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Analysis of Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

have fallen upon hard times. She does this with her first view of Dunnet Landing, as she describes it as a "coast town . . . more ...

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...

EMTs and Stress

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

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...

The Dangers of "Ordinary Construction"

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

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...

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...

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 Technicians and Volunteer Firefighters

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

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...

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...

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...

Improving Organ Donation Through Clarification and Education

biology alone (Koppelman, 2003). It involves equally complex realms of metaphysics, social values, and religious beliefs (Koppelm...

Virginia Held on defining "Human" and "Natural"

a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...

Two Playwrights Look at Death

so gifted and so special that the world will fall at their feet simply because they exist (Miller). As a result, Biff and Happy (p...

Death and Brain Death Criteria

In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...

Killing the Truth in Iraq

accusing Basras police force of "being infiltrated by Shiite militiamen" ("American Journalist Found Shot Dead in Basra"). He quot...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...