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Deterrence and the Death Penalty

the death penalty is rarely used and perhaps not used on a consistent basis involving particular crimes. Regardless, however, ther...

The Dangers of "Ordinary Construction"

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

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...

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 ...

Existential Therapy Case

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Are You Anxious About Dying

One of the proverbs or sayings that has been passed down from generation to generation is: “In this world nothing can be said to b...

Counseling Grieving Elementary Students

the typical approach, in that it addresses the depths of emotion, guilt, shame, anger and all other pertinent emotions associated ...

Poe/Masque of the Red Death

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

Poe and The Masque of the Red Death

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

Wordsworth/A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

In Support of the Death Penalty

that contend that it is a gruesome and uncivilized option for our society, those that contend that we have advanced to the point t...

"Death of a Salesman" as an Analogy for the Death of the American Dream

belief in the "American way," but even at the cost of his sanity he is still unable to succeed. What he has done is to instill the...

Narrative Essay on the Most Influential Person in My Life, My Grandmother (Lola)

because of her pride seldom uttered a complaint. Like most Filipino girls, she married and became a housewife. Her husband (my L...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

A Reply to van den Haag

is not to abolish the death penalty but to "abolish the discrimination (which, he adds, favor murderers of blacks and therefore fa...

Gulf Corporation Council (GCC): Crime Law And Capital Punishment

living world. Through the centuries, this perpetual quest for upholding said rights has been met with great resistance from those...

The Constitutionality of Capital Punishment

which may or may not be constitutional one must look at the Constitution itself and what the focus is all about. When...