Recruits

this microcosm there are still many of the same issues as the rest of the world such as theft, sexual assault, and suicide - racism is something that is very hard to find inside of the Marine Corps. Marines are taught from the time they are little recruits that you are not white/black/brown, you are green and so is everyone else. To a Marine, racism is a passing joke at the smoke pit while taking a break from work. Racism is something used as dumb humor because it is a ludicrous notion to them…

Scott’s article quotes First Lieutenant Oliver Willcox Norton of the camp 's 8th United States Colored Troop (USCT) Regiment as he described the enthusiasm of the black recruits to join the union "Our camp thronged with visitors...who wanted to enlist," he wrote. "There are hundreds of them, mostly slaves, here by now, anxiously waiting for the recruiting officer.” According to Scott, camp William Penn had been formally…

According to Captain Joe Bologna of the Philadelphia Police Department, “every time a police officer fires his weapon, the reputation of the police department is on the line.” (time) Anytime an officer fires a gun, there are usually people who will claim excessive force and police brutality, even if the shooting was justified. This can cause citizens to lose faith in their department and makes an officer’s job harder. There are people that ask why couldn’t the officer wound someone and that they…

In the Book, The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni explains the essential qualities that are needed in creating the ideal team player. The book is broken into two sections, the first is “The Fable”, in which Lencioni introduces the reader to a scenario that frames the reorganization of an existing company. The second section is called “The Model”, this section defines the virtues that reflect the organizational culture. The Fable focuses on a common problem that firms are experiencing in today’s…

Think of yourself as an expeditioner who is about to lead a set of new recruits up a treacherous mountain. Maybe you are climbing Mount Everest with these new recruits, the first thing a manager would do is tell them what they need to do while staying at base camp. This of course is a manager’s approach to climbing a mountain, but a leaders approach would be to verify…

in Downtown Brooklyn and as soon as the recruiter picked up the phone I told her “There’s no need to sell me, I just wanted to leave as fast as possible!” 6 Months later it was June 17, 2008, and I was in Great Lakes, Illinois at recruit training command. A new recruit who was trying to aspire to transition into something much more such as a disciplined, well mannered, fast thinking, team playing sailor. I learned so much about myself in those 9 weeks than I had my whole…

Peer pressure plays a particularly large role in everyone’s lives. The Encyclopedia illustrates a gang as “being an organized group of criminals or a group of children or youth from the same neighborhood, who gather together and who may or may not participate in criminal activities.” Gangs have existed since the seventeenth century, and to this day gang participation is on the rise. It is one of the nation 's fastest growing problems within recent history. Many people assume that the reason why…

the dynasty’s downfall. The Han Dynasty’s army was comprised of mostly forced recruits. In the beginning, every able bodied man was required to enlist at the age of twenty three, but was later reduced to twenty. Later in the Han Dynasty many generals realized that an army of volunteers was better than an army of forced labor. To create this army the government offered tax breaks to those who signed up for the army. Recruits had to serve a two year term, one year in training and one year as a…

“82 percent of the approximate 3 and one half million school teachers are non-Hispanic white. 7 percent of teachers are non-Hispanic African American with the remaining 8 percent being Hispanic.” (Maxwell, 2014) In addition, 74 percent are female. Maxwell in his article, U.S. Schools Enrollment Hits Majority-Minority Milestone; claimed that “the lack of diversity among students creates cultural divides between students and teachers. According to Robert Cole in his book, Educating Everybody's…

grew up going to a co-ed school, I am very interested in seeing the results. I hope that these two studies will benefit parent’s decisions on whether or not they will send their girls to a single-gendered school. In my correlational study, I will recruit my participants from twenty different high schools around the United States. Half of my participants will be from a single-gendered classroom and the other half from a co-ed classroom. I will study two hundred girls in the eleventh…