In the book Salsa, Soul and Spirit by Juana Boards she talks about the qualities of a leader as being “A Leader among equals, Leaders as Guardian of Public Values, and Leaders as community Stewards” (Bordas, n.d) What leader among equals means is treating your group as equals and treating everyone with the same kind of respect and while maintain the qualities of a leader. That can be seen in a place like a sorority or fraternity. In a sorority everyone has the same principles in mind that can be Academics and community service with goals this big a leader is needed that can lead the others, but still maintain being equal with the others inside the group. The whole group must have resiliency to get community service done and keeping academics to a high standard. This takes a lot of determination and must rise past the stereotype of being drunken college students that do nothing but party. To break down this assumption and stereotype takes a lot of resiliency and tough …show more content…
During Hurricane Katrina New Orleans was hit hard and many citizens that lived there their whole childhood was trapped at the roof of their own house waiting for a saving grace. Not many people in America can say that they’ve lost everything they have ever known as home and was forced to be reliant and start over from again to try to rebuild what was lost. A person has to be strong and must think outside the mindset that is individualist that most of America carries from many generations who are not oriented around the success of the whole group over themselves. According to Beau of labor statics ”During the first ten months after the hurricane,(New Orleans) suffered an over- the –year average loss of 95,000 jobs” (Soergel, 2015) This was the point of view that many business owners during the flood took and having to restart from the floor up was something that most shop owners could not do finically for their families’ sake and safety and moved from New Orleans to different parts is American that was a safe haven for those who had family in different states, but some like Randall Tassin, a business owner that was like many others who owned businesses had to cut his losses and reopen his show even when the flood was still affecting his store. The shows what true resiliency is, the power to keep going when the world is