Job Corps Essays

  • Job Corps: Career And Service

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    Job Corps helps youth and young adults ages 16 to 24 who meet certain low income requirements obtain the training they need to succeed as workers in the United States. To graduate from a Job Corps center, you must prove that you're capable of meeting specific career success standards designed to improve your employability, social skills and chances for success. Overview The career success standards are divided into eight categories: Communications, Interpersonal Skills, Workplace Relationships

  • My Job Corps Experience

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    The day I came to Job Corps was the greatest day of my life. I woke up at 6:00 am to finish packing my things. My nieces and sister woke up and they helped me get the rest of my things and so I could get to the bus station. I kissed my nieces good bye they were crying saying, “Titi, don’t leave!” I was sad to leave them but I had to. I went downstairs and called my best friend Norberto to help me with my stuff. When he came down the hill from his house, I was happy to see him but sad at the same

  • American Needs More Government Jobs Programs

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    workers by helping them create new jobs; encourage them to hire certain workers; and punish those who discriminate against certain workers (Livermore, 2008). We will focus on policies that relate to labor supply strategies. The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) was established in 1982, and it was a job training program administered on the state level by the private sector. However, it was funded by the federal government (Failed Partnership, 1990). The Job Training Partnership Act was a failure

  • Importance Of Attending Job Corps

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    this moment what will my gains and losses be? What would I like out of this life? Do I want to be prosperous or just mediocre? What are some ways I could set a goal and work diligently and tirelessly to achieve it? Will attending Job Corps help me do this? Attending Job Corps will open and close what doors for myself and others around me?” Coming to my decision was not an easy one. I had a life where I was residing. While not very productive, it was fulfilling to my emotional need for happiness

  • Tweaked Sparknotes

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    Tweaked Written by Katherine Holubitsky, Tweaked is a novel that shows the readers how dangerous drugs are to both the user and their peers. With the two year meth addiction, Chase continues to financially and emotionally drain out his family however; the problems becomes worse when Chase escapes from his dealer's house. Richard Cross, the man Chase attacked, died and as a result, Chase is charged with murder. His mother secretly proceeds to monetarily support Chase but when she was caught, the bond

  • The Keys To Success By South Bronx Job Corps

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    beginning steps towards their goal. In the passage “What are the Keys to Success?” by South Bronx Job Corps (SBJC), the 7 keys to success are hard work, passion, time, knowledge, support, a vision/plan and commitment. All the keys to success are characteristics a person aiming for success should have. Comparatively, when the keys individually are admirable qualities,

  • Women's Role During World War II

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    interviewee went through a lot during World War II and sharing her amazing story left me evaluating her words for a long time, rethinking and still not willing to imagine the pain. She was one of the 150,000 American woman served in the Women’s Army Corps during the war years. They were one of the first ones to serve in the ranks of the United States Army. She recalls being teased a lot about being a young woman in a uniform but was very proud of it. Women finally were given the opportunity to make

  • General Omar Bradley

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    him commanding general of the 82nd and 28th divisions. Impressed by Bradley's success as a planner, Marshall sent him to North Africa early in 1943 to be Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's "eyes and ears." Soon Bradley commanded the U.S. Second Corps in Tunisia. As a corps commander under Gen. George Patton's 5th Army, Bradley played a key role in the conquest of Sicily in the summer of 1943. Early in preparations for the 1944 invasion of Normandy, Marshall selected Bradley to command the 1st Army, which

  • My Life

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    in the Fresno area, in the cities of Tulare, and Visalia. He says he spent his time working in any available job including some farm labor jobs and went back to Costa Rica to spend time with us. After the second time he left Costa Rica to come and work he did not go back. At that time, amnesty was given to immigrants in California, and he moved up north to the Bay area to find a steady job. That is when he saved enough money for my mother, my two siblings, and I to join him in California. My first

  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition

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    needed to be established to survey and document the new territory. The Lewis and Clark expedition would answer the unknown questions of the west. The expedition would not have been successful without the leadership, determination, discipline of the Corps of Discovery, and the cooperation of the Native Americans. President Jefferson wanted the leader to have the same passion and intensity toward the discovery of the west as he possessed. Jefferson hand- picked the leader of the team to be Meriwether

  • Biography of William Faulkner

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    Faulkner's father was Murray Falkner, who moved from job to job before becoming the business manager of the University of Mississippi, where he and his family lived for the rest of his life. William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 and began to write poetry as a teenager. During World War I, he joined the Canadian Royal Flying Corps – he was too short to join the U.S. Air Force – but never fought; the day he graduated from the Flying Corps the Armistice was signed. The only "war injury" he received

  • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.

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    officers in the army. His application to the Army Air Corps was refused because the Air Corps did not accept African-Americans. Davis was serving as an ROTC instructor at Tuskegee Institute in 1940 when President Franklin Roosevelt became worried about his support among the black community during his third presidential election campaign. To solidify African-American support he promoted Benjamin Davis, Sr. to brigadier general and ordered the army air corps to create a black flying organization. Davis,

  • Mediocrity of Teacher Recruitment

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    teaching recruits as a matter of method is, in fact, the radically democratic way to give our society's most valuable resources to our poorest and neediest children. That simple fact should trump any concerns about the ill effects of meritocracy on job applicants. The work of educators is to educate young people. So long as we have the courage to make the very best possible experience for those young people our highest goal, we must attend to fairness for teachers only after we have attended to excellence

  • Red Dwarf

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    fishing waders and a passport/work permit made out in the name of Emily Berkenstein. Since he had no work permit he could not earn enough money to buy his way off the moon and so the only way he could think of to get home was to join the Space Corps on the mining ship Red Dwarf. His plan was to work his way round the solar system until he reached Earth, then he would go AWOL. However this plan was altered when something drastic befell him, he fell in love. For five weeks the boring monotony of

  • Langston Hughes

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    Chicago, Illinois. Langston’s mother followed him and Langston was left alone in Cleveland. He devoted himself to his class work and other interests. He was on the editorial staff, on the student council, one the track team, an officer in the drill corps, and acted in school plays. When Langston Hughes attended Central High, the student body was very ethnically diverse. Langston’s Jewish friends were the ones who first opened his eyes to the ideals of socialism. Socialism is the doctrine that all property

  • The Lost World: Summary

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    to bring back a rich and stubborn scientist from a test expedition that he cared about more than his life. The "lost world" is an island off the coast of Costa Rica called Isla Sorna on which a company named InGen (Short for International Genetics Corps.), genetically engineered and contrived dinosaurs which were extinct since 65 million years. This island was used as an incubator for the dinosaurs before they were shipped to another island close by called Isla Nublar. Isla Nublar was leased by InGen

  • Community Service

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    culture and rituals while still attending the usual Catholic Mass. Upon learning that I had to do a service learning project for Ethics class, I immediately began brainstorming ideas. I decided I was going to work on a website for the Esprit De Corp group since they could not find anyone to do it. However, I ended up getting paid for so that did not work out. So I had two back-up plans. My first idea is that I was going on an AWOL trip for Spring Break. AWOL stands for Alternative Weekend

  • Colin Powell

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    CCNY (City College of New York). His parents insisted he major in engineering, and he did. He had no desire to further his education but did anyway to make his parents proud. Early in Colin¡¦s college career he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). On June 9,1958 he graduated from CCNY...

  • America in 1934

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    all government air mail contracts with airlines and ordered the Army to fly the mails. Roosevelt took this measure to deprive commercial airlines of scandalously high financial arrangements, but his plans failed because of the Army Air Corps' inability to handle the job. After the ... ... middle of paper ... ...t Record at A.S.T.C." Watauga Democrat 4 Oct. 1934: 1. "Normal Child." Time 27 Aug. 1934: 50. "North Carolina Builds Shrine to First Colony." New York Times 1 July 1934: 18. Old Gold.

  • Rubin Carter: The Hurricane

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    pedophile that was trying to molest his friend. He was to serve 6 years without early release from good behavior. Before Carter’s term was up, he decided to escape. Rubin went from the boy’s home right into the army, where he joined the segregated corps. While in the Army he made some friends that liked boxing. Rubin started training daily and became very good. In 1956 Carter returned to Paterson, where he had grown up, and was shortly arrested and taken to serve his 10 remaining months in a jail