blog 5b science propsoal

1.) firefighting

2.) " the FDNY'S strong commitment to diversity was evident in our campaign for this exam where 46 perent of the test takers were people of color the ame overall percentage at the top of this list"
huffington post.co/firefighters_n_

3.) If a firefighter is of certain racial lineage , then they are more likely to to earn a job as a firefighter.

4.) for this experiment i plan on talking to fireifghters and getting there opinions based off of race and how they view it. I will then give them a simple survey and from there i ill do different graphs and display them.

5.) Social science

Blog 16 Two Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.)    What is the most important factor when maintaining that sense of brotherhood in the fire department?

2.)    An important factor when trying to maintain that sense of brotherhood in the fire department is loyalty, loyalty in the sense of being there for your peers even outside of the fire department.

3.)    Firefighters are there for there brothers in the hardest of times. If a firefighter is struggling financially usually another one will help them out as a brother. Another reason is as brothers you have to be able to rely upon your co worker, for instance there was a case where a firefighter might be in a hard spot whether it be close to death or any rough circumstance the job of his brothers is to remain loyal to him or her and try there best to support there brother. The last reason is that a firefighter should stay loyal to one another even through passing. I found this fact interesting because of a story I read. A man who was a firefighter died, so the local fireman in his area went to his house cut his grass and paid some of the bills in order to help his wife. This shows loyalty to the peer even after death to his family out of respect.

4.)    The most helpful source that helped justify this question was an article I read titled Fire service brotherhood. This source shows a great background of brotherhood and how brotherhood should be exploited.

5.)    I plan to continue my study of answer two by researching more about loyalty and simply talking to more and more firefighters about what loyalty means to them in order to get a better understanding of the term and what it means to certain fireman.

Independent Component 1

Literal

A.)   I Joey Luna , affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

B.)    I did work for the navy firefighters. My uncle  was a second mentor to me and taught me a lot about military firefighting. Another source that helped me through this was the complete guide to becoming a firefighter by Kory Pearn.

C.)    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqlHw3zxdiyCdDhMZjJ2dEljeWR6YTVlTGRTOVJhenc#gid=0

D.)   I completed 30 hours of work that ranged from talking to firefighters, cleaning, hands on experiences. I helped my uncle who is a firefighter in the navy and he is the head of his division. He tells the men what to do and how to do it. I mentored him and he helped me understand a little about the fire station. I learned about the boat, cleaned, interviewed him, I fought no fires while I was there as much as I wanted to.

Interpretive

Some of the work that I did actually turned me off of military firefighting. I thought they did many things but in reality they don’t do as much. I wish it would have been a better experience but cleaning and simple interviews did not give me as much of a inside look on the department as I would have liked. I just did 30 extra hours but for this was military, I much rather stick to a city fire department.

Applied

This helped me understand that I really don’t want to become a military firefighter . A military firefighter doesn’t do as much as I thought they would and I am more focused on the city job instead of the service. It did show me how much work goes into being a firefighter that doesn’t necessarily have to do with fighting actual fires. I also learned a bit about a ship. For example we cleaned a lot and there wasn’t much action because we were just stationed on a stationed boat. My uncle was getting ready to leave for a tour so thy were more or less getting ready for that instead.