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Billie Jean was a world's #1 women's tennis player who won 39 Grand Slam titles. Read how this little girl whose mother sewed her tennis clothes became a world champion and led the way for equal rights for all people. She worked tirelessly to have equal pay for men and women tennis players and equal playing opportunities for girls and boys in all sports. Keywords: Champion, Citizen, Athlete, Overcome, Persevere, Tennis, Battle Of The Sexes, Billie Jean King, Leadership, Strength
Do you know what your special talent is and how you can use it to make the world a better place? Series One of HCCTA Elementary Reads is about five champion athletes who overcame many obstacles, set records, and made the world better. Read how these athletes did it and discover how you can do it, too. Arthur Ashe Tennis James Blake Tennis Billie Jean King Tennis Gale Sayers Football George Taliaferro Football Hamilton County Community Tennis Association is teaching young people about education, diversity, and community service through tennis. To make a tax-deductible contribution or to learn more about HCCTA, please visit www.hccta.org.
Ruth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees it as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture her family—which is a good thing, because all of a sudden that family is rapidly expanding. First, her mother moves in after robbers kick in her front door in broad daylight. Then Ruth’s father, a lounge singer, who she’s seen only occasionally throughout her life, shatters both wrists and, having nowhere else to go, moves in, too. Her mother and fat...
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Student Writing Tutors in Their Own Words collects personal narratives from writing tutors around the world, providing tutors, faculty, and writing center professionals with a diverse and experience-based understanding of the writing support process. Filling a major gap in the research on writing center theory, first-year writing pedagogy, and higher education academic support resources, this book provides narrative evidence of students' own experiences with learning assistance discourse communities. It features a variety of voices that address how academic support resources such as writing centers have served as the nucleus for students' (i.e., both tutors and their clients) sense of commun...
Senior managers in Parmalat SpA's U.S. subsidiary (Parmalat USA)--many of whom were from the Italian parent company or other Parmalat entities--uprooted, cleaned out their offices, and left as the magnitude of the parent company's fraud became known in late 2003. Parmalat USA had filed for bankruptcy in October 2003. With urgency and desperation, Enrico Bondi, the Extraordinary Commissioner of Parmalat SpA, had contacted the Milan office of AlixPartners, a global restructuring, consulting, and financial advisory firm. Bondi requested AlixPartners' assistance in determining the cash situation at the U.S. subsidiary and helping lead the struggling division, which was now void of senior management. Jim Mesterharm, a managing director in AlixPartners' Chicago office, was asked to lead this initiative as the chief restructuring officer. Parmalat SpA, often referred to as the Enron of Italy, was a trophy turnaround assignment at the outset for AlixPartners: for them, the worse the economic problem, the better the assignment.
Biochemistry is a fascinating subject which is growing at a very fast pace and an understanding of the concepts is essential for the medical and nutritional aspects of human welfare. This textbook is an introduction to the subject, providing information on the chemistry, structure, function and metabolism of various biomolecules, to give a clear presentation of the topic. Numerous figures and illustrations assist understanding.
Readers will learn in which ways light can be "confined" within a subwavelength region smaller than half a wavelength. Strictly within the focal spot, all degrees of freedom of light interact and manifest themselves in a dramatic way. The size and shape of the focal spot and the magnitude of side-lobes depend on the polarization state alongside phase and amplitude distributions of a light beam. Readers will learn techniques in which inhomogeneously (i.e., azimuthally and radially) polarized optical beams can be focused. In sharp focus, exotic phenomena can occur, including the negative propagation of light and a toroidal optical flow. Throughout the book, the numerical simulation is performe...