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Grand Slam titles There are four Grand Slams over the year: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. They have the most value of all the tennis tournaments when it comes to points and prizes, therefore having the biggest difficulty. The number of Grand Slam titles a player has determines their position in tennis…

for me” (p. 11). Likewise, in showing the impact of supporting the persecuted, Open Doors USA shares a story about a new convert to Christianity, Sitora, who was disowned by her family. Open Doors USA (2016) writes, “But thanks to you and other friends, there is hope! Your support makes it possible to help put Christians like Sitora in safe houses when they have to flee their own homes.” Therefore, organizations like Open Doors USA welcomes us to join in serving persecuted Christians through…

During the 1996 Masters golf tournament at Augusta, one of the world’s finest golf courses, Greg Norman played one of the greatest eighteen hole games he had ever played. Norman shot an incredible score of 63, which still stand today as a course record. Norman went into the second day of gold with a fifteen stroke lead, only to choke under pressure scoring a 78 the day after shooting such an amazing game. Nick Faldo managed to come from behind and defeating Norman by a five stroke margin winning…

"Have patience" declares Dale everyday as we work on the farm. One time we had a calf stuck, and we had to get it up and pull it out. It was on Christmas morning and we had to do it before we started Christmas. I did not have much experience pulling calves but I had to assist anyway. I had no idea that pulling a calf would be so difficult. One time before Christmas morning we were out checking the cows when suddenly we spotted a cow that was having trouble trying to have a calf. So we went…

Fredric Reamer (2007) defines an open adoption as “an adoption where at least one biological parent and their child’s adoptive parents have contact with each other, share some identifying information with each other, and the child, when old enough, knows that contact exists.” Through this definition, there can be many different types of open adoption. Some open adoptions include the birth parent as a prominent role in the child’s life. Other open adoptions limit the contact between birth parent…

uncle, Rafa turned pro when he was fifteen. At the age of seventeen he beat Roger Federer to become the youngest player to ever reach the third round of Wimbledon, which is one of the four grand slams. Then two years later he played in the French Open, another grand slam, for the first time and won the tournament. He won the same tournament every year for the next three years and at the end of his run, he was named ATP newcomer of the…

tennis player who is ranked number 1 in women's singles tennis. I choose to research Serena because she has always been an important role model in my life. Ever since I have started to play tennis, I loved watching Serena on TV and going to the US Open to watch her in person. Every unique swing she does I like to recreate myself to become a better athlete like her. She has a determined and kind personality off and on court which helps me realize that she is a true role model not just for me but…

But about midway through the 2001 season she entered the Pacific Life Open. Though she did win that event Serena did not enter that event again for until 2015 because of how the crowd acted. They believed that the williams sisters where fixing that match by not playing against each other so that Serena would be more rested…

Australia's rugby women’s team has a chance to showcase to the world their prowess as they battle it out with rivals New Zealand in the Women's Rugby League World Cup 2017 on Saturday. The high stakes game will be played at the Suncorp Stadium in Australia on December 2, 2017. Saturday's game will be second successive final between the two teams. The Jillaroos, as Australian women’s team is known, has played against the New Zealand's Kiwi Ferns in the finals in a record four times. They are the…

Journal five- Stephen Crane “The Open Boat” Four men are in a lifeboat, lost at sea, off the coast of Florida. The oiler and the correspondent are taking turns paddling with the oars they have. They eventually see a lighthouse. As they try to get closer to the lighthouse, they use the captain’s jacket to make a sail. It works until the wind dies down. Eventually they get closer to the land but they are amazed that nobody sees them. They try to paddle towards the land but the waves are too…