Venus Williams

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 at a young age, therefore, they became professional very early. Venus began playing at the professional level at the age of fourteen, and Serena soon followed, playing professional tennis at the age of fifteen. Off the court, both sisters have other interests. Aneres, which is Serena’s clothing line, sells mainly tennis and athletic apparel. Similarly, Venus has her own athletic wear brand which is called EleVen, but unlike her sister, she is the CEO of her own interior design firm, known as V Starr Interiors (Diffen).…

member that is putting them down, the media when they publish these photoshopped pictures of flawless celebrities and some from coaches who have their own weight criteria. It is up to a coach, a family member, or a health care provider to spot these signs and do something to correct them. In a world where male athletes are considered strrong while female athletes have to be first feminine and then strong. Athletic tennis players such as the Williams sisters, Maria Sharapova, and Anna Kournikova,…

Venus Williams is known worldwide for her extreme success in tennis. Like many of her peers, she's traveled the world, and has done so much more. Here are more facts about this athlete that many people don't know. Number Eight: She Wasn't a Normal Child Of course, who wants to be normal anyway? When Venus was young, they didn't put her into a traditional schooling system to accommodate both her career and preference. She was home-schooled and practiced six hours a day, only resting one day in…

In 2016 Gatorade released a new commercial with iconic athletes which included Usain bolt, Serena Williams, April Ross, and Paul George. In the commercial the athletes were pestered by their younger selves. The child version of these athletes helped motivate the athletes, such as wake them up, help them train, and be there moral support. An example of this is the first scene in the commercial where younger Serena Williams yells at older Serena Williams to get out of bed. Throughout the…

Biographical Information Venus lamenting the death of Adonis is a drawing designed by Benjamin West in the year 1768. He spent most of his time designing paintings such as this while in London. Description Venus Lamenting, the death of Adonis, is a drawing about Adonis, a mortal youth, as from the Ovid Metamorphoses. Venus was a mythological goddess who fell in love with him. They used to spend most of their time together hunting wild animals. He was slain while hunting and lay down on the…

heat is lost from the surface absorbing it and heating up. The more greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere, the more this effect is intensified. Some people believe this doesn’t exist and it is controversial among many political discussions, but this is a scientific conversation and should probably be questioned by other scientists. In nature, we see examples of the greenhouse effect and the global causes. On Venus, there is an extreme greenhouse effect that causes the average temperature…

William Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (1593) and Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander (1958) are seminal poems of the epyllion genre (Carter 136). According to Robert A. Logan, the epyllion—or little epic (Keach xvii)—“can be loosely defined as an Ovidian narrative poem about mythological and human figures in situations of frustrated love, usually unrequited or unfulfilled” (58). Though they were often perceived as “trite” and titillating entertainment, written “with undisguised artifice,…

“Named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty, Venus is also the only planet that is named for a female.” ("Venus, Second Planet from the Sun, Brightest Planet in Solar System." Space.com. Web. 30 Apr. 2014) Venus has fewer impact craters than any other planet. Also unlike most planets, Venus turns clockwise on its axis, as opposed to counter-clockwise. This is called retrograde rotation. It is said that this is because of their close position to the Sun. Appearing to be a nice golden color,…

In the story, All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a dystopian life where kids live with their family on planet Venus. This may sound super fun, but on the contrary, it rains and rains and rains and rains. Every seven years the sun shines down on planet Venus for just one hour. Most kids do not remember the sun since they are so young, but Margot is different. She has come over from Earth fairly recently. She grieves the beautiful sun everyday, and this grieving can be observed by…

That is why, despite not being the closest planet to the Sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System. Earth 's Tectonic Plates: the tectonic plates of our planet are portions of what is scientifically called "lithosphere", which accounts for the layer of the Earth that contains the terrestrial crust and the upper-most solid mantle. Tectonic plates account for many interesting phenomena - such as the formation of volcanoes and mountains, and the generation of earthquakes and tsunamis -…