the photo of a cheerleader essays

the photo of a cheerleader essays The Photo of a Victorious Cheerleader 2004 In the poem A Photo of Immigrants, the author Robert Wrigley presents a photo where an immigrant family is under the fear and pressure of learning how to deal and live in this new country that they have come to. Like this poem, my photo also represents the stress of a young lady that has to overcome her biggest fear of performing in front of an audience and come out as a champion because that is what all her family expects her from her. Cheerleading is a popular sport these days. They cheer for many different sports, such as, football and basketball and many people go to the games just to see the cheerleaders perform; however, no on knows what is going on before performing. It is June 19th 2004, the sun is out, there is a perfect weather and the Staple Center has never been so full of people as there is today and everyone is waiting to see all the young cheerleaders come out and do what they do best. The time is passing and all the cheerleaders are excited except one, my sister Mayra. She is about fifteen and half years old, she joined cheerleading this year and so far she has had no trouble on getting use to it. However; she has never perform in public, in fact she does not like it. Ten minutes before going to the stage she decides not to participate and let her squad and family down. She is under a lot of tension, she obviously does not know what to do since she does like cheerleading and she knows she can do it , it is just that she is scare and the stress is not e letting her think well. Ever since I have known my sister, I have seen her give up a lot of opportunities just because she lets her fears conquered her. That day she comes up to me and ask me for an advice as a big sister I know I have to tell her not to quit, but most of the time I just go along with what she says so that way she will not disturbed me with her problems. However, this time my parents are invo...