Phi Kappa Phi

who pledged the wrong sorority. She gets her bid and is excited to go to her first meeting; “sisters server pledges small amounts of alcohol” (141) she is surprised of the drinking, but takes sips anyways. “[S]mith’s second meeting with the Widener Phi Mus mirrored the first. She drank more champagne…” (141) As time passes after these meetings Amanda Smith becomes more and more unhappy, “she resented having to put in three hours at a mandatory study hall at the library” (142) Now while Amanda is…

Standardized testing has taken many blows from critics because of its inadequacies. However, few stop to consider how the shortcomings of the tests and curriculum affect the students subjected to them. According to the U.S. government, 49.5% of adolescents in 2010 met the criteria for various mental health disorders (“Prevalence”). With an education system so focused on success and a country full of opportunities, why are the country 's youth foundering? Criticisms of standardized testing…

as opposed to wanting to do well, learning goes before doing well, the grades will fall into place once you have absorbed the information in the class. I took advantage of what Brookdale had to offer. I was extended the opportunity to join Phi Theta Kappa. I joined the Honors Program, which offered more challenging classes but the best professors, as well as the Honors Society. I wanted to make a change in the school so, I participated in Governance which allowed me to…

The Abstract:- Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut who was the first astronaut to land on the moon and was also the first person to walk on the moon. Many people nowadays support the idea that Neil Alden Armstrong did not really land on the moon and walk on it, they think that it was not a real act, they think it was staged. These people think that he did not land on the moon because they think that back then, they did not have the modern technology that we have now. Some people…

Chris McCandless and people similar to him most likely want to hitchhike and live in the wilderness because they want excitement, danger, and maybe to just escape their own lives. Chris was very intelligent and was offered membership in the Phi Beta Kappa, but he decided to decline it because he thought that honors and titles were irrelevant. McCandless donated the remainder of his college fund to OXFAM America, which is a charity for fighting hunger, shortly after he graduated. I think that he…

He was rather outgoing, the kind of person who could gain someones trust with ease. Everyone who met Chris cared for his well being but he always rejected their concern because of his personality traits. Chris did not want people to care for him, he wanted to care for himself and do everything himself, which caused a massive amount of irony in this novel. McCandless died alone but had written a letter (the S.O.S. note) that went unread until it was too late, which is an excellent example of…

grandparents’ farm in Erie County, New York. At the young age of 15, Joyce Carol Oates submitted her first novel. Her father Frederic James Oates was a tool and die designer and a homemaker. She went to college at Syracuse University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1960. The following year, she attended the University of Wisconsin, earned her master’s degree, and married Raymond Smith, a former English professor. Joyce Carol Oates and her husband lived in Detroit, Michigan where she published…

worked with me on my academic plan, and Ms. Patterson gave me the opportunity to improve on both and to be a part of the Alpha Gamma Sigma honor society. In the spring of 2015, I joined U-Link, the Honors Transfer Program, Alpha Gamma Sigma, and Phi Theta Kappa. After joining these organizations, I did my due diligence to take advantage of the benefits that my school and these organizations had to offer. I attended the Summer Scholars Transfer Institute at UCI, Honors Transfer Council of…

Leopold and Loeb, a pair of teenage prodigies, were seen as perfect to the general public. This was until the boys committed what was known as the “Crime of the Century”. There were many reasons that the Leopold and Loeb case earned the title “Crime of the Century”. To start, kidnapping itself is a severe crime, especially when a child is involved. Although Leopold and Loeb spent months planning the crime, their victim could have been anyone in the area. They lived in a very wealthy area in…

away from certain social influences and approach life with a true Emersonian spirit. In 1837 at Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ralph Waldo Emerson (American essayist, lecturer, and poet) delivered his address, “The American Scholar,” to the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa society. In this address, Emerson encourages American scholars to create original literature that is separate from European influence and ties of the past; he states, “Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other…