Friday, January 9, 2009

We Need A Resolution

This article is talking about needing resolutions to any type of conflict, they say conflict is inevitable. It can be when you’re working and having trouble with other employees (co-workers), customers, and maybe even your boss. Than sometimes people have a way of handling their conflicts by just walking away until the person accepts or apologizes to them. They also say that you must communicate with your co-workers because if you don’t it may be immature to the boss and the boss will be disappointed in you. So if you’re that type of person then you might most likely end up jobless or could end up in legal trouble. There are some tragedies to a conflict resolution which are to Keep your cool: never let your emotions take you over, Walk in their shoes: try to imagine you were in their shoes, Use I statements: don’t blame the other person make it kind of about you, Take responsibility: it is not always the other persons fault, Don’t always give in: don’t let the customer take you over and tell you what to do or not. Do as the policy says to do and follow it. So with those 5 tragedies to handling a conflict you shall succeed in life.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

A Growing Field

This article is about a farmer who’s name is John Christian. He is a farmer that gets up late he says. He starts to work at 7 a.m. He opens the greenhouse and lets the chickens out and he waters the plants. John has about 179 acres of land to do his farming such as raising livestock, animals, and other plants. John is only 23 yrs. old. He doesn’t think that he is going to get as rich as an organic farmer. Then farmers like him only get $15,000 average of income a year. Farmers do not use synthetic fertilizers, they do their best effort to develop some good soil. Farming since the last 3 or 4 years the average of farming went up 20%. Now there a lot of farming in the United States and in order to farm you have to be a certified Organic Farmer. John says “the best way to learn how to be a farmer is to work on a farm. He also thinks that there really aren’t any days off in farming, because it’s more of a lifestyle. He says there a lot of people who want to learn about farming and know more about the environment even though each of them didn’t grow up in a family who did farming a lot.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Building An E-portfolio

This article is about a journalism named Ryan Casey McShane who is a major at Arkansas Tech University, and he spent his college career on finding a way to let employers see what his work is like and a résumé was not good enough for him. So Ryan came up with an idea, he got really creative by posting it online to show employers what good of a major he is. He called this a e-portfolio, and he wanted to let the employers see the quality of his work. An e-portfolio is way more intense than a regular old fashioned résumés. You can put photos, videos and what not on describing what your job is that you do.

Caring for the Big Guys

This passage is about a guy named Bob Rednour who graduated from North Carolina State University of Veterinary Medicine. He now runs a Large Animal Veterinary Services in Youngsville, N.C. Rednour likes to work with the bigger outside animals such as horses. He advances them and moves them a little faster. He is working with this lady named Meg Johnson, both Rednour and Johnson like be outside with the large animals outside because they like to stay in shape by just staying outside. What the veterinarians do in a days work is first start of with the appointments then travel to different farms mainly for vaccination, and sometimes because of the wounds, diagnose disease, treat sick animals, and help with difficult births. Rednour works about 50 to 60 hrs. a week, but usually its about 100 hrs. a week because he helps out with answering the emergency phone calls. Veterinarians have to get an animal ready before they do any treatment on it. Rednoour and Johnson are taking care of a horse named Tupelo. In the United States most of the veterinarian say when they attend a veterinarian school there are more applicants than the slots that are open to the students.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Go Deeper


In this story is about a young lady named Shannon Smith 23, who is an aquaculture technician and she thinks it’s a cool career. Then during her workday she is working with sea animals such as sharks, and the nonhuman variety. She also has to make sure that the fishes, octopuses, and sharks breed with the place they are living in. It is also that an aquaculture technician can grow coral, design the big tanks, and new species into their new home. For Shannon she demonstrates how to clean and keep the animals tanks clean. She also cares a lot about these animals and she knows that the animals know her very well, because she works and tells about them to others. Shannon is now going to Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California to get her associates degree. She says that working with fishes is the simplest. Just one year at Saddleback you can earn a certificate in aquaculture. Shannon also says that when she’s at work it just feels like she plays wit the fishes all day long.