None of us knew what his day job really was, but it must have been important because he would only train his clients in the evening. According to rumor, he was law enforcement, or in hushed afterthought, a federal agent. But we had the pictures. Our athletic club put six-foot tall pictures of Donovan in every room. Donovan doing pushups and smiling, Donovan bench-pressing 250 pounds and smiling, or just Donovan smiling…and he was gorgeous. Six feet-two, pale skin with rosy overtones (or else the pictures were airbrushed like a Playboy Vargas drawing), muscles in sharp definition without that tendon-busting tension under the skin, brown hair just long enough to suggest the boy he had just finished being, and then there were his eyes. I would …show more content…
In my heart I believed that my job was more important than all of their jobs put together, even Liz’s job as an R.N. You are one step from God himself when blood spurts and bones protrude through the skin and another human being needs you more desperately than he or she has ever needed anyone. Professional women and their panty-hose-and-dress-pumps professional jobs just played at life, toyed with essentials, and got out of town when the going got tough. Truth be told, I was at Bodies Day & Night for just one reason: to prepare for the Firefighter’s physical fitness test. At five-feet, four inches tall I was going to need every ounce of strength I could develop in order to become a firefighter, and then I would be set for life. Or so I thought. The next day I went to the fire station to check in and get ready in case of a call. We had one call a day on the average, but that could mean no calls for five days, five on Saturday and two on Sunday. It was leisure punctuated by frenzy, just the way I liked it. On this day I barely had time to suit up and get in the paramedic vehicle to answer a call at a residential care facility. Apparently an older man had stopped breathing. Emergency equipment at the ready, we sped off and pulled up in front of a single-story ranch house in a declining suburban neighborhood. “Where is he?” Larry’s question and tone demanded instant
Build a career for yourself that you do not need a vacation from but always keep the separation of work and life. In Ellen Goodman’s piece “The Company Man”, Goodman describes the habits of a workaholic named Phil who worked himself to death. The author criticizes Phil for neglecting his family and expresses her feelings through rhetorical strategies. Ellen Goodman is bitter and disapproving about the way Phil lived his life because of how many hours he spent at work, how little his family knew about him, and how easily he was replaced.
The world of work is not as glamorous as some may view it as. In Barbara Ehrenreich's essay, she highlights her experience of searching for job and her experience of working a low wage job serving in a restaurant. She highlights her experience she had while searching for different job positions and her time as working as a waitress in a restaurant. During her stint of being a waitress, she recognizes similar characteristics that is shared by the other employees in the restaurant. Through Ehrenreich’s essay, she hones her emotional and logical appeals by describing the occurrences that accompanies low wage jobs. In the essay “Serving in Florida,” Ehrenreich uses comparisons, antanagoge and parentheses to develop her focus on the struggles of
There were many firefighters that were on call that October night, but all their efforts were
In this text, Rose eloquently utilizes pathos to create an emotional connection towards the blue-collar workforce. Rose also writes about his family members to try to establish a connection between readers and his memories, so that the reader could relate and begin to understand the requirements of such careers. These experiences demonstrate how passionate workers like Rosie and uncle Joe are about their careers, and how their passion encourages them to seek further ways to learn and improve. Throughout his article Rose vividly recalls the stories for the audience, “Rosie took customers’ orders, pencil poised over pad, while fielding questions about the food. She walked full tilt through the room with plates stretching up her left arm and two cups of coffee somehow cradled in her right hand” (Rose 3). The reader is better able to grasp the fact that blue-collar careers require more intense cognitive abilities than other social classes give them credit
He was a fly swatter. He was happy about his job for what he was paid.
Women in the work force are not nearly as dominant as men are. Katha argues that this isn’t due to women not being able to handle the workload, but instead because of how society, especially in the business world, best adheres to a man. Katha uses an excellent example on page 402 that shows how inequality in the business world is prevalent. Katha uses the Sears case in which Men were getting the bigger and better business deals, simply because women could not handle the pressure of dealing with the amount of work and emotional fatigue this would have brought. Finally she analyzes that women aren’t actually emotionally weak. It is society that has labeled them this way, which causes people to view and categorize women as emotionally weak. Pollitt wants the general public to know that women are perfectly happy by being themselves, and not having to conform to society's expectations. Katha says that this is because society has labeled women as not wanting a job that has a lot of emotional ties in it.
Montpelier Fire Department is a full time department consisting of 17 members. MFD runs approximately 2000 calls a year with 80% being
This tragic fire demonstrated how the fire inspections and precautions were noticeably lacking safety for these workers even though “a little more than five months before the tragedy Firemen Edward F. O’Conner made a routine inspection and said the Asch Building was ‘good’ and the building was ‘fireproof’”(28). The fire finally died down with over one hundred dead bodies piled along the streets. Sunday morning “thousands of people began to form into a slowly moving parade around the city blocks”(89). The people were walking in honor of these workers and would go around trying to identify the bodies and confiscate any items the bodies my have possessed for reminiscences. On the other hand, the departments felt immediate quilt for not stepping in to fix the Asch building before, because the departments knew of the horrible safety and health precautions the Asch building had but nobody emphasized the problems. “But who was to blame?” (113). Chief Croker was quick to blame
Serving the community is one of the core values of the Franciscan Tradition, likewise it is equally important to the fire department. With dependence on Our Lord for guidance, the department will endeavor to serve all people with love, compassion, respect, and integrity. As a result, the department is often found educating the community in fire safety, specifically conducting fire drills, and delivering and installing smoke detectors to those in need. The department’s “Get Out Alive” initiative on instructing on how to make egress in case of a fire, becomes more beneficial when the driver is experiencing problems at the pump. The fire service serves every community, for all are God’s children, with love and compassion
Grey’s Anatomy, Chicago Fire, my life is nothing like that. Of course there are exhilarating moments on the scene of an incident or on the 5 Center floor of the intensive care unit, however, the realities of working as a fireman or in a hospital are not nearly as glamorous. Running into burning building and extracting people from impossible car accidents are not every day occurrences. In fact, seeing a building fully engulfed in flame is a rare sight that will leave you in awe nearly every time. On the first day at the fire academy I got a reality check about firefighting. At the beginning of each class we take a moment of silence for fallen firefighters. Nowhere in the job description does it say that you have to die in the line of duty,
The case study begins for a 911 call for a 40 year old male who was assaulted and thrown from a rooftop and landed in a stairwell below. Upon arrival, the advanced life support crew was greeted by Alaska State Troopers who mentioned that the patient had been moved from the stairwell and placed in the snow for ease of access. EMS personnel immediately began to
I job shadowed at Denton Creek Elementary, under Lindsay Campbell a drama director for the elementary drama club. My responsibilities included watching over the students, interacting with them and playing games with the students. I completed my job shadowing last fall semester and completed my time in four months. I would shadow every Tuesday of the school week and the first thing I would do was arrive and immediately start working with the kids. Before the start of Drama Club the children would have a snack and have a chance to catch their breath after a long school day. Miss Lindsay would always start the afternoon with a “Question of the Day”, she always made the questions short and nearly always relatable to every child she would ask questions
In June, 2003 Kaimana, a girl that loves to walk on the beach, took a stroll on her favorite beach. She loves to walk on the beach because she like the feel on the sand in between her toes. She likes the breeze blowing in her hair and the view of the water. While she was walking, she found a glass bottle, with a light brown cork as the cover. She opened it, and a message flew out of it.
First, women in the professional world face harsh criticisms that are both portrayed in the media and rooted in Biblical interpretations. A Commercial by Pantene points out the issue of labelling. A man is labelled “boss,” while a woman is labelled “bossy”; a man staying late at work is “dedicated,” while a woman staying late at work is “selfish” (Social Voice
After visiting some actual fire departments, I realized as a firefighter you certainly have a lot to be proud of. It’s not your average job and does require quite a bit of organization to stay on top of everything. Everyday you have to be ready and prepared for just about anything that can happen. You never know what kinds