...Hi class; Part II: The play of "The Hairy Ape", by Eugene O'Neill is a sad portrayal of social injustice. The character of Yank is brutish and simple and in one pivotal moment he is made to feel inferior to the point that it haunts him psychologically. His strength and appearance were his identity and he felt like he "belonged". Yet, after being referred to as a "filthy beast" by Mildred, he is ashamed of his language, demeanor, and appearance. Yank begins a search to find himself and his place in the world. This search leads him to see how society perceives him when he becomes violent on Fifth Avenue and is imprisoned for thirty days. While there, he is confronted with the opportunity to repay society for their betrayal, but again his ideas are rejected. Yank is searching for acceptance and decides to visit the zoo to see a real ape. He sees a reflection of himself in the caged beast as both have been displaced and imprisoned. Both the ape and Yank do not belong in polity society. He thinks for a moment that he and the ape are kindred spirits of a sort and he opens the cage. He is crushed by the ape, which he had just referred to as his brother. The ape throws him into the cage and shuts the door. His last act of defiance is to die standing while gripping the bars of the cage. Even the ape feels that he does not belong. Work cited: O'Neill, Eugene."The Hairy Ape". American Literature Since the Civil War. Create edition. McGraw-Hill. 2011. Pg....
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...Fine Arts Spring Semester Eugene O’Neill Eugene O’Neill was born on October 16th, 1888 in New York City. He was the son of James O’Neill who was a popular romantic actor. He was born in a Broadway hotel room where a commemorative plaque is posted on the outside wall with the inscription: “Eugene O’Neill, October 16, 1888~November 27, 1953 America’s greatest playwright was born on this night then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square”. (Wikipedia, April 2010) O’Neill spent the first seven years of his life touring with his father’s theatre company. He then spent the next seven years attending a Catholic school and then a private school. By the time he entered college he was introduced to an alternative lifestyle. He dropped out of Princeton in the first year and then enrolled at Harvard for one class of playwright. This was the end of his formal education. He married in 1909 and was divorced within two years. He then went to sea in 1910. At the onset of tuberculosis he spent six months in a sanitarium. It was at this point in his life that he decided to become a playwright and began writing plays. O’Neill spent the next five years working on one-act plays. In 1918 he married his second wife. In 1920 he wrote “Beyond the Horizon” which the audience loved and took notice. His play won a Pulitzer Prize. O’Neill’s poetic dialogue and insightful views into the lives of the characters held his work apart from the less sober playwrighting of...
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...Charlie Chaplin Biography/ Essay Charlie Chaplin was born on April 15, 1889, in London, England to Charles Chaplin, Sr., and Hannah Hill. He was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would be the most famous person in the world. From then on it was a personal goal for Charles. And he would do anything to reach his goal. When Charlie was five years old he sang for his mother on stage after she became ill and taken hoarse. Everyone in the audience loved him and hurled their money onto the stage. When Chaplin was eight, he appeared in a clog-dancing act called "Eight Lancashire Lads". Once again the audience loved him and he was excited with the attention he received. Charlie's half- brother Sidney, acted as his agent and when Charlie was ten years old, Sidney got Chaplin an engagement at the London Hippodrome. Within a few years Charlie was one of the most popular child actors in England. Charlie was twelve when his father died on May 9th, 1901. He died in St. Thomas Hospital in London of alcoholism. He was thirty-seven years old. After the death of her husband, Charlie's mother, became a chronically psychotic woman who was in and out of mental institutions. Charlie and Sidney, were placed in a charity home after their mother's mental health plummeted. Chaplin attended 2 years of school at Hern Boy's College. This was the only formal education that he ever received. Charlie was at school when...
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...than the states in which they operate. Take, for instance, an MNC in El Salvador, profiting from the affordability of the production process, profiting from the lack of limitations within this one ‘weak-state’ and profiting from the sales accomplished overseas. The state of El Salvador is much weaker than an MNC such as Nike; in this example then, the MNC has the obligation to better the conditions of the state, not deprive it, aid or neglect its social responsibility to uphold ethics while practicing enterprising. This essay questions the reasoning behind Donaldson in Rights and Kinds of Obligations, arguing that O’Neill has a more fair system of distributing the right aid for the protection of all rights. The main question then is: what is the moral obligation of MNCs in the global context after having reviewed both Donaldson and O’Neill’s articles? Summary O’Neill in Agents of Justice asserts that to be capable is not the same as saying that one has a capacity. Capacity is different from capability in that it is innate; it is a skill within us that could (if allowed) be used for the (in) justice of mankind. Capability is the freedom to realize the achievements through this capacity, meaning, if one has the capacity but is not...
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...came from and their accent. Here Friel is attempting to illustrate the difference between class and social status in Ireland during the time of play. Friel has also used the crucial times of Hugh O’Neill post and prior to the Battle of kinsale.One of the key ways in which Friel succeeds in doing this is by implementing the theme of identity and O’Neill’s struggles with this issue of identity throughout the play. Other characters are shown to have split identities, which reinforces Friel ideas of how history will portray them. Making history is a play by, playwright Brian Friel. The play is set in the Elizabethan era, during the renaissance period. From the scenes of the play, Friel uses the events of O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone as his attempt to secure a deal with Spain that will drive the last of Elizabeth’s English forces out of Ireland. As this play is not exact history of Hugh O’Neill, Friel has used certain events and key characters, to explore the concept of identity in making history. Act 1 scene 1 the play begins with the discussion of Christening, in which O’Neill has received an invitation, Friel has used to evidently represent the light heartedness of the rest of the act that follows, before events take a more sinister turn. This discussion is carried out between O’Neill and his personal secretary Harry Hoveden, the symbol of birth here present possibly indication of their relationship...
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...Eugene O’Neill wrote a play called the Hairy Ape that focuses on the time period in America during the industrial revolution. The play follows a man, Yank, searching for how he fits into the world. The themes of the play revolve around how the United States was changing during this crucial moment in America’s history. New ideas, technologies and cultures were emerging, and O’Neill saw this. He wanted to express his views and opinions of how America was changing through his plays. His plays became influential and powerful because it focused on real-life issues and problems that were occurring during that time, even though the plays were fictional stories. The Hairy Ape is no exception and is one of many of his fantastic plays that delved into the dark reality that was occurring in post WWI America. O’Neill opens his play with a scene showing some firemen working in the engine room of a ship talking amongst each other. This scene is important because it already shows a major topic that O’Neill is tackling: the transformation of humans into “machines” by industrialization. The firemen work in a harsh and monotonous environment; they repeat the same task over and over without putting any thought into it. They are also shown as uneducated, primitive and uncivilized people. O’Neill portrays these people this way to show how degrading humans into tools are making them less intellectual and less “human.” Humans have the capability to think, create and be innovative, but O’Neill sees how...
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...2001, Jim O’Neill, predicted the next four emerging markets which he named the ‘BRICs’. This acronym is made up of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The acronym has come into common use as a symbol of the credible shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies towards the developing world. He predicted that the BRIC economies would experience faster economic growth than the G7 nations; Germany, Japan, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, France and Canada. This accelerated growth would raise the BRIC’s relative weights in the worlds aggregate GDP. Despite the fact that O’Neill was criticised when he first implemented the idea, his predictions have been spot on. The average annual GDP growth rate of all the BRIC countries has exceeded that of almost all G7 countries in nearly each of the past 10 years. After O’Neill had announced his prediction in 2001, the BRICs were formally announced in 2009. Discussions between the BRIC’s began in 2006 with four formal meetings with the foreign ministers of the BRIC countries happening between 2006-2008. He also introduces his new prediction within ‘The Growth Map’, the Next 11 (N-11), these are countries that will offer great opportunities for investors over the next decade. The N-11 consists of; South Korea, Mexico, Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iran, Phillipines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Egypt and Bangladesh. ! ! Looking more closely at the individual BRIC countries. Out of the four countries O’Neill chose,...
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...and office space a half-hour’s drive from Lower Manhattan. In coming weeks, the O’Neill Properties Group will officially break ground on the 5.8 million-square-foot project, The Pointe. The 418-acre site, south of Staten Island, is at the heart of a highway network that already carries some 400,000 vehicles a day directly past the site, and on summer weekends, hundreds of thousands more. The groundbreaking will make way for the anchor retail tenant, Bass Pro Shops, to build a 200,000-square-foot store. The store is expected to open in June 2017 as the first stage...
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...is privately run and is publicly funded through taxes. The U.S. is the only industrialized country that does not offer universal health coverage. The U.S. is said to be part of the developed world in terms of technology, well trained health professionals and job opportunities although when it comes to health outcomes it doesn’t do so well. Available studies suggest that the health outcomes in Canada were superior to those compared the U.S. The U.S. faces multiple barriers that have made their health care system inconsistent and so costly. In the past the system focused on revenue maximization instead of quality care at an affordable cost. The U.S. spends twice as much more per capita on health expenditures when compared to Canada (O'Neill & O'Neill, 2007). Canada spends much less on health care and yet performs better than the U.S. in health outcomes, infant mortality and life expectancy. A comparison of the U.S. health care system and Canada’s system performance will be evaluated along with the health outcomes that have resulted from each system. The U.S. has a multi-payer private health care system where Canada has a single payer and is mostly a publicly funded system. “In Canada in order to receive full funding for health insurance the provincial government must meet the following criteria: care available to all eligible residents, comprehensive coverage, access without barriers, portable within the country and abroad, and publicly administered” (Shi, L., & Singh, pg. 21...
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...Alcoa began under the name of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company in 1888, changing its name to the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in1907. The company was originally founded on a $20,000 investment to capitalize on Charles Martin Hall’s invention to smelt bauxite ore into the metal known as aluminum. Within a few years, Alcoa had developed into a model of large-scale vertical integration with control over all the inputs to aluminum production. Since its inception, Alcoa has had a very strong values-based culture. Employees learned early in their careers that very decision they made and everything they did must be aligned with the company’s values. In 1985, Fred Fetterolf, then president, decided the company needed to document the values that all employees must live by; Integrity; Environment, Health, and Safety; Customer; Accountability; Excellence; People; and Profitability. (In 2012, Alcoa slightly revised its core values – Integrity; Environmental; Health and safety; Excellence ; Respect and Innovation) In the 1990s Alcoa’s CEO, Paul O’Neil, communication his answering belief in the importance of health and safety-one of the company’s core values. As is the case with many large organizations, Alcoa had implemented a global ethics and compliance program, and focus on health and safety was interwoven through the company’s program. The Alcoa program included all the basic elements specified in the U.S Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Sarbanes –Oxley Act. Alcoa had...
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...Law of Torts Assignment draft This paper shall examine the current position of the Rescuer under Irish law, and critically examine how this position has developed under common law and statutes. This development can draw many of its origins from the 2009 Law Reform Commission consultation paper which essentially outlined a framework for the drafting of legislation. Furthermore analysing case law and statue from our jurisdiction and abroad, which was applied in the only real substantive case in Ireland to date, O’Neill v Dunnes Stores Ltd To determine the position of the rescuer in Ireland several factors were considered by the LRC such as the moral versus legal question of a duty to intervene, how intervention affects society and with an increasing level of litigation in modern Ireland, how the courts should view subsequent cases for and against Good Samaritans and Voluntary organisations. LRC Consultation Paper The recognition and protection of persons providing voluntary assistance has been addressed by the LRC Consultation Paper on Civil Liability of Good Samaritans and Volunteers, which proposes the introduction of a statute restricting the liability of such persons who intervene as rescuers. The recommendations in the paper essentially aimed to clarify the confusing position of rescuers in Ireland through the implementation of statute. Section 5.01 of the recommendations states “The Commission recommends that there should be no reform of the law to impose a duty...
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...9/11 was it preventable? We will never know, but John O’Neill the man who knew it was coming did try to stop it. Although, he knew he was trying to stop terrorism I don’t think he knew it would be to the magnitude that it turned out to be. There was a lack of structural knowledge at the base of 9/11. Structural knowledge is the knowledge of how variable in a system are related and how they influence one another. Which is ideal for a math problem not for a human. In an individual mind it is called a reality model which can either be explicit or implicit. John O’Neill was considered a maverick by the FBI, but he actually had implicit knowledge. According to Dorner, implicit knowledge is quite common and is referred to as intuition. From the very...
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...Cultural Event HUM 111 18 Mar 2013 The theater is an integral part of human life not only because it is one of the traditional forms of art, but also because the theater shows what is hidden within the human soul. Last week I attended a short play “Hughie” by the famous playwright Eugene O'Neill staged by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. The main role was played by an American actor Richard Schiff, known above all for playing Toby Ziegler in the film “The West Wing.” I must admit I did not expect much of the two-character play. It was written by O'Neill in 1942, so I thought that the realism of the era will be irretrievably lost. Besides, due to its small scale I did not expect anything profound to be found in it. However, O'Neill's play turned out to be much deeper than it may have seemed at first glance. It is built almost in the form of a monologue, and the first phrases fully involve the audience in a stream of thoughts of the main character. This play has given me an understanding of how the human personalities are different in many ways and that they can be fully disclosed probably just through a prism of a personal tragedy of immense proportions. In “Hughie”, O'Neill's philosophy of the tragedy appears which is close to the existentialism as it is related to the problem of individuality and freedom of the individual. The tragedy is within the destiny of individuals who do not wish to adhere to the standard rules and question...
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...Lullabies for Little Criminals is a tragic, coming-of-age novel written by Heather O’Neill which focuses on the life of the protagonist, Baby. Near the beginning of the story on pages 8 to 9, the readers first experience the many different themes, and symbols that occur. At this point in the book, the readers receive a sense of understanding of Baby as a character and her traits. Moreover, these few pages are essentially a microcosm of the entire story, as it highlights the overall theme; innocence and how easily it can be taken. It is also clear that Baby wishes she had still had her innocence, and eventually regrets her mistakes. The theme of innocence is eminent throughout the novel considering the experiences Baby encounters, such as living with her drug-addicted father, becoming a prostitute, and doing drugs, all at the age of just twelve years old. The first time the idea of innocence can be seen in this passage is when O’Neill uses...
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...1 SBS 600: EFFECTIVE CAREER PLANNING FOODCORP PRE-READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS NOTE: PLEASE BRING THESE MATERIALS WITH YOU TO CLASS Prepared by: Professor Regina O’Neill Suffolk University Sawyer School of Management 617-573-8393 roneill@suffolk.edu 2 Table of Contents Page Overview of Foodcorp and Management Simulations..…………. Foodcorp Organizational Chart ……..………………………….... Foodcorp Annual Report…………………………………………. Possible Business Week Reporter Visit………………………….. Retaining the New York Consulting Group……………………... Comparison Data of Leading Food Companies…………………. New Channels of Distribution…………………………………… Highlights of Presentation to International Society of Industry Analysts ……..………..….………….. Financial and Market Data……….……………………………… Product, Plant, and Warehouse Update...……………………….. Portfolio Planning Matrix………………………………………... Demographic and Market Analysis (Domestic and International). Operating Group’s Organizational Structure……….……………. Task Force Recommendations……………………………………. Results of Customer Service Study………………………………. International Operations…………………………………………. Foodcorp SPOT Analysis…………………………………………. Personal SPOT Analysis………………………………………….. 1 2 3 15 16 17 22 24 27 30 33 35 37 40 43 45 47 48 3 Overview of Foodcorp and Management Simulations Foodcorp International is a hands-on behavioral simulation that is run in teams. Participation involves an intensive, interactive experience which differs dramatically...
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