Serena Jameka Williams was born on September 26‚ 1981 in Saginaw‚ Michigan. Her parents are Richard and Oracene William’s. Serena was the youngest out of five girls. Serena and her sister Venus both participated in tennis while growing up. Serena’s father was a sharecropper from Louisiana. He read books and watched videos to teach Serena and Venus how to play. When Serena turned three she practiced for two hours on a court not far from her whome with her father. Serena’s father Richard Williams moved
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Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams was born on September 26‚ 1981 in Saginaw‚ Michigan to Richard Williams and Oracene Price. Today‚ she is a renowned American professional tennis player. Serena was the youngest of her five sisters. When the children were young‚ the family relocated to the city of Compton in Los Angeles‚ where Serena started playing tennis at the age of five. Serena and her older sister Venus began daily two-hour practices with her father. Her father home-schooled Serena and
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more than you can see air‚ but when it’s all around you sure enough know it.” In Ron Rash’s novel‚ Serena‚ there is a couple that live in North Calorinathere is proof that the knife symbolizes Serena and Pemberton’s marriage. The knife Serena gave to Pemberton represents the murders she committed and the relationship in their marriage. The knife represents their relationship by showing that Serena and Pemberton start off strong but only because she manipulated him into believing her‚ just like a
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progress of human history and the development of music is highly evident when comparing Hildegard of Bingen’s Alleluia‚ O virga mediatrix and Notre Dame Cathedral’s Gaude Maria virgo. Hildegard of Bingen was a very respected figure in the twelfth century Catholic Church for her prophesies‚ scientific writing‚ medical writing‚ and religious poetry. Her chant‚ Alleluia‚ O virga mediatrix‚ is a praise for the Virgin Mary which exemplifies the Gregorian chant genre of the Middle Ages. The most defining
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12/27/2012 Rachel | The Williams Sisters | Venus Williams Serena Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17‚ 1980)‚ is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 24 as of December 24‚ 2012 in singles. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association on three separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on February 25‚ 2002‚ becoming the first African American woman to achieve
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Listening Journal - Understanding Music Hildegard of Bingen: Alleluia‚ O virga mediatrix This song is a chant from the middle ages. It is in the Latin language and is monophonic by nature. The medium is that of voice only. The lyrics are melismatic. The timbre is somber. This is a religious chant that was most likely performed by monks originally in church. Most people could not understand the lyrics that were being chanted since it was not the language they spoke. The church did not
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February 2014 Pemberton’s Fatal Ignorance In Ron Rash’s novel “Serena” he brings together the perfect couple. You learn throughout the novel that‚ not only are they the perfect couple‚ but also the perfect business team. In order for them to function so well together‚ they both have to be almost identical in every way. Rash illustrates them as such as the story goes on‚ but in his concluding segment the reader finally realizes that Serena only differs from her husband in the fact that she doesn’t value
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Serena Jameka Williams was born September 26‚ 1981. She is professional tennis player. The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has ranked her world number 1in singles on several occasions. She became the world Number 1 for the first time on July 8‚ 2002‚ and she also achieved this ranking for the seventh time on January 30‚ 2017. Williams’ accomplishments and success in professional tennis have led some commentators‚ players‚ and sports writers to say she is the greatest female tennis player of all
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Maria Bochkareva Becca Roberts 4th 2-25-14 Russia had rules forbidding women joining the army‚ but some did. For the first few years of the war‚ the few women who actually fought in the front lines required required the complicity of military officals-- except one. Maria Leontievna Bochareva was the third daughter of a pesant family. She as born in Novgorod Oblast in 1889. Badly beaten by her alcoholic father‚ she left home at fifteen to marry Afansi Bochkareva. The couple moved to Tomsk
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English 102 25 March 2014 Serena and Pemberton In the novel Serena by Ron Rash‚ Serena is a very evil character that will do anything to get what she wants. She is driven by selfish ambition. Her husband Pemberton on the other hand is driven by his deep love for Serena. His all consuming love for Serena gives him the capability of committing very vile actions. Serena is a character of pure evil. She will do anything she can do to get what she wants. Serena does not care who or what was
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