First of all‚ the movie was focused more about the mission of Apollo 13 than Jim Lovell’s life. However‚ he was still the main character of the movie. Some of the most important similarities were Jim Lovell was married to Marilyn Lovell and had four kids. Jim’s older kid was a girl named Barbara Gerlach‚ his second kids was a boy; James Gerlach.The second youngest was Jeffrey Gerlach and lastly Susan Gerlach.There was slight mention of his mother unlike the biography where his mother was mentioned
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Haise‚ and Jim Lovell train for this moment in the NASA program‚ but alas Apollo 13 is the first aborted Apollo mission. There are scarcely words that can describe the disappointment of these three men‚ but at the time‚ that was only a minor adversity during their space mission. The malfunctions of the lunar module Aquarius not only surprise Houston‚ but it leads the crew to experience many close encounters with death. In Apollo 13‚ director Ron Howard shows that in times of desperation‚ people must contribute
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excerpt of Barrio Boy‚ Ernesto Galarza moves from Mexico to America. In America‚ Ernesto faces hardships. He wants to fit in. In “Apollo 13: Mission Highlights‚” a group of astronauts are visiting the moon when their oxygen tanks blow up. They are stuck in outer space. They are trying to come home. Ernesto had the goal to fit in and become a good American‚ while the Apollo 13 crew wanted to get back to Earth safely. They both had to be determined‚ have courage in others‚ and work as a team to achieve
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Ron Howard’s re-creation of the happenings aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 flight combined some of the biggest talent in Hollywood to produce a masterful film. Apollo 13 takes us back in time‚ to the late 1960’s and early 70’s‚ when America’s NASA space program was thriving and the world stood aside to see who would reach the moon first. The impacts of space program are still evident to this day. It is even said that by beating the Russians to the moon‚ we established ourselves are the top power in the
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Monique Hernandez Group Dynamics Apollo 13 “Houston‚ we have three heroes” Once a group is formed‚ it continues to grow and develop over time. According to Bruce Tuckman‚ there are four stages of group development; forming‚ storming‚ norming‚ and performing. To give an example of each stage‚ the film Apollo 13 is a great example. Any group who puts to use these four stages will accomplish a lot more than one man. At the start of the film the group is training and preparing for their launch to
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on the moon‚ and then narrowly making it home to Earth is the story of Apollo 13. When facing issues‚ conflicts‚ and the attainment of goals‚ having the resources of a fully functional manager and team are irreplaceable. A manager that has clear goals and strategies in place is more likely to succeed even when faced with the greatest types of adversity. Every employee of NASA should know about the tragic event of Apollo 13. The background of the team began with the completion between the U.S. and
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Apollo 13 Formations of group dynamics are important to achieving a set of goals set forth by a group of individuals. Groups tend to follow a natural course of cohesion and function. Research has been done to understand group dynamics and one of the most widely accepted models is that of Bruce Tuckman. His research shows groups follow a set path of Forming‚ Storming‚ Norming and Performing. Apollo 13 gives several examples of Tuckman’s model. In the following‚ we will touch briefly on the
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complexity leadership theory was postulated by Marion and Uhl-Bien in 2001 (Lichtenstein‚ Uhl-Bien‚ Marion‚ Seers‚ Orton‚ & Schreiber‚ 2006). This leadership theory examines leadership practices in organizational operations and involves the study organizational leadership systems related to interaction amongst themselves‚ how such interactions maintain adaptations and how such interactions eventually influence operational outcomes. (Beyer‚ B. (2012). A distinct quality of this theory is its ability
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Approaches to Leadership April 13‚ 2011 — 8 Comments emerging leader1 Emerging Approaches to Leadership After beginning a two year research to propose some leadership theories which focus on a particular characteristic of a leader‚ leaving out the followers and situations from the equation‚ I’ve been able to break down leadership into the following four categories: Charismatic Leadership‚ Attribution Leadership‚ Transactional Leadership‚ and Transformational Leadership. Charismatic Leadership The theory
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The Apollo 13 flight demonstrated teamwork and solid decision-making in a way that had saved their lives. Among the many life-threatening problems that arose while they drifted through space‚ the astronauts stayed calm and collected. They said it was because they did not think about the risks and just focused on the task at hand. The first problem occurred after they stirred up the oxygen tanks‚ which made the tanks explode due to fault wiring. They were running out of oxygen in a matter of minutes
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