Journeyman

Mark Twain: The Biography of Mark Twain Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Though he was raised in Missouri, Mark Twain family originated from Kentucky (Bloom 6). Ancestry interested Samuel Clemens as it did his mother, though the history of the family lines on both sides is sketchy. On the Clemens side, the name appears in an ancient book by the Suetonius. The authors mother, Jane Lampton, took pride in what she believed to be her family ancestry. Her father’s side traced their origins to the…

In Pa Zoon’s 13th summer He lived in Shabani. He talked about his time there all the time to us children while we were growing up. Shabani’s area later become known as Zvishavani. It was an asbestos mining town that laid between low hills. The mine opened in 1916. In 1928 after the railroad arrived. The town expanded fast and there were lots of fun things to do. In those early years the country was still called Rhodesia. Pa Zoon moved to Shabani when he was entering the sixth grade... He…

newspapers (“Twain, Mark”). Clemens was forced to leave school to go work at the Missouri Courier as a printer’s apprentice. Next, he discovered his avid passion for writing while working at the Hannibal Journal. Beginning in 1853, he set out as a journeyman printer to St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia. He roamed the country in this way before getting his first paying job as a writer…

members are now expected to attain the highest level qualification after being a part of the organization for just two to three years. NEOD is broken down into three skill levels, the basic technician/new school graduate, the senior technician/journeyman level, and the master technician/supervisor level. The NEOD Master Technician qualification ideally requires 10,000 hours (5-7 years) of focused and deliberate training to attain. 10,000 hours is an interesting observation since Gladwell (2008)…

In the article, The Oppressed Majority, Amy Muldoon writes, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles...Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common…

William Blake was born to a middle class family in London, England on the 28th of November in 1757. He had six siblings, and out of the seven of them, he was the third born (Black). Two of siblings died at birth (black). Blake did not have any formal schooling, but instead he was briefly taught at home by his mother (Black). The Blake’s were known to be “Dissenters”, and were said to have gone to a Moravian Church, which was one of the oldest protestant denominations in the world, dating back to…

Since I was a young kid in elementary school I have been tasked to answer the hard and almost unanswerable question of, what I want to be when I grow up. As a young kid you might answer astronaut or a NASCAR driver. Which was what everyone wanted to be growing up but me I knew I wanted to be something in sports. I have had a love for sports since I could remember, and over the years that has not changed. Now as a nineteen year old kid or young adult I have started to narrow down on the answer…

THE CHOICE TO LEAVE THE MILITARY After 19 years of military life, the multiple lengthy trainings, the missed Christmas and holidays away from family and the endless cycle of deployments and work-ups, he made the choice. In the form of a simple request to his captain the request went simply, “Respectfully request to retire from Active Duty upon the end of obligated service and transfer into the Fleet Reserves”. The words he wrote brought fear of the uncertain to his mind. The decision was…

I had just finished my Intermediate Algebra class at a local community college during the summer of my sophomore year at secondary school. It was fairly challenging, exactly as hard as you would expect a new math course to be, and I was contented that it was finally over. It was not long after that I began to resent the rest of my stodgy summer. I missed waking up before dawn, I missed the bitter cold that greeted me almost every morning, I missed the diverse population of students and trying to…

I will be commenting on how my department has changed and resisted change in the past ten years by showing case effect through these three factors socialisation by the fire hall, Fire chief personality and fire department goals. The Bathurst fire department has always been a social club and since it was a composite department many of our members came from every walk of life as volunteers, we had mill workers, news anchors ,managers of companies just to name a few. And most of these members had…