Tennessee Williams himself admits the fact that his works are to some extent autobiographical: My answer is that every word [in my plays] is autobiographical and no word is autobiographical. ... (qtd. in Grauerholz 300) Williams answer implies the fact that one should not look for exact similarities between Williams actual experiences in life and his works. ... Tennessee Williams" actual first name was Thomas and he gave it to his narrator. ... Like his characters, Tennessee Willliams frequently, and without any explanation, changed the location of his inhabitance. ... In virtue of this pr...

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While most of those states automatically review both the conviction and the sentence, Indiana, Idaho, Tennessee, Montana, and Oklahoma require only a review of the sentence. ... For eighteen years, Dennis Williams, along with three other black men, lived on death row. ... Later a DNA test would exonerate Williams and the other men. ... Williams" case, the police chose to support their racial biases above upholding justice. ... In Dennis Williams" case an anonymous tip led to his arrest not an eyewitness. ...

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Tennessee Williams describes her appearance as "incongruous- to the setting of the play (Scene 5). ... Tennessee Williams is famous for dressing his most degenerate characters ironically in all white, so this provides readers with another clue about Blanche. ... (Williams, Scene 9). ... I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth" (Williams Scene 9). ... - (Williams, Scene 4). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The disjointed nature of familial relationships, as shown in the other two texts, has an equal presence in Williams' "Streetcar." In Scene Five, Williams creates tension between the two sisters; in Blanches interrogation of Stella concerning the gossip about her, " there is clear panic in Blanche's voice, acting as if she has something to hide. ... Despite the suspicion presented Blanche's character; Williams hints at the fact she may be hiding something from her sister. ... Therefore arguing that Williams presents love, in this case familial, to be destructive. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Williams's production notes and stage directions emphasize the striving for what Williams described as a "new plastic theater." ... Williams sought the opposite in The Glass Menagerie: truth disguised as illusion. ... Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams) was an aspiring poet in St. ... She was an early recipient of a pre-frontal lobotomy in 1937; Williams never forgave his mother for ordering the procedure. The tragedy of Rose had a profound effect on Williams's writing throughout his career. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Tennessee Williams has a flair for writing about reality clashing with fantasy in some of his plays. ... Williams throughout Streetcar creates constant conflict between Blanche and either Stanley, Mitch, or Stella. ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. is the Reverend Adam Daniel Williams grandson, Williams is pastor of Ebeneezer Baptist Church and the NAACP will sponsor the Atlanta branch; Martin Luther King Jr. ... s son, Martin Luther Jin Jicheng old Williams became the father of Ebeneezer's pastor, my mother is a teacher. ... The evening of 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee Lorraine Motel story was assassinated racist, aged 39 years old. ...

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Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church. ... The same week, on February 13, 124 students in Nashville, Tennessee occupied seats at several lunch counters in the city. ...

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Arthur Miller, winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes strengt...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about hi...

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Williams, "If the classification has some reasonable basis, it does not offend the Constitution simply because the classification is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality." ...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, "freedom rides," and rallies received national attention in the struggle to end racial inequality. There were also continuing efforts to legally challenge segregation through the courts. Following the "separate but equal" decision of Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896, many Americans decided to push f...

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"11 In this respect, dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams exposed the raw tensions of the American family, and confronted problems of the lost individual in an industrial and mechanized society through statements of psychological and spiritual displacements, loss of connections, loneliness and self-deception. ...

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• Grade Level: High School