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    Crime, etc., but they give us a false sense of what an actual courtroom setup looks like. Unlike these shows, there are various steps that must be taken before the defendant is prosecuted. There is the arrest, initial appearance, bail is set, either a grand jury or preliminary hearing is conducted, arraignment occurs, along with all pre-trial motions being heard before trial, a trial is then started, a sentence is given, and sometimes the defendant appeals the charge. In contrast, assembly line…

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    From the swing of the racket to the way they move across the court, Venus and Serena Williams are both brilliant tennis players. Both sisters are equally successful in their lives outside of tennis, but their careers in the game are very different from each other. Venus Williams was born on June seventeenth, 1980 making her the older sister in the dynamic tennis duo. Her younger sister, Serena, was born on September twenty-sixth, 1981. Both girls were enrolled at Rick Macci’s Tennis Academy…

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    The majority of Kate Chopin's short stories are set in the late nineteenth century in Louisiana, regularly provincial Louisiana. The greater part of the characters, as the vast majority of the general population living in Louisiana at the time, are Creoles, Acadians, Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, and individuals of blended race. With the exception of a percentage of the Creoles, the greater part of the characters are appallingly poor, in light of the fact that the zone has yet…

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    which made her the second black woman to win a Grand Slam title. The first being Althea Gibson. As an african american tennis player Serena has overcome and dealt with many difficulties. She has been told that she and her sister Venus (also a tennis player) are arrogant and unfriendly to others on the court and off the court. Serena is well known for her tennis skill and all the events that she has won at a young age. She also has more Grand Slams than everyone else in the field that isn’t…

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    Tennis Serve Analysis The all important tennis serve; people say it’s the hardest part in tennis; that the server wins the point and so people need to know how to do it well. In this presentation I will compare and contrast my tennis serve with a professional to highlight my weaknesses and to provide recommendations through different types of practice and feedback to improve my serve. The major weakness in my tennis serve is the incorrect balance of weight in the prep phase, no snap of the…

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    Tennis is a sport where either two or four players hit a ball over a net using racquets. During play, tennis balls can reach speeds up to 263 km/h, but how do they do this (Nichols, 2016)? There are multiple factors to the speed of a tennis ball during play, including the strength of the hit, the racquet, the type and tension of the racquet strings and the location of the ball’s collision with the racquet (Allen, 2010). One of the most important factors, the location of the ball’s collision…

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    On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, along with a Virginia grand jury, indicted Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on a combined 32 counts of criminal charges. These charges range from filing false tax returns, all the way up to conspiracy to defraud multiple banks of more than $22 million through loans. Manafort was also accused of funneling as much as $30 million through offshore banks in order to conceal it from the United States. These charges will be added to the previous 12 charges they…

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    What is tennis? Well i'm going to tell you about tennis. Tennis is a sport. tennis can be played individually with a single opponent (called singles) or you can do (doubles) where there's two people on each side. Each court will have three tennis balls you get two serves. the games there's a few kinds of games there called a set that's six games in total, also a pro set to eight games in total, and there are tiebreakers for example if yall was playing a set and both teams is at five all then you…

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    Although Murray has been in numerous finals, he has only won a single Grand Slam title- Wimbledon 2013. He was able to come back in this match, but he seems to struggle in the five set matches when he starts to lose a few games. Most recently against Novak Djokovic in the French Open final, Murray won the first set, but lost…

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    Over the weekend, Andy Murray won his third Grand Slam and second Wimbledon title, defeating next generation of tennis member Milos Raonic. The match was a fairly routine three-set victory (6-4, 7-6, 7-6) for Murray, who never seemed in jeopardy of losing the meeting. Raonic entered Sunday’s Wimbledon men’s final playing at a tremendously high level, fresh off the greatest win of his career, a five-set victory over arguably the greatest tennis player of all time, Roger Federer. In the semifinal…

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