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    John Williams

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    John Towner Williams born February 8 1932 is an American composer‚ pianist and conductor. Born to Jazz percussionist Johnny Williams‚ who also played with Raymond Scott Quintet‚ John Williams was exposed to music from a very early age. Having moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s‚ he attended the University of Los Angeles and went on to study privately with Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Williams also spent a number of years conducting and arranging music for the US Air force band

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    William Saroyan

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    William Saroyan is an Armenian-American author whose family immigrated America before Saroyan was born from Bitlis‚ Ottoman Empire. He was born in Fresno‚ California and at the age of three‚ his father died. But there’s a strict thing that you can notice in his writings‚ Saroyan is influenced by his father too much. Because of the fact that he decided to become a writer after his mother showed him some of his father’s writings. Saroyan usually writes stories‚ stories of ordinary people

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    William Penn

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    William Penn William Penn was born October 14‚ 1644 in London too Admiral Penn and Margret Penn. William was an adventurous little boy catching and finding anything he could. He was an extremely fast runner and could run three miles nonstop. When William was very young he got smallpox and it left him bald; he always had to wear a wig. When William was four years old a group of rebels rose up against the King or Roundheads‚ as they were called‚ over threw King Charles and beheaded him.

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    absolutely nothing that is made between my God and me.” This yearning for God feeds her theologies. In a society experiencing The Plague‚ the afterlife was a matter of great concern‚ and although she yearned for unity with God‚ she “thought this vision was shown for those that should live.” Julian did not embrace the supernatural belief systems that accompanied her world of plague and indulgences with the vigor one might expect from one with such profound yearnings for God. To the contrary‚ while describing

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    William Wallace

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    William Wallace Analyse the different ways in which the life‚ career and death of William Wallace has been presented over time. Support your response with source that you have studied in class. William Wallace is portrayed in many different ways‚ as both a good and bad man. There isn’t much historical evidence about William Wallace‚ so people just make up most of the information about him as you could tell such a great story. Some people believed that William Wallace was a heroic man‚ so wrote

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    William Harvey

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    Dear‚ holy father William Harvey was an English doctor and teacher. he was the first to correctly describe and prove that blood circulates through the body and that the heart is responsible for pumping blood. William Harvey should be set free because he done no harm to any people and was just trying to figure out how blood circulated in the human body. Harvey discovered that blood circulates through the body and the heart is responsible for pumping blood. in 1599 at the age of 21

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    William Bradford

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    arrived in America? What does that say about his character? Answers 1.In 1607 Bradford and about 120 others were attacked as nonconformists to the Church of England. They withdrew to Holland‚ under the religious leadership of John Robinson and William Brewster‚ living for a year at Amsterdam and then in Leiden‚ where they stayed nearly 12 years. 2.In modern days the immigrants that come to America come and try and take our jobs. Also because a lot of immigrants come her and smuggle in drugs and

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    william penn

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    John A. Moretta author of William Penn and the Quaker Legacy‚ writes William Penn’s life in a positive way and explains how his work and effort over the years made a change today in history for the United States of America. Being one of the most successful leaders in history‚ Moretta explains and supports Penn’s decisions over the years. Believer of good relations‚ Penn had successful treaties with Indian tribes and resulted the development of the Province of Pennsylvania that today is the state

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    William Shakespeare

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    William Shakespeare is an unforgettable literary figure and it is not exaggeration if we say that literature is nothing without him. All the writing of Shakespeare deal with love‚ life and death and these universal themes get beautiful touch by him. His tragedies reflect that he had extraordinary knowledge of human psychology. Therefore‚ his characters have become memorable in the field of literature. Shakespeare has explored poetry and tragedy but it is tragedy that brought fame for him. Even his

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    Williams Landscape

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    The identified landscape sample by Williams is a respectable example of abstract art‚ encompassing a number of structural elements that cooperate to achieve the main purpose of the artist work. For example the use of contrasting colours‚ such as orange and blue in approach of the abstract

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