Luis: Some challenges will probably be the amount of pamphlets be distributed. Next step for further action will be to inform people that are most likely related to child soldiers or such related programs/organizations. What I have learned about research and action is that to have people understand your issue, you need to inform them with powerful information that will impact on their perspective, on how they view the issue and what they can do to make a difference/action themselves towards the issue. After high school I will take my education of social justice and go further, by majoring into criminal justice. I would love to make justice my career and enforce the law that everyone must follow: correctly, truthfully, informatively, and righteously in the future.
Denise: Since I had to decide on how to create this pamphlet it was a bit of a challenge. I wanted to be straightforward yet get peoples attention about this issue, but at the same I practically felt the need to give them all of the knowledge that I learned through this research. I ended up giving a few of the basic and interesting facts about child soldiers.
I also came up with 4 questions to ask the marine whom visited LVLHS. Lets start of by saying that I had no idea that a marine was in LVLHS recruiting juniors until I went to lunch. I had to come up with questions as fast as possible. With the help of my mentor (Mr. Hernandez) and Ms. Lisasuain I came up with 4 questions. I think that if I would have known that a marine was going to visit us I would have come up with more interesting questions regarding to JROTC and child soldiers.
The answers that my partner and I received were quite shocking in my opinion. He believe that it was “okay” if a person that is younger than 18 to join an armed force. He also believed that joining an armed force brainwashes a person but in a positive way. Even though his answers were shocking I also had to consider that his job was to say positive thing about armed forces since his job was to do so in order to get juniors interested.
I had a lot of fun on creating a pamphlet and interviewing a marine regardless of how stressing it was in the beginning. In the end I’ am glad I educated a few sojo students and also learning another point of view coming from a marine
Denise: Since I had to decide on how to create this pamphlet it was a bit of a challenge. I wanted to be straightforward yet get peoples attention about this issue, but at the same I practically felt the need to give them all of the knowledge that I learned through this research. I ended up giving a few of the basic and interesting facts about child soldiers.
I also came up with 4 questions to ask the marine whom visited LVLHS. Lets start of by saying that I had no idea that a marine was in LVLHS recruiting juniors until I went to lunch. I had to come up with questions as fast as possible. With the help of my mentor (Mr. Hernandez) and Ms. Lisasuain I came up with 4 questions. I think that if I would have known that a marine was going to visit us I would have come up with more interesting questions regarding to JROTC and child soldiers.
The answers that my partner and I received were quite shocking in my opinion. He believe that it was “okay” if a person that is younger than 18 to join an armed force. He also believed that joining an armed force brainwashes a person but in a positive way. Even though his answers were shocking I also had to consider that his job was to say positive thing about armed forces since his job was to do so in order to get juniors interested.
I had a lot of fun on creating a pamphlet and interviewing a marine regardless of how stressing it was in the beginning. In the end I’ am glad I educated a few sojo students and also learning another point of view coming from a marine