Handspring

When most people hear the word Olympics, the first thing that comes to mind is the sporting competitions that house worldwide athletes every four years. But for the Intuit people of Alaska, the word Olympics represents something more. For generations the Intuit people have been participating in what they call, The World Eskimo-Indian Olympics. Their Olympic games consist of activities that challenge the mental and physical abilities specific to the Eskimo lifestyle. Although now these games are…

Baylee Baxter Mrs. Mahannah English 110 8 November 2017 She´s a listener and a doer. She is a woman driven by compassion, by faith, and a heart full of love. She is the one person, outside of my family members, who has always believed in my abilities. She taught me to persevere in all I do. She taught me that no matter how many times I fall down, I will always get back up. When I was just three years old, I began taking tumbling classes. My sister, who is seven years older than me, had been in…

By the second week of school, I had made a couple of friends. My closest friend at the time was a girl named Ali and she was a gymnast at Aiken Gymnastics. One day at recess, she showed me a back handspring stepout. At the time, I didn’t know what it really was, I just knew that it looked cool and I wanted to be able to do that. She followed this up by doing five in a row. I was amazed and from then on out I knew that I had to try gymnastics. After…

of my life so far. Who knew that everything that I dreamed of and loved was going to get taken away. I think that all my dreams are going to come true and they are the biggest. I think I am perfect. On the tramp, Clarissa was practicing her back handspring. “Clarissa, your mom wants you to go home! And Alex Grandma Genesier is coming over next week.” Mom said. I grimaced.…

Cheerleading is among one of the fastest growing women’s sports according to the New York Times post, yet more than half of the American population doesn’t believe that it should be considered a sport. College cheerleading should be considered a Title IX sport because of how many injuries it has caused many young women. Title IX is no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any…

Group communication is one of the most important types of communication in the world today. In a society that is becoming more and more engulfed in themselves, through cell phones, and social media, it is important that the value of communicating with one another is not lost or forgotten about. Our group thought long and hard about a movie that would best portray group communication and all of its components, and what better movie than one all about a team of cheerleaders? Bring It On is a movie…

track. But more specifically, I am a tumbler and pole vaulter. I struggled with confidence in both, but also have seen results due to a boost in confidence in both. My sophomore season of basketball cheer, I fell on my knees doing a running back handspring tuck during our halftime performance. Not only was it extremely embarrassing, it also produced a mental block for doing tucks. That fall, I returned to tumbling classes to try to get rid of my mental block. It was so hard because it wasn’t…

Cheering my way to College It was a gorgeous day out at the beginning of August, I was eight years old when I limped my way into my first day of cheer practice. But first, let me go back to what happened earlier that day. I was with all my friends playing on a swing set in my friend 's backyard, when I realized I didn 't know where my phone was. I panicked when I was on the swing, picked my tennis shoes up off the ground, and sprinted inside to get my phone. As I ran, I stepped on a huge nail…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…