Psychology in Hitchcock films group activity

Psychology is the way we all think, feel, and behave.  Alfred Hitchcock's career was just starting when Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis in the 1920's.  Freud's theory was very popular in many films and books in the United States.  At first Hitchcock was very nervous about the usage of psychoanalysis in his films, but ended up causing his career to sky rocket. 

A few examples of psychology in Hitchcock's film called Notorious are the following:The MacGuffin in Notorious was the Uranium hidden inside the wine glasses.  When Alicia discovers her husbands fear of her going into the wine room, she realizes that the MacGuffin must be in that room.  She and Devlin tried the entire party to go into the wine room and find out what was being hidden in there.  When they finally broke in, they discovered that it was hidden in a wine bottle.  They discovered this because one of the bottles fell and broke onto the floor.  When Alexander discovers that they found out where he was hiding the uranium, he went into the wine room to find any clues as to how they knew.  He has to think of so many complex ways to find any clues possible.  This has a lot to do with psychology because he thinks of many different ways to find clues and the way he behaves when he finds out is also a great example.

When Alicia was poisoned by Alexander and his mother for being a US detective and finding the Uranium, Alicia quickly finds out that they knew she knew where the Uranium was.  She reacted quickly and became very worried about what was going to happen to her.  Devlin knew that something terrible had happened to Alicia since he hadn't heard from Alicia for a week.  He decided to go over to Alicia's house and find out what was wrong with her and that is when he discovered that she was being poisoned.  This goes along with their behavior and finding out information quickly.

Spring Break

For spring break the baseball team traveled down to Ft. Myers, Florida. While we were down there we got to play other colleges from all over the country. We got to play at the Red Sox developmental facilities. It was a great experience for it being my first spring trip with the team. While we were down there, we went 5-1, which is the best record that a team has had by the end of the Florida trip. Everyday that we were down there it was sunny and in the 80's, then we had to come back to Defiance where it is a lot colder. We got to have some free time while we were down there so a group of us went to the beach and that is when I realized how effective sun block is due to the severity of my sun burn. Overall, the team as a whole looked great over the spring trip and we will only continue to get better the more that we play.