History - the study of past events, particularly in human affairs. Asking me to write about the History of Flagger Force is like asking me to write my autobiography. I say this because I am officially the longest tenured operations employee in King of Prussia. Much like we say every member of our field staff remembers their first week on the job, I remember my first week on the job also. My career at Flagger Force began on April 12, 2010 at our Harrisburg Branch in Middletown, PA. I arrived an hour early, and upon my arrival I was escorted to Bill McDaniels office and he immediately sent me outside to my car because I was too early and he was busy. At the time, I thought that HE was Mike Doner; I had always worked for “Mom & Pop Shops”, and I remember thinking to myself, “Great, my first day in the office and I already pissed off the owner”. Forty-Five minutes later, Ann Johnson came out to my car, and told me to pull out my vehicle and back it in before “Mike” yelled at me for pulling into the parking space.
My first assignment at Flagger Force was pre-screening. I was placed in an office and I was told to Pre-Screen applicants. I was told the most important to remember telling applicants was that they would be charged $45 for their equipment when they received
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Somehow, it was determined that it would be helpful for me to write down the assignments of everyone in the safety meeting. Unfortunately, no one thought to tell me that I needed to share the name of the client someone was working for, or who their partner was – I remember writing down the name of the employee and the location of the assignment and their start time. Needless to say, I didn’t end up being much of a
Flags of Our Fathers, written by James Bradley along with Ron Powers, are one of the unforgettable chronicles of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history. The author has managed to capture the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. In order to summarize the book, Flags of Our Fathers it is important to keep in mind about the contributions author has made, the purpose as defined by the author, and also the central theme along which the entire book is structured upon. To begin with, the author James Bradley was born in Wisconsin surrounded by a loving family of many people. Bradley had always been inclined towards reading and writing from a very tender age about
We all wait nervously, a room filled with six-hundred third graders but no one whispers more than a few words. Today we find out that twenty of us that will leave our families behind for the next two decades. Every year the government chooses twenty seven year old children from each school in the Providence of Britain and transports them to the United Europe Combat Forces (UECF) military school who will then become soldiers after their training. A strange woman walks up the mic, its the same women who dose the announcement every year. Our class has always joked and called her Drakula, due to her tall and skinny build, pale skin and big nose.
One of the best ways to understand something is to explain it. Explaining a process, idea, or even a construct will help people comprehend them. In The Landscape of History, author John Lewis Gaddis seeks to explain the approaches historians take in their field. He argues that while historical methodologies are complex, they are not hard to understand and ultimately wind up serving a greater purpose. To make historical methodologies understandable, Gaddis makes use of comparisons to other fields, contends that a historian’s techniques are not comparable to those used by social scientists, and explains the purpose of such techniques.
1. History helps us understand the world: History enables us to understand how the world worked then and how it works now. History provides us with the framework of knowledge that we need to build our entire lives. It takes us closer to happenings and events in the past we can know about and learn how things have changed ever since, and who were the figures and personalities that helped change the scenario.
In my perspective, History includes everything that can implement a drastic change of our way of life in a matter of time. To me History can in fact coincide with current events, yet must affect not only an individual but an entire (specific) population. However, History must be proven with evidence with factual and trust worthy sources. On the contrary, History does not include anything that has not been documented and or supernatural sources that cannot be proven. Even though such myths or documentation can be the basis of specific cultures and its founding history the information provided can be bias and exaggerated greatly not giving factual and dependable historical documentation.
A historian is an expert in or student of history. Historian need to use perspective, interpretation, secondary and primary sources and articles. For my investigation I used secondary sources, perspective and interpretation. The sources I encountered were bias because they were taken from a Americans point of view. It would have been drastically different if it was from a communist or soviet perspective.
Everyone has something so important to them that they are willing to sacrifice anything for. One eighth-grader strives to get her school’s traditional Veterans Day Ceremony back. Thirteen year old, Katelyn Kurovski found out three weeks ago that her school, Monticello Trails Middle School, might not be doing their traditional Veterans Day Ceremony for 2017. During class on October 30th, her teacher’s phone rang, and the principal of another school asked when their school was celebrating Veterans Day. The class broke out in questions when they overheard the teacher say that they had not seen anything on the calendar for Veterans Day.
Historical thinking is the nature of human thoughts that normally doesn’t come naturally to us. We as everyday people, rather than historians, must grasp the knowledge of how to come to a greater understanding of what history is and how it genuinely affects our everyday lives. My understanding of history, is that it’s the knowledge and the circumstances of the past, present, and future that either has changed the historian’s perspectives of the world, or how those key experiences will guide the hands and minds of historians to establish a successful path for the future by avoiding the same miscalculations that people made in the past. There is some controversy among historians, who accredit that the only way to understand history is to “reduce it to its lowest terms” or with the “active participation of the historian.” While I believe these two concepts help us to understand history, however, I don’t believe that they are the only possibility for understanding the past.
How have things been lately? I’m sure things are a little different without me but I hope you’re doing well. I’m pleased to say that I’m going all right up until now, and I hope to stay healthy till the end of the war. What we were told about war was very untruthful.
On the day of Celebration of the Flags, I was surprised by the event. The event is to appreciate all the students from all the nations around the world. Seventy-eight flags were represented in the events. I saw my country flag too, I am so proudly to represent a student from my country. The events started by students carrying the flag and come toward the place where the ceremony is held.
It is as a site of difference, a context of deconstruction partly because it is de facto always being fought over’ says Eley as a response to the literary theorists who presupposes a resemblance between literature and history which degrades history to a fiction just as Stedman Jones who claims that ‘history like other social sciences, is totally an intellectual operation that takes place in the present and in the head of the historian.’ (Jones, 1976,
NAME: ROLAND ARMOOH PROFESSOR: LETIA BROWN COURSE: ENGL101 DATE: 16 DECEMBER 2017 NEW YEAR’S DAY: MY FAVORITE Some people have interest in various holidays such as : Veterans Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Labor Day, and memorial Day , just to name a few. During my time in high school, I felt Veterans Day as my favorite holiday since is the time for honoring people who served in the united State Armed Forces. Coming from a family with many past and present service members, I love to celebrate Veterans Day. Along the line as I got married to my beautiful wife Felicia, I had a change of mind in my choice of holiday.
Historians use evidence from various sources, such as primary and secondary sources. Studying history allows humanity to learn from its mistakes, educates us about the past, and understand society back then, which are the characteristics of this lens. Historians use evidence closely related to an event or person in the past, such as biographies, diaries, and other written evidence. Humanities is the study of human works and actions. Some disciplines of humanities are language studies, history, and philosophy.
This letter is in a business format to bring attention to the miraculous support and guidance provided by James R. Ruffner MS, CRC. Upon leaving the United States Armed Forces after 20 years, the competing and properly understanding the United States work force was disheartening and overwhelming. In the service you are trained to persevere; however, once that chapter of your life is complete, an insurmountable loneliness and ignorance dominates your daily actions. In what I consider an extreme low point in my life, Mr. Ruffner said, “Your in my program now, things won’t be perfect but, you will be alright”. “It’s my job to make sure you and your family will be ok”.
As I walked into my local Mexican restaurant next to my old high school I was greeted by a friendly hostess who ushered me into the main dining room. The walls had portraits of the Spanish countryside and there was a fountain full of coins in the center. After scanning over a large group singing happy birthday and a family with little kids, I notice Matt is sitting in a side booth with a military baseball cap on. We exchanged simple pleasantries and immediately jumped into discussing the air force. Matt’s tone projected his excitement for the air force, but there was some obvious disappointment in his eyes.