The book "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park explores the life of Salva, an 11-year-old boy living in South Sudan, after he is displaced by the Sudanese Civil War. First, in 1985, Salva and his classmates are instructed to run into the bush to escape the gunfire that was heard not far from the school. Then, he joins a group of travelers who are walking away from the war in Sudan, but they abandon him in a barn one evening while he is still asleep. After spending a few days with the barn's owner, Salva is sent away with a different group of travelers, must of whom accept him grudgingly. The group walks for a month toward Ethiopia, and eventually they arrive to the Itang refugee camp in Ethiopia.
They built a strong and effective force of men dedicated to its cardinal principles of manhood, scholarship, and perseverance. They also developed a program to meet the needs of African Americans in the areas of health, housing, civil rights, and education. Omega Psi Phi is an international fraternity comprising over 700 undergraduate and graduate
Om-kas-toe was written by Kenneth Thomasma. It is about a mother that had twins, one boy and one girl. This was set in the early 1600s. The tribe had to leave the girl to die, but the parents refused to let the baby girl die. The twin’s names are Om-Kas –Toe, and Twin girl.
E.A 4.1 Literary Poem Analysis “Ode to Kool-Aid” by Marcus, Jackson is a great poem representing his love and passion for Kool-Aid. The author Marcus Jackson wrote the poem because he has a love or desire for his favorite drink kool-aid. The poem “Ode to Kool-Aid” is abt a dude that enjoys the flavor of Kool-Aid and the way it looks. In the poem, an ode to Kool-Aid the author Marcus Jackson uses the elements of metaphors and mood to serve the purpose of his passion for Kool-Aid.
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.
Addiction to substances such as alcohol often leads to depressive mental states and the destruction of any sound relationships. ‘The water was dark and went forever down’ is a 1987 short story written by time Winton which explores the journey of a young Australian girl with a mentally ill mother. A 14-year-old Australian girl who is referred to as ‘the girl’ has traveled to a beachside cottage on holiday with her mentally ill mother. The girl is forced to be independent as her mother’s addiction to alcohol has disabled her from properly caring for her daughter. The girl seeks refuge in swimming which lets her avoid the mental battles posed by her home life.
Can you imagine what your life would be like if you hadn’t decided to join Phi Mu Delta? What life lessons, friendships, and memories would you have missed out on? Many brothers showed their love for the fraternity by sharing all the reasons they cherish their membership. These are the stories that remind us just how important the fraternity is and prove
School made a mistake.’ He rolled his eyes. ‘They do stuff like that all the time, I bet.’ ‘Yeah-- it just seems like more than a coincidence when it happens to me. Like what made them think I needed remedial anything.
When they see us doing positive things around them, they will also want to do positive things. If I were to be accepted as a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; I am determined to rise and accept the challenge and pleasure of holding myself to the esteemed Alpha Phi Alpha standard with great pride and
Beyond that, Kappa encourages its chapters to select programming that meets the chapter’s unique needs and to reach out to their fraternity and sorority life office for assistance in bringing in campus professionals to discuss the topic of
“The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality, and fraternity. Our task is endless.” Jewel Henry Arthur Callis. Since its founding Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity has remained loyal to its ideal of providing advocacy for its community.
In most of his work, Frank Stella attempted to drain any external meaning or symbolism from painting, reducing his images to geometric form and eliminating illusionistic effects. His goal was to make paintings in which pictorial force came from materiality, not from symbolic meaning. He famously quipped, “What you see is what you see,” I found Frank Stella’s art “double scramble” interesting to me because of the combination and scramble of colors. He made the painting look like you’re looking into a room. I found it so inspiring I wrote a short story about it, I call it “Disoriented” because you kind of have to lose your sense of direction in order to see the images in the painting.
Singin' in the Rain relates to the 'The Self and Community' section. The section discusses "the theme of the individual self versus the connected self" (The Human Experience 93). Kathy had to choose between living her dream as an actress in the spotlight or being a voice actress behind the scenes. If Kathy was an actress behind the scenes, she would not get any recognition because Lina is more famous than her and Lina would not want to share the spotlight. This reminds me of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin in the Alienation subsection because they alienated the child in a closet to make the rest of the city happy.
In Sigma Kappa, I found a sisterhood full of girls who truly are examples of excellence. I remember looking up to Taylor Haynes and even Kat Gillanders for their leadership around campus, and the level with which they carried themselves. I am proud that the girls of Sigma Kappa can walk around UGA without people thinking “look at that trashy sorority girl”. A big role in this is what the Standards Council does. It is important to have a program to steer college students in the right way when they start to go down a negative path.
They can try to improve the situation through talks, meetings, and committees. A small trusted group of members where the pledges, the new chapters or anyone that can go discuss some issues or ask questions or anything without letting everyone know and end up sprouting a gossip around. Another solution each fraternity and sorority can do is to organize meetings to let their members know without sugar coating what their philanthropy is about and their rule and
