... The character that I feel, that escape the most compared to the other characters would most definitely be Tom Wingfield, the son of Amanda Wingfield. Tom and his mother Amanda always seem to butt heads between one another, no matter what. Tom had a job in a warehouse that paid him only sixty-five dollars a month. He had become friends with a guy named Jim, who was a clerk in the same warehouse as he worked. He had a sister named, Laura who was born with a childhood illness that later left her crippled. And, his overbearing mother Amanda is just caught up in her own little world of realization. Tom has always seen himself being more than just working in a warehouse, he actually wanted to become a seaman and explore the many different adventures that a seaman could explore. But, he put his dreams on hold to take care of his mother and his disabled sister. It seems as though Tom haven’t been pleased lately at how his mother treats him and sort of boss him around as if he is a little boy. Tom always wanted to move out his mother apartment and venture out on his own to see what the world had in-store for him, but it seem as if his mother was always his downfall and holding him back from achieving his goals. Every time Tom and his mother would get into an argument, he would say “I’m going to the movies!” (CCi Custom Edition, 2008). The movie was a way for Tom to have peace and quiet from his mother and to be able to watch movies and dream as, if he was in the movies fulfilling...
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...Policies: Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor. Human Resources department. Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and Safety Programs. After that the candidate now goes to a seven-week course in Fort Jackson S.C. Once a Chaplain or Religious Specialist has completed their training, they are assigned to a fleet and shipped off for duty anywhere in the world. He could be stationed in the United Kingdom, Japan, or even stationed right here in the United States. There are multiple places around the world where a sailor is destined to see. Serving in the military is like any civilian job. There is a salary, benefits, and unforgettable experiences. In the Navy salary depends on years of service and rank. Seaman recruits get paid around $1,468/month. Seaman apprentices get paid $1,645/month. Seaman get paid $1,730/month. Petty Officer Third Class make $1,916/month. Petty Officer Second Class make $2,050/month. Officer Class 1-6 get paid $12,391/month (navy). Although the pay grade may not be appealing to some, there are numerous benefits that come while someone is serving and when they get out. Health care of all kinds is offered to the men and women that serve the United States. Active duty service men and women have access to top of the line medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and prosthetic service the country can provide all at no cost to the veteran. Added services include nursing home housing for the veteran’s relatives and themselves as well. Alcohol and drug dependency treatment centers...
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...Should I be a Merchant Seaman? | Costs | Benefits | Distance from home (short-term) | Have a lot of money (short-term) | Lack of family and friends (short-term) | Have skills for other jobs I want in the future (long-term) | Long time periods spent on ships (short-term) | Buy a house,car,start family (long-term) | | | | | | | | | | | Answer the Reflection Questions 1. Explain how the concepts of scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost relate to your dilemma. The concepts of all three relate to my dilemma because they all focus on a choice that I have to make. The scarcity in my dilemma is that I don’t have a lot of time to be home with family and be deployed on ships in the ocean. The choice in my dilemma is I have to choose either to stay home with family and friends and not be successful or become a Merchant Seaman and be successful and proud f what I made out of my life. The opportunity cost in my dilemma is that I have to give up laughter,fun,and games with family. 2. When making a decision, are the costs and benefits equally important to you? Why or why not? Based on your chart, explain which category, costs or benefits, would have the largest impact on your decision? No they are not because the costs is the things you will have to give up and the benefits is the good you get out of the dilemma choice you made. To me the costs category would have a big impact on my decision because to me family is important, I...
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...A review of How Bingeing Became the New College Sport by Barrett Seaman, a former TIME editor and correspondent. I feel it’s going to be about blasting drinking and it’s going to disagree from my own point of view. The topic at hand in Barrett’s article is about the injustice & stolen freedoms of millions of young Americans. That lack of freedom has led to a very real problem of over drinking. My experience is that I drank in high school. I drank before I was 21 and the only trouble I ever got into is because of the nonsensical laws. I got an underage drinking ticket; one or maybe two. It’s totally wrong that a society, a Nation that claims to be free, tells young men and women that they are old enough to die, be issued weapons and ordered into combat to terminate other human lives but they cannot consume alcohol? Whether it be hard liquor, moonshine, beer, or just a glass of wine it’s totally wrong! The mistakes and foolishness of the few should not justify the raping of freedoms from the whole population of 18 to 20 year olds! Furthermore I know many Veterans. One Veteran in particular, when he was 20 years old, the Port Washington, WI PD gave him a fine. Right after he got back from Iraq because he was at a party drinking. Talk about a lack of respect, respect for what he's done! Those cops have the nerve to wear the same flag on their uniform and claim they are there to protect & serve. This whole topic makes me more than angry. It still infuriates me to this day and I'm...
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...towards a late seaman. The cause and effect structure allows the reader to see what lead to the downfall of the seaman. However, the reaction of WIlliam Bradford toward the sailors fate creates a bias, allowing the reader to side with him that the death of the sailor was in fact for his own good. “They put out to sea again with a prosperous wind... according to the usual manner, many were afflicted with seasickness.” Bradford begins the passage explaining the conditions in which the Pilgrims were traveling. He blames the conditions of his flock on the wind, however, he recognizes the need of the wind to move them toward their intended destination. After this introduction to the setting and people he presents his readers with another cause followed by the resulting effect, in which he introduces the late seaman of whom this passage is about, “There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seaman, of a lusty body, which made him the more haughty.” Bradford believes the “lusty body” of the seaman creates the haughty attitude he exhibits. He introduces the seaman to the reader in this way to instill a dislike for him from the beginning.The final cause and effect William Bradford uses combines all of the seaman’s past actions with one final consequence, death. Bradford explains how “the just hand of god [came] upon him”, his death was one he deserved and one that saved him from harming anymore people. The way Bradford was satisfied by the death of the seaman is appropriate...
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...INTRODUCTION Every year more and more ships are lost through fire and collision. Shipboard fire alone, however, results in more total losses of ships than any other form of casualty. The most common causes of shipboard fire are: maintenance, burning and welding are responsible for nearly 40 percent of all outbreaks. Smoking leads to countless fires that break out when no one expects. Lack of attention, spontaneous combustion and electrical faults are the major causes. The engine room is at special risk from flashbacks in oilfired boilers, leaky pipings carrying oil, overheated bearings and even the accumulation of rubbish (oil rags, dirty oil, tins of oil, etc.). According to Mikhail Grigorevich Stavitskii 1983, if most shipboard fires can be prevented, then who is responsible for preventing them? The answer is that fire prevention is the shared duty of each and every member of the crew. No fire prevention effort or program can be successful unless it involves everyone aboard ship. We have noted that every crewmember is responsible for the fire aboard ship. Similarly, every crewmember has a role in the ship's fire prevention program. Because attitude is so much a part of the fire prevention, it is also the most important part of the fire prevention program. So as with the Fire Figthing, if there is a fire aboard ship, everyone aboard ship must form the emergency response team. According to Lobo Gruppe, Oslo 1987, the emergency response team are consist of the following...
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..."Never Let a Quiet Watch at Sea Lull You into a False Sense of Security" A little background on what it means to exercise command at sea: "Only a seaman realizes to what great extent an entire ship reflects the personality and ability of one individual, her Commanding Officer. To a landsman, this is not understandable, and sometimes it is even difficult for us to comprehend--but it is so! A ship is a different world in herself, and in consideration of the protracted and distant operations of the fleet units, the Navy must place great power, responsibility and trust in the hands of those leaders chosen for command. In each ship there is one man who, in the hour of emergency or peril at sea, can turn to no other man. There is one who alone is ultimately responsible for the safe navigation, engineering performance, accurate gunfiring, and morale of his ship. He is the Commanding Officer. He is the ship! This is the most difficult and demanding assignment in the Navy. There is not an instant during his tour as Commanding Officer that he can escape the grasp of command responsibility. This is a duty which most richly deserves the highest time-honored title of the seafaring world--'CAPTAIN.'" Captain Joseph Conrad Our Case Study: The weather would be turning bad overnight, but late on a sunny afternoon in gentle seas, the Commanding Officer (the CO) had a fresh cup of coffee in hand and enjoyed what little was left of the day in his designated chair on the bridge. It was an...
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...In Barrett Seaman’s “How Binging Became the New College Sport”, Mr. Seaman discusses the new college trend of “pregaming” and the dangers of over consuming alcohol. To “pregame”, is to drink hard alcohol before going out to a party or big social event and has lead to death of 300 college students in the US. Some students may even consume up to 22 shots of hard liquor when pregaming, which can land them in hospital for alcohol poisoning. Mr. Seaman proposes that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. Lowering the drinking age would decrease alcohol abuse in college students. As the famous quote says, what’s the fun in doing what you’re told? “There is no doubt that the law, which achieved full fifty-state compliance in 1988, saved lives, but it had the unintended consequence of creating a covert culture around alcohol as the young adult’s forbidden fruit” (180). People that cannot drink legally sometimes drink just for the thrill or as rebellion of authority. Lowering the drinking age would erase drinking alcohol as a “forbidden fruit”. Without drinking alcohol being seen as a forbidden fruit, the hype of pregaming and consuming large amounts of alcohol at one time would decrease. The thrill of breaking the law would be gone. ` Another famous saying goes around the means of “with time comes great responsibility”. “Meanwhile, we should let pregamers come out of their dorm rooms so that they can learn to handle alcohol like the adults we hope and expect them to be” (181)...
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...because it would increase the danger and deaths to underage drinkers, but that all has to do with the main argument for lowering the age, maturity. In the United States, at the age of 18, people are not able to buy alcohol but are able to join the military, vote, be considered adults, and buy cigarettes which can be as harmful if not more so than alcohol. I propose that we also add being able to legally buy alcohol at the age of 18. Prior to 1984, states were allowed to choose their own legal drinking ages. The legal age limit varied from state to state anywhere between 18 and 21 years of age. “One of the more compelling arguments for setting the age to 21was that the prohibition had only exacerbated drinking, particularly among the young”(Seaman 242). In 1984, the United States congress passed the national minimum drinking age act. Ronal Reagan instigated this act when he set up a study to look at the drunken driving problem in the United States. Scientists recommended that there should be a national uniform drinking age of 21. Since then, there have been many that oppose and want to reform the drinking age. Many propose to lower the drinking age because it will promote maturity, lower peer pressure, reduce the probability of binge drinking, and have less teenagers breaking laws. Alcohol consumption at the age of 18 promotes maturity and responsibility. Lowering the drinking age to 18 would allow people to drink alcohol safely in regulated environments with...
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...Drinking binges are generally occurring among college aged people. Binge drinking also known as episodic drinking is defined as “drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. “Some binge drinkers may also consume a consistent amount of alcohol over a long period of time, also leading to intoxication. Binge drinking can also be described as four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men per sitting. “Binge drinking is a kind of purposeful drinking style, and somewhat overlaps with social drinking since it is often done in groups.” Due to long-term effects of alcohol misuse binge drinking is considered to be a major public health issue. “As college students arrive on campus, it’s a time of new experiences, new friendships, and making memories that will last forever.” Binge drinking is more common in males, during young adulthood. Most binge drinkers do not know any of the risks associated with binge drinking. “Heavy regular binge drinking is associated with negative effects on neurologic, cardiac, gastrointestinal, hematologic, psychiatric, immune and musculoskeletal organ systems.” Up to one third of college aged people binge drink, six percent result in having an alcohol related substance use disorder. Binge drinking in college aged people is commonly associated to unprotected sex, car accidents, unplanned pregnancy, contraction of diseases, suicide and other types of...
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...Electronic curriculum is vastly on the rise. Nationwide, online enrollment rates are expanding at much faster rates than traditional classroom enrollment; specifically in higher education, online enrollments have grown 21%, whereas growth for traditional classroom instruction registers only 2% since 2002 (Allen & Seaman, 2007). Students are looking for more convenient ways to gain an education, and a way they can adapt well is to do it with technology since our generation is quickly becoming technology dependent. The Presentation, “A Balanced Use of Educational Media,” explains that content is more important than attention via entertainment. Pros of online learning is that it is more of a convenience, more flexibility, and student tend to interact with the teacher more than a traditional face-to-face classroom setting (Hackbarth, 1996) Some scholars suggest that interaction in an online environment promotes student-centered learning, encourages wider student participation, and produces more in-depth and reasoned discussions than traditional classroom setting does (eg., Karayan & Crowe, 1997). When one is in a classroom, how much time would they normally take to get to know all of their classmates? With online education, relationships are built faster based on the time pressure that face to face interactions set on students. In a discussion in classroom setting, most of the time the teacher is searching for students to call on in class to begin a discussion. Online discussions...
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...Justin K Larson GE217 Homework 2 July 5th * Preview the Seaman reading assignment How Bingeing became the new College Sport Barrett Seaman, Sunday August 21, 2005, Time Magazine * Skim the reading I believe I can expect the article to try and make me feel that the higher drinking age is to blame for “pre-gaming” and the reason so many students either die or end up in the hospital while in college. The topic of the article is about college students “pre-gaming” for social events by consuming large amounts of alcohol beforehand. The author’s point of view is that with a younger drinking age a lot of “pre-gaming” behavior could be avoided. * Consider your own experience Growing up in a college town being River Falls, WI. I grew up two blocks from the UWRF campus. Around the time I turned eighteen I started getting invited to a lot of college party’s and frat parties and so on. I can relate to the binge drinking aspect. We all had to try and get ourselves good and buzzed up, before we went out for the night. Having the drinking age being 21 in my eyes sets the stage for a lot of young adults to have to “pregame” before going out. When young adults are away at college, sometimes it’s there first time away from home, there are going to want to drink and experience the “college” life. When you tell young adults that they can now vote, and that they can make all their own decisions and even go away to war and potentially die for their country, but they can have...
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...Galina Bychkova Professor Russell Hirsh College Writing II August 5, 2015 Family Dinners Are Significant For those interested in improving their family’s interpersonal relationship and overall health, say, “goodbye” to take out food and “hello” to home-cooked family dinners. In this modern age and technologically advanced century, people rarely eat at home with their families. In America, many parents work long hours in which it becomes challenging for them to cook home- meals and eat together with their children. Therefore, many families resort to ordering takeout food. For many American families, it is hard to schedule family dinners for reasons that might be because sometimes parents work overtime, or children have some social activities. However, if members of a family put effort to gather for dinner, studies have shown its possible positive effects for family members. Many family meals give a family a chance to talk about happenings of the day, laugh, make family decisions, and enjoy the food in a tide in manner. Moreover, family dinners can help family members to learn about each other and build better interpersonal relationships. Regular family meals with family have been shown to lower a high-risk teenage behavior, such as sexual activity, drinking alcohol, smoking, marijuana use, eating disorders, violence, and school problems. In addition, family dinners have shown to decrease the risk of child obesity, improve a child’s social skills, and reduce behavioral...
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...Yellow Fever June 7, 1855, the Benjamin Franklin boat pulled into the Fort Norfolk port from St. Thomas. Seaman let out a dangerous disease that would change the lives of the people of Norfolk and Portsmouth forever. The seaman asked to dock the boat there but the safety protector would not let them. The persons who died on the ship had a suspicious story to them. They said one died of a heart attack and the other one dies of natural causes. After many days of asking the safety inspector for the ships to pull into port he finally allowed them to. They let them dock their boat but specifically said do not let their waste go into the water just in case there was something on the boat. The men on the boat worked on the ship but mistakenly let the bowl go so all of the ship’s waste was let out. Unknowingly, they let out a deadly disease called Yellow fever. With this area being surrounded by water and it being its main resource, the disease spread like wild fire. The host for this disease was a mosquito that carried the disease, Aedes aegypti. The mosquito lived in the water in every feature of the boat. Since the boat was going to New York, the city was informed about the disease and New York declared this area infected and would let the boat come to their port. The town council of the Metropolitan area banned anyone in the area from coming to the North Carolina area in fear of spreading the disease. The epidemic got so bad that the people started to go crazy. They burned the...
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...Critically assess the effect of Social Media on society Social media as defined by Andreas M and Michael (2010, p. 61) is “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.” Social media platforms include chat rooms, blogging web sites, social networking sites, forums, and also text messages and e-mail (Luxton, June and Fairall, 2012). The most popular social networking site, Facebook has made such an influence on society that from 2004 to 2011 the number of users registered to the site increased from 1 million to about 1 billion users worldwide (Yahoo Finance, 2012). With such vast figures social media is bound to have an impact on the way society operates, either positively or negatively, or both. These will be critically analyzed in this essay, identifying the most crucial impacts it has on our society. With the rapid increase in the awareness and use of social networking sites, it has provided positive contributions to how society functions. First and foremost, social networking has grown to become a critical part of a business’s marketing strategies, and if managed efficiently, will prove to be a major factor for its success. Social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter have provided an easy-to-access platform for people to share their views, preferences, and experiences about brands and products. Once this information gets widespread through...
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