Phi Kappa Phi

The Theta Upsilon chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has chosen the topic “Quests for Human Expression” as our focus for the Honors in Action theme “Frontiers and the Spirit of Exploration.” The right to freedom of expression, equality and human rights is a crucial key to democracy, and is safeguarded by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the United…

practice law, there is no doubt you can make it happen.” From that point on I put my head down focusing on my studies. I then immersed myself in law becoming the president of the paralegal society at my school and the community organizer officer of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK). I had all the requirements to study law, except a reason why I want to practice law. A year later that reason was revealed to…

Tim O’Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1st, 1946. His mother was an elementary school teacher, his father an insurance salesman, and he had a younger sister and brother. His mother taught his the mechanics of writing while his father encouraged reading. His father was an alcoholic, and mercilessly teased young O’Brien. O’Brien found comfort in baseball and in performing magic. In the article “Tim Obrien (1946 - )” it states, “O’Brien… moved at the age of ten with his family to…

Percy Julian was a well-known genius of his time. He was born in the state of Montgomery, Alabama in 1899. During this time period a lot of black men and women went without higher education. The black community usually received enough education to hold jobs as farmers, maids, and primary school teachers. Seemingly, Julian may have faced the same fate. Julian first received the general 8th grade education as every other person in his community, and then continued on to attend the teacher…

Weiss, and his experience with reincarnation. He is a prominent American psychiatrist who is married and has two children. He heals his young patient, Catherine, with past-life therapy. In 1966, Brian Weiss graduated Columbia University with a Phi Beta Kappa (Honors), magna cum laude (means "with great praise"). In 1970, he graduated Yale University School of Medicine with a medical degree. At Bellevue Medical Center in New York University, he completed his internship in psychiatry before…

As a senior in high school with application deadlines impending, stress and anxiety is constant. The transition between high school and college is immense, and now that college sexual assaults are growing at an alarming rate, the changeover is even more distressing. College theoretically is a place to explore passions, and interests in a safe learning environment, but now it has become a landscape filled with fear of sexual assault. According to U.S department of justice one in five college…

recognized for my academic achievement with the CRC Press Freshman Chemistry Award and the Dean E. Smith Scholarship, which is awarded by the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I was elected my senior year to Phi Beta Kappa, because of my performance in liberal arts coursework. This is a rare recognition for a student in a professional program, because professional coursework is not considered. As a teacher, I received leadership roles, including Faculty…

In this paper, it will be proven that a Federal Minimum wage does not help the U.S. economy nor the employees or employers, but in fact, it would help big business. The diversity of the varied states would suffer from such an increase, and cripple small business, especially the restaurant and food service industry. A higher minimum wage would lead to job outsourcing and unemployment. Furthermore, claims will be made stating a mandatory raise is illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral. The…

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he’d “been a columnist for , and editor of, the student newspaper, The Emory Wheel”. He graduated with a degree in history and anthropology with a 3.72 grade-point average and was offered membership to Phi Beta Kappa but declined after stating that titles and honors are “irrelevant”. Unlike McCandless, Treadwell did receive a scholarship to attend Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois to swim, but he later dropped out. Although prepared mentally,…

and Reenah Lurie Schwartz. He attended The Dalton School, during which time he studied jazz privately with Warne Marsh and Eddie Daniels, and studied advanced mathematics at New York University and Columbia University. He earned his Bachelor's, Phi Beta Kappa, in Mathematics and Philosophy at Harvard University in 1989, whereupon he entered the Doctoral program in Computer Science at Stanford University on a National Science Foundation Fellowship. There he pursued research in artificial…