The Sisterhood

the Psi Chapter gave her a strong sense of sisterhood and made her transition into college life less daunting. Today, she still keeps herself involved in the sisterhood and is impressed with the status of the undergraduate chapter. Mary joined Alpha Xi Delta because it was where she felt most comfortable during the rush process. She said that when she was around the sisters, she never felt like she was being judged. “I felt a strong sense of sisterhood, and I knew this was where I belonged,”…

● FILM: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is an American comedy-drama film released by Warner Bros Pictures in 2005. The film is also based on a novel by Ann Brashares. It is about four teenage girls who have spent almost their entire lives together year round. Best friends, Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena live in Maryland and for the first summer they won't be together. They are dreading this summer, so before they depart they decide to go shopping together. As they are at the mall they…

self and beliefs are revealed. This emergence of inner values and understandings can lead to having a better outlook on life and finding oneself. In her novel, The Color Purple, Alice Walker demonstrates the themes of self-discovery and bonds of sisterhood through the perspective of a young African American woman growing up in Georgia during the early 20th century. Alice Walker was born in 1944 in…

David Aikman summarizes Mother Teresa’s life in his book Great Souls. He tells of her childhood, her contemplation about sisterhood, and her journey of becoming a known figure for the poor. Aikman visited Calcutta in 1975 and interview Mother Teresa about her work with the poor. He was allotted a short time in India due to a political crisis that resulted in the censorship of journalists. During his time, Aikman met Mother Teresa. He comments on her appearance, a small woman with a deep…

characters, but at times they can be vastly different. In the book to movie adaptation of the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells, the two forms of the story are widely different. Despite these differences the relationships between characters was strikingly similar. One of the similarities between the two versions of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is how the relationships between characters were portrayed. In the beginning of the novel and movie Siddalee recounts…

Sisterhood of Spies Women of the OSS is about the untold contributions made by the woman of OSS (Office of Strategic Services) during World War II. The author, Elizabeth P. McIntosh, begins by introducing OSS and its origins. The first half of the book describes the operations and concepts of the different branches; the second half shows the adventures and actions of the women. The author relates stories from her own experiences as well interviews of over 100 women who served all over the world.…

Sisterhood is Powerful is an anthology “conceived, written, edited, copy-edited, proofread, designed, and illustrated by women” (Morgan, XV) in 1970. The introduction, written by Robin Morgan, discusses the difficulties that were faced while writing this book and why this book was being written. She explains that “five personal relationships were severed, two couples were divorced and one separated, one woman was forced to withdraw her article, by the man she lived with; another’s husband kept…

This movie analysis is base the 2002 movie The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. The movie opens in the middle of an ugly conflict between Sidda and her mother Vivian. The scene is based on a misunderstanding between the two, which quickly becomes aggressive verbal banter. In order to fix their conflicted relationship, Vivian’s life-long friends came to the rescue. The ya ya sisters, as they called themselves, took Sidda hostage in order to tell her the secrets of her mother’s past.…

Harriet Jacobs and Bronte present women or womanhood as an ideology which has to be questioned. However, since the two women lived in two different historical periods, the ways in which womanhood and sisterhood are brought forward in both texts differ from each other. Jane eyre is the protagonist of the novel and describes the women around her as either superficial and as a product of capitalism, or as those who demand understanding and a certain degree of pity. For instance, when she first…

Second Essay In Might Be Our Powers, How Sisterhood, Sex, and Prayer Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee, Chapter 11 Gbowee is in the right when she takes control of her life when she graduates and finally regains support from her father and begins to become a leader by taking the hard road and doing it quite well. Even though Gbowee’s father was never really supportive of her life decisions, he finally comes around when she graduates. Her father for the first time in a long time showed…