Audrey Evans

Audrey Evans. Realizing the hardships families face when enduring long stays in hospitals, Dr. Evans dreamed of a house that would host families that were being treated at her hospital. This concept provoked the Eagles to come up with more proceeds to make this dream a reality. Murray approached Elkman Advertising company to help campaign Dr. Evans’ idea, which eventually lead to the partnership with McDonald's.The idea was that all McDonalds in the Philadelphia region would donate a quarter from every McDonald’s Shamrock Shake sold. The Regional Manager of McDonald's, Ed Rensi, agreed to this proposal if the house could be named after Ronald McDonald himself. Through the partnership of the Philadelphia Eagles, McDonalds, and Dr. Evans, the first Ronald McDonald House Charity opened their doors to families going through treatment on October 15, 1974 in Philadelphia. Today, there are more than 350 RMHC in 63 different countries striving for the vision of “a world where all children have access to medical care, and their families are supported and actively involved in their children’s care” (…

Plays present a unique approach to story telling over typical novels. The little things, like the use of stage directions can dramatically alter the interoperation when reading a play. This gives the author a lot of power to tell a great story and have control over its interpretation. One of my favorite examples of a well written play is “The Farnsworth Invention” by Aaron Sorkin. This play is a fiction interpretation of the battle of inventing television. You have boy genius Philo Farnsworth…

This assignment will discuss how victims are placed at the centre of attention in police procedurals, and the theories used to assist these shows in helping them to put emphasis on the victims being the most important after a crime has taken place. A police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly illustrate the activities of a police force as they investigate crime. Over the years these procedurals have become more prominent and the most watched shows on TV,…

SignPost: Next, I’ll be talking about the Laissez-faire Leadership 5. Laissez-faire Leadership: A style in which the designated leader gives up his or her formal role, transforming the group into a loose collection of individuals. An example of Laissez-faire Leadership, is when the designated leader, Seth, gives up his role as a friend, and leaves Evan at a party to risk stealing alcohol from the house owner, causing a chain reaction that shows the two members in the group splitting up, and…

Contrast between Fantastic Four of 2005 and the Fantastic Four of 2015 “In American films, the first science fiction craze came in the 50 's, fueled by cold war paranoia, and produced a wave of movies about space exploration, alien invaders and giant, radiation-infected insects.”(Moss) Science fictions is a type of American genre that discuss human relationship with science and technology. It is created to introduce science and technology to the audience as a form of entertainment. Fantastic…

Ted Talks Write-Up # 2 I. Name and background of presenter (Approximately ½ of a single-spaced page). Hugh Evans was the presenter. Evans is the Founder and CEO of the Global Poverty Project. When he was very young Evans spent time in the Philippines living among people that lived in filth and severe poverty. He said that when he was younger, he asked a lot of questions, most of them were “Why” questions. As he sat amongst the filth and poverty with the friends he met while on his travels, he…

Audrey Hepburn was a successful actress, her prime in the acting business being in the 1950s and 60s. She is very well known for her film Breakfast at Tiffany’s and her Broadway performance of Gigi, and is one of only 13 people who have received an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award. She was also active in helping children in need through the organization UNICEF. Despite the fact that Audrey had to manage numerous hardships throughout her life, including a near death experience as an…

Audrey Hepburn’s legacy Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston was born on May 4th in 1929. Her birthplace was Brussels, Belgium. Audrey’s parents were Ella Van Heemstra and Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston. Her Grandfather's were Aarnoud Van Heemstra and Victor John George Ruston. The Grandmother’s names were Elbrig Willemine Henriette Van Asbeck and Anna Ruston. Audrey only had two half brothers which their names were Lan Edgar Bruce Quarles Van Ufford and Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles Van Ufford.…

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, and spent her childhood in Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. She learned to speak many languages, including English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and German. For example, “Throughout her life, she used multilingualism to great advantage with international press in both her careers as an actress and humanitarian”(IMDb.com). Her father was an English banker who was approximately one quarter English and three…

In 1939, Coco Chanel would suddenly decide to fire all 2,500 of her employees and closed up her businesses entirely. A clear explanation was never provided, but it could be a reaction to the start of the war or it could have been revenge for the strike that occurred three years prior. Either way, Chanel chose to hide away from the fashion world with only money coming through a percentage of perfume sales that she owned. During this time, there is a lot of speculation about what kind of role…