Research Papers

• its the best sport ever
• it takes a lot of patience
• it takes a lot of focus
• it is a great experience
• it is great for self esteem
• it makes you strong

There are so many amazing facts about cheerleading. Like,, In the beginning all cheerleaders were men. 83% of ALL cheerleaders have a 'B' grade point average or better. etc.etc.

- much harder than it looks

-not always considered a sport (but still not to be underestimated...at alll!!!)

- been around for a very long time

- over the years, it has become waaayyy more advanced

-one of the most dangerous sports out there

*FUN QUOTE*

"Athletes may lift weights, but cheerleaders lift athletes!"

*cheer leading is over 100 years old

*Back then when cheer leading first started all cheerleaders were men

*now 97% of cheerleaders are female

*12% of cheerleaders are aged between age 5 and 13

*The average cheerleading squad is a total of 18 people

*The cheer capital f the U.S. is Texas

*Common cheer leading injuries are broken arms and busted lips

*80% of schools in the U.S have a cheer squad

At football games during half-time the cheerleaders perform a chant to the spirit stick to summon the touchdown gods to help the team.

At practice, cheerleaders sometimes use bags of potatoes as test dummys for stunting.

Every day we sit in a circle and cry for twenty minutes. If you can't cry the whole time you get kicked off the squad.

You must like mooses.

You have to somehow be related to your flyer.

If you can't do the splits you can't be on the team.

That's all :)

A point of view worded as a statement expressing an opinion that can be defended for or against

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it means:

1. A plan suggested for acceptance; a proposal.
2. A matter to be dealt with; a task: Finding affordable housing can be a difficult proposition.
3. An offer of a private bargain, especially a request for sexual relations.
4. A subject for discussion or analysis.
5. Logic.
   1. A statement that affirms or denies something.
   2. The meaning expressed in such a statement, as opposed to the way it is expressed.
6. Mathematics. A theorem.

To understand a phrase, break the words into their separate meanings. Further is to go ahead, go longer in time or distance, or deeper into a subject, discussion, etc. Research is to systematically investigate something. So further research is to keep going ahead with a systematic investigation. Let's use a couple examples to show what this means.

In the 1940s, scientists did not know what caused cancers. In fact, when soldiers left for war, the government gave each of them packs of cigarettes. By 1970s doctors wanted to identify What causes lung cancer. They did interviews (research) of people who had lung cancer. Some ate certain foods-- but not everyone ate those foods-- so foods alone could not explain it. They did further research. Doctors asked patients if their parents ever had cancers. Some people said yes but others said no. They did not have an answer, so they did further research. Some male patients worked with heavy metals, but females in the study did not. Again, it needed further research. This has gone on for many decades. One day the Surgeon General of the United States claimed cigarette smoking caused lung cancer-- but there was no research. They have been doing further research on this ONE point for decades.

Let's use another example. Your teacher assigns a writing project. "Describe the family and early life of Abraham Lincoln." To describe a person, normally you tell when the person was born, who the parents were, where the person was born, their formal education, their occupation, and a few interesting details about their life. In one book it tells where and when he was born. But you need to do further research to identify his parents' names. So you look in 2 or 3 more books; you get the names. Now, where can you look to learn about his education-- ah, you find a book about history and it mentions this fact too. You find his occupation in another book. Looking in EACH of those books is doing "further research" on the topic.