1. The decision in Williams v Roffey moved away from the actual technicalities of finding traditional consideration‚ to actually looking at the factual benefit which a promisor may gain. In this sense it was stated that the duty to perform an existing contract could be good consideration so long as some kind of benefit went to the promisor‚ whereas previous to this performance of an existing contract was in fact no consideration‚ (as stated in Stilk v Myrick). This decision developed the doctrine
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William Byrd was an English composer and organist of the Shakespearean era who is best known for his collection of masses‚ motets‚ anthems‚ services‚ fantasias‚ and secular works and is considered a master of all genres during his time. He was the son of Thomas and Margery Byrd. Records do not indicate the real date of his birth‚ but researchers believe he was born between the years of 1539 and 1540 in London‚ England. He was mostly known for sacred music written in Latin and secular music specifically
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William Byrd’s diary intimately divulges the matters of his life such as when he woke up to his opinion on the disciplinary acts that underwent on his plantation. Throughout his diary‚ Byrd opens each submission with the state in which he woke up every morning and the time. Though his submissions are seemingly chronologically spaced far apart‚ Byrd’s use of context enables the reader to interpret his intended meaning for a specific submission. For example‚ William Byrd communicated numerous intimate
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William Shakespeare is known very well across the world. He’s known for the greatest dramatist and he is the world’s famous author and finest poet in English language. With his wonderful talent he has produced thirty-seven plays. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in England on April 23 1564. He was the third and eldest child of John and Mary Arden Shakespeare. Later on while his father John was mayor of Stratford‚ young William attended an excellent grammar school in his town which had
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Serena Williams is a name that almost everyone recognises. No wonder! She is the fiery‚ talented and competitive girl that transformed herself into one of the best‚ if not the best‚ women’s tennis player ever. Her level of competitiveness is extraordinary and the determination we all see on her face as she ace’s her next opponent is scary. We don’t only love Serena because of her tennis skill; she is down to earth as well. She is someone who makes people watching tennis stay on the edge of their
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Biography of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who‚ with Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. He is the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson‚ William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth‚ Cumberland[1]—part of the scenic region in northwest England‚ the Lake District
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I’d like to analyze a poem that was written by a famous English poet William Wordsworth “Daffodils”. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was a Romantic poet and a major influence in bringing about the 18th centuries’ Romantic Age of Literature. An original poet for many different artistic qualities‚ his personality and emotional intelligence had made him the perfect forefather for a literary movement that would resound philosophically and poetically to this day. Romanticism‚ defined by it predisposition
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In the book‚ The Crucible‚ Abigail Williams and her childish friends take advantage of the situation in their hometown of Salem‚ Massachusetts. At the time‚ there was a lot of tension about the discussion of witches and virtually anyone who was accused of being a witch was proven a witch. On page 33 of the book‚ there is a quote that points out the underlying plot of the book. “Sex‚ sin and the Devil were early linked…” is how the quote starts out and it describes the relationship
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important character in The Crucible is Abigail Williams. Abigail Williams is one of the original and foremost accusers in the Salem witch trials of 1692. Her accusations claimed the live of many innocent victims in Salem‚ Massachusetts. Abigail’s motivation toward her attributions were because of a secret past relationship between her and John Proctor. While John Proctor was married to Elizabeth Proctor‚ he had a short-term affair with Abigail Williams. Afterwards John refused to leave his wife for
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Ralph Patrick Co Period 5 September 12‚ 2013 In the quote‚ “We’re all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins‚ for life.” Tennessee Williams is stating that no matter how much you change on the outside‚ you will always be the same on the inside. Williams is also trying to state that no matter how hard it is to live with a disorder or a bad memory; people must learn to live on with that bad memory throughout the rest of their live. For example‚ when a witness from a crime scene
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