...I am an active duty Marine who still has two and a half years left on my contract. I’m determined to obtain my degree while still maintaining active duty status. Prior to enlisting, I was struggling not only with accepting the fact that the previous major I was pursuing, geology, may not be for me; but working 2 part time jobs to make ends meet. I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps since I knew that I could still provide service to my country. Also my experiences in the Marine Corps would give me skills to help establish myself in the civilian world later, and, at the same time, gain work experience. I know that in today’s society, it is not only important to have a bachelor’s degree but have working experience too. The U.S. Marines provides this for me every day. Constantly, I do on the job training, to further my...
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...world and could accomplish anything. My life so far has been a string of blessings, good luck, some stumbling but ultimately successful to this point. It has not been easy, as no life is. I have learned and grown from my experiences and will hopefully continue to learn and grown. Growing up dirt floor poor in a tiny town in Southwest Louisiana I was one of five boys fighting for love, affection and sometimes food from our single mom. With not enough of any of those three things to go around; I took the first exit I had and joined the Marine Corps. Seventeen days after graduating from my tiny high school I was on my first flight ever to sunny San Diego. The Marine Corps is where I found myself. Being out on my own with the structure of the military behind me, allowed me to develop into a well-rounded young man. Living overseas for my first seven years in the Corps was an experience that had truly shaped my personality. Living in a number of third world countries like Bolivia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Thailand to name a few, was eye opening. It showed me how good I actually had it growing up, it taught me what hard work really is, and it helped me to appreciate everything I have the opportunity to accomplish. I traveled to seventeen different countries during this period and was able to help build an elementary school in Thailand, and assist with humanitarian aid in East Timor. There were boring times on ship where I tried to occupy my time with college classes and figuring...
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...To the Human Resources Team, I have to say that I am thrilled to find out about your artist position at Welcome Industrial Corp!. I came across this job posting on Indeed.com and I knew I had to apply. For your company, I know that my qualifications and experience for what you are looking for will match your job position perfectly. I admire a company that is committed as Welcome Industrial Corp to providing great service to their customers. As an artist at your company, I am dedicated to providing quality artwork and designs to accommodate your design needs. As an undergraduate art major, I have developed experience with various mixed mediums and other art forms; including watercolor, acrylic and oil paints, pastels, and mixed mediums. More...
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...Integrative Paper 13 Oct 14 Working in a bureaucratic organization of 182,000 active component Marines, the institution inevitably is slow and lethargic. It takes many supervisors, managers, and leaders too tackle large scale problems and years developing solutions to the problems. The Marine Corps has developed many formulas and models to attack such problems. These formulas and models reengineered a strategy by streamlining, integrating, and transforming a process to eliminate waste, delays, and slow response time (Ivancevich, p. 518). These processes allow for individual commanders to adjust unit approach to still meet the objectives and intent without endangering the Marine Corps strategic message and vision. Over the next seven pages, I have taken Kotter’s eight step process and incorporated them into my experience to how The Heart of Change theme and reasoning influenced my expected behavior as a manager in the Marine Corps. Increase Urgency While working as a staff officer in a higher level command the sense of urgency is slow and unwilling to change. The typical expression you hear in the office spaces at a higher level headquarters, “is if you want change throw money at it to continue research”. The expression only proves the lack of change that occurs within the organization. Though the expression does provide humor, however, it really does not accomplish the task at hand for change. The idea for change is to focus on maximizing worker output. Conducting...
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...My Ideal Career: Becoming a Lawyer John Shand LS100 Kaplan University Professor Anderson January 6, 2014 My Ideal Career: Becoming a Lawyer My career goal has recently changed to becoming a lawyer. I’m mainly aiming for criminal lawyer and eventually have my own law firm. What makes becoming a lawyer so attractive to me is simply the fact that I can make a difference in someone’s life or simply make someone feel safer by knowing their assailant is behind bars. There are two important factors that got me interested in law the first was when I joined the Marine Corps, was fascinated by military law and I wanted to joined in that field. I didn’t get that job but I was still able to learn part of the legal system. The second factor that pushed and inspired me more to be a lawyer was after a family member was taken advantage of when I was sixteen, I realized that I wanted to make sure that no one has any chance to put anyone through what they went through or at least do my best to prevent it. I’d like to start at a small firm on an internship once I have my bachelor’s degree so I can gain experience and more knowledge as well as get comfortable with the work environment. While working at the small firm I’ll continue my schooling to get my master’s degree. While going to school to obtain my master’s degree, I will be gaining more knowledge and experience from my job. I hope to move up in the firm and slowly branch to a bigger firm once I have enough experience. In the...
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...Writing Assignment #1 ENG 1050: Thoughts and Writing The essay “Trigger-Happy Birthday” written by Kiku Adatto, is about the author’s personal experience when faced with the dilemma of letting her son participate in the activities at another child’s birthday party. The mother of the birthday child had organized a birthday party at the local paintball center. The author was alarmed when she received the “Release of Liability” form in the mail. The liability form asked for a parent signature to release the paintball company from any liability if any participant was injured, permanently disabled or even died while participating in the activities provided by the paintball company. Kiku decided to visit the paintball center before the birthday to make a determination if she was going to allow her child to participate in the birthday party or if he was going to have to stay home on the day of the birthday party. While at the paintball center, she noted that the company did give a safety orientation and the children were given safety equipment to protect them. She also noted the expensive price tags that came with the hobby and that a couple of the kids had gotten some nice welts on their bodies from the paintballs. At the end of the day, she decided that she did not want her twelve year old son participating in the paintball birthday party. I connected well with the author because I think that we all come across decisions in our lives where we need to make an educated...
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...Milestone Portrait 2 by Deb Fanning In April 1983 and the dead of night when I first arrived at Parris Island. The first words I heard were “GET OFF MY BUS. YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO GET YOUR THINGS, GET OFF MY BUS, AND GET ON THE FOOTPRINTS OUTSIDE.” I sat my feet in the yellow footprints and knew my life would be changed forever and in my heart knew that the change would be for the best. Boot camp for women was ten weeks, technically eight as the first two weeks didn’t count because you didn’t get your “real” drill instructors until the third week. Something like that, it is all a blur, and it was thirty years ago. There are three phases of boot camp. Each phase has its’ challenges. If you make it through all three phases, you will be called a Marine and not recruit. During the first two weeks, you are with what is called an Initial Drill Instructor. Her job is to get you acclimated to life on Parris Island. The first two weeks is a whirlwind of activity. You are stripped of all civilian attire; you are equipped with military clothing and all other gear you will need to get you to graduation day – and that day could not get there fast enough. You are immediately assigned a rack (bed), a bunkmate, rifle and a locker. You march everywhere. You speak only when spoken to. Everything you say or do is prefaced with ma’am or sir. Drill Instructors are with you morning, noon and night. You are broken down and never allowed to think on your own at any time or so they...
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...against another person than ever before and they continue to increase at a cyclic rate. It is unclear on why this is occurring, but I know for me I have set core values that I believe in, which have made me who I am today and I will strive to instill those same values into my children and my children’s children over time. What are values? How do we acquire and change values overtime? What values do for and to us? What is the importance of values in the work place? The above are the questions I will answer in the next few paragraphs of this reflection to better explain what my values are and what they mean. What are values? Values are simply those things in life that are important to us and guide us in the way we live our lives and how we work. My personal values are accountability, dependability, fairness, faith, integrity, team work, and hard work. While I will admit I am stronger in some of my values than others, but I always seek to improve to make myself a better husband, father, supervisor, and co-worker because I owe it to those around me to be the best I can be and turn out quality work. What do my values mean? Accountability to me is being responsible for my actions, the actions of my children, and the officers under me to a certain extent while they are working. Dependability is being a person that other know will show up when require or when needed. Fairness is treating everyone equal in similar situations. Faith is trusting in the Lord and living...
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...It is my role as a violinist to practice the instrument a lot. Moreover, my knowledge of the classical music is expected to be vast. Therefore, another part of my role as a violinist is to always listen to classical music. Knowledge of works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Gershwin fill my mind. My participation in playing the violin in the Richmond Youth Symphony Orchestra, for example, has brought some privileges. Through my role as a violinist, I have received free tickets to attend the Richmond Symphony concerts. However, my role as a violinist is not easy. I am often conflicted by my role as a low-income student playing the violin. By becoming a violinist, I am exposed to musicians whose high-income families are able to afford countless violin lessons. There is a rule or assumption that by becoming a violinist, you must constantly receive violin lessons every week. Due to my family’s financial situation, that is impossible. While there is financial aid in joining the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra, I find it difficult to socialize with people who constantly receive violin lessons. For instance, people would praise my playing and proceed to ask who my teacher is. I respond to tell the teacher who I have not visited for a while. On the other side, being a part of the program has positively affected my academics. For example, my English teacher regularly attends the Richmond Youth Symphony Orchestra...
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...Lord works in mysterious ways Anthony K. Nix IDSS 3100 November 6, 2012 Professor M James The Lord works in mysterious ways As I stood on the parade deck at the Sheridan Correctional Center in my 3 piece suit watching the inmates as they were lining up for afternoon chow, I whispered a prayer to myself and thanked my God for allowing me to be at this place in my life. Looking back on my life finding ending up in unusual, challenging, or exciting places is not new to me liked the night I found myself standing on the yellow footprints at the United States Marine Corp boot camp or when I found myself DJing at one of the hottest clubs in Japan being chauffeured in a jeep with a 45 on my hip. I never identified myself as a people person and always thought of myself as an introvert. But life’s experience have proved me wrong and has actually allowed me to have an impact on countless of people’s lives not only in the business and substance abuse field, but also spiritually. Born in 1956 to Sarah and Clifton, I was the baby of their 5 children. My older brother and sisters moved away from home it seemed as soon as there were old enough to be out on their own. We moved from an older home on the Southside to a larger home in Avalon Park. My father was an electrician and I can’t remember ever needing anything. I attended catholic school from the 2nd grade through 12th grade, back in those days if you went to catholic school it was because your parents were doing...
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...HRM 6311 Final Project Human resource management continues to change as the nature of business changes. 20 years ago in the military, the primary focus was the accurate on time preparation of paperwork to include, evaluation reports, awards and orders to requisition and transfer equipment. There was a huge focus in the area of personnel management, which was mostly left to small team at local level. Lundy (1994) already believes that the personnel management role lacked strategic relevance because it was mainly an administrative-type role, whereas the modern concept of human resource management is much more strategic in scope. He states that human resource management came about due to a “change in the functions, boundaries, substance and objectives” of the original personnel management function (p. 693). A change came about within the military community when we became a nation at war for the past 12 years. As the strategic war fighting procedure changed so did the way our organization manages personnel. To have a successful operation, it is imperative that an organization has smart, self-motivated employees. In order to fill positions a carefully manage process must be used to advertise, recruit and select and retain these individuals. Human resource professional have to identify challenges, streamline their current HRM practices and determine if the methods employed are effective to current operations. Next, managers make recommendations to improve HR operations while being...
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...just because you do the right thing. As a youth, I learned both good and bad examples of academic success from my parents. The first thing I learned was that mom was a high school graduate but my dad had to drop out of school in the ninth grade. Discovering the educational levels of my parents was important to me because I felt their success in life would be the same as mine, all I had to do was get through school, graduating or not and I’d have money, cars, a house and a family. During my earlier years of learning (elementary school), my parents did not review my school work for accuracy, nor were they members of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA). My parents had hectic schedules; my dad would leave for work early in the morning and return late in the evening, while my mom would leave for work in the afternoon and return late at night. I didn’t have anyone to check to see if my homework was finished or help me with school work; my parents relied on the school system in order to make that happen. As my educational requirements began to get harder (middle school), my grades started to falter, all I could think about was having fun with my friends. My parents would always tell me that I could only blame myself if my grades did not improve but I felt that otherwise. Upon entering high school, I only cared about sports, girls and showing off around my friends, my...
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...English 100 9/23/13 Cause Essay Why I’m Joining the Marine Corps Once this semester is over I will be leaving for Marine boot camp in Parris Island, South Carolina. There are many reasons of why this decision is made by myself and many other Americans across the nation. The Corps provides many valuable benefits and is a great experience for young men and women and can lead to many job opportunities in the future. Pride is a word generated as soon as you become an athlete or even put in effort to your school, work when you are young. In today’s society some American’s strive to do something that is bigger than them the Marine Corps assists in providing that. The pride of belonging to the Marines is something great and that can never be taken away from an individual who has been apart of this great fighting force. They say “Once a Marine, always a Marine” unlike a lot of other branches of military. When someone retires from the air force for example they usually just tell people “I was in the military.” Also in no way, shape, or form am I saying the Marines are above everyone else, it’s great to be in the service, and protect your country, that was just an example of what I have heard from past veterans. The Marines provide the toughest, most intense boot camp out of all of the different branches, the twelve and a half week transformation brings out a whole new warrior and ultimately a better person than what you were before. When you get out of boot camp you feel...
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...LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION 1 " " " Leadership and Motivation: Motivating People The Marine Corps Way Carlos Arias University of Miami " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION 2 Abstract Historically, The Marine Corps has always been the smallest service branch, accounting for less than 1% of the US population, including past and present Marines. Yet out of the 10 CEOs in Fortune 500 Companies, 30% have served in the United States Marine Corps. Most, if not all, former Marines attribute their success to the 14 leadership traits in tandem with the 11 leadership principles taught in Marine Recruit Training and beyond. This leadership training has enabled the Marines to become the most feared and respected fighting force on earth and continues to influence the community once Marines become civilians. Although this work has been researched and disseminated by the Marine Corps Institute, all lessons learned have come from real life and death situations and passed down to younger generations of Marines. These ‘soldiers of the sea’ continue to fight on active duty and contribute to their communities as civilians. Keywords: Leadership, Motivation. " " " " " " " " " LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION 3 " “Serious sport is war minus the shooting.” -George Orwell Robert Stevens, from Lockheed Martin, joined the Marines when he was only 18 years old. During a 2010...
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...Introduction to Composition Spring 2014 The Universal Language My journey began with a telephone call. This was before everyone had a cell phone. The house phone rang in my parent’s kitchen. I was a junior in high school, hadn’t travelled much yet, wanted to get out and experience the country. When I picked up the phone a voice that I didn’t recognize asked for me. All that I could think was “Damn, another recruiter.” As it turns out I was correct, just not in the way I thought. The voice on the phone introduced himself as Nic Simons of the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps. Now I had head of the Troopers, My primary musical influence had performed with them and treasured the experience. Nic offered me a position with the Troopers playing something called a contrabass bugle; all I had to do was get to Casper Wyoming, in three days with $500. The deal sounded like winning the lottery with a kicker of performing live! Of course I was in. When I arrived in Casper, having scraped together the last of my savings I didn’t know what to expect. My folks dropped me off at the Corps office, which was connected to a bingo hall, the smell of cigarette smoke pervasive, as if it would invade everything and there was no stopping it. After my parents signed paperwork giving their official permission to leave for the summer ad travel around the country with a group of people they had never met, we said a short goodbye that had my mom in tears. Shortly after they had headed off on the 3 hour drive...
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