I looked around at the embers of the fire in front of me‚ tearing up. ¨How could have this happen to them?¨ It all started in a little town in Texas‚ although it’s always hot and everyone’s pretty grumpy‚ I love living there! I grew up here and when I graduated highschool and started my dream career here as a firefighter.Texas really is who I am‚ I mean the heat made me a hard worker. My mom was always worried I´d get hurt and my dad was worried about the family name but‚ I still put my all
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Are woman “physically capable” to be firefighters? Women are physically capable of doing anything they set their minds to. Men and women can do the same job. Sex should not decide on if someone is capable of doing the task at hand. In my opinion‚ women are capable of becoming a firefighter. It depends on experience‚ education‚ and stamina of any sex to be a firefighter. In my experience working with a woman‚ they can work as hard if not harder than men in the same field. All you need is experience
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careers and had a whole bunch of options‚ granted this was before I even took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery‚ ASVAB. I had a few in mind that seemed realistic to achieve. My dad supported them but enforced the option of being a firefighter. I never thought I would be interested in that‚ I gave it a shot. What I Know
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Third‚ the thesis is demonstrated through firefighter Anthony Smiljanic’s perspective. Anthony is apart of the Los Angeles Fire Department‚ and during all the rioting‚ he sees first hand‚ the things people say‚ and the way people feel. For instance‚ it is on Day 3 of the riot when he says‚ “There’s nothing to do but stare at new red‚ blue‚ or black graffiti that says‚ ‘F**k the Police‚’ and ‘F**k the National Guard‚’ and ‘Kill Whitey‚’ and try not to take it personal (156) . . . I’ve never seen anything
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Foundations of College Writing November 9‚ 2013 The Brotherhood: Ethnography of a Firefighter In Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society‚ the writer’s‚ McCurdy‚ Spradley‚ and Shandy use the term “microculture” and define it as a culture associated with groups that form for a variety of reasons‚ but do not consume every hour of the member’s time (McCurdy 15). We learn that a microculture has its own language‚ behaviors‚ and standards that are shared amongst the group. People can be
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discovered what I wanted to do for a career‚ I decided joining the fire explorer program would be beneficial for me to learn all I could to become a firefighter. In the sixth grade my mom had to call the fire department because there was a small fire in my kitchen‚ I remember being so fascinated and inspired that I knew I would become a firefighter. While still in high-school I was able to take my first college class which was a class preparing me for the fire academy‚ I was determined to pass that
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to stop banning books and start learning. Firefighters In the book Fahrenheit 451‚ firefighters would make horrible fires and burn books with sometimes people still inside their house because they would die for books. They would use kerosene to make the fires but they did not use gasoline. In our society the firefighters would put out fires and help people get out of danger by using water to extinguish. At the fire stations in our society the firefighters go down the pole in theirs they go up‚ but
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wanted to be for Halloween (firefighter)‚ and it’s all I wanted to spend my life doing. My father was my first hero. He told me all kinds of information on firefighting that normally people wouldn’t know unless that had that kind of connection with the fire department‚ or they did extra research. This has made my life and actions dealing with fire more intelligent. It even made the work I do easier. What work do I do? I followed in my father’s footsteps and became a firefighter. Initially‚ I did help
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One report showed that a successful risk-averse firefighter‚ whereas the other portrayed an unsuccessful risk-averse firefighters. The students were deceived‚ once again. Despite revealing the deception‚ students presented with the successful risk-averse firefighter believed that firefighters should avoid risk in order to be successful. The students presented with unsuccessful risk-averse firefighter believed that firefighters should take more risks in order to be more successful. The
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Marycruz Diaz Unit 9 Project Youth Sports and their parents. Who is misbehaving now‼? A child’s world is full of violence. It appears in video games‚ films‚ and TV programs and many parents in the hope of removing their children from some of this violence are encouraging and sometimes pushing their children into participating in sports. Some parents are losing sight of why these children are playing- and that to the children is what they are doing: “playing.” Many parents come to their child’s
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