Stuart Apocalypse Interview Essay

With the convenience of a radio, it was no longer necessary to leave the house when pondering upon the score of the local baseball game. Music also became a hit during the 20s. During this time period, people started becoming dubbed as “famous,” or in other words, universally known. In the sense of communication, the radio

“It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it. I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while...” (3).

"I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. Iwas lucky. I read books late at night...I read books at recess...

When Joseph Conrad sat down to write Heart of Darkness over a century ago he decided to set his tale amidst his own country's involvement in the African Congo. Deep in the African jungle his character would make his journey to find the Captain gone astray. Over eighty years later Francis Ford Coppola's Willard would take his journey not in Afica but in the jungles of South Asia. Coppola's Film, Apocalypse Now uses the backdrop of the American Vietnam War yet the similarities between the Conrad's novel and Coppola's film remains constant and plenty.

I was just a small town girl living in Grants, New Mexico. There is a saying that if you blink you will miss it driving down the highway. I was born and raised in Milan; it was just a little portion of Grants. My entire mom’s side of the family lived close by us and my dad’s side of the family was in Espanola, except for my grandma Yolie my dad’s mom. I grew up knowing almost everyone in that small town. The challenge in living in Grants was there were no available jobs. My parents had to drive back and forth to and from Albuquerque. As I was in kindergarten through second grade I would stay at my auntie’s house early in the morning or with my grandma while both my parents were in Albuquerque. Family was everything to me or at least what I

He picked one panelist to speak on an issue and any other panelist could chime in with their thoughts. His humor, personal stories, and advice, combined with the panelists created an energetic presentation style that managed to keep me up so early in the morning.

He first recounts how he spent his younger years learning. He then states that in his

The radio was used as a distancing agent from others as he listened to it alone, but at the same time it encouraged interaction as he regularly called in to radio stations to win prizes and talk with the hosts. Television brought him closer to his immediate family but pulled him away from the larger world around him, almost the exact opposite of radio. Also, did the fact that radio led to the creation of television impact in any way the amount of jingles and little tunes commercials and shows insisted on? Would there had been less if radio and television were created at more separate times? It is difficult to say. I do know that from the interview I performed it seemed that television had not taken every listener of radio away with its development, not quite like how it sounded when we went over it in class. Concerning what we learned in class I was left surprised that radio had survived at all in today’s television-focused environment. The fact that all three aspects of media, records, radio, and television, were able to coexist relatively easily was definitely interesting and a bit reassuring. There are some forms of media today, like current radio shows, that I would not like seeing disappear under television’s

He started writing magazines articles and he had to interview famous people he would always get the butterflies in his stomach and his hands will start to

The reason that the radio becomes highly important is for the reason that it sets up the mood of the story. The mood of the story becomes very hazardous and fearful with the mentions of war and nuclear devices. The three scenarios all have a negative aspect to them which contradicts the characters. The amicable and charming young man has a more positive view to him, and him being a negative setting, just does not make sense. From this point the young man character begins to show as misleading.

I have always enjoyed movies. But at some point I started to think of movies as more than just entertainment. I began to view them as a movie critic would, rather than just a casual viewer. Because of this perspective, I think of "Apocalypse Now" as one of the best American made movies I have ever seen. As a student of and an active participant in the late twentieth century media age, I feel justified in making this statement. In my lifetime of observation of American media, including fourteen months of intense movie watching in conjunction with my employment at a local video store, I have had an opportunity to observe a broad sampling of the films, and feel more than qualified to make this statement. By referring to

     I didn’t have that many close friends in high school. I always was just kind of there. I was no one important. Everyone seems to have his or her place in this world of high school and it seemed that my place was on the outside that I

In 1998, Touchstone Pictures released Armaggedon, the most recent in a premillenial barrage of films focused on the end of the world. The film included a trendy Hollywood cast, headlined by Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Ben Affleck, and was directed by Michael Bay, whose previous film credits included the 1996 top ten hit, The Rock. Although Armageddon received nods from the Academy of Motion Pictures for Best Effects (Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects), Best Music (Song), and Best Sound, film critics were not so enthusiastic. On average, Armageddon received 1½ to two stars. The American public, on the other hand, made Armageddon the second most profitable film of 1998, exceeding its "sister" film, Deep

I have worked on my character and skills since I started to work as an Administrative Assistant when I was 16 years old, working for a small Management firm for entertainment customers. Definitively, that was his experience that inspired me the most

He first started with a lecture followed by a worksheet or two. For the visual learners after the worksheets he would show short videos about that same subject. Most of those videos were documentaries which were interesting if you paid attention.