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.…
The article titled "Girls Against Boys," published in the 30 January issue of The Nation magazine by author Katha Pollitt, brings to light pressing issues of gender discrimination and how this nation's education system has changed over the past forty years but still isn't up to par with where it needs to be with issues of gender equality. Pollitt exposes the views of conservatives toward feminism in the school systems of today. This article describes how changes in society are taking place, and what the future may hold for men and women in the world of employment and education.…
Simply by turning on the the news, on can see that the fight for women’s rights rages on: women do not have equal working conditions, rights to their own bodies, or foreign voting rights. Yet, the fight for women’s equality all began over a century ago with the push for women's suffrage. In Carrie Chapman Catt’s era, the fight women’s suffrage had been around for almost seventy years, but still women could not vote. In Catt’s speech The Crisis, she argues that the time for action is now, so they must fight. In “The Crisis,” Carrie Chapman Catt effectively uses strong emotional appeals, as well as an impactful call to action in order to convey her message.…
Susan Okrah has asked that I send a to your organization in support of her application for induction into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. It is indeed a pleasure for me to do so. Susan has been an active member of our chapter of National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) since starting at Hampton in the Fall of 2015. She has participated in well over 50 hours of community service not only for the university chapter but also for the regional chapter as well.…
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…
In describing all of the current issues the modern day world has pertaining to women, it shows that for every step forward comes right back. Women still suffer wage difference, put up with racism, and above all encounter sexism far worse than men ever have. The efforts of society to, as Aude Lorde would say, control and…
Throughout history, struggles have defined groups of people and focused their resolve to alter the course of human history. For women, the early trials seemed insurmountable, but with the birth of a single female, woman acquired an advocate and spokesperson who would forge a new and fiery path for the women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a remarkable woman who from an early age recognized and despised the patriarchal society which heaped inequality and servitude upon woman. As a matter of fact, she realized that woman had fewer rights than the previously reviled black man. Stanton spent her life changing the perceptions and imposed…
I am interested in membership in the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. because I love what the Deltas stand for. The organization is filled with strong ,college educated Black women, who in my opinion want to change the world. This is of immense importance to me because this is what I consider myself doing and trying to do. I want to change the world starting with my black community. I admire the strong sisterhood because I look around at the other sorriotys and notice that even though they claim sisterhood, there is not always proof of that. I have witness first hand that the Deltas is sorority that stays with you past college and continues throughout all of your different phases in life. From college to the start of your career till the end of your career…
Culture is how a group of people share the same beliefs and values. Cultures pass on these values and beliefs from generation to generation. “Cultures grow and change very slowly, and have many means of protecting themselves” (Wrench, McCroskey, & Richmond, 2008).…
For thousands of years human societies have functioned with various forms of social injustice and oppression. But the largest and most long lasting system of oppression is the patriarchal system. In which, women are not afforded the same economic, social, and educational opportunities as men. For example, in America today full time female workers still only make seventy-eight cents for over dollar their male coworkers make (Hill 1). However the tireless work of women’s rights advocated like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul has led to landmark equality legislation and real measurable strides towards greater gender equality. Because…
They call the United States of America the land of equal opportunity, where hope is a given and all you have to do is dream. However this was not the case for many people, such as the women in the United States around the late 1860 through the 1920s, when our beautiful country began opening its doors. As a matter of fact when we look back at our history, during that time period, it seems that women weren’t even allowed to dream. They would live their lives according to the rules and standards that society had set for them. From childhood they were only taught how to cook and clean, how to keep a house in order, and how to care for children. Education wasn’t an option and they were often shamed if they spoke out; in other words their opinions were meaningless. It seems that the female gender has come a long way in history, but it took many brave women to stand up and take radical steps to change the future for the upcoming generations. For women in the 1860s through the 1920s, the American Dream of equal treatment and the right to vote seemed to be a myth due to the strong male opposition throughout the workforce, the political field, and even the home; however, all the efforts that the brave women who spoke out and worked towards equality and suffrage soon paid off to make their dream a reality through the right to keep and earn profit from their working land and the 19th amendment being added to the Constitution.…
Women have come a long way over the history of this earth. They have come through suffrage, voilence, and discrimination. The history of women has been a continual battle. Men has always been superior and had better rights and career opportunities. To be a wife and a mother was considered a woman’s most important jobs. As years have preceded women have won the right to vote and improved their educational and job opportunities. Cover the years as women began to advance in the politics, rights, career, business ownership and a variety of different things there was still a group of women who didn’t advance until after that Black…
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.…
Being a sorority sister, there is a certain expectation of social interaction and personal development; you can’t hide away. You are required to participate in activities which gets you out there doing stuff you may never have pictured yourself doing before. These experiences help to enrich your communication skills and responsibility.…
As college students, myself being one of them, we have the opportunity to create a very diverse lifestyle for ourselves. College campuses offer a wide variety of extracurricular activities to gain college students’ attention. The reasoning behind this is to create each student into a well-rounded individual and prepare them for life ahead of them after college. University campuses put forward several activities, such as recognized student organizations (RSO), intramural sports, committees, sports, clubs, and last but not least fraternities and sororities; These can also be known as subcultures. Out of all of the aforementioned, fraternities and sororities are the most talked about and frenzied over. In high school I can remember girls saying what they were going to pledge when they got to college, as if they really knew what they were talking about. As I thought about what I would like to pledge, it became apparent on me that I knew nothing about pledging or even about any sorority at all. This discovery gave me a considerable incentive to write this paper when I discovered we would be writing about subcultures. I thought a sorority would be a god topic to talk about and a good way to educate myself from an outsider’s point of view. So this paper is like a two for one deal, in which I’m actually getting something out of writing this paper, and it gives me motive and an optimistic state of mind as I research this topic.…