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In the United States one of the most dangerous places to work is in fact a nursing home. According to the US Labor Department it is the fourth most dangerous place to work. 16.2 out of 100 workers report a job related injury or illness. The only industries that rank that are meat packing in first with 21.5 workers per 100, motor vehicle manufacturing in second with 19.2 per 100 workers, and air transport in third with 17.7 workers per 100. 16.2 might not seem like a lot out of 100 but if you say that there are 100,000 workers in nursing homes in the US, in a year that means that 16200 people will report a work related illness or injury.
As nurses, aides and nursing assistants you are responsible for the well being of the residents in the nursing home. However increases in occupational hazards, particularly strained muscles, tendons, and ligaments any of which could be severe and potently crippling, are due to nursing homes are increasing in popularity as people transfer patients from hospitals to less expensive nursing homes. As a result the residents in nursing homes are becoming frailer and require more assistance. In addition, in an attempt to cut costs results in fewer nursing assistants being hired per nursing home. As nursing assistants try to pick up, move, or support the residents repeatedly, or even once or twice, on there own the chance for occupational hazards increase.
The most common injuries are a back strain or a wrist strain. These injuries are usually caused by attempting to lift or move residents and objects that are too heavy. There are other ways to get injured, heavy equipment can crush and bruise fingers and toes and other parts of your body. Nursing assistants also work closely with needles and other sharp objects. Accidental cuts and pricks could occur. This also has the potential to raise the chance of a blood borne pathogen being spread. But nurses or nursing assistants aren’t the only people who are at risk, other workers, such as janitors have other hazards, such as chemicals which can burn. Anyone who works in the kitchen has the risk for burns and cuts as well.
However despite all of these hazards and statistics, I’m not encouraging you to get up in arms and try and petition and strike for better working conditions. You can do that when the number of workers injured in nursing homes passes the number of injuries in meat packing. I am simply warning you about potential hazards in your jobs so that you can watch out for them and avoid situations in which you might be injured. Be careful and enjoy the rest of your day.

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As nurses, aides and nursing assistants you are responsible for the well being of the residents in the nursing home. However nursing homes are increasing in popularity as people transfer patients from hospitals to less expensive nursing homes. As a result the residents in nursing homes are becoming frailer and require more assistance. In addition, in an attempt to cut costs results in fewer nursing assistants being hired per nursing home.
What does this mean to you? Increases in occupational hazards, particularly strained muscles, tendons, and ligaments any of which could be severe and potently crippling. As nursing assistants try to pick up, move, or support the residents repeatedly, or even once or twice, on there own the chance for occupational hazards increase. The most common injuries are a back strain or a wrist strain. These injuries are usually caused by attempting to lift or move residents and objects that are too heavy. There are other ways to get injured, heavy equipment can crush and bruise fingers and toes and other parts of your body. Nursing assistants also work closely with needles and other sharp objects. Accidental cuts and pricks could occur. This also has the potential to raise the chance of a blood borne pathogen being spread. Other workers, such as janitors have other hazards, such as chemicals which can burn. Anyone who works in the kitchen has the risk for burns and cuts as well.
In the United States one of the most dangerous places to work is in fact a nursing home. According to the US Labor Department it is the fourth most dangerous place to work. 16.2 out of 100 workers report a job related injury or illness. The only industries that rank that are meat packing in first with 21.5 workers per 100, motor vehicle manufacturing in second with 19.2 per 100 workers, and air transport in third with 17.7 workers per 100. 16.2 might not seem like a lot out of 100 but if you say that there are 100,000 workers in nursing homes in the US, in a year that means that 16200 people will report a work related illness or injury.
However despite all of these hazards and statistics, I’m not encouraging you to get up in arms and try and petition and strike for better working conditions. You can do that when the number of workers injured in nursing homes passes the number of injuries in meat packing. I am simply warning you about potential hazards in your jobs so that you can watch out for them and avoid situations in which you might be injured. Be careful and enjoy the rest of your day.

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Under the front page picture a small sentence under the caption read; photography contest see pg 2A for more details. I flipped to the page. A box of text surrounded by a black line with the title Contest was halfway down the page. HELP! Our staff photographer is leaving for a post with National Geographic magazine. If you’re interested please send a few photographs involving the tow along with a resume to… I stopped reading, thinking about it. I had always wanted to be a photographer. I glanced back down at the newspaper. Jhontson, Emerson, and Clarkson a local legal firm is going out of business. They have been offered positions in three major corporations and are considering the offers. I winced, well that was also why I could get a job. The place where I had a part time job was going out of business. I am Sam Cooper, assistant and part time secretary to Jhontson, Emerson and Clarkson. They may have jobs all lined up but I certainly didn’t. I sighed and headed to work.

After five hours of condensing fifty filing cabinets into about ten boxes of records, mostly clients, I headed home. Since I got off at two, I decided that I would take a walk after work. I was wandering around a part of the city that was a little more run down taking pictures of everything from people to cats when I saw another photographer, standing by a old cement cylinder taking a picture of some graffiti. I was just about to take a picture when I heard a voice behind me.

“Hey what are you doing?” I turned to see a group of men walking towards us. They looked very angry.

I gulped, “Just taking pictures of this place.”

“I don’t know if we like that.” The guy who was talking to me took a step forward and the others started to move forward making a big ring around me. The other photographer took off running. Now I was all alone facing some very unfriendly people. “Now well let you go if you hand over that camera.” I should’ve brought a disposable camera not my nice digital one. I can’t give this one up it also has all my pictures. As I was contemplating my choices, there were shouts coming from around the corner. Another guy came running around the corner.

“That other guy got the cops!” He shouted as he came sprinting up. The group shot looks at each other and then ran. I heaved a huge sigh of relief. A bunch of cops came running around the corner. Two stopped by me and the rest kept running.

“Are you okay?” The first one asked.

“Yeah, I’m fine. You came just in time, if you had been a little later I would’ve lost my camera.” I looked at the other cop who seemed to want to leave. He was standing in front of some graffiti that read Freedom in big looping letters. “Can I take your picture?” I asked. I hoped he wouldn’t say no.

“Sure.” The police man nodded. I snapped a quick picture before he moved too much. After they asked some more questions they dropped me off at my apartment. That night I sent off my pictures with my resume.

A few weeks later the winner was announced in the paper. The picture posted was a local police man standing in front of red white and blue graffiti that read freedom. I hadn’t won the contest, truthfully I had no experience. But it was nice to see my picture in the paper with an honorable mention.

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Under the front page picture a small sentence under the caption read; photography contest see pg 2A for more details. I flipped to the page. A box of text surrounded by a black line with the title Contest was halfway down the page. HELP! Our staff photographer is leaving for a post with National Geographic magazine. If you’re interested please send a few photographs involving the town along with a resume to… I stopped reading, thinking about it. I had always wanted to be a photographer. I glanced back down at the newspaper. Jhontson, Emerson, and Clarkson a local legal firm is going out of business. They have been offered positions in three major corporations and are considering the offers. I winced, well that was also why I could get a job. The place where I was working in a part time job was going out of business. I am Sam Cooper, assistant and part time secretary to Jhontson, Emerson and Clarkson. They may have jobs all lined up but I certainly didn’t. I sighed and headed to work.
After five hours of condensing fifty filing cabinets into about ten boxes of records, mostly clients, I headed home. Since I would got off at two, I decided that I would take a walk after work. I was wandering around a part of the city that was a little more run down taking pictures of everything from people to cats to graffiti when I saw another photographer, standing by a old cement cylinder taking a picture of some graffiti. I was just about to take a picture when I heard a voice behind me.
“Hey what are you doing?” I turned to see a group of men walking towards us. They looked very angry. I gulped, “Just taking pictures of this place.”
“I don’t know if we like that.” The guy who was talking to me took a step forward and the others started to move forward making a big ring around me. The other photographer took off running. Now I was all alone facing some very unfriendly people. “Now well let you go if you hand over that camera.” Shoot, I should’ve just brought a disposable camera not my nice digital one. I can’t give this one up. As I was contemplating my choices, there were shouts coming from around the corner. Another guy came running around the corner.
“That other guy got the cops!” He shouted as he came sprinting up. The group shot looks at each other and then ran. I heaved a huge sigh of relief. A bunch of cops came running around the corner. Two stopped by me and the rest kept running.
“Are you okay?” The first one asked.
“Yeah, I’m fine. You came just in time, if you had been a little later I would’ve lost my camera.” I looked at the other cop who seemed to want to leave. He was standing in front of some graffiti that read Freedom in big looping letters. “Can I take your picture?” I asked. I hoped he wouldn’t say no.
“Sure.” I snapped a quick picture before he moved too much. After they asked some more questions they dropped me off at my apartment. That night I sent off my pictures with my resume.
A few weeks later the winner was announced in the paper. The picture posted was a local police man standing in front of red white and blue graffiti that read Freedom. I hadn’t won the contest due to the fact I had no experience, but I had gotten honorable mention due to my picture.

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Mr. Obama My name is Meaghan Folger; I am a tenth grade student in Charlottesville, Va. These are my personal opinions on your greatest priorities for you first year of office. I cannot tell you how to do your job, nor do I have the experience necessary to do that.
I feel the biggest problem for America currently is the war in Iraq. The continuation of this war is consuming, and has consumed a massive amount of recourses and money, not just from America either. The money going into this war is contributing to the economic crisis, which is contributing to unemployment, as well as funding issues for schools and other public works.
I agree that we should pull out of Iraq as soon as possible. The Iraqi police, militia, and defense are improving drastically and performing admirably. However, the void created by a sudden withdrawal might result in a collapse of security. The Iraqi police and militia would be unable to handle the sudden depletion in assistance. Failing to finish what we started in the middle east could result in a remobilization of troops and though we wouldn’t go back to square one a great deal of progress could possibly be lost. Sponsoring peace conferences would help as well although at this stage the conflicts will not be solved only using diplomacy.
This situation will not be resolved quickly yet is a huge problem; the majority of your efforts should be focused towards the war. A controversial issue that you have the ability to solve in less time is Gay rights; it would be nice to see this particular problem resolved quickly so that other issues can be focused on. It is understandable if not acceptable that people would be unwilling to have current legislature dealing with gay rights changed. Changing it to give gays more rights such as marriage would go against many people’s religions and people simply do not wish to see change occur. However discriminating against people for any reason is unacceptable in all situations you should always enter an issue with an open mind willing to see the conflict from any point of view instead of simple plowing over either view. If legislature was created that could give more rights to gays in terms of a legal marriage the most you could do was hope that religions would relax and get used to the ides so if gays wished they could have a religious marriage. I hope that you will resolve this issue quickly with the utmost tact.
Other issues will such as the economic crisis will take work as well but if you take care of the problems in the Middle East first, you will have more time to take care of other problems such as the economic crisis and without the war fund, you will have more money to help the economy. Having our soldiers back will help moral which is part of why the economic crisis is so bad.
I wish you the best of luck in your next four years of presidency.
Meaghan

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Mr. Obama
I feel the biggest problem for America currently is the war in Iraq. The continuation of this war is consuming, and has consumed a massive amount of recourses and money, not just from America either. The money going into this war is contributing to the economic crisis, which is contributing to other problems with employment, as well as funding problems for schools and other public works.
I agree that we should pull out of Iraq as soon as possible. However, although the Iraqi citizens, police, and government are improving drastically in terms of security the void created by a sudden withdrawal might result in a collapse of security. The Iraqi police and militia are performing admirably but still would be unable to handle the sudden depletion in assistance. Failing to finish what we started in the Middle East could result in a remobilization of troops. As well as the possibility that a great deal of progress could possibly be lost. Sponsoring peace conferences would help as well although at this stage the problems will not be solved only using diplomacy.
This situation will not be resolved quickly yet is a huge problem; the majority of your efforts should be focused towards this problem. A problem that you have the ability to solve quickly is Gay rights and gay marriage; it would be nice to see this particular problem resolved quickly so that other more important issues can be focused on. It is understandable if not acceptable that people would be unwilling to have current legislature dealing with gay rights changed. Changing it to give gays more rights such as marriage would go against many people’s religions and people simply do not wish to see change occur. However discriminating against people for any reason is unacceptable in all situations you should always enter an issue with an open mind willing to see the conflict from any point of view instead of simple plowing over either view. If legislature was created that could give more rights to gays in terms of a legal marriage the most you could do was hope that religions would relax and get used to the ides so if gays wished they could have a religious marriage it would not be useful to force this aspect of gay marriage. I hope that you will resolve this issue quickly with the utmost tact.
Other issues will such as the economic crisis will take work as well but if you take care of the problems in the Middle East first you’ll have more time to take care of other problems such as the economic crisis and without the war fund you will have more money to help the economy. Having our soldiers back will help moral which is part of why the economic crisis is so bad.
I wish you the best of luck in your next four years of presidency.

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Mr. Obama
The biggest problem for America currently is the war in Iraq. The continuation of this war is consuming and has consumed a massive amount of recourses and money, not just from America either. The money going into this war is contributing to the economic crisis which is contributing to other problems with employment, funding problems schools and other public works.
I agree that we should pull out of Iraq as soon as possible. But, although the Iraqi citizens, police, and government are improving drastically in terms of security the void created by a sudden withdrawal might result in a collapse of security. The Iraqi police and militia are performing admirably but still would be unable to handle the sudden depletion in assistance. Failing to finish what we started in the middle east could result in a remobilization of troops and though we wouldn’t go back to square one a great deal of progress could possibly be lost. Sponsoring peace conferences would help as well although at this stage the problems will not be solved only using diplomacy.
This situation will not be resolved quickly yet is a huge problem; the majority of your efforts should be focused towards this problem. A problem that you have the ability to solve fairly quickly is Gay rights; it would be nice to see this particular problem resolved quickly so that other more important issues can be focused on. It is understandable if not acceptable that people would be unwilling to have current legislature dealing with gay rights changed. Changing it to give gays more rights such as marriage would go against many people’s religions and people simply don’t wish to see change occur. However discriminating against people for any reason is unacceptable in all situations you should always enter an issue with an open mind willing to see the conflict from any point of view instead of simple plowing over either view. If legislature was created that could give more rights to gays in terms of a legal marriage the most you could do was hope that religions would relax and get used to the ides so if gays wished they could have a religious marriage. Hopefully you will resolve this issue quickly with the utmost tact.
Other issues will such as the economic crisis will take work as well but if you take care of the problems in the Middle East first you’ll have more time to take care of other problems such as the economic crisis and without the war fund you will have more money to help the economy. Having our soldiers back will help moral which is part of why the economic crisis is so bad.
I wish you the best of luck in your next four years of presidency.