The Cheerleaders

Almost every evening during the fall and winter, there is basketball being practiced or played in the Cherokee County High School gymnasium. I see the sweaty players running up and down the court and hear the squeaking of shoes on the wood floor. When basketball is going on, the gym changes. If a basketball game is being played in the gym, the atmosphere is not the same as it is in any other circumstance. I oftentimes walk in to players with their hands on their hips, breathing really hard. The…

There comes a time in you rlife, especially in middle school, where you experience an overcast of bullying. In fact, 1 in 5 middle schoolers have had to deal the humiliartion and pain a bully can omit. Imagine how you would feel to have someone shower their haterful words on you judging the way you walk or why you were always on the edge of the lunch table, alone. Let’s face it, our schools are crowded wth bullies, but just an ounce of kindness, an ounce of compassion, and an ounce of…

protective of johnny Two-bit: the wise guy of the greasers he loves his switch blade and regularly shop lifts Bob: cherry’s boyfriend and the one that johnny kills he always where rings to punch greasers Cherry: a spy for the greasers and a socs cheerleader and she has red hair Marcia: friends with two-bit and Randy’s girlfriend has dark hair…

Jenée Desmond-Harris utilized brand names to create a image in the readers minds and a photo to further clarify that image. Adding in specific brand names helps readers obtain an idea or visualisation of the era in which the girls lived in. Wardrobe and style expresses a person’s personality as well as the popular style of other people amongst their generation. Desmond- Harris’s use of modifiers specifies the description in fewer words. In paragraph five, she indicates West Coast was involved in…

Susan Eloise Hinton, also known as S. E. Hinton, started writing The Outsiders when she was only fifteen years old. Little did she know, the book would win numerous awards and sell over 10 million copies. One of the reasons for the book's success may have been that there were not many books for teens other than the typical girl meets boy stories. She learned many important life lessons and implemented many of them into her books. Three important themes she put into The Outsiders were people are…

tight I thought our lives depended on it. In that moment I remembered how I first got into cheerleading. Which changed my life forever. I was in 6th grade at the pep rally where they recognize the football, volleyball players and of course the cheerleaders had to perform their routine that they have been working on for months. I was fascinated with the sport as soon they started. I said to myself that would be so cool to do flips and stunts. I was determined to tryout and make the team, for…

1-in-4 Teens "1-in-4 teens deals with depression" read the signs all around the school. It 's an epidemic, looking around on a daily basis i would never have guessed the proportion to be so staggering. But that 's the thing about depression, it doesn 't manifest itself physically, it 's a cold chill that sweeps across the room. The subtle and strangely comforting hand of death hanging to your every action with crippling grip. "1-in-4 teens" is a powerful statistic; the implications of such a…

can not begin to count how many times I had gotten lost! I tried making friends but it was difficult I was scared. Week one goes by and in my first period there was this girl that sat next to me, her name was Courtney Casner. She was a cheerleader at Buchanan, she was also very sweet and polite. She could tell that I was afraid to say something so she spoke first,"Hi! My name is Courtney". At that moment I froze I didn't know if she was talking to me or not. I began to say, "Hi, m name…

1. In elementary school I wanted to be a teacher. Specifically, I wanted to be a kindergarten teacher. I use to line all my stuffed animals up in and pretend they were in a classroom and I would read to them. In reality, in elementary I was a cheerleader. 2. In middle school I wanted to be a family/couples therapist. In reality, in middle school I was watching TV and washing dishes. 3. In high school I wanted to be a sports psychologist but by the end of my senior year I decided I wanted to be…

audience as he turned his attention to Michaels, praising his work in launching the influential “SNL.” “On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ he’s created a world where a band of no-names become comedy’s biggest stars; where our friends the Coneheads and cheerleaders and land sharks and basement deadbeats and motivational speakers and an unfrozen caveman lawyer show up,” said Obama. “After four decades, even in this fractured media culture that we’ve got, ‘SNL’ remains appointment-viewing.” Following the…