Military Student Analysis

If I am fortunate enough to be appointed to the Coast Guard Academy, I intend to select Government as my academic major under the Humanities Department. As stated on the Coast Guard Academy website, the Government major is a challenging academic program which prepares its students for success in a wide variety of careers. When I made the decision to apply to the Coast Guard Academy, an important factor for applying was the hope for a future where I could constantly challenge others to improve both themselves and their community. Whether it be onboard a Coast Guard cutter in the middle of the ocean or at a policy office surrounded by land, I plan to apply the lessons learned from my academic major so that I can successfully lead others to enhance

Being a military brat has changed who I am. As I have grown it has driven my desires to change the

There are many different ways a person could look at the military and study it from a sociologist perspective. There are several different perspectives within this sociological window that people could use to approach this topic. The military can be a sensitive topic to many people. However, if they were to look at this from a functionalist perspective, one may ask, how does our military, and war, help us understand and keep some of the most important foundations of our country in place? How does it help preserve things such as freedom and democracy? This would be an appropriate question for the functionalist perspective because this perspective is all about usefulness and functionality of whatever it is you are talking about. If you were to

Being a student athlete I have had to overcome a lot of difficulties from having a bad practice to being injured and having the tenacity to still pushing through the pain even though I risk injuring myself even more. One memory comes to mind when

Throughout my Army career I have had several events that have shaped me as a Leader, Soldier,

Army life has an impact on a person’s attitude. “It definitely teaches you that there is not a lot in life you can’t do if you put your mind to it” (Morris). After the military, Don went back to college and earned his masters in computer programming. With the strict rules in the military, you learn what the important things are, and you think that if you can survive the military, you can sit down and study for a test. Also, your attitude has been adjusted. You learn how to act and how to speak to people. You learn to speak directly and not to beat around the bush. This

In my life I’ve been given many opportunities in which I’ve had to make challenging decisions. I’ve often chose to persevere and overcome the challenges than to quit. In the first semester of grade twelve I had to overcome challenging academic choices. I had two unit tests and an Independent Study Unit presentation all in the same day. I did not look at the situation in a problematic way, I choice to approach the problem in a positive way to overcome the challenges. I used this situation as an opportunity to use my time management skills and my work habits effetely. I did not just have to manage my time around my upcoming unit tests and presentation but along with basketball practices and games that I had in the same week. I used this challenge

My most significant strength is my ability to persevere in strenuous and demanding situations. The situations encountered range from overwhelming amounts of coursework or issues outside of school. An instance where school work became challenging was when advanced course classes began to increase in difficulty. Not only had the coursework and difficulty increased, but a sickness had hindered my return to school for several days. My absences from school resulted in an abundance of makeup classwork and assignments. The amount of schoolwork now acquired was difficult to manage on top of recovering from a sickness. Despite my unhealthy state, completing work was still a priority for me. Completing work, however, was difficult to prioritize at

In this paper we are going to go over four questions, and hopefully get some pretty great answers. The five questions are; How can we help keep firefighters safe and healthy? What new technologies could help protect our troops on the front line? How do we create environmentally-friendly materials? What are ways to create affordable housing for everyone?

In my life, as in anybody else’s, the possibilities for success and utter failure have been innumerable. From my earliest days my peers, my instructors, and myself have taken notice of my giftedness in the classroom. By this I mean, I have always been an above average student, and without putting in effort, I could probably get through school with ease. However, to content myself with this would not only show disregard for my potential, it would be the ultimate disrespect to the sacrifices that were necessary to bring me to where I am today. My parents were able to instill a tradition of excellence in me early on, and it is now a tradition I carry on by myself proudly regardless of what it brings

What You Get Out of Cadets is What You Put into it - My Experience

As a child of an enlisted marine soldier, I was able to endure certain things that would not be considered normal for a civilian kid.

This new journey took my value of hard work to another level, one in which continues to uncover obstacles in my life. As a teenager, I entered a league of competitive sports and more challenging classwork, where although hard work is supposedly stressed, some coaches and teachers are unaware of their caving toward suck-ups. A testing questions about my life philosophy were then addressed: How can the people who skip practice/class, slack off, and don’t take the game/course seriously be given better rewards than me? I then turned back to my older teachings and realized hard work doesn’t mean pleasing others or receiving the better reward because in the end, I did win the best award: I felt pride in myself from the inside and there I found a philosophy in life I was eager to pursue. I was also hit with the separation of longtime friendships due to my unwillingness to cave to peer pressure. The way I see it, hard work doesn’t just mean for materialistic things, but working hard to stand up for yourself and what you believe in. Now, scratching the surface of becoming an adult, I’ve been faced with scenarios that not only affect myself, but society and people all over

Throughout my life, I have worked tirelessly to excel; I believe that one must do what others are unwilling to do. For example, I take extra baseball lessons, physically engage in two hour rigorous workouts

Growing up near Macdill Air Force Base in Tampa, I met and befriended many children like Jackson with military parents. To the average civilian, they were just normal kids from military families, but to those familiar with military culture, they were more commonly known as “military brats”. Used as a term of endearment and respect within the military community, “military brat” is defined by Mary Edwards Wertsch, author of the book Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, as the children of a military parent or parents who have served full-time in the United States armed forces. The term extends to both former and current children of such parents, and is often