hasn’t made it to the semifinals at the French Open since 2003. Sam Stosur made it last year. Serena Williams had played seven clay court matches this season prior to the French and sported a pedestrian (for her) 5-2 record. She won neither of the two tournaments she entered. Sam Stosur came into Roland Garros sporting a 14-2 record with one tournament win on the surface. She had beaten tournament favorite Justine Henin in the previous round. Serena Williams losing on clay often feels like
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I’m currently in the midst of reading Allan Stratton’s coming of age novel aptly titled Borderline‚ about a Muslim American boy who wants nothing more than to be accepted in his white suburban community. Out of the blue‚ the FBI suddenly accuses Sami’s dad of being part of an international terrorist plot and things suddenly go from bad to worse when Sami’s dad is thrown into jail‚ and his bullies go from calling him a ’sand monkey’ to dumping his head in the toilet. When Sami realizes he has nowhere
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Book Review on The Secret Garden Title: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary of the story Mary Lennox was a spoilt little girl and lived in India. Her parents were rich and she had maids working for her. But when her maids and parents died of a disease‚ 9 – year – old‚ Mary Lennox is sent to her Uncle’ s mansion on the Yorkshire Moors. But a tragedy happened ten years ago and her Uncle has never recovered from it. Miserable Mary started to explore the gardens of the house
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Two unwanted children…share a vitalizing secret… The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett Puffin Classics Rs. 180 Nine-year old Mary Lennox is a disagreeable orphan‚ who is sent to her uncle’s desolate mansion in England. Misselthwaite Manor‚ however‚ conceals plenty of secrets…which seem to be waiting to be discovered… On realising that she has nothing better to do‚ Mary spends all her time in the vast gardens surrounding her uncle’s mansion. It is not until the day when a friendly
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the program’s significance in that era. In a similar vein‚ he cites the improvements in national infrastructure one of the factors allowing Oz Rock to gain popularity‚ by allowing such groups to perform and broadcast their music across the nation. Stratton further outlines the development of Australian music through the merging of his named strands in terms of their lyrical‚ aesthetic and sonic qualities. He uses the case study of Men at Work’s “Land Down Under”‚ to support his point‚ identifying features
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Book Review | “The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic” | | “Sophie Kinsella” | | Book Review: The Secret Dream World of a Shopaholic: Introduction: The book‚ “The Secret Dream World of a Shopaholic” is written by “Sophie Kinsella”. The book was published by Black Swan in 2000. This book is the first of the ongoing shopaholic fiction series. Sophie Kinsella also writes under a different name and has numerous other award winning books. The book revolves around the dangers of addiction
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Book Review Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun By: Wes Roberts Roberts starts the book out with his Author’s notes here he describes how he came about the topic of the book and where he got his information. He then moves on the preface where he explains a little about leadership and how it is incorporated throughout the book in relation to Attila the Hun. The next part of the book Roberts calls the introduction. Here he gives you some history about the Huns and how they rose to power.
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For my summer reading i decided to read the book the fallout by S.A Bodeen. This book is the sequel to The Compound which i read last year.I chose to write about fifteen year old Eli Yanakakis’s life a year later. When Tony also known as phil drugged us and flew my siblings and i to my father’s secret island in hawaii we discovered that he might have cured a disease called progeria with Turritopsis nutricula a cousin to the jellyfish.He made a gene gun which had a slight defect .My father was
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Colonial to 1815 Fall 2010 Book Review of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich`s A Midwife`s Tale A Midwife`s Tale is a meticulously researched‚ highly readable analysis of an eighteenth-century life in context. To understand eighteen-century America through one woman`s eyes‚ historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard`s massive dairy. Twenty seven years worth of seemingly mundane jottings. The author`s goal was to connect Martha`s dairy and her work as a midwife
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INTRODUCTION According to recent studies‚ self-help books – non-fiction books that offer advice for behavior modification and make explicit promises for positive change – have doubled as a percentage of all book titles since the 1970s. The increasing popularity of self-help books is an indicator of the modern society’s quest to maximize personal happiness through a process of self-discovery. Self-help books are a response to a real and genuine hunger for psychological understanding and self-improvement
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