Professional Documents
Culture Documents
English IV
20 May 2019
SLE Reflection
grow up in an environment and are taught to pursue college as an only option. It is important to
know that college is not the only option there is out there, there are companies that can train and
hire you or there is also the military. In my experience presenting this project I found that it was
sort of difficult to tackle due to the limited knowledge about the military amongst our teens and
the misinformation about the military. While doing research and performing my surveys I found
it astonishing how misinformation and opinions really influence our students decisions while
choosing their future career path, thus affecting also their open mindedness about considering
joining a branch in the Armed Forces In order to be able to present this important information
and be able to change students minds about the military in general I prepared a presentation and
conducted various surveys to see whether or not after the presentation and spread of information
with aid of a professional helped to change and shift their ideas from a negative perspective to a
more positive one. With the help from my recruiter from the USMC branch I was able to gain
communicating skills to be able to talk about the military and get information about the benefits
and life in and out of the military. The survey results were much to my extent what I was hoping
to get back. After the presentation and talking to students I found that they were more open
minded and comfortable talking about their opinions and whether or not they would consider
joining the military. Some chose to consider it after acquiring the knowledge that they have been
misguided from and I believe that it was highly effective. With this in hand, I was able to gain a
lot from this such as communicating skills, background knowledge, being more comfortable in
teaching and giving information and getting an insight of what it's like to be a recruiter. I was
able to learn this because my recruiter does this in his career and he was able to mentor me to be
able to perform this presentation. I think that this project will benefit others because it allows for
them to get additional information rather than college so that they have more options to enhance
their career while also receiving the benefits and eliminating the misguided information they