The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze student cultures in the book Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities, by Alexandra Robbins. The book provides a glimpse of the historically white national sorority system and investigates their secret group behavior. In the United States and Canada, approximately 800 institutions host social Greek Life on their campuses (Long, 2012). These chapters within the Greek Life system promote the ideals of scholarship, leadership, service, and friendship. However, in the Robbins’ book and narrative of a sorority illustrates sorority life and negative realities of that system, such as rush, bid, racism, pledging, initiation, Greek Week, breaks-up and sexual assaults.
Bad education performance can be the cause of members of a Fraternity and Sorority dealing with insecurity, self-image, and psychological issues. The process of joining the Greek life is challenging, students get specifically recruited and enter what it’s called a rush. Rush is known to be popular ritual among the organizations where members get to know each other more. Fraternities and sororities will host and promote parties and many would go through initiation process to become a member. According to “Here’s
During the 5th century B.C., Greek technology and colonization of the Ionian region thrived. It was in this period of expansion that ostracized citizens from the city-states of Samos and Chios colonized Greekopolis. The founding figures Cyrus and Hypatos were sent from their respective colonies of Samos and Chios with a group of settlers in order to establish a port polis on the western coast of Asia Minor. The main purpose of the polis was to create an independent trading city on the western coast of Ionia, and also to utilize the surrounding fertile land and climate for vineyards. Cyrus imported aims from Samos, a city-state known for its production of wine from the arable hills nearby.
You sit on the couch of your living room when you decide that you want to watch some television. You flip through all of the channels and cannot seem to find anything that sparks an interest. When, suddenly you see going across the screen in bold print “Local Fraternity/Sorority in trouble”. Trouble is what most of America sees Greek Life as. To say that they have not earned the reputation of being troublesome is an understatement.
For many Greek immigrants, living and working conditions were difficult in the United States as well. Many boys and young men shined shoes for a living. The pay for this position was miniscule and the young males often only had access to a bed for one eight-hour shift
“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs, and a head with 2 faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them up into two separate parts, condemning them to spend the rest of their life looking for the other half”-Plato. The Greek view of the world bears a resemblance to and varies from the contemporary view of the world. To begin, the contemporary view corresponds to the Greek view in that both views had an idea that the world was round. The Greeks believed this because they thought that the ocean flowed around the world in a circular motion.
The Greeks contributed to American culture by opening parlors, candy shops, and most known for their restaurants. Greek restaurants started as food stands on the streets of cities, but after city council's banned food sold on streets, Greeks made the switch to permanent shops. Restaurants were the first steady income for Greeks, making them very popular. The Greeks also made a contribution by opening over 130 Greek Orthodox Churches.
Location Greece is located in the Mediterranean Sea, south east of Europe, between the countries of Albania and Turkey. Greece is a peninsular country, which means that it is surrounded by water on at least three sides. The Mediterranean location of Greece provides tourists with warm weather, blue skies, and crystal clear water. The close proximity of Greece to Europe also allows for easy travel, which benefits tourism.
Greek mythology can be viewed as a mirror to the ancient Greek civilization. Ancient Greek myths and legends often reflected how the Greeks saw themselves. Myths were used by Greeks to make justifications of every existing aspect of earth as well as their own society. In myths, Greek gods & heroes often represented key aspects of the human civilization. From Greek mythology, we can learn about the favorable characteristics of humans, such as their behavior and valuable skills that were approved of by the ancient Greek society.
When you hear about an event that’s taken place in and around a sorority or fraternity it’s never about the philanthropy work they do or the scholarships an individual has received, but about the harmful effects surrounding Greek life usually caused by hazing. The definition of hazing is the imposition of strenuous, often humiliating, tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training and initiation; usually when we think of hazing that’s exactly what comes to mind. We think of the older initiated brothers and sisters putting the pledges through gruesome obstacles to make them earn their place in the organization. Examples of this can be something as small as making the pledges call the older initiated members “ma’am” or “sir” or as large as making the pledges do harmful things to one
The culture in Rome is vaguely familiar to that of the Greek cultures, the Greeks have made a great impact on the Roman culture. There were great influences from Alexander the Great in the Hellenistic age, as he became one of the greatest leaders known to man. There have been countless numbers of similarities in their religions,however the religions did end up changing, and the Romans made improvements to the way they viewed life in a religious form. The Roman social structures and politics are somewhat influenced on the Greek cultures, as the influence of Alexander the Great really comes into play. Intellectual achievements from both the Greeks and Romans were very useful even to our day in age; the Romans did learn a lot from the Greeks to
First, Burkman stresses the fact that pledges engage in hazing rituals because they feel that they have to belong. The author explains this idea by saying that as humans we need to feel the sensation of “fight-or-flight” (Burkman). But the fact that we live so privileged we rarely feel it. The idea of sororities and fraternities is to shrink our world to a small group, that way we feel a part of something more than ourselves. These invented groups are filled with secrets, rituals, symbols, chants, and cheers, all built to say that “This is my village, and where I belong” (Burkman).
Mythology is a “family” of myths from a particular type of religion. The people in Rome and Greece mostly worshipped this particular groupings of myths. They had gods for just about everything because they thought they were only puny humans, but the gods were almighty and powerful. They also believed that the gods were all the forces of nature. Being that there were gods for the sun, wind, earth, sky, and many more.
Public and social buildings flourished in the era of the ancient Greeks and the Roman empire. While both civilizations aimed to build social places for people gathering, stoa and basilica were the most common in both the civilizations. The concept of public or social structure in the view of the ancients was varied. These structures could be used as a place for the market, as a place of buying and selling, as a place of government with administrative buildings, and as a spot for the public to cover themselves from disturbances of the weather. Stoas of ancient Greeks were located in the agora which considered to be the most important public space in Athens and the whole Greek empire.
What Makes Fantasy Stories, Fantasy Almost everyone knows what Greek mythology is. If a stranger approached someone on the street and asked if Greek mythology are fantasy stories, almost every single person would say that they are. Greek mythology was one of the first fantasy stories in the world. Fantasy has been around forever, there is no specific place it has started. Even though they have been around forever, most people can not tell what the definition of fantasy is.
