player Venus Williams. Total Word Count In This Document: 803 Title: Should Venus Williams Retire? For anyone who follows professional tennis, two names stand out: Venus and Serena Williams. Everyone knows the Williams sisters as an unstoppable force, whether they’re playing together or individually. Furthermore, everyone sees them as inseparable, in that one always accompanies the other (whether on the court or simply in conversation). However, contrary to popular belief, the Williams sisters
The Venus’ Rise to Fame (introduction) Venus Williams is arguably the greatest African-American tennis player in the history of the game. Winning 17 singles titles in the Southern California 10 and under championships, she was featured on the front page of the entire paper of The New York Times. At age 10, she was described as “the most hotly pursued preteen in U.S. tennis history”. However, the sudden rise of Venus to prominence was surrounded with gender equality and racial associations. Despite
Venus Ebony Starr Williams was born on June 17, 1980, in Lynwood, California. As the fourth child of five daughters, she was birthed to Richard and Oracene Williams. Venus’ willingness to learn, resilience, and her enthusiasm to become masterful despite her life’s demanding nature -- inspired her father to commit to teaching her a game that proved to be an interdisciplinary and catalytic skill in her life. Markedly, Venus was introduced to the game of tennis by her father on the public courts in
Within todays sporting community, certain aspects of sport and its practices promote and construct ideas that sport in general is a male dominated. Sports media often provides an unequal representation of genders. Women athletes are regularly perceived as mediocre in comparison to their male equivalents (Lenskyj, 1998). Achievement in sport is generally established through displays of strength, speed and endurance, men usually set the standards in these areas, consequently woman rarely reach the
Within todays sporting community, certain aspects of sport and its practices promote and construct ideas that sport in general is a male dominated. Women athletes are regularly perceived as mediocre in comparison to their male equivalents (Lenskyj, 1998). Achievement in sport is generally established through displays of strength, speed and endurance, men usually set the standards in these areas, consequently woman rarely reach the level set by top male athletes. Due to this, the media significantly
“Is it in you?”, “Get out what you put in”, “Win from within”. These are just a few sayings that the founders of Gatorade use to help persuade readers into thinking, “In order to be successful I need Gatorade”. This drink is a very popular performance enhancing sports beverage that athletes from all over depend on. Using the top athletes known to man in their advertisements they remain successful in fueling athletes across the globe. I have chosen two ads from Gatorade. I read them, examined them
Maria Sarapova: Suspension. Enough? Or Inadequate? I strongly recommend the article “Why Suspensions Won’t Deter PED Users Like Maria Sharapova” by Zach Petersel to be published in The Shorthorn newspaper. Petersel’s article is incisive, coherent, and persuasive; his discussions are relevant and have sufficient evidences to support his claim. The issue of the article is complex, controversial and intriguing standing suitable for most of The Shorthorn readers including professional athletes, trainers
Earth. This planet is known as Venus and was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty and is the second largest terrestrial planet. This planet is sometimes referred to as the “morning star” and the “evening star.” One day on Venus is longer than one year. Along with all of these things Venus also has a variety of atmospheric conditions, characteristics of the celestial body, including the path of movement and the personality of the celestial body. The Planet Venus was named after the Roman
It has been raining for seven long, treacherous years without stopping. In the science fiction short story, “All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, it has been raining on Venus for seven years. In the short story, Bradbury writes about a child’s life on Venus. Her name is Margot, and she was born on Earth and moved to Venus when she was four years old. In the short story and movie, many similarities and differences were present. Between the short story and the movie, many similarities were shown
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher and Peter Taylor’s Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time Various authors develop their stories using gothic themes and characterizations of this type to lay the foundation for their desired reader response. Although Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Peter Taylor’s “Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time” are two completely different narratives, both of these stories share a commonality of gothic text representations. The stories take slightly
John Gray's "Men from Mars and Women from Venus" In his work "Men from Mars and Women from Venus", John Gray explored the intrinsic differences between men and women in a way that has helped millions of people to understand why relationships between the two sexes could be so frustrating. Gray was correct when he talked about women cherishing love, communication, beauty, and relationships. However, he oversimplified the gender differences between the two sexes. Though women appreciate the beauty
What would the world be like without the knowledge of the solar system? No one would land on the moon and no research would go into the effects of the sun’s gravity on the earth. Also, what would happen if Galileo never studied the laws of moving objects or their mathematical effects? Many of the advanced technologies of today are contingent on this fact. Galileo Galilei was an astronomer, physicist and mathematician who was influential because of the complex discoveries that he made and the knowledge
mythology of various origins and eras (“Femme Fatale” 1). “If the goddess of virtue is a lily and the vamp is an overripe red rose, the femme fatale is a Venus flytrap.” (Billinghurst 1). In the simple quote above, Ms. Jane Billinghurst, author of “Temptress”, provides explanation of the femme fatale by way of metaphor, likening the way in which the Venus flytrap, or Dionaea muscipula, succeeds in obtaining its next meal by way of temptation to the likeness of the femme fatale, using temptation to secure
Mars And Venus I am following up on the book of , "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus." by John Gray. "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus" was been a very interesting book. The book brought up some very interesting facts about both sexes. While also remaining very general to cover basically everyone and simple for everyone to understand. So simple in fact that I saw everything in there as being common sense; but also at the same time being hidden from the obvious senses
In many ways Venus is found to be similar to Earth. However their similarities do not extend further than their physical properties, for instance, their atmospheres differ greatly from each other. Venus is said to have atmospheric pressure of 92.1 barometers (Adams, D. Et al., 1994 p.126) which it is evidently 92 times greater than Earth’s that is 1.01 barometers (Adams, D. Et al., 1994 p.126) at sea-level. In spite of this comparison to Earth’s atmospheric pressure, Venus owns an out of the ordinary
I’d first like to discuss the four closest planets to the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, also known as terrestrial planets. These planets are different from Jovian planets, mostly because of their solid surfaces. However, these are not the only explanations for the distinctions between the Jovian and Terrestrial planets
Imagine living on a planet where it is rainy for seven years nonstop, until one day, for only a few hours, the sun finally shines. In the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, the children of Venus only get a couple of hours of sunlight once every seven years. When it is not sunny, it is raining constantly. Since the last time the sun came out was when the children were only 2 years old, they have no memory of what the sun looks or feels like. The only person who remembers is Margot
Comparing Venus In science fiction, authors use reality to make it seem like the story could happen. But, at times, they are not always exactly like reality. This essay will compare our Venus in real life to the Venus in “All Summer in a Day” We will start off with the differences. There are great deals of differences between the real Venus and the Venus in the story. First is the temperature and climate on Venus. Real Venus temperature is over 860 F and has clouds made up of sulfur. NASA’s own
Antonine Woman as Venus It is determined the Antonine Woman as Venus is a woman of aristocratic status. The portrait is made of fine-grain marble, a medium only upper-class persons could afford. Also, only persons of wealth could afford to have such a protrait made. The woman is portrayed as Venus, a goddess who is connected to the imperial family, and members of a royal family would often have themselves depicted as a deity. (De Puma 26) We know she is being portrayed as Venus because of her bare
star and does not shine by its own light " (Grolier, 1992). The only planetary system that is known to man is our solar system. It is made up of nine planets which range in size and make-up. The nine major planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There are also many other minor planets which are also in our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. In this paper I will discuss the planets and how they