The Sisterhood

The Greek system, helps students form bonds with other students. This bond is typically called the sisterhood or brotherhood. This assures you will never be lonely and the organization can help you make friends for life. Being in a sorority or fraternity can also help you make connections outside of the house including mentors or even guides that will lead…

Event Chairman – An Overview The Event Chairman guides the chapter in accomplishing the Fraternity goal of attaining individual and social excellence. She educates chapter members concerning acceptable behavior in all settings and ensures Kappa Policies and Risk Management Procedures are followed during an event. Role of the Event Chairman: ➢ Plan and coordinate chapter events and activities. ➢ Educate the chapter on social graciousness. ➢ Define acceptable behavior, conduct and personal…

Spelman College was never my “dream school” or one of the schools I planned on attending. After getting rejected from my top two schools, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I began to lose all hope. I became very lost, I didn’t know where I was going to school because I wasn’t really interested in any other schools. My friend Michael, who was planning to attend Morehouse College, was the one who motivated me to apply to Spelman. At first I was…

Matthew Goldberg ENGL 280 The Journey To Life And Death Sylvia Plath’s “BlackBerrying,” uses imagery and personification to bring the reader into the life of the speaker. Plath committed suicide at age 30, with these poems to show how much life you can live in a short period of time. In this three stanza poem Plath uses seven different colors which allows each reader to create their own image in their head. The poem is straight forward, meaning it is read consecutively. This also illustrates an…

our members with an event that combines enhanced training and leadership development at the district level. The focus will be on Kappa’s core educational values — our Pillars of Education. Throughout the conference, we will explore the concepts of sisterhood, leadership, intellectual development, well-being, community responsibility, human dignity and heritage. By participating in educational sessions and activities centered on these seven values, you will gain a greater understanding of Every…

remember is the first semester of a sister’s membership is always the most expensive! It only gets cheaper from here on out. Do not forget the money you pay is going to a good cause. The money collected by the sorority goes towards its philanthropy, sisterhood retreats and events, formals and date parties, living accommodations, and countless other facets sorority life…

being part of a sorority as she was a pledged Gamma herself. She understood that loyalty is everything to both sororities and fraternities, so any problem that happens within them, they try to keep it to themselves in order to keep brotherhood or sisterhood. She also added an important part of how Milan died was due to a large consumption of alcohol and probably intimidation, a common tactic for sorority and fraternity hazing. During the trial, I can imagine how back and forth the arguments…

This paper attempts to examine how Toni Morrison has employed female black solidaity as an act of resistance against the patriarchal set up. The warmth, security and sisterhood which Nel-Sula shares through their relationship not only heal the oppression meted out to the doubly marginalized black women , but also poses a threat to the heterosexual patriarchal structure. Through the two complementary characters Nel-Sula, this paper attempts to delineate how female solidarity itself can be a tool…

In the reading Feminism is for Everybody, bell hooks declares feminism as “a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression” (hooks, vii). Although this is a very simple and direct answer to the question of “what is feminism?” there is more to the question than the simple and laid out answer. By starting with what feminism is not, coming to an answer of what is feminism becomes much clearer. In today’s society feminism has become a very negative idea with the masses, with young…

is a term that was introduced, by the work, in 1975 by Ntozake Shange herself. A choreopoem is a form of dramatic expression that combines poetry, dance, music, and song. These complexes have come together to represent the women and the bond of sisterhood. The characters in the choreopoem consist of seven women of African descent. These women only identify as the color that has been assigned to them. These colors represent the colors of the rainbow. The characters are the lady in red, the lady…