Life Span Development and Personality/Gen Psych - Research Paper Example

She is daughter of legendry screen star Henry Fonda and American socialist Frances Ford Seymour Brokaw. She started her acting career with the charity performance of The Country Girl in 1954. Her first cinematic appearance was (at age 22) a comedy tall story in 1960s and she earned fame with this movie. After that she had done famous movies like Barbarella and Cat Ballou. She won Oscars for her roles in Klute (1971) and coming home (1978). She often appears as a single woman due to problematic relations.

She married Roger Vadim in 1965 but divorced in 1973 and in the same year married Tom Hayden but divorced in 1989, after two years in 1991 she married Ted Turner but again divorced in 2001… that’s why she always plays as a single woman role in her life. She engaged in political activities in 1960s. She started her political career by supporting the civil rights movement. She also opposed the Vietnam War. She exhibited many anti-war activities to oppose the Vietnam War. With Donald Sutherland (in April 1970), she answered Bob Hope's USO tour by playing the play the "FTA (free the army) tour" and "fuck the army" an anti-war side show.

In 1972 she spoke out against the war in a rally organized in Pennsylvania by Vietnam Veterans against the war (VVAW). She also raised funds for the VVAW. For her efforts she was also honored with the title of Honorary National Coordinator. Many controversies arose about her visit to Hanoi in 1972. As Fonda actively and outspokenly opposed the war in 1972 and was photographed by sitting in North Vietnamese anti-craft tank, essentially supporting the enemies. She after that apologized for the photographs and stated her action as 'incredible lapse in judgment'.

When she signed her book in Kansas City, she again apologized for her mistake and for hurting the people. She was strictly condemned by a 19 years old army soldier, Smith, who remarked about her in strict words by saying her as a traitor and claimed that she did nothing with the Government but only slaps on our faces and now have never ending war with us. In 1978 Fonda visited Hanoi as a part of Peace Delegation. There she examined that the American prisoners were receiving lenient and humane treatment from their captors.

But here the true picture of captors was not declared. When prisoners were released then they told about the torture from the captors. Then Fonda strictly spoke against those released prisoners and called them hypocrites and liar. She further charged them as military careerists and professional killers who are telling lie for their self interest and to make them righteous but only they are legally war criminals. Fonda apologized for her wrong spoken talks during Vietnam War and criticized herself as a lack of good judgment.

She talked about Canada, her acting career, her three unsuccessful marriages and war in Iraq, she clearly express the fact that the campaign turned the world anti-America. In 1972, as Fonda criticized American government so many Americans did not accept her two face apology. Developmental psychology of Jane Fonda Developmental psychology/human psychology is about the systematic psychological changes that occurs in human being over the course of her/his