Roses Tournament

After a year of fighting, the court declared that it was not fair to deny Richards of the right to play tennis professionally in the U.S Open (Rose 3). In 2008, Lana Lawless, a professional golfer who underwent gender reassignment surgery to become a woman in 2005, won the Women’s Long Drivers of America (LDA) competition by hitting the golf ball more than 250 yards. In 2010, the Women’s Long…

Wanbli Ota Club created the campus-wide commemoration and was then name changed to the phenomenon that is now called the Hozhoni Days Powwow. The only difference of the olden Wanbli Ota Club Powwow was that there was a banquet, feast and a basketball tournament that occurred before the ceremonies…

since I never actually did in elementary. I tried my best to try to participate in summer school transitioning to grade nine, and it was the hardest place to ever participate in class. Almost everyone in the class was an advanced placement student and rose up their hand way faster than I could ever think! I felt that I would never catch up to the critical thinking of the advanced placement students, but I did not give up, for there was still grade nine ahead. When…

Billie Jean King once said “Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose- it teaches you about life”. Being part of a sports team, we experience competitiveness, commitment, and perseverance; being involved in something that requires us to compete in these situations teaches us success, dedication, leadership, failure, and hard work. The more we grow as a person, the more we realize that not only can those qualities…

The sport of hockey has, for one reason or another, become an integral part of the Canadian identity. It is a cultural myth that Canadians are born with hockey sticks in their hands and a couple missing teeth. In fact, in 1994, hockey along with lacrosse was named the national sport of Canada. So it is no surprise that when the 1972 Summit Series between the USSR and Canada was set to be played, national identity was on the line. Therefore, this essay is going to analyze the iconic image that…

In seeking research to confirm the statement, “Heraldry has been a reflection of nations’ cultures throughout history”, research suggests that the answer is yes, it certainly has, although it is much more involved than what is commonly represented. The concept of heraldry is very complex and can be broken down into certain ideas. The idea of associative signs or armorial bearings is not pinpointed to a specific time, going as far back as Biblical times (Franklyn, 2). However, the specific idea…

There was a donkey there who a woman was trying to action off because he could talk. When it came time for the woman to action the donkey, he donkey wouldn't talk so the guy in charge told the guards to get the lady out of his way and the donkey rose into the sky and flew away and was talking and the guards were stuck in amase and were trying to catch him and he ran. As he was running he ran into Shrek and Shrek saved him from the guards. Donkey is the donkey's name. Donkey is very talkitive…

business” (3), Nick believes the East would provide more opportunities for jobs. As we all know, in the 1920s, New York City was the heart of America, where the booming economy and the new theory of modernism all started and flourished and stock market rose wildly. People from everywhere in the country flooded into New York in order to speculate in the stock market. Additionally, Nick portrays a typical resident where the elite and the rich live, specifically West Egg and East Egg. In this case,…

consider it as a mythological tale. The 2012 film The Hunger Games fits this category perfectly. The film begins by describing a different United States that is separated into 12 districts that rose against the ruling power known as The Capital. The Capital quelled a rising rebellion, and created a tournament known as the Hunger Games. In these games, each district must select one male and female who would be known as “tributes” to participate in the games, where they must travel to the Capital…

Humility – almost every dictionary would define this word as having a low view of oneself in terms of the importance one has in their society, having come from the Latin word ‘humilis’ meaning low. The word is also usually synonymous to words such as meekness and unassertiveness. The word ‘humble’ itself can have a meaning of being in a low rank, according to its third definition in the Merriam-Webster dictionary and even when you search ‘humble definition’ in Google. However, the word is…