Australian Open Essays

6-4, 6-4 (6). Williams barely skimmed by Steff Graf’s record of twenty-two Grand Slams and captured the world number one ranking (6). Williams lost her winning streak when she suffered a loss to Karolina Pliskova, in the semi-finals match of the U.S. Open(6). Twenty-four years after Williams turns pro, she went from the ranking 304 to 99 in the world (6). In 1995, when Serena turned pro, she signed a twelve million dollar shoe deal with Puma (6). After working with Puma, Williams decided to start a

Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian tennis player and Olympic gold medalist. Victoria was born at 1989 in Minsk, Belarus. She grew up with her parents, Alla and Fedor Azarenka, and her brother, Max. Like any mother, Alla Azarenka was looking for a way to keep her daughter Victoria busy while she was at work at a tennis club in Minsk. She handed the 7-year-old girl a racquet and told her to try hitting against the wall. Shortly after, Victoria participated in her first lesson on a real court. “Since

During the 2002 U.S. Open, Serena Williams came to play in an outfit described as “a body-clinging, faux leather, black cat-suit.” (Schultz). The reactions to this outfit ranged from admiration to disgust. This cat-suit was deemed inappropriate by various people including many tabloids, but it wasn’t necessarily the cat-suit itself that the media found controversial. Instead, it was rather the physique that the outfit provided. Although Williams ended up winning the 2002 U.S. Open, people were more

Venus Ebony Starr Williams is one of the most successful women ever to play tennis. She is a former World No. 1, and has always been a serious threat to her opponents. Her life is not just tennis though; she wrote a book, and has a successful interior design company and fashion. She is considered to be among the most powerful women in America. Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1980. She started playing tennis from a very young age with her four sisters. Her father recognized that both Venus

with her father as her coach. Williams was ranked three hundred and fourth in the world in 1995 until she defeated two top ten players. That bumped her to ninety-ninth in the world rankings. In 2003 she defeated Venus in the finals of the US Open, the French Open, and Wimbledon to earn her very first Grand Slam title (Prince). Instead of competing against each other, the sisters decided to pair up and take the doubles world by storm. Venus Williams’s height, Williams’s speed, and their undeniable bond

became a professional at the age of fifteen. A year later she graduated high school, and almost immediately inked a $12 million shoe deal with Puma. She beat out her sister in their race to the family's first Grand Slam win when she captured the U.S. Open title in 1999. She has won 37 out of the 44 Grand Slams that she has played in. She also carries 96 wins and 23 losses in her career. Serena has pulled in a whopping $73.3 million in prize money alone. On the other hand, Venus went professional in

Tennis star Rafael Nadal is suing former French minister for health and sport, Roselyn Bachelot, for defamation, after Bachelot accused Nadal of taking performance enhancing drugs on the French television talk show Le Grand 8. Nadal did not play tennis for seven months in 2012 due to multiple tennis-related injuries. According to Bachelot, the “real” reason for Nada’s absence was, “Probably due to a positive doping test” (The Associated Press). Nadal is suing Bachelot for defamation because

Serena became the eldest number 1 athlete at age 31 years. Right at this moment, she is number six in the all-time list of grand slam winners. Serena is also number four in the open era. In 2013, Serena competed against two other females, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka and received the victory at the French Open. Being this successful, she has a great deal to live up to. By living up to all that she has to, she also has to responsible for all of her actions. This means no partying, drinking

The Victorian Era was the history of the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 to 1901. The Victorian society was broken up into four different classes, Gentry, Upper Class, Middle Class, and Working Class. Depending on what class you were a part of determined the type of diversion you got to participate in. Of course, the higher classes were involved in a wider range of activities. The lower classes activities were limited and not as diverse. Sports in the Victorian Era were mainly

improved his game a lot. Which helped him win a lot more titles. Like in 2004 he won the Australian open, the US open, the ATP masters and he regained the Wimbledon title. He was ranked number 1 at the start of 2005 and also that year he won the Wimbledon yet again and the US open. Federer held the number 1 ranking for 4 years. In 2006 he won the Australian open, his 4th consecutive Wimbledon title, and his 3rd US open. While rank number 1 on the ATP tour Federer was awarded the Laureus World of the Year

Two Cities. The last two weeks at the U.S. Open were by no means a scene in a Victorian novel, yet the implications of Dickens’ tale apply nonetheless. On the women’s side, a star was born: Sloane Stephens. She won her first Grand Slam title and entered the tournament unseeded. On the men’s side, one of the four usual suspects (The Big Four) reigned supreme: Rafael Nadal. The Spaniard won his 16th Grand Slam overall and his third championship at the Open. And while Stephens broke through and Nadal

Stephen crane’s, the open boat is a story of four men trapped inside a lifeboat in the middle ocean. The events take place in one night, and by the break of dawn, everything finally comes to an end. This paper, therefore, is in an attempt to give a vivid critical analysis of the events that take place on this night, where a man faces nature and is left with no other option than to fight for survival in cold night filled with almost supernatural happenings. The story projects in a way that the reader

In the short story Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell, nuns at St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves try to turn a pack of young girls, including Claudette the narrator, whose parents are werewolves, into proper humans who can fit into society. Claudette struggles with balancing her wolf upbringing with the teachings of the nuns, and ends up conforming to the standards and morals of humankind. Her change from being a pack member to a human individual is seen in many places throughout the

Counselors should themselves practice the following and encourage patients to also abide by the following things during therapies. 1) Respect confidentiality: Therapist at all times must keep any identifiable information of the participants confidential and should encourage the patients to do sotto. Unless there is a direct threat to the patient, any parties involved or the patient or the law demands it, information must be kept confidential by the therapist. Ensuing confidentiality from the patient

The story that I had presented for my oral presentation in Task 1 is ‘Boys and Girls’ is a by Alice Munro. This simple short story is about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes but have to accept the gender stereotyping in the end of the story. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee, Ontario. The relevant theories of literary criticisms that can be applied to the ‘Boys and Girls’ short story are historical criticism

just need a break to recharge. Off-campus lunch provides money for our community, the students mature and learn to become responsible adults, not to mention they get a nice break from their learning environment. According to the Berkshire Eagle “Open-campus lunch leads to students putting money back into the economy. Local establishments like Teddy’s restaurant would likely be out of business if not for the hundreds of students that pass through their doors every week at lunch.” When students eat

Nothing brings people together more than a shared tragedy. In Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis, this important theme of tragedy is highly present, where the struggle is what causes bonding between the family members. Gregor, having metamorphosed affected his family greatly. Over time, his family had to adapt to the tragic transformation of Gregor, in order for them to live a comfortable and pleasant life. Having each understood that change is difficult to endure, they all metamorphosed, though instead

Enshrined in the United States Constitution, there is perhaps no debate that permeates the contemporary socio political landscape with as much fervor as the right to bear arms. In recent times, the rise of gun violence has brought the issue of gun control to the forefront of political discourse. Gun control has been hotly contested by political leaders, liberal and conservative adults, and even teenagers in high school. While there are many articles online regarding this topic that appear to be reliable

The Open Boat In Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat,” he uses a lot of imagery to portray how cruel nature is and how man must fight to stay alive and reach land. Man must battle the sea in which he refers to as gray and the only green is the land that the men must reach in order to survive. The short story evolved from Cranes real life experience and what he went through being stranded in the Atlantic Ocean. The story captures both brotherhood and individualism Writer Stephen Crane got

bathtub; the danger and uncertainty of a powerful, unrelenting sea; and four men who have nothing but each other to rely on in their quest for survival. This sounds like the plot of a thrilling, dramatic tale – and it is – but Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” is more than that: it is a retelling of Crane’s own brush with death and a stark consideration of the meaning of life. Stephen Crane was the youngest of fourteen children born to Johnathan and Mary Helen Crane. His life – although typical of