Prejudice And Racism-Personal Narrative

Since the birth of sports people have yelled, screamed, cried, and jumped for jubilance watching their teams rise to victory or fall to loss. In the past, encouragement and praise was left up to sporting spectators and fans, but thanks to one pep-club at Princeton University encouraging their football team the concept of cheerleading was born. (princeton.edu) Cheerleading was once dominated by male yell-leaders on sidelines, but over time transformed into a predominately female sport - and with it, a new culture was birthed. As a sport, cheerleading is young, and is still endeavoring to pave a way and establish credibility. The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolution of cheerleading into modern day cheer, while highlighting its’ founders.

You are acting like a five year old that has never cheered a day in their life.” I replied with “ Why don't you get on this floor and do this impossible routine without messing up. I have a life. I do other things besides cheerleading and I really don't feel like risking my life today to make y'all happy.” My teammates gasped and groaned and prepared themselves for the conditioning they would receive. The coaches were silent for a few minutes and everyone was preparing themselves for the worst.

If you are in the crowd you will most likely hear kids running up and down the bleachers when they are either going to the bathroom, or they are trying to find something to do. When the wrestlers lose their match then they get mad and take off their headgear as fast as they can and go to the sides. When they throw their gear you can either hear it hit a chair or the floor and it will make a loud noise. When the wrestlers lose most people stay quiet because they know that if you cheer then it can make the person that lost feel worse about losing. If the wrestlers lose their meet then on the way home on the bus the cheerleaders and everyone else have to be quiet so that they can think about what to do better and not to make them feel worse about

It’s pretty unlikely one would stand up and cheer if they were the only one doing it; it would not feel normal. If everyone else did, of course they would too. Mob mentality makes behaviors that otherwise would not be seen as acceptable suddenly acceptable. The larger the group, the higher the loss of self awareness occurs. There is a kind of anonymity that comes with being part of a large group.

Behind me, I can hear the coach yelling that’s a foul, and the cheerleaders in the far distance screaming their cheer. I struggle to rise, but I do. I glance at the scoreboard, and remind myself that we can do this as a team, in that we cannot lose, and no matter how good this other team is we still can finish strong

It can be quite funny when cheering when my voice goes flat, or I call out the wrong name -- which happens way too much. However, without someone lifting up the team’s spirits, it can be difficult and a struggle to make it through a

Cheerleading is done within a group of women or men, and it can be done for the audience’s benefit, to root on another sports team, or it could be for a competition. But no matter what way you look at it cheering is done for the entertainment of

At that moment there was nothing that could have made us happier. The boom of the cannon was so loud that I could feel it reverberating through my chest and it was incredible. The boys made the field goal and the score was now tied at 7. Shortly after Kade’s first touchdown, he made another and the crowd went wild. Carlye and I chest bumped and laughed at how ridiculous we probably looked, but we were so thrilled that we could not possibly care what anyone thought of us. We threw up some stunts and my heart was racing. Everyone seemed to be in a daze, in disbelieve that we were really ahead. Our score was now heightened to 13 while Campus was still at

I heard the lights flicker from the flashes and the camera’s shutter from the snapping of the photos as I came out of the locker room. My name was constantly shouted throughout the crowd, and the microphones from the reporters appeared closer and closer to my face.

“Ahhhhhhhh! Bang! Bang! Bang!” You hear that? Screams? Running? Gunshots? it’s evil or in other words

Often in sports similar to rugby, not only do the players get hyped, but the spectators and coaches as well. They yell and cheer for their team to win. The players seem like they’re

just struck. As a result, there was a horrid ringing in my ear that drowned the sound of my

It 's quiet for a while. For the next few hours, I 'm sitting, watching TV. The noise I heard earlier has left my mind entirely at this point. I 'm so relaxed I start to doze off. For three hours, I hold my dog and stare into space. Then out of nowhere, I hear it again. It 's louder now. A lot louder.

ESPN cameras all around, hundreds of screaming fans, pride and a big trophy at stake; no, the described scene is not that of a football championship. The excitement buzzing in the air escalates as the next team steps up to put all they have into a two minute and thirty second sprint to the finish. As a competitive mix of various other sports, cheerleading is a new sport on an international rise in popularity. Some may argue cheerleading should not and cannot be considered a sport, but according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary cheerleading follows the definition of a sport and therefore should be widely considered one because of its high level of physical activity, competition, and set of rules and conventions.

As a cheer rings out, think back to play-off football games in the frigid winter air. Remember clinging frantically to a cup of lukewarm hot chocolate only to have it stolen from you by that big guy in fourth period biology that you only talked to once. Listen once more to the noisemakers in your hands as you slammed them together in hopes it would bring the ball back to the correct side of field. Feel again the sensation of being squashed between other celebrating students as the clock ticked away the final seconds, displaying the winning score. Remember the pride you felt and hold it close, for it is a part of you.