profession. The images of fire professionals we see on television and in film are often romanticized versions of day-to-day life on the job. What is the life of a firefighter really like? The Job According to a 1993 survey‚ annual starting salaries for firefighters in major cities fall in the range of $28‚000 to $46‚000 with overtime pay. Firefighters receive health‚ disability and retirement benefits‚ and many consider the work schedule beneficial as well (rotating 24-hour shifts). No two days are alike
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Everyone has a hero that they look up to in there life. Any hero can be described as a loyal‚ trustworthy‚ and dependable person. This to me describes my Mom‚ who is one of my many heroes and people I look up too. One of the many reasons that my Mom is my hero is because she is one of the most loyal people I know. Whenever I need her she is there with advice‚ love‚ and support. One of the examples of her loyalty is how she supports me no matter what. When I was having a tough time with school
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My hero is my father he is a great role model very intelligent and respectful. I look up to him in many ways. I want my son to be like him when he grows up. Do good things but most of all be somebody in life. First I admire my father because he is a great role model for teenagers and adult young men. He is a working man that takes good care of his family. He has worked since he was sixteen years old. My dad has two boys and three girls. That he takes good care of since we were born. We always had
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You’re my Hero It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No‚ it’s superman! Is this what you think of as a hero? Of ten times in today’s modern fictional stories‚ a hero is depicted as someone with super human strength‚ can shoot lasers out of his/her eyes‚ or has the balance‚ agility and multiple lives like a cat. This image of a hero comes from years of comic books‚ television shows and movies portraying people with unusual abilities as heroes. The mere mention of the word “hero” and a person’s mind tends
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My Heroes “My Heroes” was written by Elizabeth Berg‚ who has published many popular books since 1993. In the article‚ Berg told us that real heroes were ordinary people around us. Because Berg’s daughter chose her friend as a hero who saved her from drowning in a creek‚ Berg realized a hero wouldn’t have to be a famous person. When Mrs. Zinz‚ an eighth-grade English teacher‚ was harassed by Berg and her friend‚ she wasn’t angry. Mrs. Zinz didn’t lower herself and become mean. Another hero in Berg’s
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My Hero It gets me through Last year‚ I went through the hardest things I ’ve ever been faced with in my life. I lost my grandpa and two months later I lost my aunt and soon after our home was foreclosed on. This left me thinking‚ " Is this the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end". What I needed was something to help get me through these traumas. That ’s where my hero‚ Ozzy Osbourne‚ comes in. In the essay "My Heroes"‚ Elizabeth Berg describes how her daughters hero is her
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Should Volunteer Firefighters get paid for What They do? Volunteer firefighters risk their lives to save others. They have to question if risking their lives is truly worth it. Volunteer firefighters have a unique job because they need to respond to victims in need within a short period of time. Therefore‚ volunteers should be paid for their hard work. On Long Island‚ fire departments always have the newest gear‚ the nicest fire trucks or ambulances‚ and the biggest parties; but‚ they have
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A True Hero True heroism is remarkably sober‚ very unspectacular. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost‚ but the urge to serve others. My dream begins with a teacher who believes in me‚ who drags‚ drives and leads me to the next plateau‚ sometimes poking me with a sharp stick called “truth”. There are many things which can make a teacher great and they all can’t be defined. However‚ I have always considered several of them essential. A worthwhile teacher
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Firefighter/ EMT A quiet evening in the fire station is abruptly broken when the alarms blare and the dispatcher is heard giving prompt information about the caller and the given address. Regardless of what the first responders are doing when the call is received they drop whatever it is and quickly head to the truck bay and head into their vehicles. Even if they were sound asleep or eating the first meal of the day they go to where they are needed. Quickly they turn on the vehicles and the sirens
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My Hero: Jesus Christ I know that it is only Jesus Christ who fulfills the definition of a true hero. I looked up “hero” in the dictionary and this is what it said: 1. A man of distinguished courage or ability‚ admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. 2. A person who‚ in the opinion of others‚ has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: e.g.‚ He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child. 3. The principal male character in a story‚ play
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