Now and Then

Apocalypse Now, made in 1979, was a film about the 1954-1975 Vietnam War, along with the psychological effects and how it’s caused a social issue. This war of “aerial bombing and small guerilla skirmishes” was a very “unpopular war”, as Eric Foner says in Give Me Liberty: Fourth Edition. It is also known that this war was America’s longest war lasting a little over 20 years. As shown in the film, it was a brutal, gruesome, and unwinnable war that only one couldn’t imagine. It is quoted in the the film that they would have “rather been in hell” then been there. The timeline, events and “the horror” was depicted greatly in this film, and gave a great picture of what it looked like to be there during the fighting of the Vietnam War. The plot takes…

Sitcoms Then and Now “I’ll be there for you! ‘Cause you’re there for me too!” The opening song to Friends is the perfect beginning to the show. Friends, which was created in 1994, carries the viewer through the roller-coaster lives of 6 friends living in New York, who no matter what, are always there for each other. This is a show much more preferable to the raunchy sitcom How I Met Your Mother because it has a better theme, focal setting, and content. It is hard to believe that Friends…

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a novel that stays relevant in the 21st century, the initial 12 years which have seen a number of nations of the globe participated in battle or on the brink of battle. The book is still avidly studied by trainees in classrooms all over the world, as well as it remains a topic of discussion within popular culture as well as mainstream media. It was an unique that checked out issues that include imperialism, race, chaos and good versus evil, all especially…

‘listening but not hearing’. Such is the case for Sally and Paul Taylor, and aging couple in their 60s who had both been deaf for all of their lives. Documented by their daughter, the documentary Hear and Now follows them on their journey to get cochlear implants. In doing so, the couple realize that they have spent a life time listening through lip reading, sign language, and visual cues, and that hearing for the first time does not change their abilities to listen. Through understanding…

Spinosaurus: Then and Now The Spinosaurus is a dinosaur first discovered in the early 20th century. It was named by Ernst Stromer, the man who first discovered it and its name translates to “Spine reptile”. It is estimated to have lived during the Cretaceous period and more specifically between 112-93.5 million years ago. (10) The Spinosaurus belongs to the Phylum of Chordata, meaning it has a hollow nerve chord ending in a brain, the Class of Archosauria, meaning it is a diapsid amniote, the…

Apocalypse Now is produced and written by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written with John Milius. It stars Martin Sheen who plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard as well as a U.S. Navy patrol crew that are set out down the Cambodia river on a top-classified reconnaissance mission to assassinate a rogue colonel after the Vietnam War. Apocalypse Now is based on and mirrors the novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness” it implies that the separation of people from…

The Power of Now Name Institution Course Date The Power of Now “The Power of Now” is a book by Eckhart Tolle. The book majorly talks about how living in the present (now) is the true meaning of life. It provides people with the real happiness they require in their lives. The main subjects of the book include spirituality and psychology. Tolle uses his knowledge to write to us about how every person needs a guide in their lives so that they may live up to their expectations. In spirituality,…

Retell: In the film Apocalypse Now, scenes focus on the use of reconciling two opposing views of the same reality. In the scene, Willard aboard the navy patrol boat crosses paths with a Vietnamese sampan. At the moment, Willard is asking the men on the navy boat to ignore the sampan and continue on their journey. But, according to the protocol the Chief makes Chef search the sampan to look for any evidence of trafficking of supplies. A Vietnamese woman on board runs towards a basket which…

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: Then and Now Austin Groshens PSYC C101 December 3, 2017 Cerro Coso Community College Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: Then and Now Stanley Milgram’s 1963 experiment on obedience tested an individual’s wiliness to follow the instructions of authority figures. Milgram wanted to determine if people would harm others, even giving them a shock at the level as to cause death, on the orders of another. The results showed people, when…

I have a unique opportunity to review my life through volumes of diaries that I began maintaining at age ten. I often return to it to review my life and examine how I now feel about how I felt then. This has prompted a more organized reflective tool entitled That was Then Then is Now: My Conversation with My Diary. This work is more than my reflection. It is a cathartic tool that allows me to reveal the heart of a developing young woman to other young women, to mothers, daughters, sisters,…