...CRITICAL CAREER COMPARISON Police Officer vs. Firefighter Research Compilation Prepared for Professor Bolton Prepare by Alexandra Martin Open Options Inc. August 18, 2012 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………….1 Report Purpose………………………………………………………………………………...…1 Sources and Methods………………………………………………………………………..…1 Reports Organization…………………………………………………………………………..1 Education Requirements……………………………………………………………………….1 Police Officer………………………………………………………………………………………1 Firefighter………………………………………………………………………………………….1 Salary and Benefits……………………………………………………………………………….1 Police Officer……………………………………………………………………………………..1 Firefighter…………………………………………………………………………………………1 Job Security…………………………………………………………………………………………..1 Police Officer……………………………………………………………………………………..1 Firefighter…………………………………………………………………………………………1 Advancement Potential……………………………………………………………………….1 Police Officer…………………………………………………………………………………….1 Firefighter…………………………………………………………………………………………1 Conclusion and Recommendation……………………………………………………….1 References……………………………………………………………………………………………1 INTRODUCTION At a young age we are asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Later on in life that decision becomes more and more important. Career decision-making can be complex but once the right choice is made it can benefit you...
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...have to disagree with this statement, it is a old style of thinking and the fire service needs to change with the society. First, the statement of "culture of extinguishment" is wrong, as an all hazard response unit the fire service is now a culture comprised of more than just extinguishing fires. Also, safety of personnel and victims is of utmost importance. In society today, if you perform an unsafe action then it is not just you who is under investigation, but everyone involved and the department. It is imperative that today's firefighters have safety in mind and is...
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...Athletes are paid too much, they get millions a year while firefighters get barely 70,000 dollars and I think it is time for this to stop. Although they are hard working firefighter work harder. Reason one fire fighters around the world are risking their lives for other and athlete are just winning games. Reason two the exact amounts of money they get each year. Reason 3 do athletes use their money on others? I am going to tell you more about this in some paragraphs. So to start of standard firefighters are working hard and saving live and are not getting paid enough for their lives and their family. Although it is not easy to be athlete other harder jobs like fire fighting and being a police because you are risking your life for others and getting paid less than somebody who is doing nothing but a sport. Con for this pro is that the text http://www.knowswhy.com/why-do-athletes-get-paid-so-much/ .¨Before you become a professional athlete, you have first to undergo trainings, exercises and the like, for which, it will take much of your time. Not to mention the fact the time that an athlete consumes for their personal training before they will be professional in their field of sports is often unpaid.¨...
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...Overtime vs. Hiring Additional Employees Emily L. Slaugenhoup Butler County Community College Today’s economy is certainly struggling. With hard times, many employers are faced with tough decisions on how to save money. One area to be considered is the number of employees, their salaries, benefits, and bonuses. A company can save money depending on whether they hire additional employees to cover shortages and additional work or by simply paying current employees overtime to get the work done. There are numerous pros and cons to both. However, there is not always a clear answer. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an employer must pay an employee overtime pay for any amount of work over forty hours. They do not, however, have to pay for work on “Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, or regular days of rest, unless overtime hours are worked on such days.” Overtime pay amounts to at least one and one half times the regular rate of pay. Weekend and night work does not require overtime or additional pay by FLSA standards, but an employer may make that agreement. (Wages) The cost of overtime can vary depending on the wage. The cost of hiring an employee can vary as well, but it can also be roughly calculated. The Huffington Post used GetHired.com to estimate the hiring costs. It used the costs of posting an open position, reviewing applications, screening applicants, preparing for interviews, interviews, and the final steps to come to a total figure...
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...integrated to the mainstream of Timberland. e. To improve the relationship between Invention Factory and In-line teams. III. Areas of Consideration REMOTE ENVIRONMENT Demographic – Timberland’s present organization of In-line teams that are responsible for a consumer segment: (1) Boot/Urban Team, (2) Men’s Casual Team, (3) Women’s Casual Team, (4) Outdoor Performance Team, (5) Kid’s Team, (6) Pro Team, and (7) Apparel answers to the different demographics and needs of a variety of Timberland consumers. Additional consumer focused teams for new segments have been established to cater to the growing trends in modern society (i.e. New Kid’s Line, Mountain Athletic Line, PRO Industrial Line). Environment – Timberland had added environmental issues to the company’s social responsibility agenda by constant assessments of raw material sources and a subsequent evaluation of its impact on the environment. Political – Timberland, through the initiative of the iF team, was able to develop boots that are relevant to firefighters, SWAT team and policemen, The US...
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...(Gibby & Zickar, 2008). Researchers have come a long way since then and over time endured many controversies and debates. Even in today’s time, we are still debating about whether or not personality tests are good indicators of employee performance. There is much evidence that would indicate yes and/or no, which is one of the reasons why it is still such a popular subject in the Human Resources management. In 1930, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was developed at a Midwestern mental hospital. Today, this test is administered to an estimated 15 million Americans each year and was originally intended for the mentally ill, but now given to a broad range of normal people, including doctors, psychologists, officers, firefighters, etc. (Paul, 2004). It wasn’t until about the 1940s that personality tests became much more established and commercially accepted (Gibby & Zickar, 2008). In 1940, Isabel Myers created an instrument called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator which is still popular and used today in many companies. The first publication of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test was in 1962 and since then, the test is now given to 2.5 million people each year, and is used by 89 companies in the Fortune 100 (Paul, 2004). According to a 2011 poll from the Society for Human Resource Management, 18 percent of 495 randomly selected HR professionals are using some kind of personality test in the hiring or employee promotion process (Ellin 2012). Over time, and...
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...Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic society where books are banned and the firefighters do not fight fire but start them. Free thought is almost prohibited. People are punished for possessing books, poems, and other literature. In 50 years, our society will be a much different place with different developments in the technological world. Surveillance is already a tool used by law enforcement and I believe as time moves forward so will the want for more of a controlled environment for the population. The government is already holding on to millions of files, messages sent, and conversations. As Bradbury depicts how the government is involved in the population's life in Fahrenheit 451, America will resemble the society created by Bradbury. In Fahrenheit...
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...previously stated, Ray Bradbury deals with the issue of censorship in Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451 Montag deals with the fact that he lives in a very censored community that burns books, doesn’t allow walks, and can even chill out of his own front porch. Ray Bradbury wrote “It was a pleasure to burn”. This quote says it was a pleasure to burn someone’s hard work and Montag realizes how wrong that was so he decided to take a few book and read them on his own. He almost got caught by his fellow firefighters. Our nation is in need of censorship right now. Racism is going to be put of by censorship if people start commonly enforcing it. If our military begins using censorship they won’t have to worry about enemy’s getting all of their top secret information. Censorship can protect kids from seeing pornographic material when they browse the internet. If people enforce censorship in every aspect of life, the world will be a much better place. Works Cited Pillai,Prabhakar. “Pros and Cons of Censorship.” Buzzle,Buzzle.com, 12 July 2012, Web.15 Apr. 2015 “Censorship in the Schools.” Censorship in the Schools. American Librarian Association, 1 Jan. 2000. Web. 23 Apr. 2015. DiMarco,Scott. “Why I Banned a book.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 19 July 2013. Web. 21 Apr. 2015. Bradbury,Ray,and Joseph A, Mugnaini. Fahrenheit 451. , 1953. Print. ...
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...courses are extremely confusing as many require testing into classes or taking multiple pre-requisites before meeting specific requirements. Courses for general education classes also tend to be the hardest to get into as too many students vie for too few classes offered. Colleges on the other hand have plenty of reasons for requiring general education courses. One of them is that many students find that they love a certain field of study as a result of taking a required course. Second, required courses ensure that every college graduate has the same basic set of tools or skills necessary for their success. Colleges want all students to graduate with strong analytical and writing skills, plus a basic understanding of modern society. The pros and cons of mandating general education classes continue to cause many discussions for the students forced to take them and the teachers, administrators and institutions who believe in the benefits of requiring them. To me,...
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...Amanda Destefano 1) People- funeral directors, life insurance agents, weapon designers, and people who care for the dying Places- Cemeteries, funeral homes, battle fields, war memorials, disaster sites Times- Memorial days, Good Friday, anniversaries of battles, Halloween Objects- Obituaries, tombstones, hearses, electric chair Symbols- Black armbands, funeral music, skull and crossbones, and language 2) Natural phenomena, industrial accidents, human error, and weather. Mankind cannot do anything to rectify any of these because humans make mistakes and accidents always happen, most mistakes cannot be changed. 3) Visiting the cemetery, viewing, ceremony after the viewing called”Celebration of life”. 4) Carrying out traditions-remembering the loved one in a good way, and keeping celebrations going even though they aren’t alive, it’s a healthy way to cope, and doesn’t harm anyone and it makes us feel better inside. Visiting the cemetery-makes us feel like we are actually with and near the person again, make us believe so, and helps us grief knowing the loved one can see us there. It benefits us on the inside even though the person really isn’t in the ground. Professional Counseling- Someone who is suffering from a loss could get mental help if they aren’t able to cope in a healthy way, they could talk to someone who can try and work them through it. 5) Eye for an eye, not only one person suffered, payback, karma, it’s an equal treatment. 6) Coroner...
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...cheaper due to the deals that are offered through doing online shopping and also no travel is usually a perk that goes with this method of shopping. What is better than being able to shop in your PJ’s? In order to reach their consumers, businesses are either extending their products to the online world with specially developed websites advertisements; or they are cutting costs by switching from the traditional brick and mortar business to the technological based business. Business owners need to enter these decisions by airing on the side of caution, doing so by outweighing the pros and cons of entering into the online world. Th pros include a wider consumer base on a potential global recognition, the flexibility in working hours that are better, and lastly it can be cheaper to conducting business online (SEO Experts, 2013). However, taking on the adventure of an online business has its cons as well. These cons include that an online business has the potential of being a flooded market, depending on the type of market that is...
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...news can be proximity because it is local and important to the local T-Mobile subscribers who have been looking to upgrade their phones. This news report was also useful because it helped T-Mobile get their announcement out about their new Jump on Demand plan, as well as let the customers now you can walk in now and upgrade three times a year. However, the news did not go into full detail about the plan, so went to Google news and found an article that better helps the subscriber know what the plan is and how it will affect them. The headline on the article read, “T-Mobile’s Upgrade Plans Offer a Binding Kind of Freedom”. This headline uses the word freedom that catches the reader’s attention. As the article goes on they give you the pros and cons of the new plan, which the news did not do. This topic is news as mentioned to catch the subscribers’ of T-Mobile attention. For example, the only reason I paid attention to this topic was because I am a T-Mobile customer who has been looking to upgrade their phone. I wanted to know more information about the plan so I looked for more articles on the topic. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2486722,00.asp Discussion 2 To come up with a story, I believe it has to be something that interest the reporter/writer of the story for it to be good and interesting. The story has...
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...Although the death penalty has many problems including its expense and cruelty to inmates, it is imperative that we utilize this punishment due to the horrendous crimes people. Many people believe that we should get rid of death penalty, but really people need it for all the outrageous things people have done. There are so many pros and cons debating whether the death penalty is good or bad. Many believe that its way too expensive taking care of the inmates such as electricity, water, food, and clothing. The government approximately spends about $1 million on each inmate sentenced to life in prison. There is around 2,000 inmates that are in prison for death row a year, that is a lot of money spent on just bills and food, also that's not even...
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...Notes for Exam 5- Geography North America Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Physical Geography * Latitude is very important –broad range * Western climates- Mountains (change the climate of the region) * Example: Sierra Nevada and Rockies * Deserts and dryness- Because the mountains are so tall they absorb the precipitation * Further west- very wet * Louisiana- very close to the equator, nothing to stop the storms -2 of the largest countries in the world include (Population)- 1. Canada- 1/10th of the US- 33 million * Lots of empty land in this area 2. The US- 300 million pop * Highly urbanized (D): Megalopolis- Applies to the US and Canada, very big *PROS OF North America 1. -Farming and Ranching and Agriculture * Used to be dominate * 1790: employed 90% of the work force * 1880: dropped down to 50%- because of industrialization * Today: less than 2% * In the US only 1% of population are farmers * Farm populations fell by 2/3 in the beginning of the 20th century * Farms are consolidating * 20% drop in the number of farms * Agriculture has become more meganized (more industrial) More money to keep it going, more land and more machines * Farms are still critical in the US and Canadian economy * 2000: US Alone, $216 billion dollars in farming alone * Land use, agriculture remains dominant * Varies by region * Dairy farming in the east * Live Stock...
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