I Am A Hello Kitty

I had wanted to lead Alameda High School’s Ski Club as soon as I became a member in freshmen year. I experienced my first high school ski trip then. During this trip, I met new students from all grade levels and formed close bonds with them. While I had an amazing time skiing with peers at the same advanced level as myself, I noticed that the club seem to cater to a certain group of people. Something just didn’t feel quite right.

Being on the team has taught me numerous lessons that I have applied in my life. One is that there is a difference between being conceited and being being confident. This revelation took me forever to fully grasp the concept of. It means that it is OK to be your number one fan, just because you think highly of yourself that does not make you arrogant; it shows that you believe in yourself.

As if I had unconsciously alienated myself from the squad. But no matter what I did I couldn’t shake the quasi -mental abuse that I had endured from cheer phi earlier on. No one likes to feel like the black sheep. But being a rebel was embedded in my DNA since birth. After all the separation, stress, and burdens of my financial obligations. I had contemplated quitting the team. I figured that if I didn’t want to be a part of cheer phi and if I couldn’t afford being on the team then why bother. One of the cheer phi members overheard me discussing my plan to the coach .I immediately got defensive and was silent the whole practice thinking that they were happy that I was leaving.

Viewer experience of a Cleveland Browns game and Smithville Smithies game is very different. When you walk out of the dimly lit hallway and into the stadium at First Energy, the sun is blinding. The grass field looks so good that it could be easily mistaken as artificial turf. There are over 70,000 fans on any given Sunday. While looking around the stadium you can see orange and brown colors everywhere of fans representing the home team. Occasionally you can see different colors scattered amongst the Brown’s colors of the fans representing the other team. Noise from the crowd is so loud, it makes it hard to hear people sitting in the seat beside you. When the browns are announced they ran out of the tunnel and the whole crowd stands up to cheer. Many fans at the browns game fans are drunk, and yell at the other team’s fans. After the browns run onto the field they start warming up. Quarterbacks start passing the ball to each other, the centers are snapping, and the punters are

The last type of fan is a fair-weather fan. This is the least liked fan and these fans irritate many people. Fair-weather fans will like one team one year and switch their favorite team the next year because of recent success by the other team. These people are not truly sports fans, and will just root for who is popular or whoever their peers like so they can fit in. Fair-weather fans root for teams that they do not follow because of excitement revolving around a team or because there are some big names on the team that they have actually heard of. These people will like a team, but will not follow them very closely and may only attend one or two sporting events a year at the most. Fair-weather fans will know the names of the star people on their team, but will not know the majority of their favorite team. Usually they will not have much merchandise with their favorite team on it either because they switch teams so much that they do not have tome to accumulate many goods with their team on them.

In this analysis I will cover the different aspects of sport subculture and what it means to be a recognizable member within a group. I will give examples of what it means to be a part of such subcultures. For example, shared ways of dressing, group status and credibility, as well as some of the groups norms and rituals. The specific group I will discuss will be my basketball team and the role I play within it. Because my team is at highly competitive level, our norms may be unlike to other teams’ especially those of less competitive teams. Each and every team has their own culture and practices, and it is through these that they identify themselves as being different from other teams along with giving them an identity and a

A club that I had always wanted to be apart of since my freshman year of highschool was The Beta Club.

During the 1990’s Beanie Babies were all the craze for teenage girls. Within the first three years after being released, more than 100 million Beanie Babies were sold. Beanie Babies were stuffed animals with plastic beans given with names and birthdates. They mainly appealed to teenage girls. Today, Beanie Babies aren’t as popular as the used to be , but they are still bought all the time. Beanie Babies overall were a very crazed object the everyone wanted (George

People getting arrested, drunk, and in fights for a game? People all across the world attend sports of all kinds. Fans can not always be the nicest or like the other team but that shouldn't stop you from being a fan or going to a game. Infact it’s good to be a fan of a certain team, studies showed that if you have strong liking of a particular team it can actually make you a healthier, happier, and more social person. So if you don’t particularly like a sport just turn on your tv and try watching some type of sport who knows you might just like it.

Attending the Ladycat soccer booster club meeting revealed to me how much the staff does for the team. As a three-year varsity player for the Ladycats I will now start encouraging my teammates to come with me to every booster club meeting, so that they can witness how much the staff does for us. When attending a new event, you will find that it might be scary at first, but it can reveal you to new

Club IT is a venue owned by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. Both having a business degree, they seem to work well together in running and maintaining the financials of the company. Recently they remodeled the interior of the club, giving it high ceilings and high energy lighting. Their next project is to work on the informational systems to provide an atmosphere and shopping experience for their consumers that will continue to bring them back. [ (Rainer, 2009) ]

Throughout my five years continuing on my sixth; I had never became so close to any sport/club offered at my school. Our team is considered a “family.” We stand by eachother through times of doubt and reminisce on our good memories. We enjoy the company of one another. Every Friday night before our Saturday morning races, the team would all sit down together and have a nice meal together. The team is a close knit group even with students joining and graduating from the

We were not the club that got talked about openly, we were not the club that teachers voiced their love of; in fact, we were the club that students were afraid to tell their parents they were a part of. The people in this club had been taught to hide themselves, to make fun of themselves, to hate themselves and to never allow people to truly know who they were inside. These were the people who got talked about in the hallways and made fun of during

invited to any social events, I took the opportunity to hangout with some friends. The team

Being a sound part of a community, you should continuously learn more and more about yourself. As a member of a club, taking part in meetings and activities let you learn