Cheerleading

with my mom for most of the summer. I was extremely eager to be playful. I had a four-wheeler. It was my favorite toy. When I got back, from Detroit, I rode my bike dangerously. My dad told me to be careful. I could have hurt myself and I had a cheerleading season coming up. I knew that I could not afford to be injured…

Most people think of a concussion as a minor headache, However, it is a serious head injury experienced by many, and it alters the focus you most take for granted. I know this first-hand because I acquired several my freshman year: two during a cheerleading stunt during which I was the flyer, and another after fainting and hitting my head in the shower. Medical research has shown that…

In the novel, First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung uses forgetting the past as a motif. Ung writes: " I was even more determined to make myself a normal American girl. I played soccer. I joined the cheerleading squad. I hung out with my friends and ate a lot of pizza. I cut and curled my hair. I painted my eyes with dark makeup to make my eyes more round and western. I'd hoped being Americanized could erase my memories of the war"(235-236). This quote is significant to my visual and the book…

influence of his/her parents, just as Penny is in Wilson’s short story “Go, Fight, Win,” the cherished connection between parent and child begins to erode. In the beginning, Wilson exasperates the desire Penny’s mother has for her daughter to join the cheerleading squad, constantly pressing the fact that she is the new kid in school and needs to make something of herself. As she consistently comments about Penny’s looks and athletic…

would be the NEIA Dog and Car wash everywhere, a vacation bible school teacher, fundraisers with church, and any other extra things that need help around our community. My leadership skills are mostly shown in different classes and in cheerleading. For cheerleading I was chosen by our coach to be a captain, and as a junior that is a huge honor! By being the captain I have learned many things about being a leader including listening skills. In different classes with group work I normally take the…

Most immigrant students are commonly doubted by many people, always told that we are not capable of success. When I moved to America from Philippines, everything was new to me, and I felt very alienated. The hardest part of moving to a different country was the language. Due to language barriers, no one really took me seriously causing my colleagues to doubt me. I was put into that stereotype where I was made to seem I was incompetent. My personal experience with this stereotype made me work…

remain the same. I am very involved and committed to activities at school, extracurricular activities and volunteer opportunities within my community. For the past four years I have been active in high school participating on the Ida Baker Bulldog Cheerleading Team. I have also been very active in various clubs including Key Club and DECA. My extracurricular activities throughout high school include cheering at Top Gun All Stars, being…

Since I was younger I always wanted to be a cheerleader at the middle school I went to. I was one out of three 6th graders that was on the cheerleading team. I begged my parents for a relaxer in my hair so it will not be puffy anymore. My cheerleading teammates helped me to gain some confidence in myself because I was voted co-captain my first year of cheering. Even though I lost a lot of weight over the summer and there were many people taller…

All about me essay Let me introduce myself the one and only Mikena Page. I was born on February 12, 2003, at mercy hospital. I am a short girl with ombre hair living in West Des Moines Iowa. You will find me at starbucks drinking a delicious cotton candy frappuccino, And at the lake with my friends. Some favorite things of my own are cheer, breadsticks, and 6 year old yorkie ruby. On the other hand, I would love to share some more with you about myself, by telling you about my family,…

the Sports Industry has on Social Inequalities Introduction It was 1998, on a cool October afternoon in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium when my passion for sports began. From countless football games, baseball games, lemonade freezies and hot dogs, to cheerleading for my high school football team alongside my dad as a football coach, sports have always been a huge part of my life. Over the last nineteen years I’ve been to over forty college football games starting when I was only two years old and my…