The id and superego often have a power struggle and this power struggle can easily be seen in the scene where Holly and Harry are on the Ferris wheel.  Harry is identified as the id, the pleasure seeking center.  He strives to be rich and has a greedy complex that causes him to go to extreme lengths to make money.  Harry ends up killing hundreds of people in order to get instant gratification of his desire for money.  Holly on the other hand is seen as the superego because of his sense of right and wrong and his drive to put a stop to the id, or Harry in this case.  Holly's moral values and Harry's greedy desires show a power struggle between both men in this scene.  The both test each other with body movements and gestures.  Harry justifies his crimes with the reward of making money while Holly suppresses his ideals with his moral value, that killing people in order to gain money is wrong.  Both men struggle to over power the other in this scene which can be very similar to id and superego struggle.  The id strives for immediate gratification of their wants while the superego tries to suppress these wants with morals. 

Snow White and Gender Lens

We watched Snow White the other day in class and one lens that is very noticeable throughout this movie is the gender lens.  Snow White is portrayed as a very weak character who is always needing guidance or help out of situations.  She is given this assistance because she is beautiful and fits the stereotype of the typical weak female character.  For example she has the 7 dwarfs who save her numerous times in the film getting her out of trouble.  Snow Whites innocence and almost stupidity overshadow the dwarfs efforts when she eats the very intriguing and mysterious apple given to her by the witch.  The cinematic element of color effects how we see the apple.  The apple is bright red and red is tied with temptation.  The apple is also shiny with a perfect outer shell making the apple very intriguing and impossible for Snow White to resist even though the dwarfs say not to eat it.  When Snow White was placed in her glass case after eating the apple she had to once again be saved.  In this instance the prince makes his way to Snow White to kiss her and wake her up.  When the prince approaches the glass case we notice it has light shining on it drawing a lot of attention to Snow Whites beauty.  This cinematic element really puts focus on her beauty and how she must be beautiful since she has all these men going out of their way to help her. She is a very beautiful who fits the typical stereotype of a woman who always needs saving and needs a man by her side to stay safe.  Her image also shows that you must be beautiful to receive that help because the Queen, a character not portrayed as beautiful, never receives this same attention from men.

TED Talk Elab

I'm going to talk about Anna's TED Talk mainly because it was a topic that made me interested to hear about something I new basically nothing about and that was 4H.  I had no idea that 4H included things like photography and crafts, I thought it had something to do with just the fair and cattle.  Anna was very calm and comfortable talking about this subject which made her TED Talk easy to follow at this point.  She seemed to never run out of things to say about 4H and never stuttered or paused.  It was also not a dull or boring subject to hear about and she kept the listeners attention.  The visual aid also helped with that.  I wish her TED Talk would have just been about 4H and how it helped her be creative because she didn't seem as comfortable talking about schools and how they were talking away creativity.  Maybe if she would've brought in some statistics it may have helped or going more into depth about solutions to getting more creative could have helped as well.  I really enjoyed hearing about the 4H and wished she would've said more about it but, overall Anna's TED Talk was very interesting to hear about and very well organized.  I enjoyed it!! Nice job Anna!!:)