Apocalypse Now

The Bible as we have today as found in the Greek New Testament (NA-28) and the Hebrew Old Testament are authentic to the original autographs as possible. Each of these published manuscripts have a unique history and verification along the way. The Hebrew Old Testament was written in Biblical Hebrew which is different from modern Hebrew. According to Josh McDowell, the Masoretic scribes from the 500-900 CE had the copying with exact precision down to the letters on a page. Scribes could not copy…

In its ability to both challenge and confront previous conventions of the Hollywood war film genre, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) is a provocative and philosophical cinematic experience. Starring R. Lee Ermey as the diabolical Sergeant Hartman, Vincent D’Onofrio as the childlike and naïve private Lawrence or “Gomer Pyle” and Matthew Modine as the sarcastic Private Davis or “Joker”; the film portrays the gruelling experience of the Vietnam war through the perspective of new U.S…

and vacant streets. Panicking and pacing around the room not knowing what to do or where to go, I just knew I had to get out. The noises that were coming from down the street, seemed to be getting louder as they became closer to my home. A zombie apocalypse, who would’ve known what I thought was only shown on many TV shows today, would soon become my reality. A scientist caused this horrifying incident by making an outrageous attempt to make a formula that possibly cloned humans. The scientist…

“Free Will” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from various alternatives. However, it is crucial to note that the action that we choose might not correspond to the outcome that we desire as free will is solely pertinent to the course of action, not the result. Throughout the millennia, a significant number of philosophers postulated that the concept of free will is in the vicinity of moral responsibility which in turn…

“Where are you?” “Jason, listen to me run up the tree before she comes,” Mark says in a rush. “But why da-” “Just do it now!” Mark screams in a rush as he runs to that lady. As Jason began to run, the lady came and grabbed him. She raced down into the water and drowned him alive. Afterwards she tied up the rest of the family and had Mark watch the lady drown Rosa. One…

Edgar Wright is a really great director who knows how to make people laugh. He is known for his Comedic Cornetto Trilogy, and the movies I will be talking about are “Shaun of the Dead”, and “Hot Fuzz” are the two of them. The scenes display the kind of style he uses in the films, and by using film techniques it helps show the style by how effective it is. Techniques such as music, sound effects, camera work e.g close ups, mid shots, and characters. Wright uses these techniques to grab people’s…

Joyful Death & Futile Faith "Being alive is a crock of shit" (Vonnegut). This seven word statement by Vonnegut's recurring character Kilgore Trout perfectly summarizes the message carried throughout Vonnegut's work. The upbringing of Vonnegut himself contributes to this lackluster view: he grew up amid the Depression. He watched his dad work himself to death as his mother courted suicide. He saw the massacre of innocents amid the firebombing of Dresden and became a prisoner of the Germans…

seventh of the oil previously available was no longer there, Americans now faced price hikes and fuel shortages, causing long lines at gasoline stations, people were encouraged to conserve energy by turning down their heating systems and refraining from putting up holiday lights. Moreover, the energy crisis was a huge blow to the American automotive industry, which had for decades turned out bigger and bigger cars and would now be outpaced by Japanese manufacturers producing smaller and more…

soldiers performing missions at Philippine military bases at that time. They are all really excited . Coppola showed a perspective on the role of American women in the Vietnam War: as a recreational object. Although this is the longest scene in the Apocalypse Now, in which American women are represented, it does not provide much content for their characters because of their high moral character and objectivity. Their role in the War, if not carer or lover, is to entertain, not to fight. The look…

themes as estrangement and fragmentation, and the concern of people about the loss of established values and meanings. What was especially characteristic to the period of modernism was a shared sense of crisis and a constant feeling of an impending apocalypse. This pessimistic mood affected arts including literature as well. The Hungarian Marxist critic George Lukács stated that modernist literature became too concerned with the depiction of a “nightmare world” of alienation. Many writers were…