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Apprehensive To Feel Being raised in the Chicano culture in a small underprivileged metropolis which had very little community spirit, I was taught to be able to fend for myself at a young age. My family was uptight about my reputation as if our family’s honor depended on it. I was expected to be an admirable and thoughtful person to others while keeping my personal problems inside. This setting vastly affected on how I presented myself my whole life. Growing up in this environment also impacted

heard of it from other people, but never imagines it might happen to them as well. Irrespective of their presumptions, I ended up encountering many new places and experiences in just 6 months into this country. In this short span, I saw a tennis grand slam final, surfed, skied, gambled and even flew a plane for the first time visiting 6 main US cities across the country. Unlike what I saw in all Hollywood movies, New York City wasn’t just about tall skyscrapers, busy subways and glittering downtown.

People pretend it doesn’t exist they deny that after all these years’ racism isn’t happening but it is still happening and very much alive. Tennis prides itself on being innovators. People think tennis is on the right track by giving equal prize money to both male and females and giving both genders equal opportunity in television and media coverage but the fact remains that tennis wouldn’t fully be there until they take that one step and drop the racism. This may seem like an impossible task but

I was born on August 19th, 1934 in New York City, NY as Richard Raskind, the son of David Raskind and Sadie Muriel Bishop. I was also the younger brother to my sister, Michael. My parents both had their M.D.s, my father being an orthopedic surgeon and my mother a psychiatrist. Growing up my mother was the more dominant one in our family. She allowed me to dress up in my sisters clothing. As I got older, I began to become sexually confused. I confronted my mother about this and she prescribed psychiatric

The world of tennis breathed a heavy sigh of discontent, as a Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer US Open battle once again did not materialize. Nevertheless, don’t worry; tennis enthusiasts should secure their Australian Open tennis tickets early, because rivals seem to meet “down under”. However, what was even more impressive was what happened in the women’s bracket in New York. Tennis may be on the verge of the next American surge, with some resistance from the elder stateswomen. Australian Open Tennis

Interesting Facts About Tennis You Might Not Know That Will Blow Your Mind Tennis is a fantastic sport, watched and played by millions of people around the world. Kids dream of becoming players like Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. TV sets worldwide tune in whenever tournaments like the French Open and Davis Cup happen. It’s a global phenomenon, and one of the world’s most-followed and played sports. However, tennis us more than what you see on the court. The sport’s history and everything

Destruction of a Street Ball Legend I rolled on the hard cement in excruciating pain. My finger throbbed at the beat of a drum. The immediate pain felt like the worst finger jam in my life, multiplied by fifty. I turned on my back on the scorching cement to try to alleviate the pain. My pinky and ring fingers were fine, but a pain that I had never imagined raced through my middle and index fingers. I now knew the pain of getting shot, as this pain was the equivalent. How could I possibly have ended

Tennis, the sport of people who are too “privileged” to play any other sport, those whose parents pay thousands of dollars to play at fancy clubs, for the kids to only whine about very inane things. Know I already know what you are picturing in your mind the kids who look like they all just got off their own yacht with their butler and are now on their way to their, you guessed it, solid gold mansion, The same kids that solely because of my sport I am compared to. I began to play tennis roughly

Off the walls Pulse quickening, feet shuffling, ball flying by in a flash while the racket makes contact with a whack. As a tennis player, everyone knows these feelings. The sport of tennis remains a challenge mentally and physically, pushing the boundaries while still remaining classy. Most sports are all about power and glory, but tennis has always been unique: it requires finesse, and it uses different in scoring and play. Tennis has the image of being a softer sport, yet it still has a unique

the match. Nonetheless, the outcome of this match did not ultimately change tennis. Though the match brought awareness to the disparities between men’s and women’s tennis, little was truly done to change the situation. It took 28 years for a grand slam, excluding the US Open, to regularly award equal prize money to both men and women, and still more time for the rest to follow in suit. While tennis is progressive in comparison to other sports in its implementation of equal prize money to both genders