Topic Sentence 1- Daniel Hale Williams had a rough childhood growing up with no money to educate himself with, and being African-american made the goals he hoped to achieve twice as harder.
The amount of success that Williams achieved once seemed impossible to get to, “When he was just 11, he lost his father to tuberculosis” and the occurrence of the “death crippled the family's financial situation”(Surgeon Daniel Hale Williams; Blaze Your Path: Determination earned him a place in the world's heart." Investor's Business Daily 30).
Williams was black and, “In that era, primitive ideas about race were common and blocked most minorities from higher education and entree into the professions” they wanted to pursue (: "Surgeon Daniel Hale Williams; Blaze Your Path: Determination earned him a place in the world's heart."
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Investor's Business Daily). Williams pushed all the boundaries that were holding him back from doing what he wanted to do and “became the first African-American member of the American College of Surgeons in 1913”(: "This week in Black history." Jet 14). Topic Sentence 2- Williams performed the first successful open heart surgery and opened a hospital for the minorities, since many of them weren’t able to afford the expenses of a hospital. The first surgery Williams performed was on James Cornish who, “walked out of the hospital completely recovered 51 days later” and was “the first recipient of an open heart surgery” to survive and not have died from an infection post surgery (Igel, Lee.
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When Williams opened the hospital he “insisted that physicians and nurses there maintain the highest standards of patient care, including cleanliness of the facility”, so he would be able to provide a good environment for the patients even though the budget would be crossed (Igel, Lee. "Six core principles for creating strong physician leaders").
Once Williams treated a patient who had “a slim chance of surviving” and the surgery he was performing “became so grueling that one of the nurses fainted”, but Williams still kept his work going and “made quick stitches between heartbeats to prevent further bleeding”, which resulted in the Patient being able to survive and say Williams “had the greatest pair of hands”(: "Surgeon Daniel Hale Williams; Blaze Your Path: Determination earned him a place in the world's heart." Investor's Business
Daily). Topic Sentence 3- Williams had done such great things in his lifetime that there were atriums and auditoriums opened after him, people praised him and talked about how worthy of a surgeon he was, and he was one of the biggest influence in the surgical field. “The Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine dedicated a new state-of-the-art auditorium and atrium to Dr. Daniel Hale Williams,the school's first African American graduate”, and one of the most, “noteworthy physicians of the 20th century”(Hughes, Zondra. "Northwestern University honors the legacy of 'Dr. Dan: America's first open-heart surgeon"). Daniel Williams was an adept surgeon and “in many ways one of the most accomplished leaders in American medicine”, who “brought real change for the better for the people he interacted with” and “set a lasting example for many others"(Hughes, Zondra. "Northwestern University honors the legacy of 'Dr. Dan: America's first open-heart surgeon"). After Williams graduated from Medical School he “was named chief surgeon at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Howard University's campus” ,because of how efficient he was a surgeon("This week in Black history." Jet 14 )
There have been many stories about Dr.Daniel Hale Williams. Today, we will be looking at two stories. Healing A Wounded Heart by William Orem and Daniel Hale Williams and Freedman’s Hospital By K12.
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
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Opportunities came and went, but no one seemed to care about the challenges African Americans were facing. Success was complicated due to the fact that unfair chances are given and no one could be held responsible because of this. Thus, Harlon L. Dalton and Toni Cade Bambara conclude with the idea that success is hard because of unfairness towards certain things for example, opportunities and equality. However, in Dalton’s essay the myth states everything to be true and correct while he points out the key differences in making the statements false. Toni Cade Bambara uses the viewpoint of a young girl in her story named Sylvia to show the impact of how success changes the lives of every African American and how it represents inequality. In addition, success is not as easy as the myth claims it to be, it illustrates that African Americans are not given an equal chance, and the odds are stacked against them. Some might argue that opportunities are for everyone and they are equal, though this is a good point it is not accurate. Many problems like race is just one factor that took a while to solve, so it cannot be said that chances are equal. The subject of success is important because it is not easy to achieve, especially when chances are not even and distributed properly. African Americans had to fight their way towards getting
Williams was a great one for “nigger” jokes. One day during my first week at school, I walked into the room and started singing to the class, as a joke ‘Way down yonder in the cotton field, some folks say that a nigger won’t steal.’ Very funny. I liked history, but I never thereafter had much liking for Mr. Williams. Later, I remember we came to the textbook section on Negro history. It was exactly one paragraph long. Mr. Williams laughed through it practically in a single breath, reading aloud how the Negroes had been slaves and then they were freed, and how they were usually lazy and dumb and shiftless. He added, I remember, an anthropological footnotes his own, telling us between laughs how Negroes feet was so ‘Big’ that when they walk, they don’t leave tracks, they leave a whole in the ground.” (The Autobiography of Malcolm X,32 )
(Topic Sentence) In the book Brown Girl, Brownstones Deighton, the father of the family, is trying to provide for his family and is studying accounting to try to land a job in New York City. His friends and family all tell him not to because the people who were hiring were racist, white people who didn’t want any blacks working for them. Deighton went to apply anyways and the racist white people rejected him in a very rude way. Thus, race played a large role in the story affecting it in many different ways. (Transition
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By age twenty, Williams began an apprenticeship with renowned Union army surgeon Henry Palmer. By 1891, Williams had a successful private medical practice, becoming the first African American doctor to be officially named the physician of the city’s street railway system’s workers. He was also a teaching physician of his alma mater, Chicago Medical College. However, it was on May 4, 1891, Dr. Williams continued his father’s legacy of furthering equal rights by opening the first interracial hospital that doubled as a teaching hospital for African American female nurses. Two years later, Williams would accomplish a career landmark. (A&E Television
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