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=__Annoted Bibliography by Natalie Williams__= "O'neill, Eugene (Gladstone) (1888-1953)." //DISCovering Authors//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Fuquay Varina High School/WCPS/. 23 May. 2008 [|http://find.galegroup.com/servlet/srcx]

This Galegroup resource was a little different than the other one. It was more helpful in finding out details of O'Neill's life. This website gave out more information on his plays and how they pertained to his life as well as the publics reactions to them. The information was organized chronologically. This source of information will be very helpful when doing the creative genre project. The only thing i would change about this website would be to add more picture of O'Neill.

Reardon, William R. "O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Ed. Suzanne M. Bourgoin. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. 17 vols.//Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Fuquay Varina High School/WCPS/. 23 May. 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx

The Galegoup website was a very helpful site. It gave plenty of facts about Eugene O'Neill's life. This was extremely helpful for the time line. The information simply went from detail to detail in chronological order. This website was also helpful in finding out what was also going on in the world during his time, which allowed me to better understand what all he was going through. I wouldn't change anything about this resource, i found it very helpful the way that it was.

Carpenter Fredric I. __Eugene O'Neill__. Boston. Twain Publisher 1964

The book __Eugene O'Neill__ by Fredric Carpenter was an exellent resource for information on Eugen O'Neill. This book was different than my other resources because it is written more like a story book. This book was good for finding out about intimate detail of his life. This book also helped me piece things about his life together to better understand him. this book also had a time line of O'Neill's life in the very beginning which was very helpful. The thing i liked best about this resource is that it went into detail about his plays and the reactions to his plays. I wouldn't change anything about this resource, I think that for it's purpose, it was written fine.

Bloom Harold. __Eugene O'Neill__. Philidelphia: chelsea house publishers, 1987

The book __Eugene O'Neill__ by Harold Bloom was my favorite source of information for this project. The information in this book was arranged so that one would learn a few facts about O'Neill's life, and then the book changes over to one of his writings or plays. This way one could see were he was in his life and how it pertained to what he was writting. This book also had a time line located in the back of the book. This was extremely helpful in finding facts. The only thing I would change about this resource is I wouldn't put so much of the plays into it, I think more information should be added.

=__**Creative Genre**__=

__Interview__

Q. Williams: What was your childhood like? A. O'Neill: Most of my childhood was spent traveling with my family because my father was an actor and was educated in various New England schools. I later went to Princeton University but decided to take a break and went out to sea to clear my head.

Q. Williams: There are rumors going around that during your time at sea you acquired a few bad habits, how much of this can you say is true? A. O'Neill: It is true that during that time i went through a pretty bad depression, and resorted to drinking in attempts to solve my problems.

Q. Williams: What were some of your first jobs, what started off your career? A: O'Neill: Well i worked for the //New London Telegraph// for a while, writing poetry, but after i recovered from tuberculosis i decided to take on play writing as my full time job.

Q. Williams: Out of your many pieces of work, which would be your favorite? A. O'Neill: That is a terribly hard question. I would have to say some of my favorite include Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, and The Moon of the Caribbees.

Q. Williams: What is so special about those particular plays? A. O'Neill: They are some of my first plays. They reflect my experiences at sea and have a great deal of significance to me.

Q. Williams: The majority, if not all, of your plays seem to be tragedies. Did you ever write anything a bit more uplifting? A. O'Neill: I did actually write a comedy called Ah! Wilderness. In fact the only reason i did write this play was to prove that i could write something other than a comedy if i wanted to.

Q. Williams: What can you tell me about you three wives? A. O'Neill: There is not much to tell. I divorced the first two and I am still married to the third one. Between you and me I do not much care for this last one, but I do not intend on dying alone.

Q: Williams: And what about your three children? A. O'Neill: Well the eldest one killed himself, my youngest and only daughter married a guy my age at 18 and we have been out of contact since. My middle child is still around but only physically.

Q: Williams: And for you last question, Mr. O'Neill, what would you consider to be your greatest achievement? A: O'Neill: I would have to say winning the Nobel Prize. I am thus far the first, and only person to win the Nobel Prize for literature. I take great pride in that.

=__ Reflection three __=

This project helped me as a student because i was able to find information and put it into formats that i was unfamiliar with. This research project was different than a research paper in that I had to use the information in several different ways, where as in a paper all you do is write about your topic. This project was similar to a paper in that I still had to do all of the research in order to complete it. I thought that the craziest thing that i learned about my author was that he basically disowned his daughter when she 18 because she married a guy that was his age. The easiest thing about this project for me was doing the time line, I'm just good at that kind of stuff. The hardest part of this project for me was the annotative bibliography, i did not like it at all and i didn't see the point of it. I wish that I had turned in all of my stuff on time so that i could get a better grade. Unfortunately I fell a little behind on this project. I would suggest not using the annotative bibliography, it seems like a waste of time to me. I really like doing things on the wiki though, it makes things easier to do if you a little behind. I also liked the creative genre, one thing that I think would make it better would be if we had the choice to perform our creative genre. This way other classmates could learn learn something about other authors.

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