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"The Hairy Ape", 2004.
An analysis of the play, "The Hairy Ape" by Eugene O?Neill, which is about the life of a coal shoveller on a pleasure ship, examining the use of animal symbolism within it.
1,140 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper focuses on the use of animal symbols in the play and its message about society. It explains how the playwright uses animal symbolism liberally throughout the play to create a picture of the character of Yank, a brutish man who, it is implied, might be more at home in a cage. It explains, however, that he is a human being in spite of his animal nature, and the symbolism of the play is used to illuminate the character and to imply certain things about the human race, which often treats its own members more like animals than like human beings.
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"The Old Salt Paddy is a living symbol of the past, and early in the play he mourns for a time about when sailors were free men. He offers a vision of a sailing ship, a symbol of man's freedom through a unity with nature in its exalted form. In the past, he says, "A ship was part of the sea, and a man was part of a ship and the sea joined altogether and made it one" (259). Paddy thus talks of a past where men worked hard but were a part of sea and sky, a partner with weather, with nature. Clearly, this is not at all like the dark and cramped work of Yank and the others, undertaken beneath the deck where they almost never see the sea at all and are separated entirely from nature."
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Eugene O'Neil's Play, "The Hairy Ape", 2000.
An analysis of this play, focusing especially on O'Neil's view of the "wasteland" mentality.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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"Wasteland literature commonly lacks morally and ethically sound traits in its characters, however, rarely as vividly and ironically as in Eugene O?Neill?s The Hairy Ape. O?Neill depicts his characters as if they were zombies . . . or in this case, apes."
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Do Apes Speak?, 2007.
An in-depth examination of the speech and comprehension present in apes.
5,036 words (approx. 20.1 pages), 27 sources, MLA, $ 127.95
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The paper provides an extensive literature review on the topic of communication among apes and discusses how it seems clear that apes can acquire some form of language and communicate with humans. The paper reveals that there is also evidence that apes may have a form of language of their own by which they communicate with each other. The paper discovers that apes would not normally acquire such capabilities on their own, but they can be trained to use language and respond to its meaning.
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Introduction
Review of Literature
Conclusion
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"Research has been conducted for a long time on questions about the origin of language and how human beings first learned to speak. More recently, research has shifted to various primate studies as to whether or not other primates have what can be considered a language and in some cases whether apes can be taught to understand language and even to speak. Some of the early experiments in this area were seen as promising by some and as self-delusion by others, but the research continued and has produced a number of interesting results that may bring us closer to understanding the genesis of language and how widespread language is in the animal kingdom."
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A Common Language: Communication Between Humans and the Great Apes, 2002.
A discussion of the sign and symbol-based language experiments conducted with great apes over the last forty years, including criticisms, findings, and implications. Addresses projects with gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos.
6,395 words (approx. 25.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 148.95
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This paper addresses a number of different language experiments that have been performed with all four species of great apes - gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos, and the advantages, disadvantages, and relative success of each, including conducted experiments. The author discusses the physical limitations of the apes, the advantages of using sign language as opposed to keyboard and symbol-based language, and criticisms brought up by various skeptics. The paper also mentions other types of cognitive activities in which the apes have participated, including painting and learning a system of economic exchange.
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"The Koko Project is currently the longest running and most successful of all the ape language projects. Patterson's goal was for Koko [the gorilla] to learn 200 signs ? she now knows over a thousand, and understands at least 2,000 words of spoken English. She asks questions, she lies, she tells stories, she uses the negative, she uses and understands abstract words like love, hate, and death, and she even tells jokes. One of the most famous incidents involves a conversation between Koko and one of her teachers regarding the color of her blanket. As she was getting ready to go to bed, the teacher asked Koko what color the blanket was. Koko responded "red," even though the blanket was white. The teacher admonished her and asked her again, refusing to believe that Koko would make such a simple mistake. Still, Koko responded "red," and repeated it several times. The teacher was perplexed. Then Koko pulled a tiny piece of red lint off the blanket, pointed to it, and signed "red," and started laughing her deep, breathy, gorilla laugh. Humor, then, is another quality we humans can no longer claim for ourselves alone."
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The Ape and Human Consciousness, 2002.
A research paper discussing the similarities and differences between ape and human consciousness.
1,448 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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The paper defines the word consciousness and questions whether chimpanzees and other apes do indeed possess all three traits that make up consciousness as we know it: language, self-awareness, and theory of mind. The paper gives examples from animal communication research which show that they perhaps do possess these traits. It then looks at the critics of this theory who claim that the difference between the human and ape consciousness is vast and that apes cannot really claim to possess language, self-awareness and a theory of mind skills.
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"One of the original researchers using sign language with apes, Herb Terrace is now a critic. Terrace placed a chimpanzee named Nim in a community of people using sign language to see if he would pick up the language, but found that only by bribing him with treats did he learn (Wynne 52). Terrace realized that Nim was simply using signs that his trainers had used in their question, so in effect he was just echoing what had been said (Wynne 52). Regarding Washoe?s description of a swan as ?waterbird,? it is noted that perhaps she was simply naming two things she saw, water and bird. As far as Kanzi?s ability to pick up symbolic language from observation of her mother?s training, it must be noted that Kanzi was rewarded for her use of symbols and usually given the things that she named (Wynne 52)."
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Language Acquisition in Apes, 2002.
This paper studies the theory of how apes acquire language skills and how they process input from humans.
2,998 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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The paper looks at a few studies conducted on apes and their ability to acquire language. The writer addresses the hypothesis that if researchers can learn how apes acquire language skills and how they process input from humans, it should be possible to communicate with them in a meaningful way. The paper presents a method of study, introducing the hypothesis and the test for reaching a conclusion.
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"The design of the study would involve a comparison of the methods by which children and apes acquire language skills. The apes and humans tested would have to be raised from birth by the same caregivers and given the same exposure to language, either acquired by listening to it or acquired in specific teaching sessions. Learning of words and their association with objects would be studied first, then sentence recognition would be studied. Controls would be used to ensure that words and sentences were really recognized, and not just remembered by rote or by cues given unknowingly by the caregiver. These would involve presenting words or sentences in different orders, and varying the order of words in sentences."
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Craig Stanford?s "The Hunting Apes", 2002.
Explains and critiques the subject of Craig Stanford's book, "The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior".
1,515 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper discusses the premise of Stanford's book, "The Hunting Apes", which contends that early human social formations were predicated on the acquisition and sharing of meat. The paper explains how Stanford, after exploring the role of female and male apes as hunters and consumers of meat, arrived at the conclusion that the acquisition and sharing of meat contributed to a ?might-makes-right? form of patriarchy.
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"Over the course of the last 100 years, consensus has varied greatly with respect to the emergence of mankind in Africa; especially with respect to temperament. These theories have met with everything from hearty praise to scornful denunciation; the book jacket to ?African Genesis,? published in the 1950?s, includes the opinion of the New York Times: ?The theories are wildly wrong.? One of the most controversial subjects has been man?s diet, and how that has had a bearing on the evolution of mankind. This is the subject of Craig Stanford?s ?The Hunting Apes,? which portrays early human social formations as being predicated on the acquisition and sharing of meat."
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"The Naked Ape" and Morris' View on Imprinting, 2008.
A review of Desmond Morris' views on imprinting as discussed in "The Naked Ape" and a comparison of his views with those of L. Salk.
1,109 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper explores the third chapter of Desmond Morris', "The Naked Ape," as it relates to the development of human children. It discusses the content of the chapter under discussion and describes Morris' view on imprinting. The paper compares Morris' view with that of L. Salk and his strong case for imprinting. It concludes that these individuals are very similar, but their methods differ.
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"In the end, Desmond Morris relies heavily upon the work of Salk in the third chapter of his book. Instinctively, I am inclined to think that Morris is correct in dismissing left-handed cradling; I am also inclined to think that the matter is more complicated than he acknowledges - especially given the findings of later research. Fundamentally, I prefer Salk's findings to Morris' simple regurgitation of them; by engaging in original research, Salk gives his conclusions an authenticity that Morris does not. Furthermore, Morris' refusal to cite studies supporting the arguments of critics insisting that left-handed cradling is caused by "right-handedness" in society leaves the reader with the impression that he erected a "straw-man" so that his own argument would be strengthened."
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The Bonobo Ape, 2002.
Examines language, memory and planning in the bonobo ape.
13,987 words (approx. 55.9 pages), 32 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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This paper is in two parts. The first part reviews and summarizes past work in ape language research, including the Gardners' work with the chimp Washoe, Francine Patterson's work with Koko the gorilla, Lyn Miles's work with Chantek the orangutan and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobos and chimps. The second part is a proposal for an experiment to teach American Sign Language to a group of bonobos and then use these communicative abilities to test their memory and planning abilities. It includes descriptions of bonobo behavior in the wild and captivity, an argument for gestural language as the first human language and a description of the means of teaching and testing the bonobos in the proposed experiment. The paper includes a table and illustrations.
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"During the Oligocene epoch of the Tertiary period, a small monkey-like creature lived in the rainforest trees in central Africa. About thirty million years ago, this primate ancestor diverged into two distinct species; one would father the line of Old World monkeys, including baboons and macaques. The other would become the predecessor of modern apes and humans. Around twenty-two million years ago gibbons split away from that line and formed a branch known as the lesser apes. Six or seven million years later, orangutans too diverged from the ape lineage and migrated to the Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo, where they remained highly arboreal. Another eight or nine million years passed, during which this ape line began to spend more time on the ground, and gorillas split off to become their own species. Two million years more went by, bringing us to the Pliocene epoch, which began about five million years ago. It was at this crucial point in evolutionary history that our ancestors and the ancestors of modern chimpanzees and bonobos took different paths, the former leading to bipedality, ground-based life, and hominization, the latter eventually splitting into two more distinct species about three million years ago, both of whom would remain remarkably similar to us physically, behaviorally, emotionally, and intellectually (Goodall, Hook, Leakey, Linden 1992)."
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The Hunting Apes, 2004.
Compares the "Man the Hunter" theory of human evolution with the theory in the book, "The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior".
1,555 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper briefly explains the "Man the Hunter" theory of human evolution and then offers a longer, more detailed explanation of the theory on human behavior put forward in Craig Stanford's book, "The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior". The paper also compares and contrasts the two theories and cites some of the criticisms of Stanford's theory.
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"How behavior has evolved from our hominid ancestors to the present day has been a constant concern among anthropologists. Charles Darwin?s paradigm of human evolution lacks direct evidence in fossil record to provide the basis for the reconstruction (Stanford 1999), which leads anthropological researchers to rely much on their imagination to do the job. In the process, biases result and lead to heated debates and further guesses, the most controversial topic of argument being the origin of hominid sex roles and differences ? if early hominid male had a different behavioral adaptation from the female and if one dominated the other."
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?The Planet of the Apes?, 2004.
Analyzes the five films based on Pierre Boulle's novel, within the context of human consciousness.
1,658 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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Audience reaction to the first of a series of five films, derived from Pierre Boulle?s novel, "La Planete des Singes", was a solid indicator of a new kind of consciousness. The paper shows that, despite the repulsiveness of the mere possibility of man?s reversing roles with apes, movie and television audiences accepted that suggestion or entertainment. It terrified, repelled, but stretched their imagination as to what the future could be. The threat of nuclear destruction, the implications of the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, and the consequences of the Vietnam War were the torrents and setting when Boulle wrote his novel. By the time the first film was produced and shown in 1968, there were other threats to human security. This paper looks at each of the five films and discusses them in relation to human intelligence and consciousness.
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"Apes, therefore, thrive on nature as their sole guide. On the other hand, man is equipped with the responsibility, duty as well as privilege to use his intelligence, judgment and will to choose his good or evil, survival or destruction. Apes are on the safe side, which is far from error and destruction, but their capacity for happiness and the determination of that level of happiness are both limited. In man, it is virtually without limits, because he has what is called a soul."
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Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan Of The Apes", 1999.
Examines this 1912 novel's setting, protagonist, Romantic viewpoint, nature vs. civilization and morality.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Edgar Rice Burroughs created the best-known African hero in Tarzan, first seen in the novel Tarzan of the Apes in 1912. Tarzan is a white man who was lost in the jungle as a child and raised among the animals. From one point of view, he is more animal than human himself because he is not "civilized," but from another point of view, he is closer to nature than the average man and so more natural himself. Burroughs follows certain literary traditions of the nineteenth century regarding the goodness of nature, the special role of the natural man, and the particular importance and virtue of the noble savage when compared to the corruption of the "civilized" man. The representation of nature in the novel is Romantic in tone, and Burroughs has clearly adapted the romantic idea of nature and of the need for the natural man to be at one with the natural world."
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"The Planet of the Apes", 2002.
Examines the reasons why the films based on Pierre Boulle's novel are so popular.
1,658 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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Audience reaction to the first of a series of five films derived from Pierre Boulle?s novel, "La Planete des Singes", was a solid indicator of a new kind of consciousness among viewers. It terrified and repelled, but stretched their imagination as to what the future could be. The threat of nuclear destruction, the implications of the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, and the consequences of the Vietnam War were the torrents and setting when Boulle wrote his novel, and by the time the first film was produced and shown in 1968, there were other threats to human security. This paper analyzes all five films in the series, showing the messages relating to mankind that each one attempts to get across. The paper concludes that history shows that the majority of the human race has not used its rational functions as intelligently or positively as it should have, and thus, this novel rang a wake-up call: Man could have lost the right to rule over creation and thus, been dethroned by beasts to enjoy supremacy.
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"The novel awakened something deep within us that made the series this fascinating. It must be the desire to find a race or species that is superior or better than today?s man. A species that would not need to make slaves out of apes or other forms of life deemed lower or inferior, so that no novel like Boulle?s has to be written in rebellion.
But his novel still tells us a lot of things. The human race limited itself not only with the use of only two instead of four limbs, which apes make use of out of their intelligence. It also tells us that apes exercise more options than humans do: it is believed that they can speak and reason like man, but have no inclination or desire to do so.. This seeming position of advantage implies still another form of ?superiority.?"
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"Tarzan, The Ape Man" ( W.s. Van Dyke II ) & "Out Of Africa" ( Isak Dinesen ), 1999.
Analyzes 1932 film & 1937 novel & their racist comparison of Africans & animals, superiority of whites and race relations.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will discuss how ideas of race get worked out in an analogy between Africans and animals (primates or other animals) in the 1932 film Tarzan, the Ape Man (directed by W.S. Van Dyke and based on the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs) and Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (first published in 1937). The study will consider the ways the two works show how the relations of whites (colonizers) to Africans are similar to he relations of whites to animals. The argument will be that both works are similar in their views on the superiority of the "civilized" whites and the inferiority of both Africans and animals. Whites in both works, in general, see Africans as beings somewhere between animals and whites. Africans are shown to be slaves, servants, and beasts of burden. They are seen as violent, exotic, often emotionless, immature, stupid beings whose purpose.."
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Stereotypes, 2006.
A discussion on stereotypes in "The Emperor Jones" by Eugene O'Neill.
1,072 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper takes specific characters from O' Neill's works, written in 1922, and discusses why and how they fit stereotypes befitting the era. It focuses mainly on racism and class distinction. It also explores stereotypical characters in "The Hairy Ape" by O'Neill. In conclusion it discusses the problems that arouse from stereotypes within society.
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"The character of Smithers is also stereotypical. The stereotype of the "low-life" survives even today. The poor (lately they are drug-dealers) are seen as low-class, uneducated, and cowardly, not really bright but conniving, malicious, two-faced liars. The police refer to them as "dirt bags" and "scum buckets." Always male, a low-life often is suspected to be a borderline criminal. Like Smithers, he may or may not have been in prison. Often he's very racist in his beliefs because, like Pa in Huckleberry Finn, it gives him somebody to look down on. For example, when Smithers finds out the King is in trouble, he's glad and says, "Serve 'im right! Puttin' on airs, the stinkin' nigger" (p. 268). The stereotype of the ignorant, poor white, envious of black success, exists among blacks as well, who label the whole group "white trash.""
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