Roberta Flack Roberta Flack was born February 10, 1940, in the small town of Black Mountain, NC, but she grew up in Arlington, VA. She was the daughter of Loran and Irene Flack, who were both skilled musicians. Her father taught himself to play the piano and her mother had formal piano lessons, which had Roberta around music all the time. She started taking formal piano lessons at the age of nine. At the age of 13 she had won second place in a state-wide piano competition between the black students. By the age of 15 she had already graduated from high school and earned a piano scholarship to Howard University.
Not only is she an inspiring female because of her accomplishments, but she overcame these accomplishments as physical therapy reccomended by her docor. This person who was born in New Jersey, worked hard in her profession and became a well known and respected figure skating goes by the name of Elaine Zayak. To start off, Elaine Zayak is one of the top figure skaters in the United States. She was born on April 4, 1965 in Paramus, New Jersey. At age two, she lost three toes on her left foot as a result of a lawnmower accident("Elaine Zayak").
Her family traveled regularly from Clarksville, Tennessee, to Meharry Hospital (now Nashville General Hospital at Meharry) in Nashville, Tennessee for treatments for her twisted leg. In addition, by the time she was twelve years old she had also survived bouts of polio and scarlet fever. Wilma Rudolph at the finish line during 50-yard dash at track meet in Madison Square Garden, 1961 In 1952, 12-year-old Rudolph finally achieved her dream of shedding her handicap and becoming like other children. Her older sister was on a basketball team, and Wilma wanted to follow her sister's
Norman’s mother was an occasional golf player so golf was nothing new for him. He started at the age of 15 as his mother’s caddy and in just two years he had mastered the game. Norman became a professional when he was 21. He won his first match in 1976 at West Lakes Classic that took place in Australia. The next year he participated in the European Tour and won the 1977 Martini international.
She became the World No. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002, and regained this ranking for the sixth time on February 18, 2013, becoming the oldest world no. 1 player in WTA's history. Williams is also widely regarded to be one of the greatest female tennis players in history. [5] She is the only female player to have won over $50 million in prize money.
Unit 6 Assignment PS360 Ar’Tika Miller Kaplan University January 30, 2014 Brenda is 17 years old and plays competitive tennis. In fact she hopes to get a scholarship to play in college. Brenda’s coach asked her to go see a sports psychologist who specializes in ABA because she is having difficulty with her serve. She does not have enough speed and accuracy to win matches. Her coach has tried every strategy he knows with no success.
Beauty pageants as we know them today arisen in the late 1960’s in Miami, Florida. The industry now accommodates as many as 25 000 pageants since then. You would think that sparkling tiaras, beautiful dresses and glamorous hair and make - up would be every little girls dream, but no a lot of the time this dream can very much turn into a nightmare. Children’s beauty pageants are judged on several different aspects including, how well they dance, modelling sports and casual wear, interviews and how much talent that they have. The children themselves are judged on how well they perform, their looks, and also their confidence, or how confident they may seem.
Due to the characteristics of watch and the support for the sports and racing cars, TAG does not only find movie stars but also famous athletes to do the endorsement of their advertising messages (Amos, Holmes and Strutton, 2008). For example, Maria Sharapova, a famous tennis player and only the 3rd youngest and first ever Russian player to win Wimbledon endorses TAG. Combining beauty with talent, Sharapova is a good endorser to do the promotion of TAG Heuer Formula 1 Lady Ceramics watches to the targets women somewhere in the 15-35 age brackets who may aspire to be like Maria Sharapova. The message in the advertisement is that TAG Heuer Carrera Diamond watch will make you like Maria Sharapova that is successful, strong and beautiful. The advertising message coming from Sharapova grabs audience’s attention and gives Tag a better chance of communicating its message to consumers (Choi and Rifon, 2007).
Some of the names that were appearing on the top of the charts surprised me. Who knew that the president of the math club had such a strong throwing arm? Is that my lab partner from freshman year passing every other player in sprints? These girls were working harder than any sports team I had been apart of. Amazingly, girls who had little history with each other were gathering together during breaks, laughing and encouraging teammates.
The Color Symbolism Analysis of Jordan Baker Laurentia E. Pratanu 11 IB 1 - no. 8 Cita Hati Christian Senior High School In The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker is a professional golf athlete, living in the East Egg of New York under the roof of her best friend, Daisy Buchanan and her husband, Tom Buchanan. She is from Louiseville and born to a wealthy family. She had had a relationship with Nick Carraway, an average man living in West Egg although it didn’t last long. Throughout the book, Jordan is numerously associated with the color gold, for she is succesful, wealthy and popular; however, she is also defined to have gray eyes, noting a darker side which reveals her opposite traits such as dishonesty, scepticism, and a somehow cynical attitude.