The spider is now climbing the social ladder, and the boy must regain his spot above him which is likely one of the boy’s various tasks he must overtake in order to reach heaven. He must absorb the punishment from this spider. This could be due to the fact that on Earth he may have killed spiders, and him being a boy is extremely likely. In the game you are supposed to kill the spider through many gruesome scenes, disallowing him to reach paradise. The boy’s ultimate motive for continuing into the hellish nightmare of Limbo is to find his sister, who I will cover under a Freudian critic approach. Humans are rarely ever encountered in Limbo, but when they are almost always hostile. These humans could be children the boy picked on when he was on Earth. He could have physically abused them or mentally by yelling racial slurs or just simply being rude. By examining this game it shows me that the boy was once a bully and was on top of the social ladder.
3) Are there social tensions? Are the Ruling classes happy? Are the Lower classes miserable?
There are numerous social tensions. The spider is obviously jumping for joy at the fact that it can now enact revenge upon the boy by impaling it with one of its legs. The boy on the other hand is worse than miserable. He is constantly thrown back into Limbo, and must endure punishment of death over and over again. He is even so tortured as to not even being given a name in this alternate world. On Earth, the boy had a name, both physically and socially. He was on top. Nothing could stop him. And now, he resides in the monochromatic afterlife that is Limbo.
4) Are characters given more/less freedom by their class?
The boy is given no freedom. Everyone is attempting to kill him. But, the other classes (The spider and humans) are given any freedom they want to torture the boy. They have a new freedom where, when they were on earth they chose not to be rude and mean. Now they get to do what they want and to me I truly think the boy deserves to get punished, even though the aim of the game is to try not to die.
Nick Karber
PART 2-LIMBO CONTINUED
Now through a Feminist critic approach:
1) Who put limitations on genders?
Just like a normal adventure novel or film, the girl is always the damsel in distress. In Limbo, the boy is trying to find and save his sister. The only female I encountered in my visit to Limbo was in need of rescuing. But he never gets the chance to save his sister. This is Limbo using a female to persuade the boy to keep going on his trials to find her.
2) How does society value men and women differently? What about men and women is valued?
At least in the boy’s Limbo the women and only women is used to push him to his goals, which ultimately keeps him from listening to his superego instead of his id. If he was to listen to his superego he would be able to understand he has to save his sister, but in a diplomatic and non violent situation, which is never the case. He instead chooses to literally murder these other humans, who he murdered mentally on Earth.
Finally, through a Freudian Psychoanalytic critic approach:
1) What does psychoanalysis reveal about this exhibit?
Through an “Oedipal Complex” approach I find that if the boy had a brother who was stuck in Limbo he probably wouldn’t bother to save him, and might even fight him to save his sister.
I tried my best to not ruin the entire plot as it does have an interesting ending to it. But at the end he does finally see his sister, who is next to a tree house that is in perfect condition. Then in the menu you see to dead bodies with flies hovering around them next to a destroyed tree house. This shows how the two met their ultimate death.
Taylor Garner Pd. 2
For my blog I’m going to analyze the music video for Soulja Boy’s song “Pretty Boy Swag”. I shall be looking at this video through the feminist lens. The video begins with Soulja Boy riding in the back seat of an expensive vehicle pulling into the drive way of an enormous house. Right away you know that he has money and power to have these extravagant things. The mansion that is assumed to be Soulja Boy’s is filled with women in skimpy skanky outfits. These women are either in bikinis in the pool or wearing booty shorts in the kitchen. In this song Soulja Boy is bragging about how all the girls think he is sexy and how they will do anything for him. He has a woman as his chauffeur right away at the beginning. When he reaches the door he has two women open the door for him and take his jacket. In the first minute of this video you see how the roles take place. Soulja Boy then goes into the kitchen where you see women cooking and cleaning in slutty maid outfits. Not only does this say what women’s roles should be it also fulfills men’s sexual fantasies. This is a dirty version of how society views the genders. It shows that the men have money and power and are controlling these women and the women are fulfilling their household duties. Next Soulja Boy goes to the bedroom where he has a woman fulfilling his sexual needs. The whole time throughout this video Soulja Boy is singing about how he is a pretty boy and all of the woman are on him all of the time. He has portrayed the so called “natural” rolls of women with this video. They are cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the men whether it be through sexual favors or household jobs. In a man’s perspective Soulja Boy is a stud. They only look at all the sexy women he has doing the dirty work for him. In a woman’s perspective Soulja Boy is a man whore. This video is very degrading to women. It shows what sluts they can be and how they are limited to only taking care of the man and house.
Flier Pd 6
For my exhibit I have chosen to analyze the game trilogy Gears of War.
Marxist:
In the Gears franchise there are 2 main opposing forces, the C.O.G.s (Coalition of Ordered Governments) and the Locust Horde. The game takes place on the planet Sera, which is Earth-like, where the Locust Horde is the dominate species. The entire conflict of the story is based off greed. Both the C.O.G.s and the Horde are fighting over a radioactive liquid called Imulsion which only got its value after a scientist figured out how to use it as a power source. The two main forces are both literally and figuratively fighting for power. Eventually the C.O.G.s start to move up the social ladder by taking the edge in the war but after the scientist is lost the Horde begins to take over and the human race begins fighting for its survival. This starts to happen around the time that soldiers start to disobey orders and begin to rebel, thus being disloyal to the system causing a massive power shift. The Horde has an ordered system. On top of the Horde ladder is the Queen, who has the most power and respect. Beneath her there are her two sergeants, Scourge and Raam. Then there are the Kantus, which are the priests of the Horde and have the ability to heal any and all Locust. Below the Kantus are the Beast riders, Theron Guards and Sentinels, and finally the regular grenadiers and drones. The drones and grenadiers have no power in the system and are used as cannon fodder. Each of the other classes has their own specific roles to the Horde and follows them justly, which is why they hold the most power. In the entire Horde is happy because they are effectively eliminating the human race and keeping the Imulsion (power) whereas the C.O.G. is not happy because they are losing the battle for power and survival. In the C.O.G. there is a completely helpless group known as the stranded, or civilians. They are treated like dirt and are forced to fend for themselves as the Locust Horde tries to wipe them out. The Government does nothing for them because the stranded do nothing for the government.
Feminist:
In the Gears franchise you only ever see 2 women that play a major role in the story. Anya is the coordinator for Delta Squad (the main group of characters that you play as). You never see Anya in the flesh, because she is at the Headquarters for the C.O.G. She is always behind a desk because she is considered to “valuable” to risk on the battlefield. Naturally the men are off fighting the Horde and the women are behind the desk. The only other woman that plays a major role in the story is Maria, Dom’s wife. Dom’s main drive in the second game is to find his wife who he believes was captured by the Horde. Once he finds her she is totally helpless and was beaten and whipped. Therefore since she is not as strong as the others Dom put her “out of her misery”. However, the producers have realized how sexist the first two games were and during the development of the third game, have decided to make two new fully playable female characters. Men are most valued for their ability to fight and women are valued for their ability to maintain order and stability.
Freudian:
Eventually the ID is the most important aspect of the game. When something unexpected happens you are forced to act off of pure reaction, not thought. You are forced to believe that you must act to survive yourself, not just let your character survive. The entire locust Horde represents the ID, so much so that they aren’t even human. The superego is represented by the character Baird. Baird is always suggesting alternatives to the classic “gun and run tactic” which usually work out. The ego is represented best by the character “Cole Train”. Cole is an old pro sports star but after Emergence Day (the day the locust attacked the humans) he joined the war effort. Most of the time the only thing driving the C.O.G. soldiers is the sheer will to survive.
McNamara Pd: 3
I am analyzing Teletubbies for my exhibit. As a young child just like many others I watched Teletubbies, just like The Lion King I did not see the hidden references when I was that age. There are four main characters in Teletubbies, and they each represent an individual color: Tinky Winky (Purple), Dipsy (Green), Laa Laa (Yellow), and Po (Red). In the series Teletubbies they use very baby like voices which would degrade them in society. Along with their television screens in their stomachs to symbolize the use of technology and communication skills but also make them seem less human, the intercom system that they use could act as a control system for the Teletubbies and give them very little independence. In the aspect of the characters Tinky Winky is portrayed as having a lot of strength and power, which are key characteristics used in the Marxist analytical theory because he has the most power among all of them. However he also is purple in color which has been said to be a gay pride color and also his antenna is a triangular in shape which also can signify gay pride, which is shown deeply in this series. Po would resemble a child because she is very playful, most childlike and her name is always listed last when they introduce the Teletubbies. She also always satisfies her id rather than superego or ego and when you are a child you do not have to worry about pleasing anything but your id. As for the other two characters Laa Laa is nice and very obedient, she resembles the mother of the group. If you were analyzing Teletubbies through a feminist lens, you would say that Laa Laa should be in charge because of her knowledge of leadership. Dipsy is portrayed as being the least obedient of the Teletubbies, which would greatly represent the male figure or role when analyzing through the feminist lens because Dipsy is just how his name would be thought as, a “dip stick” which in modern language would signify that he is lacking intelligence. His antenna is in the shape of a stick which would also support the meaning of his name. Analyzing through the lenses has changed my viewpoint of the old children’s series, Teletubbies because there is always more to exhibits than is actually drawn out for you. Analyzing an exhibit is important because you can find alternate meanings in the simplest of subjects, which is why I chose to analyze Teletubbies because there is a lot more to the series than meets the eye.
Wilson Trent
period 7
For my analysis, I present the most recent "Twix" commercials. Of course, these advertisements are doing nothing more than associating crunchy candy bars with lying, coniving, and manipulating...and it's sexist!! "Need a moment?"
From the start of these types of commercials, twix has been associated with 'scoring' or 'getting laid' and best of all: 'getting off the hook with your loved one!'
A prime example of the latter is one of the commercials where this woman goes up to her man holding a cell phone and getting on his case for him getting a voicemail from "Terry" that said "I really need you right now!"
That's when Twix came to the 'rescue.' "Need a moment? Chew it over with Twix!" It gives him time to think of a lie! That lie happened to be: "Terry! My boss!" Of course, this lie manipulates her to believe that this "Terry" was just his boss, who needed him to work at the moment. She laughs and he's off the hook. How horrible!! It's not a healthy relationship.
Thanks to Twix and it's apparently godly powers of bending time, the relationship between man and woman is ruined!
Angerhofer- pd. 7
For this blog task, I will be analyzing your plain old everyday high school, including the high school environment and high school experiences.
Marxist point of view:
I don’t know about anyone else, but to me it seems like money has a lot to do with how you will excel in sports and how you will fit into certain group in high school. It seems to me that it’s usually the “rich kids” that are the “best” at sports simply because of their last name. I know from personal experience that if you don’t have older siblings that were good at a certain sport or a built up name and one of your teammates does they are more likely to get playing time, just because the coach has heard the last name and can relate them with good players. Along with sports, it seems like it is the kids whose parents have the most money that dress in “Aberzombie & Witch” and get a lot of the girls. Just because they are “super studs” in sports and they can wear expensive clothing so girls are attracted to their money, looks, and studlyness, making people somewhat intimidated by them. Money=power.
Feminist point of view:
Its is a known fact that girls over all do better in school than guys so. This is basically all for nothing in my eyes. They are not treated equally in sports. Guys’ basketball games draw much larger crowds 100% of the time. Simply for the fact the most guys think that girls are uncoordinated, pathetic, and not as inferior as men and shouldn’t try to do what men do.
Freudian point of view:
In high school you have certain groups or “clicks.” Some are the partiers and some are the goody goodies that do nothing but study all night, every night. The partiers spend more time listening to their id than their superego. Their id keeps telling them “go to the party, drink, have a good time” instead of “stay home, your grades need to improve, study for your test.” High school is a time when a lot of people grow up and realize that they should listen to their id more than their superego.
Shabino pd.6
I am analyzing the show The Big Bang Theory for my first blog task. With this show when it comes to a Marxist lens social classes are everything in this show. Basically there are the Nerds/Geeks and the super hot popular class. They tend to interact with each other with extreme envy on both sides. The Geeks want to be as good looking and popular as the “popular” group. While on the other hand the popular group wants to be as intelligent and knowledgeable as the “Nerd” group. Two of the characters seem to climb the social/economic ladder in this show with the main character Lenard getting the Good looking girlfriend and having sex. While Penny the girlfriend is trying to get more intelligent and is climbing the economic ladder in her acting career. After a while when they break up they fall back down to the bottom of the ladder/ladders with Lenard not having a girlfriend and not having sex while penny stays at her crappy waitress job. Winners in the show flaunt their wealth and power with witty sarcastic comments and by making fun of the others who aren’t doing as well as they
Threw a feminist lens the roles of women and men seem to be quite obvious. The women as in penny Lenard’s girlfriend and Howards girlfriend are used for sex and bragging rights while the men are making more money, are smarter, and have better jobs. As is one episode one of the men in the show Sheldon has to lend money to penny because she is having a tough time with work. Although the roles seem to be traditional the women in this show have more power than the men. It is the women that decide what they are going to do and when and they control the men.
Sjoberg Pd. 3
For my Blog task I decided to blog on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Orange County. This reality series is about five families from Orange County, California being profiled. The show follows around five women, Tamra, Lynne, Vicki, Gretchen, and Alexis and shows what their daily routine is like in their “extravagant” lifestyle. The Real Housewives of Orange County can be looked at through all three lenses.
The Marxist lens asks about how money and power function in each exhibit. Money and power are a huge part of this show. On the social-class ladder these women and their families are considered the “higher” class. They are all very wealthy, own huge houses, and all of them have nice clothes. They don’t do anything to deserve these materialistic things. All five of the women’s husbands are the ones who work for a living and bring in the money for each family. It’s the women’s job to take care of the house and go out and spend the money. Watching the show you learn that the women are very high maintenance and also greedy. You wonder if the families in this series are actually happy just because they have a lot of money and “toys”. It’s hard to believe that because many of them are going through divorces and aren’t as close as a family and a whole.
The Feminist Lens focuses on how gender matters in each exhibit and how women are portrayed in an exhibit. The Real Housewives of Orange County, I’d say, degrades women. The show makes it look like that all women marry for money, and all they want is money. Not all women are like the women in the show. Women can fend for themselves too and work for what they want. The series portrays women as “dumb blondes”, who can’t make their own decisions. The men in the show work for a living like that is supposed to be their “role” in life. The women’s role is that they are stay at home moms who clean and take care of the kids, and spend their husbands’ money on material things that they need and want.
The Freudian Lens asks how psychoanalysis matters in each exhibit. It talks about rivalry. In Real Housewives there is rivalry between the housewives; who has the biggest house, who owns the best car, who has the biggest boobs, who make more money, and who goes on sweeter vacations. It is always a constant competition between all the wives. The housewives, through my eyes, are considered shallow and selfish and are women who only serve there Id’s and what is best for them. They drive to look young and sexy. To achieve those goals they go through multiple plastic surgeries to look the way they look, only serving there Id. Sexual symbols in this exhibit can be just the way the wives come off. The way they dress is a sex symbol, and also how they go through many surgeries making their breasts bigger and bigger is a sex symbol.
Tayler Elster, pd 3
My blog is going off of Hanson, 6 just a little bit. I found a quote “Never underestimate the opponent that appears weaker than you, and never fear the opponent that appears stronger than you” that could target both genders of athletes.
I’m going off of the Feminist Lens as well but instead of the Feminists being offended by how the quote can only target males and few females, they can appreciate that the quote could be for virtually any sport. Not once does it say anything about passing, throwing, striking out, etc. So who knows who the quote is talking to?
And I think that Hanson made a very good observation that I agree whole-heartedly with: we live in a world that only makes records of his-story. Very few females get any credit for things men do. I bet if you went out on the street and picked out one random person of each gender and had them do the same task that neither one of them have ever done before, and the female would do just as well, if not better, as the male. Something that bothers me though is that guys can play football, but girls have to play “powder-puff ball”. That is such a girly name for that sport! Why can’t it be called football as well?! It’s the same with SOFTball. I play softball and can guarantee that there is nothing soft about it. when I’m on the pitchers mound and a ball line drives at me at 70 miles an hour I don’t have very much reaction time at all. And baseball pitchers are farther away than softball pitchers so they must have slower reflexes. Right? And guys that play softball a lot of the times get made fun of for being girly and wimpy when in reality they are more athletic than the guys that play baseball because of the reaction time difference.
Drenth-Pd. 2
I’m going to analyze the movie High School Musical. High School Musical is a movie about high school and how a basketball player and geek are trying to get out of their comfort zone and be stars in the high school musical. I am using the feminist lens to analyze the movie. In the movie it shows boys playing basketball. That is like in everyday high schools, but they never show girls playing basketball. Also the guys’ basketball is one of the most important things in the school. They are going to playoffs, so most of the movie is based on them getting ready for playoffs and them playing at the playoffs. It makes me wonder if the girls weren’t good enough to go to playoffs or if the producers don’t even care about a girls’ basketball team. This makes me think that the producers are saying that only boys can play basketball. Also the girls are in the scholastic decathlon team. To me this shows that girls are supposed to be smart. They can be athletic, but girls should worry more about academics. There aren’t many guys in the scholastic decathlon team, so that also shows that girls should be the ones that are smart and guys should be the athletic ones. Also the science teacher is a girl. To me this also shows that girls should teach and be smart. The basketball coach is a guy and that is the only job he has in the movie. This shows that guys should be athletic. Also the drama teacher is a girl and she strongly dislikes basketball. This shows that woman should direct plays unlike at our school where we a have a guy that directs our plays.
I also used the Marxist lens to analyze the movie. Most of the movie, there are definitely social classes. And in the middle of the movie, some of the people try to break out of their social class, but the rest of the people say that they shouldn’t. Gabriella and Troy, the two main characters, help the people realize that it is alright to hang out with people that have different interest than you. Troy is the main basketball player and Gabriella is part of the scholastic decathlon team. They are from two totally different classes, yet they hang out with each other. During the movie, their friends don’t want this, but by the end of the movie their friends realize that they were wrong. The whole school realizes that it is alright to hang out with people that have different traits than you.
Bryce Christopherson, period 3
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4. The forced adoption of ruthless tactics that our leaders must employ and the awareness of the atrocities at large in the world, thus making them less happy through knowledge then the average, docile and sedentary American consumerist citizen.
As a Fruedian critic:
Some of Fairey’s work displays a large reliance on the recognition (and often assumed rejection) of commonly held ideals of sex appeal. Nowhere in his work is this represented more adequately, I believe, then in his print entitled “Kiss me Deadly” (a picture can be found here). From this, one can interpret a variety of psychoanalytical statements, both for Farley’s own persona and his statements about society as a whole. The image depicts a woman, juxtaposed in the foreground over a target, applying lipstick from a bullet tube with the words “kiss me deadly” engraved upon it. This serves to illustrate:
1. The power of society’s collective id on our tendency to use dangerous and unhealthy means to make ourselves adhere more thoroughly to the socially accepted model of beauty.
2. Our, and Fairey’s, urge to conform to these standards and shed our painful individuality.
3. Our want to achieve narcissistic bliss through the acquisition of material things and the acceptance of our peers.
4. The implied sexual urge to be dominated and controlled that the woman holds, possibly a manifestation of repressed sexual feeling s for her father, that is shown through the oral contact she has with the phallic symbol of the bullet; dangerous, pointed upward (erect) and surrounded by an undeniably masculine air.
Bryce Christopherson, Period 3
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As a Feminist critic:
Though Fairey’s work doesn’t often focus on feminist ideals ,some of his awareness posters about the oppression of women in the middle east speak volumes about woman’s rights. The woodcut “Commanda” (an image can be found here) features a Muslim woman holding a can of spray paint (a symbol of artistic liberation and rebellion) while peeling back her burqa and revealing her mouth. This serves as a poignant and politically relevant symbol for the stand that middle eastern women are taking against the oppressive male-dominated regime that currently exists, and her coquettish demure and unobscured face show triumphant urge to be liberated into an existence of being more than mere sex objects and possessions to be owned and traded away by their father’s word.
Bryce Christopherson, period 3
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I choose to analyze the “OBEY” clothing and art line designed by the artist Shepard Fairey. I will be looking at his work through three critical “lenses”, with the analyses following
As a Marxist critic:
Shepard Fairey’s work places an emphasis on money and power to a degree that is almost heavy handed. A veritable wet dream for a Marxist critic, clothes from the Obey clothing line feature original artwork from Fairey, which often features anti-war symbols, anti-conformity messages, ironic propaganda, pro-democracy messages, anti-consumerism symbols, and images that help to spread awareness of social problems. For this particular critical lens, I will be focusing on “No, I’m a vegetarian” shirt design (a picture can be found here). The images portrays a military man, a general one can infer from the stripes on his epaulets, biting the head off of a dove (the universal symbol for peace) , with the text “No, I’m a vegetarian” displayed underneath. This serves to illustrate:
1. The obvious differences in social classes, as the military man can be inferred to be manipulative of the proletariat consumerist working class by the deceitful (either willfully or unknowingly) tactics he employs, further illustrated through his lie of being a “vegetarian” whilst biting the head off of the dove of peace.
2. The social ‘game’ played by those vested with power in our social system, placing special emphasis on the brutal, underhanded and manipulative aspects that must be employed to attain and maintain power.
3. The socially oppressive, yet comfortable, “American Dream” we all so easily become interchangeable parts of (as Kurt Vonnegut once said); all the while unaware of the inexorable pursuit of power, wealth and the spread of ideals our leaders orchestrate behind the curtains.
Haase pd. 2
I have decided to analyze the one thing we all know; College bound English 12 with Matt Christensen. When looking at this class in different mindsets it really makes you think. Who is the man with the power in class? He will say he gives us many individual freedoms but when it comes down to it, who controls our grade and thus controlling our potential futures. That’s a lot of power for one man to have. Let’s say he fails you, so you get denied to a prestigious college, thus landing a less than fancy job. So you make less money so you live in a trailer with your mother. So if a teacher such as Mr. C doesn’t ever treat you fairly causing you to fail you should stand up to them and say something because that one grade could possibly effect your entire future. He also is paid to be at school as to we are not. What if he just pretends to teach, to make the Hitler leader (Doctor T.) happy? He gets paid, we fail, and our lives turn to the outhouse. I am not saying he is “actually” against us in anyway because obviously he gives us enough freedom for me to rip on him right now. ☺
I am sure the girls love the class. All because it gives them a chance and a good reason to rip on anyone and anything all they have to do is throw out the, “The feminist lens says this….”. Which is great more power to you ladies. Krystal Halter got a lot of power today having the opportunity to sit or lay or stand anywhere she pleased, even in the teacher’s chair. Although that is possibly only because she went through an embarrassing fifteen minutes of falling down and having an ailment of sorts.
All I have to say about the Freudian lens is that many things we talk about in class like cuckoo’s nest and lion king involve sex, sex preferences, sex fantasies, or else the guys in class are not paying attention and just daydreaming about it. Notice what I did there I only mentioned Guys fantasizing about sex. Is that sexist thinking that only teenage boys think about those types of things? Or is that a stereotype? Or maybe it’s an actual fact? (You Decide!)
I chose to analyze the song “Sorry About That” by Alkaline Trio. The song “Sorry About That” is easily analyzed through the Freudian lens. When faced with the question of, “is the id winning in this song,” I say the id is winning in this song. In the lyrics, “And we passed out in each other’s arms, both admitting we’d never felt better, never felt so warm,” the line means the main character of this song was getting what he wanted. When looking at the id, superego, and ego, the main character in the song represents all three, in different parts of the song. The main character represents the id because he takes control. Later in the song the character also represents the ego because he chooses to do whatever he wants without caring, regardless of the consequences. The superego is also represented by the character because in the end he realizes the choices he made were wrong. The character doesn’t repress any urges but instead acts upon all of them. In this song there are two examples of sexual innuendos. The first example, “But awoke in each other’s eyes, without wearing a stitch of clothing, we were both deeply in disguise,” indicates they were together in the nude. The second example, “Since we kissed through the darkness, until it was dawn,” indicates the two characters spent the night doing intimate things together. When looking at the song as a whole, there are instances of the main character taking advantage of the woman’s emotional status, which is a good example of the main character being in control. For example in the song the character even states, “And maybe I just set aside the fact that you were broken hearted, in my own special selfish way. ”The characters in this song are seeking narcissistic bliss through sexual acts, but its only lasting for the moment. For example these lyrics represent their narcissistic bliss, “It seems like it's been so long since we kissed through the darkness, until it was dawn, up with it came our pain and fear that we'd already lost each other.” In this exhibit the main character is only thinking about him and the sexual gratification of the moment. I think this song is a good example of peoples “ids” taking control, because it represents how people don’t think about the consequences of their actions and just react to the moment.
Erickson-2
For my blog task, I have decided to analyze the movie, She’s the Man. In She’s the Man, Amanda Bynes plays Viola Hastings. Viola is told that the girls’ soccer team would be cut due to low numbers. She decides to try out for the boys’ soccer team. The coach indubitably decided that she would never be able to be just as good as the boys. Viola switches to a different school where she is allowed to play soccer in a boys division. She is allowed to do this because she dresses up like her twin brother. In the end, she proves both teams that girls can play just as hard as boys.
The Feminist lens would say that Viola would definitely not be allowed to play with boys since she is a girl. She is often told that she could never be as fast, strong, or athletic like a guy. Would a girl be viewed the same if she joined the football team? Many people would say she couldn’t compete with the boys. When Viola’s mom tries to get Viola to be a debutante, she refuses numerous times. Does Viola violate a picture of who a woman should be? Should she be very proper and poised? The Feminist lens would say absolutely. Leave the mud and dirt up to the guys.
The Freudian lens would inquire Is Viola following her id or superego when she dresses up like her brother? She would be using her id when she tells her parents who are divorced that she is staying at the other parent’s house. Her superego is telling her that she should not lie to them. As always, her id overpowers her superego and she lies. Do libidos affect the characters? The star soccer player is seen as switching between girls because he can not decide. He goes with his id by choosing the girl he has always had a crush on. He passes up the girl who he knows there was sparks with.
The Marxist lens would view the soccer players as people who are top of the ladder. When they go out for pizza, all of the pretty girls flirt away with them. How did they get there? Do all of the classes get along with each other? You reach a social class by being A girl from the “nerdy” class is often shown as going on dates with the “popular” crowd. They all seem to connect together.
Abby Moschell Pd 2
I chose Lady Gaga’s song “Love Game” to analyze for this assignment. With the Freudian Lens all of Lady Gaga’s songs can be analyzed but I feel that “Love Game” is the most appropriate exhibit to analyze. Lady Gaga in this exhibit is hardly wearing any clothes at all. She has a swimming suit type outfit that goes up over her hips to show off her legs and show some sexuality through out this exhibit. At the start of the music video she is touching men and she is holding a cane-like “disco stick” which might be symbolized as a male genital area. She talks about touching “you” even if it is for a short amount of time during this “game” she speaks of. In the middle of the song, she is showed with a hot cop, the guy might symbolize a “dirty game”, in a subway car, just her and him; it is very steamy. They are touching each other very sexually. It reminds me of the movie “The Titanic” when Jack and Rose are in the car on the ship making love. The car is steamy and all you see is a hand smear on the car. This song also shows things in the Marxist lens. She is pretty much saying to have fame you need to be in this “Love Game”. To be a powerful or have fame, this exhibit is showing you need to be like Lady Gaga or you are not as cool or not as high up on the social ladder as she is and obviously she has a lot of power and fame. It also shows you have power after this game also. There also is some Feminist views in this exhibit also. She has all the men she could possibly have in this video. Since she has all the power, she is saying that females have all the power and fame but at the same time this shows that she is kind of a “whore”.
Zins period 7
I picked Britney Spears’ ad for perfume called Radiance. This ad shows Britney standing on what looks like water in a beautiful silver dress with a low back with her blonde hair. Money functions in this exhibit because Britney looks like she has everything she wants and her dress looks expensive. She looks like a very powerful woman in this ad because of her stance and how she looks like she runs her own life. This perfume looks very expensive because of the jewels on the perfume and how she looks very rich and powerful.
Britney looks like she is in control of how her life is and she is choosing her own destiny, like it says in the ad. Britney in this ad is depicted as a young powerful woman with a goal in mind. Britney fills her natural role of a woman from the feminine clothes she wears and her long curly hair. Britney’s gender does help this exhibit significantly because she is in the ad and the product is for women/girls. The social expectations for women in this ad are that they should all be this beautiful and this graceful and refined. Society values men and women differently by thinking that men should be “manly” or muscular and beefy to be a man, and women need to be soft, nurturing, and beautiful to be a true woman.
Britney’s id may be winning in this ad because of her standing in this place that looks very chilly for the shear enjoyment of it. Someone’s id might win when they buy this product because of the expensive looking bottle with all the jewels, when in reality they may be buying this product for the looks and not for the scent. The sex symbol in this ad would be Britney herself, she looks beautiful and powerful and it looks like if you buy this product you will turn out to be like her and be as successful.
Mariah Nachreiner Period 2
College visit at SDSU:
Feminist Lens:
While I was at a college visit at SDSU this past weekend, I noticed that men and women do not generally go to college for the same majors. Generally the men go for the more “manly” major and the women go for the most “feminist” major. I personally have been looking at the Family Consumer Sciences department and have not noticed any men interested in the same department as me. As I walked around I noticed the men are choosing to go more towards the Air Guard or the Marines. Which women do not stereotypically tend to strive to be in. In fact people think women are not as strong, fast, or have the agility that the men do to be able to go into either of these. Causing them to not consider these fields and to choose a more feminine suitable major.
Marxist:
The Marxist Lens is all about the power and climbing the “social ladder”. While at SDSU this weekend the college recruits are the people with the most power. They want you to attend their college. Therefore, they talk up the college and make it sound as good as possible. They have the power to persuade you and to recruit you to attend SDSU the following year. They may even try to persuade you to believe that going to their college will make you “cooler”, or it is the “cool” place to go. Making you believe that you will be “climbing the social ladder”.
Freudian Lens:
The Freudian Lens refers to your id and your superego. I attended the SDSU football game on Saturday. When I attended the football game I was listening to my superego. I was there to support the team and to be persuaded to attend the college. After the game I saw many college students going back to the dorms to “party”. They are listening to their id. They know they shouldn’t be partying and they should be study, behaving, etc. Instead they listen to their id and wanted to go have a “good time” (as they would say).
Schwarz- pd. 7
I chose to analyze the place where I work, Hy-Vee. I chose Hy-Vee because it's a place where I spend most of my time outside of school or my home. I'm roughly there around 30 hours a week and can view the people in a totally different way then I would have if I had never started working there. Half the time I am back behind Customer Service helping other people deal with their problems that someone else maybe messed up on or just the customers lack of judegment of reading signs correctly, which I will admit can get extremely annoying. There are some customers who are completely understanding and very nice and understand that the cashiers are in a hurry and may mess up from time to time so they get what they needed done and move on with their lives. Others, however, can throw fits like little children until they get their way, because they know from prior expierences that they are always right and try to get more than they should. Money places a huge role in everyday grocery shopping because some people cant afford to buy their own food, so the government gives them money, foodstamps, or EBT. On the 10th of every month, the people that have and EBT card get more money on their card, depending on the circumstance. Others, could care less about the price of their groceries, and buy the most expensive things out there, like things from the organic or health market section. Since I started working a year ago, I have realized that the world can be tough but also that you can get advancements in your career even as a teenager such as going from a courtesy (sacking groceries) to checking and then up to Customer Service, showing that being in the young society you can get credit for being out in the real world working and earning your own money, not getting some from your parents, some teenagers even above minimum wage if you try hard enough to work towards a goal of striving at what you want. The more you want something, the harder you'll try at getting that certain thing. So, I used the Marxist lense, asking how money plays a role in everyday living and survival, food.
Kalo Pd .2
I chose the show Greys Anatomy for my blog. Greys anatomy is portrayed as TV show that show fake blood a events that you know don’t occur at a hospital but they show you them because that is what people think after they watch the show. So for this assignment I am going to use the Feminist lens. When looking through the feminist lens you can see the women is the show are used as objects are ordered around by the doctors like they are there servants or something ( sounds like Cuckoo’s Nest). The doctors are telling the nurses / girl doctors what they should be doing, girls/women can figure things out on their own they always don’t need a man’s help with everything, the doctors treat the women they are a piece of meat, like the doctors will be with a patient one second and in the break room having sex with an intern or a nurse the next?, so Mcdreamy thinks he can get every girl since he is such looking guy , which he is don’t get me wrong but just because you look good, doesn’t mean to have to sleep with half of the hospital staff. Another way you can look at this show is through a Marxist lens , when looking through it as a Marxist lens you see the doctors as the one of the highest paid jobs in the world , but what makes them so great, just because they heal people or make them better , why would that make them the greatest person ever. SO it should matter if you are doing a surgery on a homeless person or a NFL football player they should all be treated the same, not matter by race, gender or placement on the social ladder. So why should it matter if women are doctors or men are nurses it shouldn’t matter , why should we judge people on the money they make or where they live or what they wear . Everybody should be treated equally don’t you think ???
Natalie Turner
Period 2
For my exhibit I am going to choose Scarlett from the movie Gone With The Wind. Scarlett is the most beautiful girl by far, but she is greedy, selfish, and used to getting her own way. Then when she doesn’t get what she wants because she lost the man she thought she loved, she feels like her whole life is going to fall apart. She has a one track mind and is totally focused on getting the man she thought she loved back. She is so consumed with him and wanting him back, that by the end of the movie she finally realizes that she has always had the man she loved but he wasn’t who she thought he was going to be and loses him because of her obsession.
From a Marxist lens Scarlett wants money, power, and wealth from the way she dresses because she always has to have the best of the best. She even marries her sister’s boyfriend because he has a store and she knows that’s the way to get rich and have power.
From a Freudian lens Scarlett wants to go back to Tara which is her plantation because she had everything she wanted there and it was narcissistic bliss for her. She goes on a journey to find Tara because she believes that Tara is the promised land but when she arrives she has to fix it up dramatically because her plantation has been trashed by the Yankees. Nothing is the way she remembers it.
From a Feminist lens Scarlett uses the fact that she is a very pretty woman to get her way. She has every man in town swooning over her. They would all do anything for her and she knows that, so she uses it to get what she wants. She does this to get all the girls jealous because every girl is worried that Scarlett will take their men away from them.
Bly Pd. 6
I will be analyzing the movie” Ever After”, and will be using a feminine lens. The story is set back in a time when women were considered more of a property than an actual human being. Even wealthy females have little say in the everyday aspects of life. Danielle, played by Drew Barrymore, is born into the world of riches and at a young age has it taken away from her. She is a female that has had a taste of both social classes, making her more knowledgeable and aware of her surroundings than the other characters. When her father is in charge, the entire household was happy and enjoyed working for him. Now with the Baroness in charge, the servants are miserable and would love nothing more than to be free of her. Why is there such a drastic change when a woman is running the house? When it comes to being a servant the movie doesn’t show any gender being favored, but when in the upper class the women are focused on looks and marriage while the men do all the providing and thinking. All the young wealthy females are focused on gaining the prince’s affections. In the scene where the prince is playing tennis and the women are behind the nets watching, it shows the “natural” roles of the men and women. Men get to be active, while the women must stand and watch. The women actually encourage this sexist act, and frown upon anybody who tries to do differently. When Danielle is pretending to be a courtier, she is the only woman the prince has encountered that expresses her views on things and isn’t afraid to be active like the men. Her stepmother even tells her she’s built for hard labor, giving her a masculine quality that none of the other women possess. These women have one purpose: to entertain the men. The prince could have any of these women, yet he overlooks them and takes an interest in Danielle. Is Danielle more privileged because of these masculine qualities? Prince Henry is the exact opposite of Danielle. He is spoiled, ungrateful, and has never worked a day in his life. He has so much potential and opportunity to better his kingdom, and has no desire to do so. Danielle would make the perfect king. She has all the qualities of a great leader, and deserves to rule France. The culture she has grown up in prevents her from being all she can be. In this time period, the people themselves put limitations on genders because of how they were raised. Women have always been property, and the only thing that is valued about them is their looks and ability to give birth. Why don’t the women show any desire to have the freedom that men have? When the Prince finds out Danielle is a servant, his whole point of view on her changes.
Bly Pd. 6
He immediately turns cold towards her, and treats her with no respect. He dismisses her completely because of her rank and does so because he can, not because it’s right.
Bakken 7
For my blog task, I choose to analyze the song ‘Your Glass House’ by Atmosphere. In this song an unnamed person (he is actually referring to himself) has stayed up all night drinkin until he has blacked out and wakes up in a random person’s house with no body home. He wakes up with the worst hangover he has ever had and can’t even bring himself to leave this house even though he doesn’t know whose house it is. Looking at this through the Freudian lens, it tells me that he had no self control to regulate how much alcohol he drinks at one time. Maybe he grew up around parents and relatives that were heavy drinkers and sub-consciously that is the only way he knows how to drink? Maybe his friends kept telling him to drink more and because he doesn’t have self control he kept on drinking. And when he wakes up he says ‘you should call your job but you shut your phone off because you don’t want to hear a sound’. This tells me that his responsibilities of calling his place of work and letting them know that he won’t be at work are not as important as trying to get back to sleep to try and get rid of his hangover. Is drinking to him that much more important than making a living and being a responsible employee? He also mentions that he wakes up with no friends around to help him out. Again, is getting so drunk that he doesn’t remember anything and wakes up with no friends around him more important than being around his friends and remembering the night? Maybe he uses that much alcohol to forget about his childhood or to try to numb how bad his life is at the moment?
Steffen prd 7
I chose to analyze the place I work also, like McKenzie (we didn’t plan that it just happened that way). I work at Menards.
Under a Feminist lens, at Menards women have the easier jobs, the cleaning, being on a register, and not one female is a manager. There are plenty of women who are assistant managers but none of them are managers of their department. I work up front called Front Office. The Front Office is composed into different jobs. Front Office starts with register, garden center, service desk, carry-out, and ends with returns, the males are for the most part always on carry-out or on a register. They don’t clean, or go to service desk where guests bring items back for returns. Other departments have similar ideals. For instance, back in receiving or in the yard, there are females in that department, only males.
Under a Marxist lens, the managers and the males hold all the power and the other employees, newbie’s, and females don’t have any power or have less power than the rest of the departments. Power plays a significant role at Menards. Managers and assistant managers like to over use their power by telling other employees what to do even if that employee is doing what the manager told them to do. Other instances are when males are domineering over females in strength by lifting 60 pound bags of concrete mix or 75 pound retaining wall brick. Which I have done, both in large quantities, it is tough but I conquered it without help from the males. The males think that they have the upper hand by always coming first in line before females.
Under a Freudian lens, Menards can seem like the perfect place to meet another person of the opposite sex to have a relationship with, within limitations. Men and women work in the same department together they get to know one another by having worked there for a while. Men and women’s age at Menards range from 16 to 82(I believe).
Under the lenses you can now see that Menards is a very complicated place.
Hauge pd.2
I chose to analyze the 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT8 commercial. In this commercial it starts off with a british soldier from the revolutionary war scouting back to his troop. Moments later 3 black challengers come out from the windbreak spitting dirt. George washington is leading the pack with the American flag waving from his car. The British troops see the challengers and the American troops rushing towards them and flee the battlefeild. The commercial ends with victory music playing and a deep masculine voice says, "There are a couple things America got right... cars and freedom."
Feminist - This commercial depicts no women, just men at war. Also I feel this advertisement is proclaiming that unless you are patriotic and drive an American vehicle, you are substantially less than a man. It wasn't just any voice the exclaimed what "we" stand for, it was a deep masculine voice. I also feel this ad is using the typical "women can't drive" stereotype, women weren't allowed to fight back then because they were inferior, so paralleled, women aren't driving the vehicles because they are less affective of driving erratically and inspiring fear into the inferior opponent.
Marxist - The Marxist criticism tells me that, unless I go out and buy a $47,000 coupe, I'm the underclass of society and less of an American. This commercial correlates the prosperity of America against Britain, I didn't see any Mini Coopers charging from the British front lines. Because the Americans had could afford the Challengers, they were victorious and the enemy had no choice but to retreat.
Fruedian - I feel the scriptor of this commericial is very patriotic and used the American classic "Mopar" to symbolize how it is patriotic to buy American made vehicles. I also think that he uses this commercial to guilt people into buying Dodges, there are many crazed patriotic people that drive Hondas, just because they drive an import doesn't mean they hate America, as depicted in this commercial. This may also cause people to regret their decisions of owning an import, and cause them to go out and buy American. In this ad, the Challenger is depicted as freedom, masculinity, prosperity, and power.
Link to video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St2FCxtlV7w
Herrman pd3
I am going to analyze the Magazine Cosmopolitan. With a Feminist lens you can see many good and bad things with this magazine. First Cosmo portrays lots of sex I think. Putting ideas into young girls and sometimes boy’s minds. It makes girl look like the 3% body weight and tall. The perfect girl. When it is not really like that. Every teenage girl that looks at this magazine is wishing they were more like them. Prettier, skinnier, taller. They try to look more like them when they are already pretty enough and perfect the way they are. It’s sad that a lot of girls self image gets shut down because of these magazines. The way these women look are out of reach for a lot of young girls and they try and get let down. But Cosmo is also good in some ways. I do get these magazines and enjoy reading them but I obviously know I will never look like the women portrayed here, and I’m ok with that. This magazine also ads lots of clothing. You know the $80 dollar shirts and $100 jeans. That’s a joke! We all know you must have a well income to be able to afford clothes that expensive. But if you have them you are Popular? Hmm. It shows that if you wear their clothing you will be liked, more attractive, higher on the “Social Ladder”. The Men also are stereotyped in here. They are Tall, dark and Handsome. Don’t get me wrong its nice but I know that it’s not really like that. Not all guys come like that. It gives some young men a bad self image also to look at this. Makes them feel if they don’t have a “Six Pack” they are not cool or attractive or if they don’t own American eagle boxers they won’t fit in. Ha it’s sad really. I merely own and read Cosmo for entertainment and ideas.
Neuberger
Pd. 7
In Glee’s first season it was a musical and television phenonmenon. Grabbing 19 Emmy nominations, more than any other show. I would say it is a pretty powerful show. Money is a big problem within the show. The school will not fund the glee club therefore they have no way to buy outfits, music, and travel to their competitions. There are also many social tensions. Finn is a stud football player, but also in glee club. How does that work? Many don’t think it does. Everyone in glee club gets slushies thrown at them in the hall for not being “cool.” All of glee club members are actually very happy though. They love what they do and being able to see each other all the time.
There are two women that go against the traditional gender roles. Sue Sylvester is the gym coach and Cheerios coach. The Cheerios are McKinnley High’s cheer team. Sue is the last thing you would think of when you think of a cheer coach. She pretty much rules the whole school. Ms. Selvester has blackmailed the principal so if she needs anything he will give it to her. Therefore, all of the schools funding ends up with the Cheerios. This bothers Mr. Schuester, glee club’s instructor. Lea Michele plays Rachel in Glee. She is a very proud woman. She has worked so hard to be a great singer and make it big since she was in elementary. Rachel’s family life is definately out of the norm. She has been raised by her two gay dads. They are very supportive of her music career and I believe help her through the hards times of being in a low postition on the social ladder.
Quinn Fabray used to follow her id. She was the all-star cheerleader. This turned her into Ms. Sylvester’s pet. Once glee club came about in the school and started asking for money from the school, Sue was very upset. She had 3 of her cheerleaders join glee club to get to the “inside” of the club. All three of them fell in love with glee club though. One of them being Quinn Fabray. She ends up in a relationship with Finn, but follows her id one night and hooks up with Puck. You find out later she is now pregnant with Puck’s baby but she will tell Finn it is his. Rachel is also a great character to analyze through the Freudian lense. She is so goal orientated. She will do nothing but what’s expected of her to make it big in the music industry. All of the characters have one common narcissistic bliss, performing. This show is so intriguing with the twisted plot line and array of characters in it.
Neuberger
Pd. 7
In Glee’s first season it was a musical and television phenonmenon. Grabbing 19 Emmy nominations, more than any other show. I would say it is a pretty powerful show. Money is a big problem within the show. The school will not fund the glee club therefore they have no way to buy outfits, music, and travel to their competitions. There are also many social tensions. Finn is a stud football player, but also in glee club. How does that work? Many don’t think it does. Everyone in glee club gets slushies thrown at them in the hall for not being “cool.” All of glee club members are actually very happy though. They love what they do and being able to see each other all the time.
There are two women that go against the traditional gender roles. Sue Sylvester is the gym coach and Cheerios coach. The Cheerios are McKinnley High’s cheer team. Sue is the last thing you would think of when you think of a cheer coach. She pretty much rules the whole school. Ms. Selvester has blackmailed the principal so if she needs anything he will give it to her. Therefore, all of the schools funding ends up with the Cheerios. This bothers Mr. Schuester, glee club’s instructor. Lea Michele plays Rachel in Glee. She is a very proud woman. She has worked so hard to be a great singer and make it big since she was in elementary. Rachel’s family life is definately out of the norm. She has been raised by her two gay dads. They are very supportive of her music career and I believe help her through the hards times of being in a low postition on the social ladder.
Quinn Fabray used to follow her id. She was the all-star cheerleader. This turned her into Ms. Sylvester’s pet. Once glee club came about in the school and started asking for money from the school, Sue was very upset. She had 3 of her cheerleaders join glee club to get to the “inside” of the club. All three of them fell in love with glee club though. One of them being Quinn Fabray. She ends up in a relationship with Finn, but follows her id one night and hooks up with Puck. You find out later she is now pregnant with Puck’s baby but she will tell Finn it is his. Rachel is also a great character to analyze through the Freudian lense. She is so goal orientated. She will do nothing but what’s expected of her to make it big in the music industry. All of the characters have one common narcissistic bliss, performing. This show is so intriguing with the twisted plot line and array of characters in it.
Mork pd.2
I’ve decided for my first blog task to analyze Ice Age through a Feminist Lens. First for the first Ice Age movie is absolutely no female characters. What is up with that? They are pretty much saying that women are not important at all to the human race and they are not needed in the world to survive. This in my opinion is completely wrong the world would fall apart with out females and also the population would stop. Then when it comes to the second movie they bring one female character into and portray her as fat and stupid. For goodness sacks she thinks she is a little possum when in fact she is a huge mammoth. So pretty much the first two Ice Age movies saying that females are not important because they are fat and don’t ever know what they are talking about. She on the other hand sees herself as strong and beautiful but all the male characters think negatively of her except for her brother possums of coarse which I don’t know why they haven’t done the nice thing and told her that she isn’t a possum and in fact a mammoth. All in all Ice Age is a sexist movie against females.
When it comes to looking at this movie serious through a Marxist lens it shows that the bigger and stronger you are is how much power you have in the movie for example Manny is the biggest and he seems to be the leader of the three main characters. When you think about it though Diago is the carnivore and he should be the more powerful one since he is supposed to be eating the two others but without his pack he can not take down Manny from the most powerful role because Manny is too big and strong for Diago and Diago’s teeth. When it comes to Sid he is just the comitial character that keeps the kids laughing and is small, weak, dirty, and has no power what so ever.
Olson Pd. 7
I will be analizing the song "To all my Friends" by Atmosphere. The gist of the song is that being a rapper isn't as cushy as it appears to be. The line "It's all good we're cool, but you don't tell an astronaut what to do" implies that he yearns for a career with a little bit more power and responsibility. He also says that he doesn't get to call in sick, and that he's still one of those wanna be rapper guys, from a marxist point of view, Atmosphere has never written songs to get on the radio. By keeping it fairly underground (disregarding the system) he doesn't get many of the systems perks. He still has to work hard to produce and write all this music without a major record label to support him.
On the other hand going against the system and producing his own music helped him stay away from overzealous record labels, and be an established independant rapper. Had slug been good to the system he would probably be a lot richer and a lot more famous.
Frisch pd 2
For my exhibit I am going to analyze football. Through the feminist lens you can see that women are not respected in the sport, therefore do not play. There are a couple reasons for this. One reason is that women do not have the physical build to play the sport. Also, you could ask are women just not as vigorous as men? Surely they have ambition but will they put there body on the line just to prove they are equal to men? I think not. Men unlike women have proven in the past that they take a sense of pride in doing physical work. The closest thing I can think of that relates to football with women is war. Men are naturally stronger so they take on the responsibility of defending there family, team, or country with their body. Women are never expected do this. Next, we look at football through the Marxist lens. Does money have a major role in football? Undoubtedly yes it does. Money matters in many ways such as how many coaches the school can afford, what kind of equipment the team has, or what kind of facility the team has to practice on. You could also say from a high school standpoint that where you live gives certain schools more talent; this is all because how money functions in certain areas or districts. I say this because if a young man is growing up without a lot of money he will be faced with different choices and situations than someone with money. Therefore money equals power and power equals choices, which could then lead to athletes not playing. The Freudian lens shines through football everyday. It’s all about ID vs. Superego. In football your ID tells you to sit down and rest your body. It’s the mere difference between winning and losing.
Brian Fickbohm Pd.7
Analyzing the song: Odd One by Sick Puppies
Looking through the Freudian lens, the song must be a statement to how the members of the band feel about themselves. The songs title implies that it is about someone who is out of the ordinary, so the members must think that they themselves are out of the ordinary. Does this mean that the band has a low opinion of self worth? Or does it mean that they think that they are special in some way? Or is it just the author of the song that thinks that way? I think that it is all of the members of the band who think of themselves as odd ones, and whether they think that being an odd one is a good thing or a bad thing is all the opinion of the person who listens to the song.
Looking through the Feminist lens, there is a girl in the band, why not have her sing? Girls tend to have better singing voices than guys. Is the male member of the band trying to oppress her by singing it himself and not letting her sing? I think that the girl member of the band should sing with the male member of the band that is singing in the song.
Looking through the Marxist lens, the song is an symbol of their rejecting of society. By saying that they are an odd one or not the usual person they are essentially saying that they do not go by the system of social life as most people do. They are non-conformists, they reject normal society, and they will never give in to the pressure to conform and to become someone who is not odd. Or are they really conforming and becoming what everybody else is….an odd one?? Maybe that is what they truly are?
Bruggeman
I will analyze the song "Richard Cory" by Simon & Garfunkel. This song is based off of a poem titled "Richard Cory", written by Edwin Robinson. The song is about a powerful, wealthy man named Richard Cory. Richard Cory is thought very highly of in the town, and everybody wishes they could be him. What the townsfolk don't know is that he is actually miserable, and he ends up committing suicide. The singer of the song is a worker in Cory's factory.
Marxist: Through a Marxist lens, this song is very interesting. Richard Cory, being a member of the upper class, interacts with the lower class through charity. Other than giving to charity, there is no mentioned interaction between the upper and lower class. Richard Cory could be seen as both greedy, and philanthropic. Examples of greed are that he bribes politicians "They say that Richard Cory owns one half of this whole town with political connections to spread his wealth around", as well as treats his workers poorly "But I work in his factory and I curse the life I'm living and I curse my poverty". Poverty is a recurring theme throughout the song for the factory worker. The lyrics "He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch, and they were grateful for his patronage and they thanked him very much" shows Richard Cory as not only a philanthropist, but a man of the people. Richard Cory doesn't let his wealth and power go to his head. No one person climbs the social or economic ladder. Richard Cory is the factory owner and everyone else is his workers. Richard Cory as stated above probably exploits his workers, with the supporting lyrics "But I work in his factory, and I curse the life I'm living and I curse my poverty". There are no lyrics that suggest there may be tension between Cory and his factory workers, only that the singer wishes that it was him who was Richard Cory, but that is a personal conflict. The ruling class would be Richard Cory, and from his perspective he is miserable. From the singer's perspective, Cory's life is perfect in all aspects. It is unsure whether or not the singer is miserable, although we can infer from the lyrics "I curse the life I'm living and I curse my poverty" that he may be miserable. Richard Cory flaunts his wealth in many ways, and the paparazzi support him, "The papers print his picture almost everywhere he goes Richard Cory at the opera, Richard Cory at a show and the rumor of his parties and the orgies on his yacht". Cory attends events that some wealthy people take interest in, such as operas and general theatre performances, as well as fashionable parties.
Bruggeman - continued
Freudian: Richard Cory has a balance of superego, and id. Cory's superego has him donating money to charity, as well as mingling with the common people. Meanwhile, Cory's id has him bribing politician, probably exploiting his workers, attending theatre performances, throwing parties, and having orgies on his yacht. The singer expresses his discontentment in the song, although there is nothing that the singer can do to achieve anything higher. Cory flaunts his wealth by having orgies on his yacht. It could imply that if you have money and social power, your influence can bring false friends only looking for elegant partying. Cory is self indulging with his attending theatre performances as well as throwing elegant parties. Richard Cory is an interesting man in that all the common people think he is having the time of his life, while he himself is miserable. Richard Cory was an only child born to a wealthy banker who was already known "born into society a banker's only child he had everything a man could want power, grace, and style". I'm thinking that Cory grew up always dressed very nicely, always having the best of the best, and that could have led people of all ages to be intimidated by him. This could have had a lasting effect on Cory that made his life miserable and for years he tried to cover up his bad feelings by giving to others and spending money on himself, but this still didn't make him happy. Along the way Cory must have felt that his life would never get better, so he ended it "So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read, 'Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head'". I find it interesting that even after Richard Cory commits suicide, the singer (factory worker) still wishes he could be Richard Cory. The singer could have thought "if Richard Cory was that wealthy and powerful and still not happy, and I'm still poor and miserable, how can it ever get better for me?" so although the singer does not take his life, he still wishes that it would get better.
Schlotman_6
I will be analyzing sports in general. The US is a very competitive country when it comes to sports of all kinds. We now have the best male basketball team in the world, obviously the best football teams (since most athletes in the world go to the NFL for professional football), the best male swimmer in Michael Phelps, best female tennis player (in my opinion you can choose either of the Williams sisters), Tiger in golf (but that probably won’t stay that way to long from now), Brock Lesnar for UFC fighting, and Connecticut Girls Basketball of course. Those are some examples off the top of my head, so sorry if I missed anyone or any team.
In the Marxist view, young athletes are going out of college at a very early age or if that. As Ben Kramer has stated in his blog, “They’ve been living just fine on an income of a fraction of that most of the time but today everywhere you look people see the lifestyle that the pros live the fancy clothes, nice cars, huge houses, and impulse buying whatever comes to your mind”. Athletes are leaving school early and going to the pros much sooner than ever. This could be positive in two ways. One way, they earn more money right off the bat, and that is normally a good thing. The second way, we can start training them at such a young age, that they get even better than the pasts athletes. And since we are the Land of Opportunity, athletes from all over the world move here to get a better start on their career. This is because our country has more money; we are the top dogs in that department. So, really, we are the Yankees of baseball as United States is to the World (I’m not a Yankees fan, it’s just that they spend the most for their players). We have more money to spend for them. This could also cripple them too. Not all athletes can have the money that the superstars today get paid. So, if they get a career ending injury or just couldn’t make it in the big league, they don’t really have a degree in anything to be successful in anything else.
In the Freudian view, kids see these athletes and almost naturally, they want to be them. They then push themselves to become superstars. This would statistically end in disaster. Not everyone is born to be at least 6’4” and run a 4.4 forty. They think they can make it when majority end their dreams before they even go into high school. This may affect them physiologically. Kids at a young age play because their friends do, then they watch these pro athletes and then dream to play for a professional team.
In a Feminist view, I see why women athletes want to be taken more seriously. But, I just can’t accept the idea that women sports is or even more entertaining and competitive than men’s sports. Sorry ladies, but men are just more naturally athletic which provides a wider range to do things. Use the WNBA and the NBA as an example. These men are high flying, fast, and super strong. You actually watch men do things that don’t even seem possible. Guys under 6 foot are dunking it when just last year in the WNBA All-Star game Sylvia Fowles 6’6” took two attempts to dunk a ball much smaller than men’s regulation balls while all the players cleared the lane for her. Now, I’m not even 6 foot, and yet I can even dunk now. I am willing to give women athletes everywhere that they are improving much faster than men are when it comes to Olympic events such as sprinting and long distance. I’m not saying they are beating men but throughout history, the times tell us that they are decreasing the times at a faster pace than men are. Now, this is in my opinion of course. Women have all the right to play any sport that men play and same way with men being able to play every sport women play. I encourage everyone of any gender or race to compete in anything they want to do. Maybe, some day, we could all play on the same field or court together. That probably isn’t in the near future, but I think it could be done.
My exhibit that I have chosen to examine is Atmosphere. Through the Marxist lens you can see that they are climbing the social ladder quite magnificently, and they are achieving their success through the underground steadily spreading the name and attracting people to their individuality. A perfect example would be where he says "Love life till death, and keep planting my seeds." isn't that a pure Marxist comment there? Atmosphere constantly talks about the upper classes and the mainstream "music" and about how those people change themselves due to their greed and fame they suddenly have. They mention myriads of times the struggles of becoming successful in music, but remaining to be hidden by the lying, fake poseurs of mainstream. Through some of their songs you can derive that they are happy with the success they have accumulated Also how because of the mainstream, people are more accustomed to not paying attention to underground artist like Atmosphere, but even with their life obstacles presented, due to poverty and more popular artist taking the limelight from them, Atmosphere still has managed to create a very successful company, Rhymesayers Entertainment. A good example of this is a quote from one of their songs GodLovesUgly, "Been paying dues for a decade plus, before that I was just another face on the bus; tapping my foot to the beat on the radio, dreamin' about the mic, the money, and the ladies..."
Using the Feminist lens, that line wouldn't fly very well. "Food, sex, money, water, what else do you have to offer?" that is a very sexist lyric in my eyes, is it not? A lot of the songs don't exactly degrade women, but relate them as possessions and it is obvious that women are a cause of a lot of problems. At the same time it is noticed of a love/hate relationship between them and women, there is a sense of chivalry in the lyrics of a handful of their songs.
With the Freudian critical lens there is a lot of inner turmoil within the mind of Slug and he talks a lot of issues in which his Id has taken over, and overcoming those problems and trying to be a better man. Slug's superego is starting to come through into making his music by the decisions based on the guilt of previous over use of his Id. Even devoted a song to it, called "Tryin' to Find a Balance." Their songs show a lot of depression and anguish. Atmosphere's songs is an ocean of Freudian and Marxist critique. All about the struggle, the mental distress, and the qualms of life.
Crowe, pd 6.
For this blog task I will analyze the song “Where Is My Mind?” by The Pixies. The inspiration for the song came from the lead singer’s adventure that included being chased by and talking to a little fish while snorkeling in the Caribbean.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DDZEdkoaY4
Freudian lens: This exhibit is without a doubt best analyzed under the Freudian Psychoanalytical lens. The song begins with “With your feet in the air and your head on the ground.” Right away you can tell the song is going to be testing dream-like barriers. The whole song in general most definitely represents the id (lounging about in the Caribbean, not working, etc). It is full of narcissistic bliss and a carefree lifestyle. A fuzzy, unknown sort of mood is withheld throughout the whole song. It’s not a straight to the point, typical kind of song. It’s about the character’s loss of control. They are unsure as to what they are doing and why they are doing it. While I don’t think this exhibit has any sexual symbols, the character is definitely seeking bliss. It mentions him talking to fish and laying around with his feet in the air. If a “normal” person saw somebody doing that, they would certainly think they were a little loopy. Perhaps the lead singer was on drugs when he wrote the song. Personally, I think he just reached a point in his life when he finally stopped and asked himself what he was doing. Maybe he had a light bulb go off that told him to stop worrying so much about the material things. Or maybe he just felt like talking to a fish (it can’t talk back, can’t judge you…why not?). :)
Marxist lens: I don’t think there’s much to see with the Marxist lens with this song, but obviously if somebody is off swimming in the Caribbean, then work must not be that important to them. Though, in order to have the opportunity to experience such a luxury, one would have to work hard enough to earn the money to fund a trip.
Niklason Period 6
For my blog task I will use the Freudian lens to analyze the song, “Scalp” by Atmosphere. The song is about a man named Sean who goes to a bar and plans to get so drunk that he doesn’t remember where he is at. Is that not his id telling him to drink until he doesn’t remember anything? Maybe he had a bad day or lost a job, but we don’t know. Sean brings in $50 to spend on alcohol but he ends up spending more because his id tells him to drink more and more until he can’t stand up. In the song, Sean meets his friend, Sunny, who is a shady character that is involved in probably drugs and Sunny asks Sean if he will pick him up a “package” for $350 the next day. Sean’s id tells him that he needs the money and it can be the easiest $350 he can make, just drive pick up a package and bring it back. If Sean’s superego were in control he wouldn’t get involved in this and would just decline but his id is definitely winning and he accepts the offer to get the package. The next part of the song, Sean gets into his car and his superego kicks in. It tells him to go back and decline and then he pictures himself in handcuffs. He starts to question what he is going to do but his id talks him out of it and tells him to man up and just do the job. His id got the best of him and he decides to do the job. At the end, Sean ends up getting killed by a drunk driver when it broadsided his pickup truck when he pulls out of the bar. Based on what we know, Sean followed his id and was going to get the package but we don’t know for sure.
The Prom. As a Marxist lens you can see its all about the power of who you are and how much money your willing to spend. Everyone knows that prom is just a contest to see who has the best ride to show up in, what dress is the best or in some cases sluttish, just saying. Some guys might worry about how they dress so they can impress their lady, others still might not care. Other times it who has the best make up and hair and shoes, jewelry etc. Really prom isn't that great. As a Freudian critic you can see why the girls choose what dress and how their hair is and their jewelry. You would notice they do it to look fabulous! They are trying to out do their friend without coming out and saying I hate your dress because im jealous. Their just going to go buy a dress they think is better. When they see their friends shoes and they have the same one they might think, hey were cool!! Were going in style! But really they know they don't like the idea of them wearing the same shoes. Some girls think that prom defines how popular they are and how pretty they are. Guys usually think is this over yet? Everyone knows though prom is made out to be this awesome right of passage to high school but everyone who has experienced it knows that its usually a waste of money and time. As a feminist you might notice that guys might be using their girl as to show the others how "hot" theirs is. At prom you don’t think about who is a better dancer you just enjoy yourself, or at least try. In the back of your mind your still thinking do I look as good as him or her?
"rite" of passage, Ciara. Thanks for your clever, aware thoughts.
MC
Austin Hanson
prd. 7
For the first blog task I have decided to choose Sons of Anarchy a show, which is on FX every Tuesday night at 9:30 p.m. This show is a show about a biker gang in Charming, California. They are in their third season and it is mostly about gang violence and Jax (the main character in the show) is in a constant struggle to try and take over the gang and start it over.
Looking at Sons of Anarchy through a Feminist lens you can see how the women are just there or support. They don’t partake in any of the “dirty work” they just stay behind. They are also in charge of keeping the house clean and cooking for the guys after they come back. On the other side Gemma who is the mother of Jax and wife of Jax’s stepfather, Clay. She shows many masculine qualities, she has recently gotten in trouble for stabbing a man in the penis for scaring her and trying to beat her. She is very strong and does her “womanly duties” that the gang expects from her but also can protect herself and has a masculine side to her. Also the gang deals with prostitution, which they extort for money, and use the women as property and don’t really humanize them.
Looking at Sons of Anarchy through a Marxist lens you can see a class system that they have. The gang has a strict class system; they have chapter presidents in different cities and a vice president. Then under them they have secretaries and sergeant at arms and brutes and then prospects. They all have duties and they all follow them, but they have a vote in the boardroom on decisions to attack and what to do so it is somewhat of a democratic system. But the prospects have to go through initiations, which make them have to do all sorts of duties, and they are basically the grunt man of the gang and do the grunt work. Also they distribute money almost evenly throughout the gang and do not discriminate as long as you can get the job done.
Austin Hanson cont.
prd 7
Looking at Sons of Anarchy through a Freudian lens you can see Jax has an Oedipal complex with his stepfather, Clay. Jax is constantly trying to find ways to overthrow his stepfather and become president of the gang and change it to what he thinks it should be. He also is having internal conflicts choosing what is best for him and his son. He often has fights with his girlfriend, Tara, who is not the mother of his baby. He thinks that she can do better and she doesn’t need to be in the rough life of the gang and tries to push her away. Also he does everything for his son and doesn’t want him to grow up like he did. Recently his son got kidnapped and he has been having breakdowns mentally and cannot decide whether to take revenge and think his son is dead or try everything he can to find his son and keep optimistic. In the last episode he finally steps up and takes some revenge and bashes one person, who did a drive by shooting at the gang and fell out of the car, in the ground until he died.
Wetrosky Pd. 3
In this entry I will be analyzing the wonderful Disney movie of Mulan. I will start off using the Marxist lense. Mulan takes place in ancient China, where there society is made of dynasties. There are obvious differences in social classes with there being the Emperor, soldiers, the higher class in the city, and the rice farmers in the rural areas. The soldiers have power over the farmers and pick out the men that will be fighting against the evil Huns. The Huns are ridiculed by the Chinese in the movie for being ‘dirty’ and ‘barbaric’.
The next lense I will use is the Freudian lense. There is a very obvious reference with the ‘spirits’. The spirits in Mulan are supposedly ancestors of the family, and are very powerful beings. Maybe they are just memories from Mulan’s mind, because she seems to be the only one seeing these beings. Mushu, the dragon that is helping Mulan throughout the movie, can act as both the good and the fiendish. He serves as her id and superego at the same time. At times, he is telling her that she needs to get her act together and do the right thing, and not give up on being in the Chinese Army, and at other times, he is telling her to do things that are not very kind, and devilish, in a way. Another Freudian theory is realistic anxiety. To overcome this realistic anxiety, which is fear, they use the lucky cricket. It seems as if they always overcome their fear and then say it was because of the ‘lucky’ cricket.
Wetrosky Pd. 4
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The feminist lens appears numerous times in this movie. In the beginning, the army is coming through their village to pick out the men who will fight and her father is supposed to fight. She knows that he is too old to fight and steals his horse, and all of his equipment. The army in the movie doesn’t allow women to fight, so she cuts her hair and learns to act manly. She is going against the stereotype that women can’t fight, and are weak. She easily proves this stereotype wrong throughout the entire movie. She is a better soldier than all of the men she is with. She learns much faster and is better at fighting. She is also smart, because she is the first to figure out how to get to the top of the pole to get the arrow. Another way that she is smart is during the fight scene when the Huns are riding down the mountain at them, and they only have one rocket left. Instead of shooting it at them, she causes an avalanche with it and wins the battle. When she is wounded in the battle though, they find out that Mulan is a girl. She is immediately kicked out of the army and exiled. In the end, she ends up defeating the Huns with her ingenuity and saving the Emperor. Mulan is an excellent movie to view with a feminist lense!
Wetrosky Pd. 4
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The feminist lens appears numerous times in this movie. In the beginning, the army is coming through their village to pick out the men who will fight and her father is supposed to fight. She knows that he is too old to fight and steals his horse, and all of his equipment. The army in the movie doesn’t allow women to fight, so she cuts her hair and learns to act manly. She is going against the stereotype that women can’t fight, and are weak. She easily proves this stereotype wrong throughout the entire movie. She is a better soldier than all of the men she is with. She learns much faster and is better at fighting. She is also smart, because she is the first to figure out how to get to the top of the pole to get the arrow. Another way that she is smart is during the fight scene when the Huns are riding down the mountain at them, and they only have one rocket left. Instead of shooting it at them, she causes an avalanche with it and wins the battle. When she is wounded in the battle though, they find out that Mulan is a girl. She is immediately kicked out of the army and exiled. In the end, she ends up defeating the Huns with her ingenuity and saving the Emperor. Mulan is an excellent movie to view with a feminist lense!
Nick Larsen Pd.6
part 1.
For my blog task I chose to analyze Mr. C. by using the Marxist lens.
Marxist Lens: How does money function in his life? Money must not be a top priority in Mr.C’s life because if I one was seeking fortunes, I definitely would never become a teacher; especially in South Dakota which is one of the lowest paid teacher positions this country has to offer. Or maybe money is important to him because he has taken the time to acquire a second job. I think that every person in this world is money hungry just for the fact that without money you can’t live. It’s as simple as that, if you have no money how are you going to buy food, water, clothing, shelter, and other necessities? These are all things that humans need to survive. Among all that who would want to have no money, doesn’t money buy you entertainment so that you don’t lose your mind to boredom and go insane? Wouldn’t Mr. C want to have loads of money to provide nice things for his kids and wife? Don’t we all want that? Diapers are expensive as he even says so himself in class and if you don’t have money for that where would you get diapers and baby food for your baby? The need those materials for a healthy upbringing. Also I believe Mr. C likes power, who doesn’t? Being a teacher he gets to be in power over 100+ students. How nice would that be, being able to tell 100+ people what to do almost everyday of their lives. He has the power to pass or fail a student, which can lead to a successful or non-successful life. If he failed you how would be able to graduate and get your diploma which will be your pay check for the next 80 years as he says. People love the feeling of power. When we students have jobs someday don’t we want to be up the social ladder and have power and control? Mr. C has control of our minds to an extent making us use these lenses to analyze anything and everything. He assigns tasks such as this where we have to use our minds in a certain way to complete our task successfully, if we refuse to do them we fail and failure is not acceptable in society. Also our parents wouldn’t be to pleased if we failed an assignment just because we didn’t want to use our minds in that manner. So he does have a lot of power over us in many different ways. Is there greed with his power? Does he use it to benefit himself? Yes and no, yes for the benefit that he feels accomplished by making us very intellectual and scholarly. No in the manner of he doesn’t use his power to gain possessions from us like money and other materialistic things. He uses this power in a positive productive manner that only helps benefit everyone that listens to him. He has power over your freedoms, he says yes or no if you ask to go to the bathroom or get a drink. It’s almost scary knowing that teachers have power over your freedom. This job also puts him pretty high up on the social ladder. It is a very professional job that takes hours of schooling to do it. Also he needs to dress professionally for it and he has to be relatively smart to become a teacher (which by the way Mr. C you are a super genius whether you agree with me or not!) He could be socially interactive with other teachers by discussing different aspects and ways to teach. This job could be a great conversation starter and he has the smarts to intelligently talk about it which intelligence is prized in society.
Erks p. 7
I am going to be analyzing Nurse Ratched from Cuckoo’s Nest in the Feminist lens. The book takes place in the late 1950s. It is ironic that a woman in the head of a ward. In the 50s women did the stay at home “mom” things-make meals, clean, take care of the kids, etc. while the men went out and worked and pretty much controlled their family. Well in the book Nurse Ratched is in control of all the men at the ward. The patients are her “family” and she is in power over them. Ratched is clearly playing man’s role in the novel. The time period that the book was written in created the image of men doing a man’s work and women not being able to. Cuckoo’s nest does the exact opposite of that by having Ratched playing a masculine role. McMurphy in the film seems to put limits on her, however. He feels he should be in charge and subconsciously it’s probably because he’s a male and believes that a woman running a ward is unacceptable. Everyone in the story gives privileges to Ratched. None of the black boys, or nurses, or doctors, or the patients ever try to stop her control. Nurse Ratched is manipulative. She has to ability to wrap people around her finger and make them believe that it’s ok for a woman to be running things and not always a man. The patients, men, are the people falling for her manipulative ways. The stereotypes weren’t present when having Ratched being in charge because she’s a woman and that wouldn’t be accepted in the 50s. Her gender affects the whole novel. If a man would’ve been playing Nurse Ratched role the book would be completely different because things would be run different.
Selken Pd.6
I chose to analyze Lady Gaga, specifically her video for the song “Bad Romance.” I’ll be analyzing through the feminist lens. A feminist critic might go the route of saying that Lady Gaga is nothing more than another attention grabbing pop star that shames women by wearing provocative outfits and being extremely sexual in all of her videos including “Bad Romance.” I on the other hand am going to go the route by saying that she empowers women makes them stronger and gives them a voice.
In the video there are a lot of scenes where she is dancing for a man, and putting on a show for him. She’s definitely seen as an object in this entire video. There are sections where she’s struggling to get away so she doesn’t have to perform for him, and throughout the entire video you get the idea that maybe she is captured, and he’s forcing Lady Gaga to perform and then in the end have sex with him. Although that seems completely anti-feminist, I think that it’s the opposite. She’s seen struggling trying to get away, rebelling by spitting up water at her captors and when she’s seen giving him a lap dance it seems like it’s in spite of the man forcing her to be there. She wears the small outfits to express her sexuality, and her freedom to do so. There isn’t anyone who can tell her not to where something, especially a man.
In the end of the video she walks up to the guy who ‘owns’ her and proceeds to light him on fire. This shows how she’s taking matters into her own hands, not waiting for prince charming to come and save her. She empowers herself by not letting any man own her, and in the end you see her laying next to a burned corpse which is presumably the man that had been trying to control her. Lady Gaga is the most influential person in the world right now, not just for writing and performing amazing music but also for sticking up for what she believes in such as gay rights. She truly is an icon not only for her fashion but also for empowering and giving a voice to women all over the world.
Thelen period 3
As we have begun to break down the mind of Dale Harding, consider his feminine qualities and that he might be gay, and taken a step into Bromden’s fog, the song Bohemian Rhapsody replays itself in my mind. Like the record that haunts McMurphy. From experience, I know that there is no such thing as a “coincidence” so I decided to analyze this song and see why Queen was singing to me as I was reading. This song deals with issues both Bromden and Harding experience, from the issue of homosexuality to voices in your head, and what is reality to what is fantasy. The lead singer of Queen, Freddy Mercury, was open about being homosexual, and if you look deep in the lyrics you can pick up on it.
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Like Bromden, Freddy hides in a clouded world where he is accepted for what he is, homosexual. But in the real world there is no acceptance, no “escape from reality”, he has a harder hiding in a perfect world where it is ok to be gay.
Mama just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Coming out to his mother, things probably didn’t go the way he expected. The last person he thought would turn on him did. Society might not let him into their twisted world but his mother even killed his spirit. Life had just begun for him, maybe he began accepting himself and the fact that he was gay and gained the courage to come out to his mother and now her reaction shattered that for him leaving him hopeless and feeling like he doesn’t belong anywhere, for he goes on to say that he should just leave the world and he wish he was never born at all.
I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Could these be the “voices” of society echoing in his ear telling him he isn’t good enough, that he is too flamboyant, that no one will love him for not going against what “everyone” says is normal for a man? The song is even saying that it is a “monstrosity” for him to be homosexual, this shows the narrow views that still are in the minds of some today. Queen is trying to carry on the revolution that Kesey was starting in his book about acceptance for those who are different. Did these voices appear after society had repeatedly told him he wasn’t good enough and beat the thought that he didn’t belong, just like Bromden? During this point in the song it does sound like he is going crazy like he is mad, or is it supposed to sound like the “gay man” is mad? Or is that how society wants you to hear it? It is up to you to choose which “voice” you side with.
The voices in his head start to go off wither it would be a loss to “let him go”, this can be translated as the debate on homosexuals role in society. Some of the “voices” were saying we can let him go, saying it would be fine without him, the other voices fought for him, accepted him. The singing continues to escalade, just like the debate does in today’s society and how powerful people feel about what they believe. In Kesey’s time and in our’s the issue is still standing and will go on, but accepting them should never be an issue, and treating them how it described in the next verse should never go on no matter what your opinion or view.
Thelen cont.
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here
Here we see Freddy is a dynamic character changing from beaten to sticking up against the social beatings that shouldn’t be taken by anyone. Maybe he is talking about his mother saying she once loved him until she found out he was gay and now will have nothing to do with him, or maybe it was society and they turned his back on him once he came out and left him cold and dry, now he is sticking up for himself and saying it isn’t right instead of blaming himself and thinking he is just a “poor boy”.
Will the Gay Rights movement one day be looked back on in the same chapter as Women’s Rights and African Civil Rights movement? Now, we may think of course we were wrong not giving them the right to vote and it should have been done sooner. Why did the struggle for those movements need to be such a tug a war for that long of a time with that many violent protests to prove that everyone is equal no matter the sex or race? Is that not what is going on today with the Gay Rights movement? Can’t we accept just like how Kesey was trying to lead us and save us all the time and trouble? Maybe we will save ourselves the embarrassment from having future generations ask “Why didn’t they just give them the rights in the first place and save all the trouble?” like we do today talking about past movements of obvious equality.
From the voices and fog to the issues of masculinity the connection to One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest is there, because issues of acceptance and tolerance are still going on today.
Logan p.6
I’m going to analyze the celebrity, Ke$ha. Ke$ha is a popular singer known for her songs about love, drugs, and her love with alcohol, specifically Jack Daniels. In my opinion she is the perfect person to analyze when looking through all the lenses.
Ke$ha earns money in exploitive ways. She promotes stupidity and skankiness. When being interviewed, a lot of the time she acts dumb and ditzy. So if I act like that can I be rich too? Look at the dollar sign in her name. How much money should one make before they put a dollar sign in their name? She is making herself known and tries to act different so people will notice her. When she was growing up she had very little money and had to resort to using food stamps each month. Now she is one of the most popular singers and her recent album hit number one on the Billboard 200. This is a huge accomplishment starting from such poverty. The system was good to her and in time helped her reach success. But all this success isn’t just from her abilities alone; she has many people working for her. Her ‘people’ tell her how to act, what to say, and what image to portray to her fans. Do her fans know her true personality? All I see is a bad actress.
Ke$ha makes girls look anti-intellectual and demoralizes them. Isn’t she at all worried about the image she is trying to portray? Her values are down the toilet in most of her songs. She sings about getting drunk and staying drunk all day, drugs, one night stands, and old men hitting on her. On the surface she is very self centered and knows that she can get any guy she wants. She uses her sexuality and makes guys want her and do anything for her. Her lyrics suggest that she is popular and at the top of the social ladder by partying, getting wasted at any hour of the day, and hooking up with anyone.
When we studied The Lion King we talked about how kids watching it could get idea that men have power over women. When little girls listen to Ke$ha’s music they could in time get the idea that excessive drinking and slutting it up will make you popular. Celebrities have a huge impact on children and their views of themselves and how they act, talk, and look. She is impacting girls’ self image and roles in a negative way through her lyrics and her own examples. All Ke$ha is doing is feeding her ID. If she sings about something, people will like it and she will make more money. Money appears to be all that really matters to her, and she will get it any way possible.
Pacheco Pd. 7
For this blog task, I will be analyzing Mcdonalds (specifically in the Brandon location). Mcdonalds primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, shakes, and desserts. Using the Marxist lens, you can see that with the expansion of McDonald's into many international markets, the company has become a symbol of globalization and the spread of the American way of life. Criticism over obesity doesn’t stop Mcdonalds from selling their products but contain product such as salads, fruits, etc., but however, raise the prices on those, and would do anything to stay in business. The same would apply to store managers in our store (yes I work there). If were scheduled to close at a certain time, the store manager would always tell us to stay late if we are maintaining good business. The store manager would do anything to keep the store running successfully. Another thing is that if you look at playplaces and happy meals, what message do they send to kids? Mcdonalds lures little children into eating their product by giving them toys and a play area to have fun. They hypnotize the children also in commercials to get their parents to spend their money on food that contains a toy. Again, Mcdonald would do anything to maintain successful business.
For the femenist lens, I notice that in most stores (and in Brandon) that the women are always in the front either taking orders or sealing bags to hand out through the drive thru window. Why is it that most of the men are always put in the back to prepare the burgers, and that most females are neglected to be in back? By working there for about two years now, I think I have a good idea that there are girls that are much faster than most of the men in back. How are women portrayed here? Maybe they just use the women so they can get yelled at by customers while the ones in back, making food, don’t have to worry about any of the customers complaints.
For the Freudian lens, you can say to yourself, what is going on in the minds of the workers? Whenever you would see a Mcdonalds restaurant anywhere, you would most likely see an employee out behind the store on his break, smoking. You would ask yourself, why would I always see an employee doing that? Maybe its because of stress they receive just by working there. Maybe because of the yelling customers, the employees psyche is totally changed and relieve their stress by smoking. Another example is, a new employee just arrives to work for his first day and totally thinks the place is disgusting (the grease, the food, etc.). However, two years after working (like me), accepts the fact that the place is dirty and that theres nothing to do about it and have to live with it.
Isaac Hanson, Pd. 3
I am choosing to analyze the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story through the Marxist lens.
“You work for the bank. The bank works for me. Ipso facto, I'm your boss.” -White Goodman
There is a major power and money struggle in this movie. Peter LaFleur (Average Joes) struggles to save his gym from being bought out by White Goodman (Globo Gym). Peter LaFleur is just an “average Joe” and didn't win any lottery. I suppose you could say that he won the neuron part of the genetic lottery because he outsmarts White time and time again. On the other hand, White Goodman won the environmental lottery. He definitely won the money and parents part of the environmental lottery because he inherited a large amount of money from his father and was pretty much given everything he has. I wouldn't particularly say that White won the genetic lottery because he used to be a fat child but worked to become extremely physically fit. At the beginning of the movie the Average Joes are portrayed to be wimpy, weak, unattractive, losers that go to the “reject” gym because they aren't accepted by the strong, buff, physically attractive jocks at Globo Gym. Basically, this is saying that if you don't look like you are on steroids you are just “average”. It's saying that you can't be accepted by the “cool” people.
The different social classes, Average Joes being the low-class and Globo Gym being the high-class, don't interact very well in this movie. There is a lot of tension between the two “classes” and I feel like there is greed on Globo Gym's part. White Goodman is greedy towards buying out Average Joes Gymnasium so that he can be the “top dog” and make the “average” people suffer.
The Average Joes try to climb the social/economic ladder by proving the Globo Gym Purple Cobras that they aren't the best at everything and that they can't control the “average” people. Their first step in doing this is by winning the regional dodgeball qualifying match. The next step is winning the ADAA Dodgeball Tournament and they are successful in doing so and prove that the “average” people can beat the “stronger” people and win $50,000.
Hanson, Pd. 3 (cont)
I found it ironic that Patches O'Houlihan (legendary ADAA champ) became the coach of the Average Joes because in the dodgeball video that the Average Joes watch, Patches says, “But remember, dodgeball is a sport of violence, (don't know this word), and degradation. So, when you're picking players in gym class, remember to pick the bigger, stronger kids for your team. That way, you can all gang up on the weaker ones, like Winston (weak, geeky kid) here.” I think this is ironic because Patches saw the “weaker” people getting picked on by the “bigger, stronger” people and he chose to help them out and become their coach even though he used to be a “bully” and pick on the weaker kids. There is a Bible reference in the championship game. It's referred to as a “David vs. Goliath” match. In the Bible story of David and Goliath, David kills Goliath with one stone. In sudden death of the championship match, Peter (David) hits White (Goliath) with one ball (stone), “killing” him and becoming victorious. I also think that Patches could represent Jesus in a way because before he died he gave his towel to Peter. During the sudden death, Peter looked down at the towel and Patches' ghost, or spirit, was talking to him. Patches was actually not there but Peter had faith in what Patches said and believed that he could win. This is kind of like how you should have faith in Jesus even though he's not actually there with you in person, but in spirit.
I found two of the teams that the Average Joes and Purple Cobras played in the tournament to be interesting. Average Joes first opponent in the tournament was against Blitzkrieg from Germany, and the Purple Cobra's played the Kamikazes from Japan. The announcers compared the dodgeball tournament to WWII. Both teams beat them in the tournament which is like WWII because Germany was against the United States and the Allied Powers beat the Axis Powers to win the war.
I also chose to analyze some of the character's names as well.
-Peter LaFleur – LaFleur means “flower” in French which is very feminine. This is saying that Peter is like a girl and isn't very strong.
-White Goodman – His last name, Goodman, is very ironic because he is actually the “bad” guy in this movie so it's the opposite of what his last name really should be, Badman.
-Me'Shell – A very feminine name is given to the biggest, strongest black man who should have a more masculine name.
-Purple Cobra's members, (Blade, Lazer, Blazer) – Pretty intimidating names for the “stronger” team. These names sound like ones that you shouldn't mess with.
-Average Joe's members, (Peter, Justin, Gordon, Owen, Dwight, Steve, Kate) – all “average” names for the non-intimidating, “average” team.
-Pepper Brooks (announcer) – this one may be stretching it a bit but I thought it was clever. He acts like he's black and tries to talk like he is but he's actually white, and pepper (the condiment) is black and white.
I will be picking apart the Marching Band Show, “Checkmate!”
First of all, I will be looking through the Marxist lens.
One of the many questions a Marxist critic would ask is how the social classes interact with each other? Now in this show there is obviously two types of social groups, the black pieces and the white pieces. You may also break those down further and say the pieces the big pieces vs. the pawns. The pawns are represented by the guard. Now in the band, guard members are sometimes looked down upon, so was the drill writer saying that the guard is only a lower piece of the big picture? I guess it is possible! The pieces are also black and white, and at the end, white wins. So are they also saying that white will always win no matter how hard they fight? A Marxist critic would also ask about social tensions, and in this show, social tensions are HIGH!!! The white and black king (Cole Hensley and Josh Jasper) are battling, not only over power, but for a beautiful queen (Bridget Thelen). The lower class, as said before is the black king, who loses in the end, is a mess as he walks off the field!
Second, I will be looking through a Feminist lens.
Another point about the pawns, they are played by the guard, which would also mean they are played by women. Now, one could argue that pawns play an important role, they start the game, and protect other pieces… but in all honesty, that’s a load of crap! Pawns are the lowest pieces on the board. Also, the two kings are fighting over the queen. Usually when two guys are fighting over something, it shows that they are important to them and possibly to their masculinity, and fighting for this girl is pretty much saying that Bridget is a possession and the only way to get a girl is to fight for her.
Third, I will be looking through a Freudian lens.
Also, a way to look at this is to see what they are fighting over, a woman. They are both guys, looking for love. The black king seems to really follow his ID. He is doing anything possible to get his girl. Also I think that the black king is a bit narcissistic. He pushes the white king back at the beginning claiming the first movement, center podium, the spotlight! But also, what could the black king be thinking about. Is he searching for love and comfort? What if he has been looking for girls all of his life but they won’t go to him because of his supposed “color”? Or what if he has been hurt by the other members of his family and all he knows and tires to be is like his father. Who might or might not have been abusive and always needing to find a battle. Maybe that is his inner battle.
Winterringer 2
I chose to analyze the song “The Man I Killed” by the punk band NoFX. When I first heard this song, it made absolutely no sense to me; I couldn’t understand why the song was about being executed for murder. The song itself makes little sense unless you take a hard look at the lyrics and really think about what Fat Mike (the singer) is trying to say. In the very first verse of the song there is a line that goes “Just a few more minutes to live, no remorse for what I did”. This like could really bring one to question the sanity of this man. He’s saying he’s done something bad enough to be executed and he doesn’t even feel a little bit bad about it. The next line however brings the first few lines more into perspective. He (Fat Mike) begins to say that what he did was for the betterment of man, and how what he did was a sacrifice. Now, that line in particular really got me thinking about how a murder would be better for the world, I then realized that he is not talking about just a murder, but an assassination; of a corrupt dictator perhaps? Fat Mike then goes on to say the phrase “beady eyes” and THAT was where it hit me. This song is about the assassination of George W. Bush. Mike has used the phrase “beady eyed man” in several NoFX songs as an insult to Bush. The song goes on to clarify my point even more. One line says “I heard a thousand people screaming, while three billion others cheered”. That line is referencing how very few people liked George W. Bush and the rest of the people would be cheering for what this man did. He even goes on to say that he wasn’t found criminally insane, and that he was found to be a minor threat, except for the man which he had killed. That line is stating his opinion that one wouldn’t have to be criminally insane to assassinate Bush for what they believe to be the greater good of the world. Even with what this whole song was about, there is a surprising twist in the last verse; Mike references a Priest kneeling beside him that mentions that the replacement of the man he had killed planned the entire scenario. That line is obviously mentioning George W. Bush’s Vice President, Dick Cheney. Some would argue that Cheney was evil, and would be a worse leader than Bush. The twist at the end almost turns the song into a conspiracy theory, saying that the replacement of the man he had assassinated had planned the whole scenario of the assassination and the subsequent execution of our narrator. The replacement (Cheney) had planned for this man to execute Bush so he could assume power without taking the fall for removing the President, and though the narrator believed what he was doing to be for the betterment of mankind, it is revealed that what he did had absolutely no significance at all, and that everything was planned out from the start. Now, obviously this song could be viewed to be about any politician or dictator or leader one would choose, I just wrote it in the context that it were about George W. Bush, because knowing Fat Mike, that is likely what this song is about. I almost chose to examine the NoFX song “The Marxist Brothers” but that would have been WAY too easy.
McKenzie Pd. 7
I will be analyzing the song “The Tide” by The Spill Canvas. I'll be using both the Freudian lens and the Feminist lens.
Through the feminist lens we can analyze the characters in the song; the children are Veronica, Vada, and Dade, there's also the mother and the father. Examining Veronica and Vada we can see that they are two completely different types of girls. Veronica is more of a “modern” girl. She gets excited by action which is shown in the first verse “She's biting her lip as she watches the waves turn white at the tip”. She's the opposite of her sister Vada who is more of a classical girl and is more reserved. In the second verse Veronica is anxious for her first kiss, unlike her sister who is more reserved and jealous of her sister because her sister is more beautiful. A feminist critic would probably approve more of Veronica because she is more likely to take action and be assertive instead of passive like Vada. One would also notice that the gender roles seem reversed for the children. The girls are more outgoing and then there is Dade. Dade plays almost a feminine role in the song. The girls are out enjoying the ocean and he's back on the dock and “his hair dances in the wind”. Dave is also shown to be pensive throughout the song unlike normal boys who are expected by society to be athletic. Dade constantly wonders about what love is and if his father will return, when a normal boy would be playing. A feminist critic would approve of the role reversal because it gives the girls a bigger role. The critic would not approve of the mother or the father though. Through the entire song the mother is shown as very uncaring about her children. This is shown most at the end though when “she didn't even notice or pay much attention as the tide came in and swept her three into the ocean”. However, why she is so uncaring is implied in the bridge. The bridge says the mother was neglectful but it also says that she was bedridden by the children's father. So we're left to wonder if he was physically abusive so she literally can't get out of bed or if she's just so heart broken because he left that she no longer feels like she can get out of bed. The critic would also hate the father for leaving the mother with three kids.
McKenzie pd7
part two
Using the Freudian lens we can analyze the rest of the song. One thing that stands out right away is that the children were “eager to learn, to be taught, and to teach”. That's out of the ordinary because normally one wouldn't consider a child as a teacher, but perhaps it could mean as a teacher to the mother who is usually neglectful of her children. We can also see right away that Veronica is going to be promiscuous because of the act of biting her lip at the first sign of excitement. Vada is going to be more reserved because it says that she can't stand the sight of a boy. Then there's Dade who plays a feminine role. I think that this could be because he has no father figure so has nobody to learn from about how to act besides females. The mother is very pessimistic because of whatever happened between her and the father. Dade knows something happened between them and asks his mother “how everyone goes on breathing after true love ends”. His mother tells him that heaven's not a real place, it's a state of mind, and she also tells him that there's no such thing as love. I can imagine that this probably just crushes Dade because all children want to be loved, so he's probably confused by what his mother says. The mother follows her id. She doesn't think about what effect her words will have on her children, she just thinks of her own depression. Because we can assume the father was id based as well because he was abusive that explains the children. Veronica is totally id based as well which is shown by her attraction to excitement and boys. Vada is also very id based because she lost the genetic lottery and is jealous of her sister. It's hard to say if Dade follows his id or his superego. He mostly just wants answers about why his father left and what true love really his and how people can live after being heartbroken like his mother. At thrid verse I don't believe the children really drowned in the ocean. I think that they ignored their mothers advice about never falling in love and fell in love. I think this because it also says that “all her advice, it seems useless”. She realizes that her id based urges to protect her children from love instead of teaching them about it have failed. Suddenly her superego kicks in and she realizes that because her children are in love that love really can be good and not as horrible as she tried to teach them. Hence the children did end up teaching the mother. I think the last chorus could be Dade coming back and talking to hi mother because it says nothing about the mother and Dade was always the one asking the mother the questions. I feel that in the end Dade is trying to teach his mother by telling her about how great love is. He tells her that heaven is “that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive”. That life isn't about staying out of love and just being alive, it's about being with someone and actually living. It ends with Dade telling her to take his advice now and believe that love is in fact completely real and forget everything she's known since the father left. It makes me wonder of Dade has an oedipal complex. He's always by his mother's side and asking her questions. In the end he's still with her even though he's in love and is still trying to teach her long after the two girls have left.
McKenzie Pd 7
Part two
Using the Freudian lens we can analyze the rest of the song. One thing that stands out right away is that the children were “eager to learn, to be taught, and to teach”. That's out of the ordinary because normally one wouldn't consider a child as a teacher, but perhaps it could mean as a teacher to the mother who is usually neglectful of her children. We can also see right away that Veronica is going to be promiscuous because of the act of biting her lip at the first sign of excitement. Vada is going to be more reserved because it says that she can't stand the sight of a boy. Then there's Dade who plays a feminine role. I think that this could be because he has no father figure so has nobody to learn from about how to act besides females. The mother is very pessimistic because of whatever happened between her and the father. Dade knows something happened between them and asks his mother “how everyone goes on breathing after true love ends”. His mother tells him that heaven's not a real place, it's a state of mind, and she also tells him that there's no such thing as love. I can imagine that this probably just crushes Dade because all children want to be loved, so he's probably confused by what his mother says. The mother follows her id. She doesn't think about what effect her words will have on her children, she just thinks of her own depression. Because we can assume the father was id based as well because he was abusive that explains the children. Veronica is totally id based as well which is shown by her attraction to excitement and boys. Vada is also very id based because she lost the genetic lottery and is jealous of her sister. It's hard to say if Dade follows his id or his superego. He mostly just wants answers about why his father left and what true love really his and how people can live after being heartbroken like his mother. At thrid verse I don't believe the children really drowned in the ocean. I think that they ignored their mothers advice about never falling in love and fell in love. I think this because it also says that “all her advice, it seems useless”. She realizes that her id based urges to protect her children from love instead of teaching them about it have failed. Suddenly her superego kicks in and she realizes that because her children are in love that love really can be good and not as horrible as she tried to teach them. Hence the children did end up teaching the mother. I think the last chorus could be Dade coming back and talking to hi mother because it says nothing about the mother and Dade was always the one asking the mother the questions. I feel that in the end Dade is trying to teach his mother by telling her about how great love is. He tells her that heaven is “that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive”. That life isn't about staying out of love and just being alive, it's about being with someone and actually living. It ends with Dade telling her to take his advice now and believe that love is in fact completely real and forget everything she's known since the father left. It makes me wonder of Dade has an oedipal complex. He's always by his mother's side and asking her questions. In the end he's still with her even though he's in love and is still trying to teach her long after the two girls have left.
McKenzie Pd 7
part two
Using the Freudian lens we can analyze the rest of the song. One thing that stands out right away is that the children were “eager to learn, to be taught, and to teach”. That's out of the ordinary because normally one wouldn't consider a child as a teacher, but perhaps it could mean as a teacher to the mother who is usually neglectful of her children. We can also see right away that Veronica is going to be promiscuous because of the act of biting her lip at the first sign of excitement. Vada is going to be more reserved because it says that she can't stand the sight of a boy. Then there's Dade who plays a feminine role. I think that this could be because he has no father figure so has nobody to learn from about how to act besides females. The mother is very pessimistic because of whatever happened between her and the father. Dade knows something happened between them and asks his mother “how everyone goes on breathing after true love ends”. His mother tells him that heaven's not a real place, it's a state of mind, and she also tells him that there's no such thing as love. I can imagine that this probably just crushes Dade because all children want to be loved, so he's probably confused by what his mother says. The mother follows her id. She doesn't think about what effect her words will have on her children, she just thinks of her own depression. Because we can assume the father was id based as well because he was abusive that explains the children. Veronica is totally id based as well which is shown by her attraction to excitement and boys. Vada is also very id based because she lost the genetic lottery and is jealous of her sister. It's hard to say if Dade follows his id or his superego. He mostly just wants answers about why his father left and what true love really his and how people can live after being heartbroken like his mother. At thrid verse I don't believe the children really drowned in the ocean. I think that they ignored their mothers advice about never falling in love and fell in love. I think this because it also says that “all her advice, it seems useless”. She realizes that her id based urges to protect her children from love instead of teaching them about it have failed. Suddenly her superego kicks in and she realizes that because her children are in love that love really can be good and not as horrible as she tried to teach them. Hence the children did end up teaching the mother. I think the last chorus could be Dade coming back and talking to hi mother because it says nothing about the mother and Dade was always the one asking the mother the questions. I feel that in the end Dade is trying to teach his mother by telling her about how great love is. He tells her that heaven is “that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive”. That life isn't about staying out of love and just being alive, it's about being with someone and actually living. It ends with Dade telling her to take his advice now and believe that love is in fact completely real and forget everything she's known since the father left. It makes me wonder of Dade has an oedipal complex. He's always by his mother's side and asking her questions. In the end he's still with her even though he's in love and is still trying to teach her long after the two girls have left.
McKenzie Pd 7
part two
Using the Freudian lens we can analyze the rest of the song. One thing that stands out right away is that the children were “eager to learn, to be taught, and to teach”. That's out of the ordinary because normally one wouldn't consider a child as a teacher, but perhaps it could mean as a teacher to the mother who is usually neglectful of her children. We can also see right away that Veronica is going to be promiscuous because of the act of biting her lip at the first sign of excitement. Vada is going to be more reserved because it says that she can't stand the sight of a boy. Then there's Dade who plays a feminine role. I think that this could be because he has no father figure so has nobody to learn from about how to act besides females. The mother is very pessimistic because of whatever happened between her and the father. Dade knows something happened between them and asks his mother “how everyone goes on breathing after true love ends”. His mother tells him that heaven's not a real place, it's a state of mind, and she also tells him that there's no such thing as love. I can imagine that this probably just crushes Dade because all children want to be loved, so he's probably confused by what his mother says. The mother follows her id. She doesn't think about what effect her words will have on her children, she just thinks of her own depression. Because we can assume the father was id based as well because he was abusive that explains the children. Veronica is totally id based as well which is shown by her attraction to excitement and boys. Vada is also very id based because she lost the genetic lottery and is jealous of her sister. It's hard to say if Dade follows his id or his superego. He mostly just wants answers about why his father left and what true love really his and how people can live after being heartbroken like his mother. At thrid verse I don't believe the children really drowned in the ocean. I think that they ignored their mothers advice about never falling in love and fell in love. I think this because it also says that “all her advice, it seems useless”. She realizes that her id based urges to protect her children from love instead of teaching them about it have failed. Suddenly her superego kicks in and she realizes that because her children are in love that love really can be good and not as horrible as she tried to teach them. Hence the children did end up teaching the mother. I think the last chorus could be Dade coming back and talking to hi mother because it says nothing about the mother and Dade was always the one asking the mother the questions. I feel that in the end Dade is trying to teach his mother by telling her about how great love is. He tells her that heaven is “that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive”. That life isn't about staying out of love and just being alive, it's about being with someone and actually living. It ends with Dade telling her to take his advice now and believe that love is in fact completely real and forget everything she's known since the father left. It makes me wonder of Dade has an oedipal complex. He's always by his mother's side and asking her questions. In the end he's still with her even though he's in love and is still trying to teach her long after the two girls have left.
McKenzie Pd 7
part two
Using the Freudian lens we can analyze the rest of the song. One thing that stands out right away is that the children were “eager to learn, to be taught, and to teach”. That's out of the ordinary because normally one wouldn't consider a child as a teacher, but perhaps it could mean as a teacher to the mother who is usually neglectful of her children. We can also see right away that Veronica is going to be promiscuous because of the act of biting her lip at the first sign of excitement. Vada is going to be more reserved because it says that she can't stand the sight of a boy. Then there's Dade who plays a feminine role. I think that this could be because he has no father figure so has nobody to learn from about how to act besides females. The mother is very pessimistic because of whatever happened between her and the father. Dade knows something happened between them and asks his mother “how everyone goes on breathing after true love ends”. His mother tells him that heaven's not a real place, it's a state of mind, and she also tells him that there's no such thing as love. I can imagine that this probably just crushes Dade because all children want to be loved, so he's probably confused by what his mother says. The mother follows her id. She doesn't think about what effect her words will have on her children, she just thinks of her own depression. Because we can assume the father was id based as well because he was abusive that explains the children. Veronica is totally id based as well which is shown by her attraction to excitement and boys. Vada is also very id based because she lost the genetic lottery and is jealous of her sister. It's hard to say if Dade follows his id or his superego. He mostly just wants answers about why his father left and what true love really his and how people can live after being heartbroken like his mother. At thrid verse I don't believe the children really drowned in the ocean. I think that they ignored their mothers advice about never falling in love and fell in love. I think this because it also says that “all her advice, it seems useless”. She realizes that her id based urges to protect her children from love instead of teaching them about it have failed. Suddenly her superego kicks in and she realizes that because her children are in love that love really can be good and not as horrible as she tried to teach them. Hence the children did end up teaching the mother. I think the last chorus could be Dade coming back and talking to hi mother because it says nothing about the mother and Dade was always the one asking the mother the questions. I feel that in the end Dade is trying to teach his mother by telling her about how great love is. He tells her that heaven is “that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive”. That life isn't about staying out of love and just being alive, it's about being with someone and actually living. It ends with Dade telling her to take his advice now and believe that love is in fact completely real and forget everything she's known since the father left. It makes me wonder of Dade has an oedipal complex. He's always by his mother's side and asking her questions. In the end he's still with her even though he's in love and is still trying to teach her long after the two girls have left.
McKenzie Pd 7
part two
Using the Freudian lens we can analyze the rest of the song. One thing that stands out right away is that the children were “eager to learn, to be taught, and to teach”. That's out of the ordinary because normally one wouldn't consider a child as a teacher, but perhaps it could mean as a teacher to the mother who is usually neglectful of her children. We can also see right away that Veronica is going to be promiscuous because of the act of biting her lip at the first sign of excitement. Vada is going to be more reserved because it says that she can't stand the sight of a boy. Then there's Dade who plays a feminine role. I think that this could be because he has no father figure so has nobody to learn from about how to act besides females. The mother is very pessimistic because of whatever happened between her and the father. Dade knows something happened between them and asks his mother “how everyone goes on breathing after true love ends”. His mother tells him that heaven's not a real place, it's a state of mind, and she also tells him that there's no such thing as love. I can imagine that this probably just crushes Dade because all children want to be loved, so he's probably confused by what his mother says. The mother follows her id. She doesn't think about what effect her words will have on her children, she just thinks of her own depression. Because we can assume the father was id based as well because he was abusive that explains the children. Veronica is totally id based as well which is shown by her attraction to excitement and boys. Vada is also very id based because she lost the genetic lottery and is jealous of her sister. It's hard to say if Dade follows his id or his superego. He mostly just wants answers about why his father left and what true love really his and how people can live after being heartbroken like his mother. At thrid verse I don't believe the children really drowned in the ocean. I think that they ignored their mothers advice about never falling in love and fell in love. I think this because it also says that “all her advice, it seems useless”. She realizes that her id based urges to protect her children from love instead of teaching them about it have failed. Suddenly her superego kicks in and she realizes that because her children are in love that love really can be good and not as horrible as she tried to teach them. Hence the children did end up teaching the mother. I think the last chorus could be Dade coming back and talking to hi mother because it says nothing about the mother and Dade was always the one asking the mother the questions. I feel that in the end Dade is trying to teach his mother by telling her about how great love is. He tells her that heaven is “that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive”. That life isn't about staying out of love and just being alive, it's about being with someone and actually living. It ends with Dade telling her to take his advice now and believe that love is in fact completely real and forget everything she's known since the father left. It makes me wonder of Dade has an oedipal complex. He's always by his mother's side and asking her questions. In the end he's still with her even though he's in love and is still trying to teach her long after the two girls have left.
McKenzie Pd 7
sorry it posted so many extra times, my internet got confused, i would appriciate it if Mr. C would delete the extras
Murtha Period 7,
I decided to focus the critical lenses on the movie A Knight’s Tale. To give a quick brief on the movie; William Thatcher and his friends try to climb the social ladder into riches and glory during what seems to be the medieval period. They do this by training Will to look, act, and joust as a knight because no commoners can compete. He eventually falls in love with a beautiful woman. This lady is also being pursued by what can only be characterized as the bad guy. Eventually they are found out and when all hope seems to be lost, William is given an actual title of nobility by the Prince of England. Now, looking through the Marxist lens, you can obviously see that power is used by in this exhibit because without power or nobility one cannot compete in any type of event such as jousting. Money functions in this movie because it is the first real reason why William, Wart, and Roland decide to fake Williams’s knighthood so that they can simply eat. Once they win their first match William tries to persuade the other two to help him, even though they wanted to go home instead, by stealing their share of the loot. They eventually fight him for this money. Even though they decide to stay and help; this shows that greed can separate even the best of friendships. William is climbing the social ladder by lying about his nobility. This exhibit also shows that the system doesn’t allow for the lower class to compete. Now the lower class isn’t entirely depressed because they are ruled fairly but they still wish to compete in the games. I also noticed how the crowd was split to watch these games. The nobles sat in these raised benches with cushions to sit on and the lower classes are located on the opposite side of the field left to stand up. I personally connected this to sitting in the private booths at football games as to sitting on the goal line. I also noticed that unless you were of noble birth that you really didn’t enter the church. I think this is because there was yet to be a large publication of the bible if I remember my history correctly. And finally for the Marxist lens, Prince Edward also changes his identity so that he may compete in the games. This is because he is an important military leader and he is to be the next king. This doesn’t necessarily make him unhappy but it does insinuate that he does wish to be more like the common man. Now looking through a feminist lens I noticed that the women were obviously made to stay home to tend to it and the children while the men bring home the bacon. They express the feeling openly in the movie by saying that a man’s day is fuller and more demanding. Also one of William’s friends, a widow blacksmith, is looked at by the other blacksmiths as unable to mend armor. William is also hesitant to go to her at first even though he is desperate because she is a girl. William’s love, Jocelyn, is looked at as a prize by both men that pursue her. There is even a point in the movie where she calls herself a prize that William has won. Looking through the Freudian lens, William expresses his ID by living as his alter ego Sir Urrich Von Liechtenstein. William also might have a slight oedipal complex. I can’t be for sure because his mother is what I presume as dead and his father encourages him to become more of a man than he is.
Murtha Period 7,
I decided to focus the critical lenses on the movie A Knight’s Tale. To give a quick brief on the movie; William Thatcher and his friends try to climb the social ladder into riches and glory during what seems to be the medieval period. They do this by training Will to look, act, and joust as a knight because no commoners can compete. He eventually falls in love with a beautiful woman. This lady is also being pursued by what can only be characterized as the bad guy. Eventually they are found out and when all hope seems to be lost, William is given an actual title of nobility by the Prince of England. Now, looking through the Marxist lens, you can obviously see that power is used by in this exhibit because without power or nobility one cannot compete in any type of event such as jousting. Money functions in this movie because it is the first real reason why William, Wart, and Roland decide to fake Williams’s knighthood so that they can simply eat. Once they win their first match William tries to persuade the other two to help him, even though they wanted to go home instead, by stealing their share of the loot. They eventually fight him for this money. Even though they decide to stay and help; this shows that greed can separate even the best of friendships. William is climbing the social ladder by lying about his nobility. This exhibit also shows that the system doesn’t allow for the lower class to compete. Now the lower class isn’t entirely depressed because they are ruled fairly but they still wish to compete in the games. I also noticed how the crowd was split to watch these games. The nobles sat in these raised benches with cushions to sit on and the lower classes are located on the opposite side of the field left to stand up. I personally connected this to sitting in the private booths at football games as to sitting on the goal line. I also noticed that unless you were of noble birth that you really didn’t enter the church. I think this is because there was yet to be a large publication of the bible if I remember my history correctly. And finally for the Marxist lens, Prince Edward also changes his identity so that he may compete in the games. This is because he is an important military leader and he is to be the next king. This doesn’t necessarily make him unhappy but it does insinuate that he does wish to be more like the common man. Now looking through a feminist lens I noticed that the women were obviously made to stay home to tend to it and the children while the men bring home the bacon. They express the feeling openly in the movie by saying that a man’s day is fuller and more demanding. Also one of William’s friends, a widow blacksmith, is looked at by the other blacksmiths as unable to mend armor. William is also hesitant to go to her at first even though he is desperate because she is a girl. William’s love, Jocelyn, is looked at as a prize by both men that pursue her. There is even a point in the movie where she calls herself a prize that William has won. Looking through the Freudian lens, William expresses his ID by living as his alter ego Sir Urrich Von Liechtenstein. William also might have a slight oedipal complex. I can’t be for sure because his mother is what I presume as dead and his father encourages him to become more of a man than he is.
Moss-pd.7
I decided to use Victoria Secret models and ads. In these ads, they show that you have to be a sexy, sophisticated, flawless woman. The women in these ads have flat stomachs and are wearing barely anything! These women portray everything that half of American is not. Girls grow up wanting to be like them. Some even starve themselves to be a replica of what they see, and end up being what they "think" is pretty, when sometimes it's ugly. These women are everything a man could want! perfect bodies, soft skin, no clothing. What guy would'nt love that? Men love the Victoria Secret ads and commercials, when women become sad and depressed because they want to be what they see on the television, they want to be what they never will be. Maybe that is what Victoria Secret wants. Maybe they want the American women to want to look like their models so they are healthy. Victoria Secrets probably do mean good in this world, but some abuse what they see, and it ends up bad.
Henning pd. 7
I have decided to do my blog task on Pierce Staab's Facebook profile picture. In his picture he is on the beach in San Diego surrounded by five beautiful ladies. The beach is showing that it is a place where pretty girls will be all around you and want to be with you. The beach in San Diego is beautiful, warm, and fun. It's an idyllic place to be with lots of beautiful women. Pierce feels like a womanizer standing with the girls on the beach. All of the girls are sort of slouching down below Pierce which makes it look like he is above them and has power over all of them. He has his arms around them like he is going to protect them because they are damsels in distress or something . Some of the girls have their thumbs up making it seem as if he is the big man on "campus". I say campus because he is wearing a South Dakota State University t-shirt. They are all leaning in towards him like they need to be close to him because he is that awesome. Derek Rohlf left a comment under the picture that says "BAMF". Derek's comment is saying that Pierce is such a BA because he's got a picture with all these girls, whereas a picture of a girl surrounded by a bunch of guys may look sort of slutty or like she is just a big flirt. It is such a double standard that girls look like hos when they are around a ton of guys, but boys are cool, hot, confident, and "BAMF's" when they are with a bunch of girls. In Pierce's profile picture it appears he has it all, the best possible life a guy could have. He has the babes, the beach, and the beautiful setting. Is it degrading to women to use terms such as babes, slutty, or hos just to make a point?
I chose to analyze the song “She Don’t Wanna Man” by Asher Roth for my exhibit. This song can easily be analyzed with the Freudian lenses because it talks about a woman being independent and wanting to dance alone even though she knows that this man is watching her and wants to do more wither her than just dance. The Freudian Lenses tell us that the man’s sex drive is guiding him through the entire song even after he realizes that she does not want what he does. She thinks she’s too hot for him which makes us think that her sex drive is guiding her away from him. The man’s sex drive keeps guiding him in the wrong direction showing that he isn’t really thinking with him brain. The Feminist lenses also contributed to my analysis because they helped me by asking the question, “How are women portrayed/depicted in this exhibit?” I came to the conclusion that the woman in this song is depicted as being very aware of what she is doing and also very independent. She is telling him with all the things that she is doing that she doesn’t need him because she can have fun without him or anyone else. However, she also knows that she is provoking him with the way she is dressed and the way that she is dancing in a sexy matter that any man would be stupid not to stop and look at. She knows she is getting attention and she likes it because she can tell them she doesn’t need them. We can also examine how the man acts towards her even after she clearly turns him down. He acts like he can keep trying to get at her all he wants to and maybe he’ll eventually get his way but she is to strong and persistent and strong for that.
Sperlich_6
For my blog task, I decided to analyze the song “If I Die Young”, by The Band Perry. The song is simply about a girl saying if she died young, she would want to be buried in satin, placed elegantly down in a bed of roses and sent down the river at dawn. She would also like to be sent away to the words of a love song. The teenage girl tells the Lord to construct her into a rainbow so she can shine down on her mother. Thus letting her mother know she is safe with Him. Allowing the sky outside to not be grey when her mother has to bury her baby girl. The song expresses that there is a sharp knife that kills or severs a short life. She has had just enough time to live her life the way she wants to. The girl has experienced the love of a man and the spark she acquired when he held her hand. Knowing that she is dead, she feels as if people will listen to her ideas more. She indicates that its funny and ironic when you’re dead people start listening to you. She wants to feel as if she is being understood and excepted into society.
What the song doesn’t say, using the Marxist Critical Lens, is that she wants to be buried in satin because she wants to feel beautiful when she arrives at God’s Kingdom. Or the fact that she doesn’t want to know that she caused emotional distress to her mother, by telling God to make her into a rainbow. She feels as if her mother will understand that she is okay. But in reality she never died, she just wanted people to understand that she wants to be heard. The girl is greedy because she doesn’t think about anybody else but herself.
I believe she thinks that just because she is a girl that nobody will listen to what she really has to say. Where do we draw a line to start listening to others or more specifically women? I would hope that we comprehend and understand what people have to offer others. Instead of shoving women aside and only worrying about what men have to say, we should start listening to a women’s point of view. Not only do men put limitations on what women can do, but women are just as guilty as the men are. Women say we can’t do something strictly because we have been told so our entire lives. In a way I feel, if we were to just throw away our gender roles we wouldn’t know what do.
Hamrick pd. 6
I choose to analyze Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus has obviously been climbing the social ladder since Hannah Montana debuted on Disney channel a few years ago. As we see her grow older and more mature, people are starting to criticize her for everything she does. The only things people ever talk about are the things she wears, and how slutty she looks in it, and how she dances while performing and how skanky it is. Sometimes it seems like there is nothing nice to say about her at all… Through a Freudian lens, we may notice that maybe she is shedding her Disney cookie cutter appearance to show that she not a child anymore, and does not want to be treated like one. In her song, “Robot” the lyrics are: “Stop trying to live my life for me. I need to breath; I’m not your robot. Stop telling me I’m a part of this big machine. I’m breaking free, can’t you see? I can love, I can scream-without somebody else operating me. You gave me eyes, so now I see, I’m not your robot, I’m just me”. I think that song is very powerful in its lyrics. Through a Freudian lens, we can infer that she was feeling oppressed by someone or something. Possibly Disney? Her true self was being repressed, and now, since Hannah Montana is over, it is running amok. She clearly states that she is out of this oppression with her song, “Can’t Be Tamed”. By the title of the song, someone can infer that she is free, and no one can stop her, or tell her what to do. She is being rebellious towards the system she has always known. Disney, being her superego, is trying to “tame” her and keep her cookie cutter façade, while her ID is telling her to be rebellious and do the things she knows will shock people. I think Miley is a good role model for children. A role model should not consist of how someone dresses or dances, it is about how they live their lives. Miley is a good model because she is showing people that you need to show your own personality and not the personality that everybody wants you to have.
Batzler pd. 7th
I am going to analyze Hitch about a “Date Doctor” who tries changes men so that they can hopefully have a chance with their dream woman. Hitch tries to change all these men because he sees flaws in himself and doesn’t know how to deal with them so he fixes other people instead. Hitch the “Date Doctor” picks at all sorts of little flaws like they way men act in public, their dance styles, shoes, apperance, and more. In the movie Hitches client says “These shoes arent really me” Hitch responds by saying “you is a very fluid concept…you bought the shoes, you look great in the shoes, that is the you I am talking about” implies that all people are superficial and that apperance is definitely more powerful that brain. Why are looks so important and what makes someone attractive? One of the crazy love stories inside the movie is between Alegra Cole and Albert Brenaman. Alegra is a powerful and rich women who is use to getting what she wants; she has men drooling over her and she has won both the genetic and enviornmental lottery. Alegra controls a board room full of men, she is the only woman and also the most powerful person in the room. Why is it that men feel so imperior if a woman is incharge but it is completely normally to them for a man to be incharge? Albert did not win the genetic lottery but he is smart, funny, and crazy about Alegra, but he is never noticed by her because he is not tall, dark, and handsome. Is love based on looks or personality? Alegra never noticed sitting beside Albert for countless meetings because why waste your time looking at someone who does not meet your genetic standards. All people are selfish and they want to be with someone who is good looking. Another love story inside the movie is between Hitch and Sarah Milas, a gossip columist. They are both attractive and successful but very guarded. Hitch is the typical player who doesn’t get involved with women for too long because he is trying to act tough and mocho but he is really afraid of being hurt. Society has set a standard that men feel like they must follow by being strong, athletic, and good looking even if this means being a jerk to the people they care about. Sarah is extremely guarded and hides herself behind her work. Donkey from the movie Shrek says “your like an onion hidden behing many different layers.” Sarah writes about other peoples problems to make herself feel better, she is afraid to fall in love so she doesn’t date at all. These two shielded, complicated people end up working past their previous struggles to fall in love. Why is it that the good looking jerks always get the girl but the nice sensitive guys end up at home alone eating krispy kreme donuts trying to stop the pain? There are many possible explantions. They could be afraid of judgement, rejection, or getting hurt. The real reason is because we are all superficial and it seems like there is no way to avoid it, Mr C said, “ everyone subconciously wants a spouce to look like themselves because they want their children to look like them.” To please the viewers the producers make it end with a happy ending; Albert and Alegra get married showing that there is still hope for love if you are willing to except that it may not me what you expected!
Batzler pd. 7th
I am going to analyze Hitch about a “Date Doctor” who tries changes men so that they can hopefully have a chance with their dream woman. Hitch tries to change all these men because he sees flaws in himself and doesn’t know how to deal with them so he fixes other people instead. Hitch the “Date Doctor” picks at all sorts of little flaws like they way men act in public, their dance styles, shoes, apperance, and more. In the movie Hitches client says “These shoes arent really me” Hitch responds by saying “you is a very fluid concept…you bought the shoes, you look great in the shoes, that is the you I am talking about” implies that all people are superficial and that apperance is definitely more powerful that brain. Why are looks so important and what makes someone attractive? One of the crazy love stories inside the movie is between Alegra Cole and Albert Brenaman. Alegra is a powerful and rich women who is use to getting what she wants; she has men drooling over her and she has won both the genetic and enviornmental lottery. Alegra controls a board room full of men, she is the only woman and also the most powerful person in the room. Why is it that men feel so imperior if a woman is incharge but it is completely normally to them for a man to be incharge? Albert did not win the genetic lottery but he is smart, funny, and crazy about Alegra, but he is never noticed by her because he is not tall, dark, and handsome. Is love based on looks or personality? Alegra never noticed sitting beside Albert for countless meetings because why waste your time looking at someone who does not meet your genetic standards. All people are selfish and they want to be with someone who is good looking. Another love story inside the movie is between Hitch and Sarah Milas, a gossip columist. They are both attractive and successful but very guarded. Hitch is the typical player who doesn’t get involved with women for too long because he is trying to act tough and mocho but he is really afraid of being hurt. Society has set a standard that men feel like they must follow by being strong, athletic, and good looking even if this means being a jerk to the people they care about. Sarah is extremely guarded and hides herself behind her work. Donkey from the movie Shrek says “your like an onion hidden behing many different layers.” Sarah writes about other peoples problems to make herself feel better, she is afraid to fall in love so she doesn’t date at all. These two shielded, complicated people end up working past their previous struggles to fall in love. Why is it that the good looking jerks always get the girl but the nice sensitive guys end up at home alone eating krispy kreme donuts trying to stop the pain? There are many possible explantions. They could be afraid of judgement, rejection, or getting hurt. The real reason is because we are all superficial and it seems like there is no way to avoid it, Mr C said, “ everyone subconciously wants a spouce to look like themselves because they want their children to look like them.” To please the viewers the producers make it end with a happy ending; Albert and Alegra get married showing that there is still hope for love if you are willing to except that it may not me what you expected!
Halter Pd. 2
I’ve been listening to kesha’s songs and they all seem to be about getting drunk or being drunk and parties. To me she seems to be a drunk in real life. In her interviews her behavior is ditsy dumb and air headed like. She seems to always appear dunk in a since. Is this really how she is or is it just there agents telling her how to ack. Well I analyzed the song take it off. This song is also about letting go, letting loose and going to party. In the music video she has it doesn’t seem like they are drunk but more on acid or drugs. There are flying colors everywhere. And in the video she is just barely dancing just working on her sex appeal and sexual body poses. Also in the video they all look like monkeys running around and jumping and throwing stuff. So alright their “animalness” comes out. They are also tearing at one another’s clothes (very barbaric). In the song she is talking about a place down town, and the way she says it makes it sound like a cat house or a local prostitute spot. Then she sings about at night the animal comes alive, showing that she believes that people are normally animals that come out at night and show their true skins. An of course she says she has a water bottle full of whisky in her purse. She is implying that drinking is a positive and to take risks and not care even if there will be consequences the next day. An after that she chants I don’t give a, and leaves it blank at the end when we all know what word is going to come next. “There’s a place I know if you’re lookin for a show. Where they go hardcore and there’s glitter on the floor.” Sounds to me like a gay bar. Just think about it. Gay men are great entertainers and there are very serious and dedicated to their entertainment and glitter is their favorite accessory. My cousin has also been to a gay bar and she said there was so much glitter everywhere! She sounds like she is creeping or stocking on other people in this so called party place, she is saying it turns her on when they take it off. She repeat a lot of her words and it sounds like a chant, sort of a peer pressure, because everyone else is doing it, “Oh, oh, Oh! EVERYBODY TAKE IT OFF! OH OH OH! EVERYBODY TAKE IT OFF!”, “Right now! TAKE IT OFF! Right now! TAKE IT OFF! Right now! TAKE IT OFF!” It sounds so forceful. She is commanding this and for you to obey and to conform. Almost like a trance like state. She is telling people to be irresponsible and to not care. “Lose your mind. Lose it now. Lose your clothes in the crowd.” There she goes again so forceful and commanding for you to do this! Don’t get me wrong I love the beat of this song and I know what she is trying to say. She is trying to say that sometimes you just need to let go. Do things that are out of your norm. I agree but to a point. Go have fun and let go but be healthy and responsible about it. I love how much more things I have noticed about this song by analyzing it.
Halter Pd. 2
I’ve been listening to kesha’s songs and they all seem to be about getting drunk or being drunk and parties. To me she seems to be a drunk in real life. In her interviews her behavior is ditsy dumb and air headed like. She seems to always appear dunk in a since. Is this really how she is or is it just there agents telling her how to ack. Well I analyzed the song take it off. This song is also about letting go, letting loose and going to party. In the music video she has it doesn’t seem like they are drunk but more on acid or drugs. There are flying colors everywhere. And in the video she is just barely dancing just working on her sex appeal and sexual body poses. Also in the video they all look like monkeys running around and jumping and throwing stuff. So alright their “animalness” comes out. They are also tearing at one another’s clothes (very barbaric). In the song she is talking about a place down town, and the way she says it makes it sound like a cat house or a local prostitute spot. Then she sings about at night the animal comes alive, showing that she believes that people are normally animals that come out at night and show their true skins. An of course she says she has a water bottle full of whisky in her purse. She is implying that drinking is a positive and to take risks and not care even if there will be consequences the next day. An after that she chants I don’t give a, and leaves it blank at the end when we all know what word is going to come next. “There’s a place I know if you’re lookin for a show. Where they go hardcore and there’s glitter on the floor.” Sounds to me like a gay bar. Just think about it. Gay men are great entertainers and there are very serious and dedicated to their entertainment and glitter is their favorite accessory. My cousin has also been to a gay bar and she said there was so much glitter everywhere! She sounds like she is creeping or stocking on other people in this so called party place, she is saying it turns her on when they take it off. She repeat a lot of her words and it sounds like a chant, sort of a peer pressure, because everyone else is doing it, “Oh, oh, Oh! EVERYBODY TAKE IT OFF! OH OH OH! EVERYBODY TAKE IT OFF!”, “Right now! TAKE IT OFF! Right now! TAKE IT OFF! Right now! TAKE IT OFF!” It sounds so forceful. She is commanding this and for you to obey and to conform. Almost like a trance like state. She is telling people to be irresponsible and to not care. “Lose your mind. Lose it now. Lose your clothes in the crowd.” There she goes again so forceful and commanding for you to do this! Don’t get me wrong I love the beat of this song and I know what she is trying to say. She is trying to say that sometimes you just need to let go. Do things that are out of your norm. I agree but to a point. Go have fun and let go but be healthy and responsible about it. I love how much more things I have noticed about this song by analyzing it.
Aaron Engebretson, Period 3
NASCAR continued.
Also, you will be suspended by Nascar depending on the severity of the nature. For instance, Jeremy Mayfield was an up and coming driver with little to prove. He was set with loads of sponsers and a great team to back him up. He was suspended indefinetly for failing the substance policy and no longer races. If you are good to the system the system is good to you. If you mess up with the system you will be kicked to the curb and treated as if you were nothing. Drivers who win are the higher class of Nascar. They are treated with respect, loved by numerous fans, and they have the best cars. Lower class drivers are usually miserable. With little money and slim sponsers these drivers come in with no plausible chance of winning and in turn if you do not win you will not have money to make the car better. Drivers who win all the time are usually seen with HUGE houses and amazing cars. They flaunt their wealth by winning more races, acting like it was no big deal, and promising another win for the weekend to come.
Looking through a Feminist Lens you will see that there have been only nineteen woman drivers since Nascar was born in 1949. Women are viewed as crappy drivers that can’t pull off a win in Nascar. Many owners put limitations on genders because they usually don’t want the publicity of putting in a female driver. Statistics shows that women in Nascar usually never win and have short careers. I believe that women can drive in Nascar it only takes time. These women put in the same efforts as the men do throughout their lifes as they dream to become a great driver only to be put down by the owners because, in their eyes, they are see as poor-quality drivers. The social expectations of men and women in this sport are usually that men are expected to be great drivers and women are not supposed to be behind the wheels, but if you give the women drivers great sponsers, a good crew chief, a good pit crew, and a great owner I think they will have the same success as men.
Bri Matthies pd. 6
I decided to analyze the Beauty and the Beast. This movie has so many aspects that can be seen threw all three lenses.
The first lens is the feminist lens. In the opening scene of the movie belle is going through the town and socializing with the towns people. If you look closely you can start to notice that every shop owner or worker in charge is a man because women are not typically in charge of businesses. In the opening scene the town’s people are also singing a song and say that it is sad that she doesn’t fit in because she really is a pretty girl. Is this telling little girls watching that if you’re unique or you read books like Belle that you won’t be accepted and that you can only fit in if you’re attractive? Gaston is quite the pig headed character. He sees Belle in town with a book and says that she should pay attention to things other than books because when women read they begin to think and get idea’s, that’s why dictatorships work because the leader keeps the people stupid. Gaston is determined to get Belle to be his wife so he goes to her house to propose. In his proposal he says that Belle will be his wife (doesn’t ask but tells her), he says that he can see her in the kitchen inferring that that’s where he thinks that women belong. He says that he wants 6 strapping boys just like himself, which is saying that he wouldn’t want a daughter because they are useless compared to his superiority. In another song Belle sings about how she wants what more then what “they” want for her, society has oppressed her and she wants adventure and change and a life worth living not just an existence to serve others who are on a pedestal above her. Later in the story Belle is at the castle and the Beast finds her in the West wing where she has been forbidden (west wing, play off of the white house where a women shouldn’t be because she can’t be president?), she runs in terror of him as he begins to break things and throw them around. She leaves and breaks her promise that she would remain in the castle forever because she knows that she deserves better than that. Going along with stereotypes in the movie, you notice that Mrs. Pots is a woman and in charge of the kitchen. Why couldn’t it be a Mr. Pots? But it does show power in the fact that she is a single mother and also in a management position.
Aaron Engebretson, Period 3
For my first blog task I chose to break down Nascar racing. Have you ever thought to yourself, “Everybody is just going around in circles! He’s making a left turn! This is just a redneck’s sport! Oh my god this is boring!” Have you ever wondered what really goes on in the Nascar world? Instead of looking at it as a way to waste gas and tires think of it as a mind blowing business. Breaking Nascar down in the Marxist Lens money matters for all of the drivers. More money equals a better car. If you do not have money you must rely on sponserships from other stores and businesses. If you can’t drive a car worth a crap and you come in last place in almost every race then you will not get sponsered from businesses. If you don’t have an owner, pit crew, or crew chief then you don’t race.
Jimmie Johnson, driver of the number 48 Lowe’s/Colbalt Tools Chevrolet, is perhaps the greatest racer of all time. With numerous wins at almost every track he continues to blow away the competition. In the past four years he has won four Nascar Sprint Cup Championships and is on his way to win his fifth, but without a crew chief he is just a person in a car driving in circles. Crew Chiefs make all of the big calls and decide when the driver should go into the pits to refuel, which line to take if there is a crash, and they tell the drivers if there is a car at their back door. When the drivers come into the pits they don’t get out and change their own tires or refuel their own cars. There are pit crews in Nascar that are willing to risk their life to jump into that pit box with other cars coming in and out of their own pit boxes at speeds up to sixty miles per hour just to make sure you can go out and finish the race. In my eyes they also have the job with the most pressure. If they were to accidentaly drop a lugnut or leave something attached to the car the driver must return to the pits and they will drop to the back of the field. Crewmen also make sure your car is in the right qualifications to race. This means that they must have it at the correct weight and everything that they put on the car must be allowed by the Nascar officials. If the officials find out that the car is not up to the qualifications, it doesn’t matter if you have won the race, you must forfeit your win and be placed in last and also the team will be fined depending on the severity of the nature. Atop of the whole organization is the owner. The owner decides who will race for his team, what model the car is, and what sponserships you will receive. They pay for the cars and you must show them total respect or else you may be looking for a different team to drive for next season.
Seth Olson pd.6
For my blog task, I am choosing to analyze the movie “UP.” This movie is my all time favorite movie and I am going to analyze it only because I have seen it so many times I know it very well. This is a wonderful film by Disney’s Pixar and should be viewed by all.
Through a Marxist lens you would see that the elderly man, Mr. Carl Frederickson, does not interact well with the others even as a small child. He only got along with one person. This person was his late wife, Ellie. She meant the world to him. Also, he has tons of greed. As the times are always changing, he is not. He has the same yard and property even though all the rest of the property around him has turned into construction for skyscrapers and buildings. He refuses to move or to sell his house. He is very greedy to keep his own life just the same. Next, a Marxist critic would say that Mr. Frederickson does climb the social ladder. Even though he is going to be sent to the retirement home, he climbs the ladder and becomes a huge part of this little boy’s life. He and the boy, Russell, are now companions. Russell even climbs the ladder by filling the void left by Ellie. In this exhibit we can see that the system is very oppressive to Mr. Frederickson because he is pushed to the breaking point to sell his house. He cannot take it anymore and just snaps. He is then exploited by the police and they make him move to Shady Oaks Retirement Village. He is very upset by the move and that is when he decides to move to a new system, Paradise Falls. Also, this exhibit shows many social tensions between Mr. Frederickson and the boss man who want to buy his land to build his skyscrapers. The ruling class is only shown as wanting his house and is only happy when he snaps and is sent to the retirement village. The lower class is Mr. Frederickson and he seems to be very content as long as no one is bothering him or his daily routine.
Through a Freudian lens you see the movie a little differently. Mr. Frederickson is elderly but could be listening to his ‘id’ by not doing anything and just lounging around all day. He is also listening to his ‘id’ to an extreme amount when he hits the man for touching his mailbox. He knows he shouldn’t have done it the moment after yet he still did it and it was all in a moment of weakness. I think, through the Freudian lens, that Mr. Frederickson could be any of the three types, ‘superego’, ‘ego’, or the ‘id’. He is the superego because he does not want to cross the plank in front of Ellie because he is scared of getting hurt or falling. He is also the ‘ego’ because he likes to do the same things and not step outside the box to harm him or to help him. He is the ‘id’ because he does some things he knows he shouldn’t have. He knew he shouldn’t hit the man touching his mailbox yet did. He also knew he should have let Russell help him right away but he was using hubris in telling him to go find a snipe that did not exist. You could take the handle that steers the house as a folic symbol. If so then it shows power not only to steer the house but it says that men are more powerful because it is an erect penis. Narcissistic bliss is the whole concept of the movie. Mr. Frederickson is only trying to get to Paradise Falls because he promised Ellie and he thought he would not have to deal with any struggles there. In the mind of Mr. Frederickson there is a whole gamut of thoughts going on. He is wondering why he is letting Russell stay with him. He is wondering why he can’t just live peacefully where he is, before he flew away. Mr. Frederickson has many questions he needs answered throughout the movie and slowly they are answered.
Bri Matthies pd.6 part 2
The second lens I used what the Marxist lens. Gaston has won the genetic lottery and that makes him the most popular guy in town. He’s rich because he is good looking but still a complete and total jerk yet he is still loved by all except Belle who is odd. So is the movie telling us that if you don’t like a person that everyone else likes and goes against society your wrong and an outcast? But Gaston is willing to forgive Belle because she is attractive and that’s all that matters in his world. When Gaston is down in the dumps about Belle refusing his marriage proposal he gets complimented and told that he is the greatest guy ever to walk this earth. The compliments include the fact he is quick, big, built, nice chinned, fights, and covered in hair. All of those things make you “Manly” in society’s eyes (but then why isn’t the Beast great? He is covered in hair and big and built. Double standard?). When papa comes home and he is trying to rally up troops go back and save Belle from the Beast he can’t find anyone because they are too busy ooing and awing over Gaston and his manliness and papa is just a poor outcast who doesn’t matter. But in the castle everyone wants to help Belle because she can help them by turning them back in to humans. So people only help other people out when it benefits them.
The final lens in the Freudian lens. The point of the story how love conquers all. The Beast has to learn to love and be loved by someone else for the spell to be broken. Well society has to learn to love everyone too. In the song where the town’s people are running to kill the Beast they are saying that they are going to kill him because they don’t understand. They flat out say that just cause they don’t understand that they are going to kill something, seems a little over dramatic to me. Is this why society hates gay people, why they hate other religions/ cultures. We hate what we don’t know when honestly we can learn to love things if we just give it time just like Belle learned to love the Beast minus her dislike of his manners and actions, just like we may dislike there person beliefs. It wouldn’t be the Frueidan lens without sex. You subtlety see that Lumiere (the candle) and the duster and doing who knows what behind the curtains. Did the writers really have to through that in to a children’s movie? And as all great stories there is the epic battle scene where good fights evil. In the scene Gaston is going to kill the Beast because he angry that the Beast has stolen Belle’s heart and doesn’t deserve it like he thinks he does. The Beast doesn’t think that he has any reason to fight until he see’s Belle and then the battle begins. Gaston is so cocky that he will win that he makes a few stupid decisions. The Beast gets the upper hand and could kill Gaston right then and there but he doesn’t because he is too good for that. He tells Gaston to leave (sound familiar, Lion King). He turns his back and Gaston stabs him, but then Gaston falls from the roof and plunges to his death because that is what the viewer wants to see. They want to see the bad guy die but they don’t want the good guy to do it because that would justify murder.
I enjoyed this movie as a little girl because I wanted to be just like Belle and have adventure and live happily ever after with my own prince. I enjoy this movie now because I see how it puts real life in perspective. It shows that Belle is strong and independent and doesn’t conform just to what society wants. I love the fact that is shows that you can be happy without being rich and all you have to do is find your place in this world. And most of all I love the fact that is shows us that we need to be open minded and try to accept each other’s thoughts and beliefs and take the time to try to understand them because if we don’t we could be destroying our own chances to grow along with others as well.
Aaron Engebretson
NASCAR CONTINUED
The Nascar organization exploits there drivers in many ways. If you were to turn on the T.V. on a Sunday afternoon you will find a ton of commercials with Nascar drivers and their sponsers. If you have a sponser you must be loyal to your sponser and must respect your sponsers. If you are arrested for anything the businesses can pull their sponserships and you will lose tons of money for your car. Also, you will be suspended by Nascar depending on the severity of the nature. For instance, Jeremy Mayfield was an up and coming driver with little to prove. He was set with loads of sponsers and a great team to back him up. He was suspended indefinetly for failing the substance policy and no longer races. If you are good to the system the system is good to you. If you mess up with the system you will be kicked to the curb and treated as if you were nothing. Drivers who win are the higher class of Nascar. They are treated with respect, loved by numerous fans, and they have the best cars. Lower class drivers are usually miserable. With little money and slim sponsers these drivers come in with no plausible chance of winning and in turn if you do not win you will not have money to make the car better. Drivers who win all the time are usually seen with HUGE houses and amazing cars. They flaunt their wealth by winning more races, acting like it was no big deal, and promising another win for the weekend to come.
Looking through a Feminist Lens you will see that there have been only nineteen woman drivers since Nascar was born in 1949. Women are viewed as crappy drivers that can’t pull off a win in Nascar. Many owners put limitations on genders because they usually don’t want the publicity of putting in a female driver. Statistics shows that women in Nascar usually never win and have short careers. I believe that women can drive in Nascar it only takes time. These women put in the same efforts as the men do throughout their lifes as they dream to become a great driver only to be put down by the owners because, in their eyes, they are see as poor-quality drivers. The social expectations of men and women in this sport are usually that men are expected to be great drivers and women are not supposed to be behind the wheels, but if you give the women drivers great sponsers, a good crew chief, a good pit crew, and a great owner I think they will have the same success as men.
Mr.C
To make complete sense of my blog, please delete my first post at 11:16 p.m. My computer flipped out on me and said it didn't post my first comment, but it posted my second one. Then I thought it didn't post any of mine so I reposted everything.
Sincerely Confused,
Aaron Engebretson
Greenhoff Pd.3
I am analyzing the brand Sinful. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the brand is basically standard clothing that one could find at Target that is insanely overpriced. Most of the clothing consists of shirts that have rhinestones in the shape of a heart or wings with the word Sinful overtop the design. The fabric on the shirts is ridiculously thin; one would think that if you are paying eighty dollars for a shirt, at least it wouldn’t be see through. I am not exaggerating either, I have seen the shirts in several stores and they usually run somewhere between seventy and eighty dollars. So why not just go to a different store? I am sure that you could get the same or a much better quality shirt for a significantly smaller price tag. I still cannot believe that the brand is trying to make me pay that price for a see through t-shirt. So what am I really buying? Am I buying the shirt or the brand? Obviously if one is going to pay that price for a shirt they are buying the brand. Sinful is a rather well known brand, so when you are seen wearing the brand maybe you are setting a higher standard for yourself. It’s all about how people see you. Your outside appearance is recognized first and foremost, before your personality. The Sinful logo on the shirts is flashy. They make the letters out of rhinestones so they sparkle and are easily seen by the viewer. Perhaps by wearing a Sinful shirt you can be seen as more of a daring and animalistic person. If your personality is lacking in certain qualities, go and buy a Sinful shirt so that people recognize your taste in clothing instead of your lack of personality. Maybe some people just have extra money with nothing else better to do with it, I’m not sure. What I am certain of is that it would be much simpler and affordable to take your business elsewhere and be just as satisfied with what you’re wearing. By wearing the Sinful brand you are portraying yourself as somewhat of a sinful person that likes to do daring things and perhaps break rules. Even if this is not true of your personality, it seems that what the brand is trying to portray. I have to hand it to the brand though, they are continuing to raise prices and make sales at the same time, and they say you can’t buy happiness.
Quentin Goley
Period 2
For my exhibit, I decided to analyze the singer Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga is a singer who loves to sport her beautiful legs, dress out of the norm, and sing about love, sex, and drugs. The catchy lyrics of her songs make all who listen to her want to sing and dance along. While looking through a Freudian lens, we can see that Lady Gaga exploits sex, love, and drugs to attract listeners. The scandalous, abnormal singing we hear from Lady Gaga is a break in the society and everyday life we live. By talking about sex, she brings about a conversation that everyone wants to talk about, but rarely ever does. Also, the clothes Lady Gaga wears can be analyzed by a Freudian lens. Looking at different pictures, I’ve discovered that she loves to wear clothes that are scandalous and express ways of an animal. Freudian once stated that everyone, deep down inside, is an untamed animal, and when lady gaga sings about sex and dresses untamed, sexy, and scandalous, we see the true form of the animal deep down inside everyone. Looking at Lady Gaga through a Marxist lens, we see that she uses the power of things that are so abnormal, people create talk and rumors about her. This talk of her “scandalous” and “animalistic” nature allows her to become more and more famous and gain all the attention she needs to hook listeners to her music. During an interview, one viewer accused lady gaga of having a penis. Upon hearing this, Lady Gaga’s response was “Yes, I infact do have a penis”. Even from just looking at her we can tell that she is not a male, but the fact that she says she is, attracts all the attention she needs draw in the crowds and rake in the money.
Skich P. 7
My topic is on bad teachers. Most students do not realize that teachers have tenure, which basically gives the teacher a guaranteed lifetime service, or they will never lose their job, whether they deserve it or not. This sounds like a ridicules notion, but “…Without tenure, professors could be pressured by administrators to issue higher grades for attracting and keeping a greater number of students…” (Wikipedia), or give the appearance that their school is a lot better. It also means that any allegations made by a student to the principle of the school in which the teacher resides, will be dismissed. “…One recent review of the evidence by McKinsey & Co., the management consulting firm, showed that most school teachers are recruited from the bottom third of college-bound high-school students. (Finland takes the top 10 percent.)…” (Newsweek). In the first link I think that the fact that “…last year the Los Angeles Times ran a long series documenting the unwillingness of the education bureaucracy to fire bad teachers (like the one who told a student who attempted suicide to "carve deeper next time" and another who kept a stash of pornography and cocaine at school; both are still teaching)…” (Newsweek), is very disturbing. Later in that article they go on and say that teachers with similar attitudes will most likely keep their teaching licenses. I honestly think that we should go through this in class, for it is a concerning topic.
Here are some links that talk about it in more depth:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/05/why-we-must-fire-bad-teachers.html
http://www.saratogafalcon.org/content/us-education-falling-behind-those-other-countries
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/world/americas/15iht-14students.8345918.html
Menefee Pd. 7
I have picked the movie “The Pagemaster”. The beginning opens a boy named Richard Tyler, played by the young Macaulay Culkin, waking up to a storm, he is a small scrawny kid that has lost the physical lottery and it shows him as being scared all the time of everything. He follows the system by being extremely cautious all the time and never taking any risks because if he breaks the system something bad could happen. After a while when he turns into a cartoon he meets a book named adventure, played by Patrick Stewart, he thinks he is hot stuff because he is a male pirate and even though he doesn’t know how to get out he plays it off and acts like he is smart so he can seem as if he is better that the customer which is a higher class. Then Tyler meets the book fantasy, Whoopi Goldberg, who a fairy. Since she has magical powers she acts like the alpha male even though she is in fact a woman. But it is cool to see that for the most part she is smarter and has more control than the rest, in this movie it shows men are not always smarter. He next meets the book horror who sounds like a mentally retarded person and is ‘different’ and because of this adventure treats him badly because he isn’t “manly” enough. Where as fantasy treats him nicely and like a child, this makes it seem that true men have to be manly and tough and that women are caring and much kinder. The things that make Richard seem weak are his perfectly round glasses, which make him look nerdy. Also his skin is very white like a face that has been powdered and his lips are very red as if he has lipstick on, this all gives him feminine characteristics which to society if a male looks like this then he is automatically weak and an outcast. He is probably very feminine because he is very close to his mother and subconsciously he seems to lean more to her liking because she lets him act as he wants where as his dad tries to push him into being a “man” and taking risks and because of this he doesn’t feel excepted and the whole movie he wishes his dad could see him doing “manly” things. He is trying to live up to the system by being the man society says you have to be.
Yoon, Pd 2
Hannah Montana is a Disney Channel television show about a girl (Miley Cyrus) who basically lives two lives. During the day she’s a normal teen, going to school and dealing with crazy teachers as some of us do at BVHS, but at night she’s Hannah Montana; a ridiculously famous teen pop sensation. Two names society has come to recognize are Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus. Most people nowadays tend to applause their approval for the made-up character and not for the real thing. They shy away from being fans of Miley Cyrus, but aren’t however, afraid to express their opinion of the 17 year old teenager; infamous for her risqué pictures and expressive music videos. Miley Cyrus is transitioning into more of an “adult” celebrity. She isn’t too out there like Kim Kardashian or Heidi Klum, (yet!) but you could definitely say she’s coloring out of the lines. One of Miley’s most recent and famous songs is “Party in the USA“ Although Miley has lost a large amount of fans, she still is considered a role model to some, but the music videos for these videos aren’t as innocent as you’d think a teen role model’s should be. “Party in the USA” has her wearing extremely short denim jeans and boots, and even more, in one of her concerts, Miley portrayed a stripper as she pole danced to the song. Miley Cyrus’ makes billions of dollars in merchandise, with her own clothing line and it’s always made me wonder if she’s brainwashed our and the younger generations. People do crazy things for her concert tickets and thousands of little girls are constantly buzzing about Miley Cyrus. And it’s not like she doesn’t know that she’s being talked about- and in a bad way too; about being called a stripper and a slut. Does she care? Being a celebrity nowadays shouldn’t have to involve being known infamously but she’s not caring! I believe she’s being trained or is training herself to dress, act, and sing the way she does so she can gain and in a way, control people. My guess is with her seductive looks, she’s drawing guys- and it’s working! And with her style and music she attracts girls. But do parents want their children watching and portraying Miley in their style and way of acting? Hm… I probably wouldn’t. But I do think it's clever how she attracts people, not going totally nude in her pictures but pretty close, because when you're an older celebrity (as she one day will be) it's "acceptable"?
Marso Pd. 3
I chose to analyze the movie “Cars”. Having an almost four year old nephew, I have seen this movie many times, and it happens to be one of my favorites. I am mainly going to focus on the part after Lightning McQueen gets dumped off in Radiator Springs, because that little down has a whole lot of dimension.
In Radiator Springs you pretty much have a little bit of everything. When Lighting McQueen finds his way there, he is definitely like the upper class, rich, person that is there. He is popular, good looking, and fast. The town doesn’t really want to accept him and I don’t blame them because, honestly who wants a nuisance like him in a town? You also have the hippie, the foreigns, the “gangsters”, the old people, and so on, just like any town would. Someone that “climbs” the social ladder would be Lightning McQueen. I guess I wouldn’t say he climbs, he really more falls back and realized. Lightning McQueen is so caught up in his racing life, that he doesn’t ever appreciate the simple things in life, and doesn’t even realize that money and fame, in fact, does not really matter. Being in Radiator Springs really helped him realize that, and in the end definitely made him a better person than to begin with.
Through a Feminist Critics lens the roles are almost a little reversed. Usually in all movies the girl is supposed to be the one who falls in love so hard with the boy, but in Cars, Lightning McQueen falls in love with Sally first. Sally really tries to be a tough girl and not let him in and get to her romantically. Also, there aren’t really many woman in this movie, and one of the main roles is a girl, and she is very dominating and has a lot of control and power. Like when they are in the court room, she definitely rules over almost everyone there.
Lightning McQueen’s id for sure takes over. He gets so caught up in his races and winning that he doesn’t care if he gets enough sleep or if he gets in trouble, he just wants to race, win, and be stubborn about everything he does. Sally really listens to her superego, she over looks every situation and thinks everything through before she makes a decision.
For this blog task, I am going to analyze this picture of Lady Gaga. I believe she sends off a lot of different messages: fun, different, sex icon, pretty/sexy, nice, "hip"...
Through a Marxist lenses, one would say she's rich, popular, has had a gazillion hits, and is still going. She would be expected to be in the "upper-class" catagory, because she makes so much each day/year. However, should she be getting all this money? Is she really doing that much good to our society? Young girls might tell themselves they need to dress like her or act like her- which produces individuality; however if so many people are trying to be different and not conform, aren't they just conforming to something else? I think it's a great idea to be yourself, may that be funny, "not normal", or just "different". She also does send the message, by her clothing chose that she could be called at slut, whore, tramp.. whatever. I don't believe it's right to put such labels on people just because they do/say certain things, however when her attire is producing many questions or controversy, it might be true to say that of her.
Through a Feminist lenses, girls most likely would be proud of Gaga standing up and making a difference in the world. She uses her talents to prove to people that girls can be strong/powerful. Her clothing might be telling girls or women to take a chance with their clothing; don't dress a certain way just because EVERYONE else does. Be your own person! Live up to what YOU can be! She could be called an inspiration to many Feminist critics.
Through the Freudian glasses, one would most likely consider Lady Gaga to be that of a sex symbol/icon. In this picture, she sends the message that she is both the prey and the predator. Her fierce looks says "come get me" or i will come get you. Along with the blue (Why blue?) lightning bolt, she's saying "I'm fierce. I'm bold. I know how to get "it" done". The blue coloring might be to contrast her almost too blond hair; show it off. She's lurring her audience or fans in. Her different animal prints suggest intimacy or "sexy-ness". She obviously has nice legs, so that might be something used to get a male audience. She might be fooling your ID to think of her in demeaning or nasty ways (especially for men). They might think of her as more of a wanted possession than an actual person.
Whether we think she is awful or great for our society, Lady Gaga sure has done her part to make herself note-worthy or famous. She has made the impact she probably wanted to make, and is still doing that with her songs, concerts, and videos today.
Sickler, Period 6
Petersen_2
For my blog I will be analyzing a song by Dan Le Sac, “Thou Shalt Always Kill”. In the song the artist Dan Le Sac gives list after list on what a person should do such as this excerpt, “Thou shalt not buy Coca-Cola products. Thou shalt not buy Nestle products. Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend's best friend, take drugs and cheat on him.” He also mentions “Thou Shalt think for yourselves.” From what I picked up from this song and hearing other songs by DLS, and looking through a Freudian lens, I feel that he is trying to be his own person. He doesn’t like to do what his fans like or want, he does what he thinks is good what he feels is right to rap about. He doesn’t want to conform to the norm. In his music video he is in a formal suit and styling a full beard. In a sense he is mocking conformity. He mentions that you are to kill in this or kill that. Many kids are picking up that kill is not in the form of killing a person or a being of existence. They believe that kill is to excel in something. If I’m going to kill something, I’m going to do amazing in what I do. He tells you subliminally in his lyrics that you have to be your own person and go against what others want of you and do what’s right. Don’t do drugs.
Petersen 2 (continued)
Don’t cheat on each other. Don’t buy products everyone else buys. Buy what you want, do what you want, do the right thing. Looking in the Marxist lens now, I feel that since DLS wants you to do well. Either he wants everyone to be rich and do well in society so we are all famous; we are all stars in our own lives. Or he wants a bunch of potential dictators running around. Seeing as he wants to go against conformity that would make sense he wants a bunch of Mussolini running around or Hitlers or other powerful, rich dictators. But I feel he is for the first bet. He wants everyone to be the star of their own life. It shouldn’t matter if others are wealthier than you. As long as you’re happy and win your own life then you are set on the pursuit of happiness. A Feminist might look at this song as being a tad sexist since almost all the bands he mentions in the song have all men members. Are women not important or good enough to mention in a song? All those bands in the song are amazing and well known all around the world. Women have made a huge difference in the world of music and in general. So why don’t they get credit. He talks like he was cheated on when he mentions that you shouldn’t go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend and take drugs and cheat on him. Does he have a grudge against women? Other than that fact there is not much to base on for the Feminist lens. To end this blog im going to use part of the song, “Nirvana...Just a band. The Pixies...Just a band. Oasis...Just a band. Radiohead...Just a band. Bloc Party...Just a band. The Arctic Monkeys...Just a band. The Next Big Thing..JUST A BAND.” The Next Big Thing? It doesn’t exist according to the lyrics because it’s just this or just that. But that won't stop us from looking for something greater does it?
Edwards p.7
i have chosen to analyze the Brandon Valley High School from a Marxist point of view . I believe that our school is alot like Nurse Ratched in the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." They (school faculty/upper class) always seems to have their eyes on us and what we do. There are cameras all over the school and in the parking lot watching the student's (lower class's) every single move. There tends to be a lot of social tensions in our school over numerous things such as lunch, DEAR, and cheering at school events. This system seems to exploit the students because they basically have no say whatsoever on most of the school's issues like lunch which in turn causes the students to be miserable. People are definitely given more or less freedom depending on their class. The students have very few rights because the school has very strict rules that the students have to obey or they will be punished. The system at Brandon Valley High School is very controlling and can do whatever seems "right" even if it means expulsion or denying a diploma. They even determine what is wrong and what is right when cheering at a game. Be a little too supportive of your team and you can get kicked out. The school definitely flaunts their power at school because the students don't have any power to do anything. When we try to do something about this like being able to cheer loudly at games they say no. And when we ask why they pretty much use the " because i said so" reply. This goes to show that at our school students are a basically bunch of pawns while the school is the queen.
I chose to analyze the movie Fight Club. The movie consists of an underground fight-club used for therapy. Are they trying to climb up the social ladder? They are doing exactly the opposite. The main goal is rephrased throughout the movie, and that is to reach self-enlightment by hitting rock bottom. The only female major female character is Marla Singer. She's used only for sex, and she doesn't know the difference between the two personalities shared by the main character. One side of him works hard at a job he hates, just so he can ascend socially. His other personality is 100% loyal to his ideal idea of self-enlightenment. Through a feminist lens you would take Marla's comment, "The condom is the glass slipper of this generation. Slip it on when you meet a stranger, dance all night, then throw it away. The condom, not the stranger." This shows that she has no self-worth. The movie portrays her as weak and needy. She relies on the main character for sexual, and mental support.
Cressman. P.7
Cressman P.7
"The main goal is rephrased"
"rephrased" should have been "reiterated".
Tyler Durden = his id!!!
MC
Hansen pd. 6
For my blog task I’m going to analyze the picture shown from a Freudian lens. This is an ad for the Clothing line Hollister. This ad shows you can have fun and be more attractive. Beaches are generally associated with hot women, hot guys, great bodies, and fun. They are often associated with sex, many people travel to beaches on their honeymoons.
The guy is good looking, he has a nice body, and also his teeth look good. Telling the guys if you wear the Hollister Brand you will look better and be perfect. Why did they put the surfboard in the picture? It appears to be a phallic symbol of the male body… a penis. Is there a reason her swimsuit top blends so well with the sand and her tan so it almost appears as if she was topless? I think they make it blend for sexual appeal. Why is he sitting pushing himself up? Perhaps he is trying to accentuate certain muscle throughout his body. Or maybe he is showing his power over the female because by pushing her up it could be showing she wouldn’t be capable pushing him up. Is that also why she is lying on his back this way? It can't be that comfortable so are they saying maybe he'll get lucky? Why are his jeans sagging so low? Could be to show off more of his body and to arouse the opposite sex. He has a cocky/ arrogant/ happy look on his face, and she looks as if she is living in a dream.
It makes you think that if you own their clothes that hot guy or girl will notice you and want to hang out with you. It makes you self conscious about the way you dress and makes you subconsciously think you are not good enough and can not live up to society’s standards.
Nick Vigants Period 3
The exhibit I chose to analyze is the song Rock That Body, by The Black Eyed Peas. Well first off the song has an upbeat rhythm which I believe ties into the song lyrics a lot. For example the song starts off “I wanna rock right now, I wanna, I wanna rock right now… I wanna dance, I wanna dance in the light, I wanna rock, I wanna rock your body, I wanna go, I wanna go for a ride, hop in the music and rock your body right...”. So the beat is perfect to grind to, and the lyrics are provocative and obviously are sexual. A Marxist critic would say this song is describing the current teens/young adults lives, it is saying go out and party, get drunk, dance proactively, and have sex; these things are often social assumptions of today about the young people in America. A Marxist critic might also say why? Why do they do this? Well this song is saying if you and party, get drunk, dance proactively, and have sex you will climb the social ladder.
But as a Feminist critic I would say are women expected to serve for men. Are women just here for us to have sex with? This song states it doesn’t matter how u look as long as I can have sex with you, by saying this “super fly ladies, all of my super fly ladies… yeah, you can be big-boned , long as you feel like you own, you could be the model type, skinny with no appetite”. A feminist critic may say men just want women to have sex with, but not only that but possibly to raise their social class because if you can’t grind/dance or have sex with women you would not be oh high on the social ladder. Which everybody wants to be high on, so essentially we are just using women as tools to climb the social ladder.
Alec Hauck
Pd. 6
I chose to analyze a short clip developed by the magazine Car and Driver. There is only one speaker in this exhibit, who is the editor and chief of the magazine. The short one minute clip starts off with faded images of wrecked cars in the background, along with slow, sad sounding music that brings a feelin of instant remorse. After a few seconds the editor and chief appears and begins to give short facts about manual cars over time. He asked for a small donations to help keep manual driven cars on the road. Throughout the entire video you see broken down junk cars that all had been manuals driving down the road at one point. These images plus the sad music could say a lot from a psychological viewpoint.
From the Freudian lens, you can see that the editor and chief that appears in this short clip is obviously trying to re-achieve narcissistic bliss. From what I can see, he has had a deep passion for manual cars since a younger age, and he is trying to bring back the slowely decreasing want for these cars. As far as he cares to know, manuals were the top dog in the car world but have slowly been beaten down by the demand for automatic trasmission. He is so familiar with this type of transmission that he thinks more people should be driving them than an automatic. For his passion he, and most likely others that are sponsoring this, give only the pros and no cons of driving a manual and doesn’t give an pros to driving an automatic. With the sad slow music put into this clip, the editor and chief wants people like him and possibly others with a hint of love for manuals to feel like there is very little hope left and that donating will give hope for the still thriving passion. Although I highly support the mans beliefs, I believe his ID is involved with the words and actions being taken because if the number of manuals on the road continually reduces, there has to be a reason meaning maybe automatics are what people demand these days. Fighting for a cause that you believe in and others may not can contribute to the ID because it’s not what is needed but what the editor and chief and some supporters want. But, considering it is his passion, or in other words in his blood, then most people in his position would fight for the cause.
Rall
For my blog task I chose to analyze the T.V. show “That 70’s Show” on FX using the feminist lens. In the episode I watched, the ‘gang’ goes to a wrestling match and are forced to take an adult with them. In the beginning of the episode, the gang is watching TV and that’s where the wrestling ad is seen by them. If you were to analyze this scene through the feminist lens, you would see that Donna is shown as a more masculine type woman and you would be happy to see that she is not treated with any difference than that of the guys in the gang. On the other hand you might say that this show is extremely sexist because of the way that Jackie is treated like a possession. Kelso talks about how he made love to her and how she is now his possession or ‘love slave’ as he puts it. When Jackie shows up, this is even reinforced by how she acts around him and as a feminist you would be disgusted with how she is portrayed. Later in the episode, Marge is sad and mad at his husband Bob because she feels as though she doesn’t make enough of an impact on the relationship that the two of them have. She complains that Bob makes all the money and does all the work and all she does is sit at home, fix meals, and entertain Bob. This is how a typical housewife in the 70’s was ‘supposed’ to act. A feminist would be very happy to see that Marge is doing something about the fact that she is not allowed to have an impact on the well-being of the household. She then goes to see a therapist to talk about these issues she has but all therapist sees her as is a possession or an object that he must gain the trust of in order to later take advantage of her. Overall it shows both good and bad sides of the Feminist lens and it can be taken either way.
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