Tanzania Zanzibar is a photograph taken by Abbas in 2007. It was shot in the country of Tanzania on the beach along the Indian Ocean. In its entirety, Tanzania Zanzibar displays a gorgeous natural background and native group activity, expertly presents a contrast between light, cheerful colors and darker shades, and conveys a sense of joy in simplicity in even the most difficult of circumstances. Tanzania Zanzabar depicts a group of young men participating in a recreational activity on the beach
Serena Williams has a net worth of $140 million. She is a renowned professional tennis player in the world. How she made it Tennis Serena Williams’s career as a professional tennis player spans 20 years. Serena Williams has been ranked #1 in the world 5 times. She has earned the most prize money in the world among female players. Serena had earned $73.3 million in prize money by August 31, 2015, according to the Women’s Tennis Association. She is the highest earning female tennis player in the
Serena Jameka Williams is the Number One tennis player in women’s singles tennis, who was born in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on Saturday, September 26th, 1981. She is the champion of seventeen single Grand Slams, and thirteen double Grand Slams alongside her professional tennis playing older sister, Venus. Together, they’re an unbeatable duo. Serena also won four Olympic gold medals, three of them in women’s doubles & one of them in women’s singles. This grand record is shared with her big sister
Women’s soccer around the world , Venus and Serena Williams are two of the most popular figures in tennis, and Indy car racing had their first woman racer, Danika Patrick. With all the fame generated by these women in their respective sports, they still don’t receive the same compensation as the men in their respective sports fields. Venus Williams, net worth is 60 million dollars; 27 million came from playing tennis (celebritynetworth 4). Her sister, Serena Williams has a tennis... ... middle of
become one of the greatest tennis player and sports star of all time, Serena Williams. Born Serena Jameka Williams on September 26, 1981 to Richard and Oracene this American phenomenon has been wielding a racket and whacking tennis balls to victory since she was three years old. She is the youngest of five daughters and together with her sister Venus, she has scorched a trail in the tennis world. Who is Serena Williams? Serena Williams is a tennis phenomenon who has fought her way to claim 23
The definition of an athlete is a person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical exercise, but today’s athlete is much bigger than this definition. Today’s athlete sets trends that are bigger than the sport they play. Today’s athlete is not only proficient in sports, but also public entertainment. Today’s athlete is competing not just for a win, but for an identity as something more than an athlete. No matter the sport, every game, match, or competition athletes compete in is one
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
Rousey, Venus and Serena Williams, Maya Moore and Erin Andrews are making waves and names for themselves in sports history with their notable athleticism, feministic views, and sports knowledge. These great women are making a statement that sports are not just for men, but also for both men and women, and sports previously where only men participated are starting to see women enter that field. Even in a male Especially women like Ronda Rousey, and the William sisters, mainly Serena, are becoming the
Serena William’s Journey With Racism Glamour and money are not the only components surrounding sports; many athletes experience what can be considered the dark side of sports. In the article The Meaning of Serena Williams by Claudia Rankine, some not so glamorous aspects of her life are highlighted. One of the most prominent rough parts of her life includes the racism that constantly surrounded her as an athlete. Whether it be the name calling and humiliation, or being paid less compared to a white
well. Serena and Nike both allow females to believe that no matter what media says, they can be their own independent person. Ads like Old Spice leave that old depiction of man over woman, proving some of Kilbourne’s theory to be correct. They make the woman seem weak and dependent on man; where much of modern society has come to know that there is equality between sexes. Unlike Old Spice, Nike supports the modern way of gender equality and provides examples of women athletes like Serena Williams
paper ... ...more free to develop their game plans rather than their outfits before the match, but hopefully their sexuality will not be completely submerged by the game either. In an article entitled, "Absent Anna Has Sexy Impact," it was noted, "Serena Williams has no problems with Kournikova's beauty bringing a tennis boost even if the subject herself cannot take a title....The majority of the credit pretty much goes to the Williams sisters and Kournikova. Those three have really made the biggest
sports today? LeBron James? Michael Phelps? Please. Get that weak sauce out of here. It is Serena Williams” (Rollingstone). With seventeen Grand Slam singles wins, 13 Grand Slam doubles wins, 2 Grand Slam mixed double wins, and four Olympic Gold medals, Serena Williams is the most powerful woman currently active in women’s tennis (Bloomberg Business Week). Defying the odds and unspoken rules of the sport, Serena Williams, alongside her sister Venus, changed the demographics, play, and image of women’s
Artists"" Capital. Global Limited, 12 May 2012. Web. 06 Dec. 2013. • Rodney, Dave. Usher. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2007. Print. • "Usher." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Dec 06 2013 http://www.biography.com/people/usher-38321 • Bradley, Michael. Serena Williams. New York: Benchmark, 2005. Print. • O'Neil, Dana Pennett., and Pat Williams. How to Be like Women Athletes of Influence: 32 Women at the Top of Their Game and How You Can Get There Too. Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2007. Print
Jamiko Verner Instructor: Lynnea King Eng.102 3/2/14 Nike: “Just Do It- Possibilities” In today’s world Nike has grown to be one of the most popular organizations throughout the world. Nike controls the athletic world and almost every athletic sport uses Nike as a sponsor or in some way, but this was not always the case. The Nike Company began with two associates by the names of Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, by selling Japanese sporty shoes in America. Their small business then turns out to be
It is hard to believe women still have to struggle in today’s day and age. Women today in a world prominently dominated by males in the sports world face a double standard in the pro sports world. Women have been fighting for centuries in order to achieve the same success and respect that men do in this world. Women in sports are often seen as a different; their consider being in-women like. They have to work twice as hard in order for them to achieve what there seeking, which is mainly equality
Goal: To write a a 800-1000 word article on professional tennis 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)
Book Review – Katie Taylor From the reading of Jason O'Toole's book called "Katie Taylor, Journey to Olympic Gold" and from other research done, I found out the following information in relation to the following headings. 1. Dealing with setbacks. 2. Motivation & Anxiety. 3. Coaching Philosophy. 4. Mental Preparation. Dealing with setbacks - During Katie's teenage stage of boxing it was always very hard for her. She didn’t get the chance to test herself competitively as there was nothing for women's
Originally called the Hotel Cortez, or as the Cecil Hotel, is now known as Stay on Main. It was built on Main Street of Los Angeles in 1924 and opened in 1927. It has seven hundred rooms and was built for the upper-class people of the twenties. The stories from this hotel serve as inspiration for the fifth season of American Horror Story - Hotel (“The Horrific History of the Cecil Hotel”) A few years after the hotel’s opening the hotel had to become a ‘budget hotel’ because of the Great Depression
seven years ago in Mesquite, Nevada. I began to reminisce about the family trip that brought us closer together, even if only for the four days we were there. We excitedly gathered our bags and followed Mom and Dad into the hotel. As we walked into the magnificent Casa Blanca hotel, our mouths dropped and our eyes widened as we gazed at a huge ice cream parlor next to the front desk. As Mom and Dad checked us in, we dropped our luggage and ran over to it and press our noses on the clean glass doors
decided to spend our two-week vacation in the all night city of Paris. We were looking forward to the 35oC weather, the theme parks built inside the over developed hotels and one of the greatest wonders of the world, the Eiffel tower. The hotel we wanted to stay at was called the Jolly Hotel Lotti. This hotel was like no other hotel I had ever seen. Not only did it have its own built in theme park with log flumes, roller coasters and any other ride imaginable but it also had twenty to thirty