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Gr 5 Up-These hybrid works try to combine career guidance with morality training. Based in part on Josephson Institute of Ethics materials, each book follows an identical format including the same introductions and chapter headings: "Job Requirements," "Integrity and Trustworthiness," "Self-Discipline and Diligence," "Career Opportunities," etc. Anecdotal stories pose moral questions that readers are encouraged to answer. Values-based quotations are highlighted and sidebars give information on integrity, ethical dilemmas, responsibility, and justice. Oddly, each page has a fingerprint on the top corner. Although the texts work hard to encourage morally uplifting behavior, most of the full-color photographs are of a menacing nature. In Security Officer, men with guns of all types and views of accidents and burglars abound. In one illustration, a police officer is aiming a gun directly at viewers; the caption reads "Not every crisis involves danger and violence-instead, some may involve quiet issues of integrity." Better career-guidance titles and far better books on ethics abound.-Eva Elisabeth VonAncken, Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Homeland Security Officer
by Ellyn Sanna
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9781422290538
- Publisher: Mason Crest
- Publication date: 09/02/2014
- Series: Careers With Character
- Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 96
- File size: 5 MB
- Age Range: 6 - 18 Years
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Find out what it takes to be a homeland security officer... Across North America, homeland security officers protect us all, in a variety of ways, through various agencies: •Uniformed police officers; •Sheriffs and deputy sheriffs; •State troopers; •Police detectives; •Drug Enforcement Agency agents; •Marshals and deputy marshals; •Immigration and naturalization agents and inspectors; •Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents; •Customs agents and inspectors; •Royal Service Agents; and •Coast Guard Officers. Employers in this field look for candidates with education, experience...and character. These officers have the opportunity to serve their communities with courage, fairness, diligence, and integrity. The job is challenging—but with the core qualities of a good character, homeland security officers make a difference in the world. Homeland Security Officer will tell you how.
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