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The Occupation of a Firefighter

Degree. For most fire departments, the minimum required education is a high school diploma, with the passage of a written entranc...

Firefighting and Labor

In a literature review consisting of twenty five pages this paper considers various labor issues concerning civilian fire casualti...

Japan and U.S. Second World War Occupation

of nature. These two factors can be seen in the both the practice of calligraphy., and its design images. In attempting to find ...

Occupation: Auto Mechanic

increase. With the profession of the auto mechanic, often referred to as an auto technician any more due to the computerized cond...

Occupation's Role in Identity Formation

In ten pages this paper examines how occupation serves to form an individual's identity. One source is listed in the bibliography...

Chinese and Tibetan Border Conflicts

at the hands of the Chinese government. As he points out, when the government changed over in the early 1980s, it appeared an opp...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

CASE STUDY: MEMPHIS FIRE DEPARTMENT

but lost the appeal. Court ruling In 1983, the Supreme Court ruled that the district court exceeded its powers in issuing ...

Firefighters and the Communities They Serve

dangerous job, but without it, modern life would be impossible. This paper considers two aspects of firefighting: how firefighters...

Assessing and Reducing the Level of Violence against Firemen

The writer looks at the increasing level of violence that faces firefighters, determining the extent of the problem and then look...

The Issue of Motivation in the Fire Service

(Thatcher, 2002). It has been argued that the good will of the fire-fighters is used and abused in the way that some disputes have...

Existential Therapy Case

that individuals want to take responsibility for their own behaviors and decisions. People especially must take responsibility for...

Safety Practices Not Followed by Firefighters

things get done and how, it is the personality of the organization. This firehouse has lapsed into a culture based on competition ...

Firefighter Deaths

(FoxNews, 2007). Apparently, according to the study cited, firefighters experience the same poor health conditions seen in...

The Dangers of "Ordinary Construction"

fires to "spread into concealed spaces" running either horizontally or vertically (Dunn). The largest concealed space in an ordin...

EMTs and Stress

a paid position. Even -- and especially -- at the highest level, all EMTs are to take periodic refresher courses to maintain both...

Emergency Medical Technicians and Volunteer Firefighters

16). However, in the 1970s, the public began to demand different kinds of services from local fire departments. Communities began ...

First Respondents and Handling Critical Incident Stress

like chest pain, weakness, dizziness, vomiting, twitches, fainting, confusion, nightmares, suspiciousness, anxiety, panic, grief, ...

Volunteer Fire Department Volunteer Retention

one roof. The opportunity to become a certified emergency medical technician (EMT), coupled with a properly trained firefighter, ...

Emergency Medical Personnel and PTSD

that are now associated with post traumatic stress disorder (National Center for PTSD, 2000). It was called Da Costas Syndrome in ...

Relations Between Firefighters and Labor Management

In fifteen pages the significance of relations between labor and management that are supported are illustrated in a hypothetical ...

Race and Gender Issues Among Firefighters

This research paper addresses the experiences of minority and women firefighters within the United States' various fire department...

Search Teams and Rapid Intervention in Fire Safety

This paper addresses the practices of rapid intervention and search teams in insuring the safety of both firefighters and civilian...

Hazardous Material Issues and Firefighter Safety

assumption that major emergencies are merely larger-scale versions of the types of incidents that occur each day can create breakd...

Bioterrorism and Hazardous Materials

such as ease of production, infectivity, toxicity, and ability to retain aerosol dissemination are taken into account, the list na...

Medical Field and Differences Between Profession and Occupation

In ten pages the field of medicine is the focus on an examination of profession and occupation differences. Eight sources are cit...

Professional Occupations and Competency Measurements

In six pages this paper examines how competency can be measured after licensure in the legal and medical professions. Eleven sour...