Tennessee Williams was an American playwright known for his candid portrayal of human nature and relationships that often broached taboo topics. The height of his career was in the late 1940s and 1950s; his first well-known work‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ brought him notoriety in 1945. Williams was “simultaneously praised and denounced for addressing raw subject matter in a straightforward realistic way” (American Masters). Thomas Lanier Williams III‚ known to us as Tennessee Williams‚ was born on March
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Introduction Williams Syndrome‚ also known as Williams-Beuren disorder is a congenital genetic disorder characterized by a deletion in parts of chromosome 7. It is “a multisystem disorder‚ caused by deletion of the Williams-Beuren syndrome chromosome region‚ spanning 1.5 to 1.8 million base pairs and containing 26 to 28 genes.” (Pober‚ 2010‚ p 239) Demographics Williams Syndrome affects 1 in 10‚000 children throughout the world and an estimated 20‚000 to 30‚000 in the United States. (Williams Syndrome
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Sentimentality of William Tavener‚” analyzes the events of the plot and the impact in conflict to resolution order with a little flashback in the middle. In the beginning‚ Hester and William are seen arguing about whether their boys should go to the circus. Hester wants her boys to go to because she says her boys don’t do anything other than work and are afraid that the boys will grow up to be “greenhorns”. Greenhorns meaning people who are inexperienced or naive. On the other hand‚ William thinks they
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yale case 07-015 rev. february 12‚ 2008 William Bratton and the NYPD Crime Control through Middle Management Reform Andrea R. Nagy1 Joel Podolny2 William Bratton‚ commissioner of the New York Police Department from 1994 to 1996‚ presided over a dramatic decline in the city’s crime rate. Hired by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as part of a new crime fighting initiative‚ Bratton embraced the “broken windows” theory that had made him so successful as chief of the city’s transit police. According to
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William Penn and the Quaker Legacy For many Americans‚ William Penn is just known as the Quaker leader who founded Pennsylvania and for his ‘Holy Experiment’. Penn’s achievements were far greater than just the founding of a colony. He had devotion and spirit and love for the Quaker sect and in turn spent his whole life trying to get others to see the good in Quakerism and create toleration for the religion. In the biography of William Penn and the Quaker Legacy‚ John Moretta asserts that William
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Roger Williams Analysis Roger Williams writings in The Key into the Language of America reflected his nontraditional views of the Natives during his time. While most Englishmen in America viewed the Natives as “savages‚… wild men‚… barbarians‚… or heathens‚”(page 90) Williams “saw that the American Indians were no better or worse than the “rogues” who dealt with them‚ and that in fact they possessed a marked degree of civility.” (page89) The fact that he came to his conclusion by actually submerging
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written by Bernard Williams. It depicts two very similar cases and stirs a discussion between whether the psychological continuity theory or bodily continuity theory is more relevant when it comes to our personal identity. Psychological continuity is a view that is based on the principle that our personal identity is associated with our thoughts and memories. Bodily continuity theory is a view that as long as we have the same body‚ we are the same person. Throughout the essay‚ Williams uses many different
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The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover ‚ 1709-1712 Every morning‚ William seems to wake up and eat his milk for breakfast. After his meal‚ often but not always‚ he reads a chapter in Hebrew or some other language and proceeds with his day. In some entries in his diary‚ he usually has a problem with his slaves and has to punish them quite frequently and does not have a problem with the severity of the punishment. Slaves are being burned by irons and whipped till they are no longer to stand
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women‚ all having been convicted of witchcraft‚ were taken to Gallows Hill for hanging. Hundreds of others were accused of witchcraft. Dozens linguished in jail for months without trial. In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”‚ the main character Abigail Williams is to blame for the 1692 Salem witch trials. Abigail was a mean‚ bitter‚ young woman who would stop and nothing to get what she wanted. No matter who she hurt‚ even the ones she loved‚ she did everything she could to live. She lied to people‚ manipulated
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Dear Tom Williams‚ I am feeling bereft‚ to the point of writing to you in regards to your ’extraordinary’ capitalisation and ’Blue Plaque hailed as tribute to an ’overlooked’ academic;’ article -- in reference to James Legge’s blue plaque at No 3 Keble Terrace‚ Oxford. Naturally‚ you’re unaware of the generic idiocies and perverse indoctrinations James Legge offered as fact at the echelon of Pantheism Lecture i.e. (Oxford University). I simper shamefully when I state this.... I am not remotely surprised
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