Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911 to Cornelius and Edwina Williams. He was the second of three children and was raised mainly by his mother because of his complicated relationship with his father. Aside from not seeing his father much, he had an overall happy childhood while living in Mississippi. He struggled with the family’s move to St. Louis but used that and his parents’ bad marriage to his advantage and began writing. He attended the University of Missouri for a little while but was taken out of school because his father discovered that he had a girlfriend at the University. He moved back with his father and worked for him at a shoe company. During that time Williams fell into a depression
In the case of Stanley Tookie Williams’s execution by the state of California was justified. Williams was the co-founder of the infamous Crips gang. Throughout his gang career he put his community in danger. 51-year old Williams was convicted of murder. He killed a couple along with their daughter, and a store clerk. Williams showed no remorse and according to witness he bragged about the murders. Not only was Williams a murder but he was a leader of one of the most dangerous gangs. It is known that gang leaders still have power over their people even behind bars. Williams was a very influential person for all the wrong reasons. He had followers that would agree and act upon his requests. So influential that celebrities such
Cathay Williams born in Independence Missouri to a freed African American male and a Slaved African American women. In 1861 Union forces occupied Jefferson City in the early stages of the American Civil War. At that time, captured slaves were officially designated by the Union as "contraband," and many were forced to serve in the military support as cooks, laundresses, or nurses. At age seventeen, Cathay was impressed into serving the 8th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, commanded by Colonel William Plummer Benton. For the next few years, Williams travelled with the 8th Indiana, accompanying the soldiers on their marches through Arkansas, Louisiana,
Wayne Bertram Williams is an infamous African-American man convicted of murder and was held responsible for who has been blamed for committing most of the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979 through 1981. Wayne Williams was conceived by his mother, Faye Williams, on May 27 1958. His father’s name was Homer Williams. Wayne Williams was born and raised in Atlanta's Dixie Hills neighborhood of Southwest Atlanta. Both of his parents happened to be teachers. He attended and graduated Fredrick Douglas High School with an honors degree and attended Georgia State University for a year before dropping out. He was fascinated with electronics and attempted several get-rich schemes which cost his parents a lot of money. Growing up, he wanted to be a DJ, so he
Pastor: Roderick Williams, Sr. is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He is the fifth child of Edward and Jacqueline Williams. He was born March 1st. 1960. He is married to Denise J. Williams and they have two sons, Roderick L. Williams Jr. and Joshua E. Williams.
Many of you have heard about Ricky Williams, as he infamously gave up a promising career to smoke pot. This is not another Ricky Williams, but someone who believes so strongly that marijuana should be allowed in the NFL it led to his retirement. Eugene Monroe: at 28 years old he played his last down in the NFL. After speaking out about the corrupt NFL drug policy Monroe was cut from the Baltimore Ravens. After constant use of opiates to treat his pain, he tried the Earth’s natural medicine: marijuana. He came to a conclusion that marijuana worked just as well as the chemical opiates, if not better. Although his decision to speak out about it may have cost him a lot of money and a promising career, he doesn’t regret becoming standing up for
Williams was born and raised in Philadelphia PA, in the North Philly section of the city. It was there where he realized his love for music, and his gift for playing the keyboard. He credits much of his early influence to the late Bill Doggett, a Philadelphia-born jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist who was best known for his compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy"; and playing with the Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan. Doggett, whose mother lived two doors down from the Williams’ family, would drop by and visit Bryan while in the City. Williams said, “Every time he was in town, he would stop by and show he some things on the piano.
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Erastus Williams moved to Plainfield Vermont in 1813 with his family from New Hampshire and originally Quebec. He kept a journal of this life starting when he was 24 years old and continued it for 13 years. He chronicled his life as a farmer in Royalton Vermont. Made notes of his wife, Charlotte Stafford, and their five children. He wrote of his religious experiences in his town, about work on the farm and about the stresses of his tasks (Erastus P. Williams Diaries). In 1835 Williams feels blessed to have a home to call his own. On may 6th he writes “Isabel came to make a visit to me, the first time she was ever in my house – my house – and have I a house of my own? Yes, I am a slave to no one but myself now” (Albers). Towards the end of his
Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926. He was the son of a dental surgeon and a music teacher in a middle class household. Davis developed his earliest appreciation for music listening to the gospel music of the black church. His father introduced him to playing the trumpet at the age of 13. Miles Davis had talent playing the trumpet and was soon sent to music school directed by Elwood Buchanan. He quickly developed his own style inspired by major trumpeters like Louis Armstrong. Davis continually played trumpet through high school and later he was invited by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to join them onstage to replace a sick band member. After high school, he went to Julliard School. He began
Tennessee Williams described his success as one of great burde, and he argued that success is not from what you gain rather it is the obstacle to overcome. Before his fame, he was more enthusiastic about life and the many challenges he had to overcome before he could get his fame as a screenwriter. He described his earlier life as “one that required endurance” and believed that “it was a good life because it was the sort of life for which the human organism is created.” His mentality on success is that an artist can never just settle for one big break but that they need to continue to do better. With one of his play getting more attraction than he had ever hoped, he developed a jaded mind towards it and “got so sick of hearing people say, ‘I
Another historical event of the endeavored stand and laying of the substratum for civil rights was the stand made by the jazz musician Miles Davis in 1959. In August of 1959, Davis, leaving a jazz club, was approached by a couple of New York police officers, ended up being astringently beaten by the officers with a blackjack. While still majorly injured they threw Davis into jail and had pictures of the beating posted in the news the next day. Even though Davis was much different than Martin Luther King, Jr., Davis stood just like King against the breach of his and others civil rights and was prosperous in having his opinion apperceived. The civil rights movement of the 1950s faced all forms of segregation and racism, and with its efforts gained
Throughout the years, whenever a policy has seemed outdated or irrelevant in US policy, it has generally been gotten rid of. Slavery, prohibition, and discriminate voting laws were all done away with once people realized that they did not belong in the modern world, but there is still one piece of US policy that has long overstayed its welcome. This piece of policy is the use of the electoral college in our presidential election system. The electoral college is a group of individuals who each cast a direct vote for the president. The way that this works is complicated but essentially it boils down to this. Each state has a number of electoral college votes equal to the number of seats they have in the senate plus the number of seats they have in the House of Representatives for a total of 538 votes. Before each election, each party picks a group of people who they tell to vote for their candidate from each state to be their electors. When a citizen votes for president in November of election years, they are not voting for the president directly. They are voting for which party gets to send its group of electors to cast their vote in the electoral college. These electors then cast their votes in early December, and from those votes a winner is declared. Does it seem convoluted and overly-complicated? That is what I think. So, I say that the electoral college should be abolished because it causes problems in presidential elections, the arguments for the electoral college are
World War I had devastating and everlasting effects across the European continent. The Austria-Hungary and Russian Empire’s collapsed. New nations were formed including Poland, and Czechoslovakia, which has recently been separated into Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Communism became widespread in Eastern Europe and large amounts of land and resources were gained by Great Britain and France.
Understanding a person’s life and struggles helps explain his or her character and leadership qualities. Smallwood E. Williams was born on October 17, 1907 in Virginia. He moved to Columbus, Ohio with his mother and stepfather when he was only eleven years old. Williams lost his father when he was an infant (Taylor 50). Upon moving to Columbus in 1918, his mother joined Bishop Robert Lawson’s Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith (COOLJC) and began taking Williams there every Sunday. A few years later, at age fourteen, Williams started preaching at the church while attending school. In fact, people started calling him “Boy-Wonder Preacher” mainly after his travel to New York City to preach at Lawson’s Refuge Church of Christ
The “Truth” intervention was a mass media public health initiative that aimed at revealing truths untold by the cigarette manufacturers and was specifically initiated by the American Legacy Foundation. In its most basic form it can be described as an antismoking campaign that mostly targeted young people and thoroughly deglamorized the smoking behavior. Through the television campaigns, the intervention highlighted several things that concerned effects of smoking behavior not only to the young people but also to the adults because it was using the mass media. Firstly, it openly laid out both the short and long term effects of smoking habit and tinted smoking as undesirable