Billie Jean

Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer shows the dedication and drive that women had to have in order to be successful at sports in the twentieth contrary. Billie Jean King who came from a very athletic family first got her inspiration to succeed at sports from the athletic sermons she herd in church every Sunday as a young child. One of her friends was starting to play tenses and she wanted to start also. After working around the neighborhood to earn the

There is an old saying about being in the right place at the right time, and for female athlete Billie Jean, this statement could have been her life motto. Billie Jean had the right ambition, attitude, and abilities to take the tennis world by storm and prove to the world that women could be more than cute housewife's who occasionally hit a ball around. Billie Jean’s father, Bill Moffit, encouraged his tomboy daughter to play sports, however, her first realization about her future as a professional

At age five, Billie Jean King knew she was going to do something wonderful when she grew up. Eventually, she did do something great by making an immense difference in the equality for women in sports. Billie Jean King was a women’s tennis player who fought for equality for women in the athletic world. She was an advocate for women’s rights in sports by working for women to have equal opportunities as men in athletics. Billie Jean King had a profound effect in the equality for women in sports. A tennis

Billie Jean King, the first female athlete to admit her homosexuality, was born on November 22, 1943 in the city of Long Beach, California. Both Billie and her brother Randy excelled in athletics as kids. Billie played softball at the age of 10, but that eventually ended because her parents insisted that she play a more “ladylike” sport. She developed an interest in tennis and began to play and practice at the Long Beach public courts. King started receiving coaching from Alice Marble and won her

Similarly, Billie Jean King broke barriers in her sport to change the perception of females in the athletic and professional worlds forever. When King began her tennis career in the early 1960’s, just about nobody paid attention to women’s sports. In 1971, only one percent of collegiate athletic budgets were going to women’s sports and the ratio of male to female high school athletes was 12.5 to 1 (Impact of Title IX). However, King quickly organized a group of female tennis players to travel around

Billie Jean King is a women of many talents and much accomplishments, “I have to things my own way- sums up Billie Jean King’s philosophy of life as well as her relationship to feminism” (Ware 150). In 2006 the United States Tennis Association renamed its Flushing facility, the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in honor of King’s wide spread accomplishments. The Flushing facility is most well known for hosting the U.S. open every year. This was a huge honor, but even more impressive was when

These songs were; Wanna be startin’ something, Baby be mine, The girl is mine, Thriller, Beat it, Billie Jean, Human nature, P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing) and The Lady in my Life. Thriller allowed Michael Jackson to eradicate racial barriers in music, shown on his MTV appearances and meeting the President of the United States (Ronald Reagan at the time). Thriller

Quincy Jones was the one responsible for the arrangement of “Billie Jean”. Jackson and Jones agreed that they want Steve Barron to produce the video (“Songfacts”). Barron had a complex plan of using many dancers but do to budget constants he had to settle for a more simplistic approach (“Songfacts”). The bass and drums laid the foundation for the song with the chorus providing a “catchy melodic hook” (Covach, “Introduction to Rock”). “Billie Jean” was one of those songs where it was transitioning out

unearned to connect with the audience through addressing personal and communal issues earned him the King of Pop title. This is presented in this song the Billie Jean which depicts a reflective of Jackson's challenge to mitigate the challenges of fame, gender, and family-related issues in American and across the globe (Manchin, 2011). Billie Jean is a warning tale that highlights the threats of getting involved and breaking women's heart and feelings. In the song, Jackson notes that '' mother always

As America headed into the 1980s, two decades of social and political upheaval have left the nation rattled and the economy weakened. The Iran hostage crisis shook America's confidence and many looked for a new kind of leader to steer the country into the new decade. Ronald Reagan led America into a new era of prosperity leaving the soul-searching of the 60s and 70s behind. The nation was ready to enjoy itself and with plenty of new toys to play like VCRs and video games, Americans spent more time