I am a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. and being apart of this lifetime bond we pride ourselves in service centered on better the institution we attend and the neighboring communities. This semester my brothers and I have participated in multiple community service experiences, but what I particularly would like to speak about is a service that I am currently putting together. This service would involve my fraternity brothers and I volunteering time on Saturdays at the New Orleans YLC. What we would be specifically task with is going and spending time with kids in an underserved area; playing sports with them and just fellowshipping with them. We are having our first orientation this Wednesday February 17th. From that date on we will…
1) Violette N. Anderson was the first woman to practice law in the United States District Court Eastern Division. In 1922 to 1923 she had served as the first female city prosecutor in Chicago. Also she had become the first African American woman to practice for the Supreme Court. Violette was the eighth Grand Basileus of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,Inc. and gave the sorority her summer home in Idlewild, Birch Haven to the organization. Violette Anderson is responsible for creating honorary membership.…
I have been a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated for over 10 years; inducted in the spring of 2006 at the Hattiesburg (MS) Alumni Chapter. Becoming a member of this Noble Klan has been the most rewarding privilege that I’ve ever been fortuned to experience. I am blessed to have the opportunity to learn, grow and development from not only the principles set forth by the fraternity, but from the knowledge and appreciation of understanding what it means to seek ACHIEVEMENT in every field of human endeavor.…
Dear Women of Alpha Kappa Sorority Incorporated, The purpose of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated is to promote unity and sisterhood among collegiate women through friendship, scholarship, and community service. Women in this premier Greek-lettered organization exude strength and dignity. Through these qualities, Alpha Kappa Alpha women support young women and girls, helping them become respectable and successful women. Alpha Kappa Alpha women take pride in their scholastic achievements and community involvement. Purposefully, the ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated uphold unity, lifelong friendships, and social awareness and change domestically and internationally.…
This paper will discuss Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and how it started. The sorority was founded by nine educated black college women. By the names of Ethel Hedgeman-Lyle, Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Elizabeth Burke, Lillie, Burke, Marjorie Hill, Margaret Flagg (Holmes), Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe and Marie Woolfolk (Taylor). Shortly thereafter they invited seven sophomores to join them in becoming founders and they are Norma Boyd, Ethel J. Mawbray, Alice P. Murray, Sarah M. Nutter, Joanna Berry (Shields), Carrie E. Snowden, and Harriet J. Terry. Together they decided that with Ethel’s vision and their combined educational backgrounds, they would create an organization of like minded women to go out in the world and be of…
Shannon Gray 11-28-11 Essay 4 Pomped Up for Homecoming The long nights of folding colored paper into meticulous shapes over and over again until your fingers are raw and bleeding. The even longer nights of unfolding the paper, fluffing it up and sticking it into chicken wire. This is called pomping, or also known as placing squares of colored tissue paper to boards. It is also a way to decorate plywood boards that are just a small part of a larger float. Chicken wire, lots of colored plastic sheets and power saws litter the basements and backyards of sorority and fraternity houses all over campus throughout the months leading up to Homecoming week. Pomping is a thorough task which every new sorority member is required to participate in before homecoming. Starting three months in advance we go to the fraternity house which we are paired up with and pomp. Each week is something different. The first night is a “get to know them” party where we bake them goodies and meet our “pomping partner”. A pomping partner is someone you are paired with based on your likes and dislikes. This is the person you are paired with each night of pomping. Now let me tell you, you get really close with this person especially when we pomp twenty hours a week. Each week of pomping is different. The first couple of weeks you fold tissue paper into a six section fan shape. Each tissue paper is different colors. There is brown, red, white, yellow and black. Colors depend on the theme of each sororities float. The next few weeks you then unfold all the tissue paper you have folded previously and connect it to chicken wire. The chicken wire is layed out on a flat table with tape outlining where we are supposed to place the tissue. This process alone is very rigorous. We spend hours upon hours putting pomp into this chicken wire to form a huge float in the end. We also are given pomp on weekends that need to be completed and turned in by Monday. Several weeks later after all the long hours…
When trying to propose solutions on how to combat this issue, one must use the three main sociological perspectives. First, the symbolic interactionist perspective uses symbols to consider details of everyday life and how people interact with each other. A symbolic interactionist may believe that drug use is a learned experience. Without someone showing you…
Why do I want to become a Lambda? Why do I want to become a Lambda? I’ve asked this question to myself at least ten times. And every time I come up with a new answer. But there is something common among all those answers. It is the Brotherhood. For example, I attended the IG retreat in Tallahassee. I am aware that I am only a member of the interest group, but the brothers that attended the retreat made me feel different. I felt as if I am in the middle of a family. A family that cares and will always look out for me. They made sure that we had everything we wanted and we got home safe after the get together.…
FSU ( FRIENDS STAND UNITED) Subculture is a segment of society that shares distinctive patterns of mores, folkways, and values that differs from the larger society. An organization named FSU is a good example of subculture because although they have their own rules and laws bu still considers it their responsibility to keep the society safe from the unfair. FSU stands for Friends Stand United. It is an organization in which a member has to think about other members before himself.…
Within communities there are various principles and responsibilities that each member holds: many are specific to the individual but, many are shared. In this, organizations are formed to carry out these various principles and responsibilities on a large scale to have a more prevalent impact upon their communities. In the process of advancing the black community in the United States of America, the nation that has oppressed them for generations, to one of relevance, black fraternities and sororities dedicated to service were formed on college campuses during the turn of the 20th century. Each of these organizations has a set of cardinal principles or pillars from which they are guided in operation. On November 17, 1911 on the campus of Howard…
Let’s Get Fucked Up and Die I am only now beginning to enter my sophomore year at college but there has always one part of it that has been especially exciting, the parties. Yes, those glorious nights where you can escape from the nagging of your parents, procrastinate on some of that homework, or maybe even meet someone special. Any average college student could tell you that the craziest parties always happen on Thirsty Thursdays. Once that day of the week comes around students start to forget the stresses of their week and go out to try and have some fun, sometimes too much fun. Many great memories are made at parties, some are good others seem to be the worst times of your life. But what drives a college student to party so hard? Is it s lack of confidence, a desire to fit in, just to let loose, or one of the other many possibilities? In this essay I reflect upon a few of the many parties I attended this past semester and studied the party goers so i could perhaps understand the drive to get so out of hand. During the course of composing my field notes, which I have blended into my essay, I gathered experiences as both an insider and an outsider to the environment to search for the answer to some of my questions.…
1. Symbolic interactionism is a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another (Henslin, 2012, pg. G-6). There are many ways in which “A Class Divided” illustrates symbolic interactionism.…
he symbolic interaction perspective, also called symbolic interactionism, is a major framework of sociological theory. This perspective relies on the symbolic meaning that people develop and rely upon in the process of social interaction. Although symbolic interactionism traces its origins to Max Weber's assertion that individuals act according to their interpretation of the meaning of their world, the American philosopher George Herbert Mead introduced this perspective to American sociology in the 1920s.…
Symbols are very important in Symbolic Interactionism Theory. In the theory, the use of symbols helps us assign meanings to things, events and people and later on help us give interpretations with those symbols. The use of the theory means seeing things and understanding what they mean and later on determine their effects. The theory proposes that we live in a symbolic world and we as individuals have different meanings for symbols. For us to be able to understand human behavior, we have to be able to know the meaning of a certain behavior for a person. It also suggests that it is through interactions with others that we are able to learn about ourselves through others. With these interactions, we developed personal feelings towards others and see how other people react to our behaviors. Lastly, based on the theory, individuals have a mind that is able to acquire process and reflect information. It is a perspective that sees individuals as active agents in making meaning and using their interpretations in creating social order. In general, symbolic interactionism as a theory helps us understand that symbols and interactions in social processes affect the individual and vice…
interactionists have an approach which involves looking at small-scale relationships between individuals in groups and/or institutions. They start with the view that the 'truth' of a situation is best understood by trying to undestand how the people involved make sense of it (the 'protagonists' evaluation of the situation is key...they are 'social actors' and the meanings they attach to the actions of themselves and others are what interactionists then use to base their conclusions on). Their theories/explanations are generated by the data they collect. For example, irving goffan said people are social actors depending on the situation people act in a certain way. Depending on the context they create, develop, modify and change within the the process of the social theory interaction.…