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    with going to the Harpers Ferry Job Corps orientation really showed me what it was all about. The reading and the class presentation have challenged my first thoughts by giving me a better understanding of what service learning is. Service-learning goes a couple of miles further than community service. Service-learning allows students to help the community, as well as learn about something. For example, my Education class is going to be tutoring students at Job Corps. Our class is providing the Harpers

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    One thing that impacted my life was coming to job corp. Job corps really has changed my life around in many ways and the way I think about everyday life. In life I have been to juvenile 2 times and to jail three times. One thing about me when I dropped out of high school I started being in the streets and not caring about life I didn’t realize all thing bad things I was doing. For a moment my own mom said she didn’t know who I was anyone because how I was living. Really what changed me was when

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    My new Begging to the future, Start’s off here at Job Corp’s. The reason why I have chosen to come to San Diego job corps is because I heard of their amazing program, and all the opportunities they have to offer here .To further my education I have chosen the trade CNA. Job corps has much more to offer than just education they have extracurricular activities that appeal to me and my everyday life. My studies consist that I must obtain a lot of human Health information and learn about how to help

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    My trade at the Woodland Job Corps Center in Laurel, MD is carpentry. I chose carpentry because I love to construct buildings. I have always wanted to build and design my own home. The plan is to build my mother’s house in the future. At this time there is a demand for carpenters in Maryland. My goal is to seek employment as a carpenter in Silver Springs MD, once I leave Woodland Job Corps Center in Laurel MD. A company located in Silver Springs MD, Terry Carpenters states “if I sign up and join

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    The day I left home to come to Old Dominion Job Corp Center on July 21, 2015, was a very memorable day in my life. My step-dad drove me to Richmond, VA to catch the Greyhound bus to the Lynchburg bus station. We departed at 11 o’clock in the morning from Richmond. I was scared and happy at the same time before I left. My mom packed me so much stuff that we had to pay for the extra bag I carried. On the bus, it was slam packed with people from all over the U.S.A. The first hour or so I couldn’t stop

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    My name is Olive Batamuliza, am a student at the Fred G Costa Job Corps. In Tucson Arizona. I originally came from before they had children Africa, I was born in Rwanda and I grew up there, my parents are originally from Congo, and moved to live in Rwanda many years ago. When I became twelve I was supposed to graduate from school, I was at the top of my class and successful in my studies, however, there were in our country became many problem. My parent separated from one another and we weren’t

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    independence to women of this era. Besides working on the home front, some women also volunteered for war service and join a various amount of women’s branches in the armed forces; such as the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, which eventually became the Women’s Army Corp (WAC). The Women’s Army Corps was the first time women were given a full military rank. Women pilots also came about, these women were in an organization called Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASP). The WASP was not easy to be accepted

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    By the fall of 1944, half of the ferrying division’s fighter pilots were women. WASPs made three-quarters of the domestic deliveries of all domestic deliveries of fast fighters. Another job WASPs had was flying target planes. This job may have been the most dangerous one of them all. WASPs flew the planes back and forth with a target trailing twenty-five feet behind them, as antiaircraft crews shot at them. During these tests, two WASPs lost their lives. Although they never had to see the firefights

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    department for years, then after a few years at the police department he went back home to Brooklyn. Just Before the war Mike worked at a radio factory (Air King Radio) in Brooklyn. They Sold to Sears, and after that it was very difficult for him to find a job, working the radio factory

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    I am going to write about my journey to Job Corps. Before I got to this training center, I attended two high schools- Bladensburg High School in Bladensburg, MD and Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro, MD. I started Bladensburg as a freshman in the fall of 2013, but later I transferred in the fall of 2014 to Henry A. Wise. I dropped out of high school in 2015, but I do not remember the exact date. I decided to go to Job Corps instead to get a high school diploma and learn a trade

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