Tuesday, November 24, 2009


Thanksgiving blog

1. The top ten things I am thankful for are first probably my family and all my cousins and aunts and uncles (Joey Salah). The reason I am thankful for them is because they are always there for me and support me for everything and if it weren’t for them then I probably wouldn’t know what to do.
2. The second thing I am thankful for is my friends because it’s a lot of fun hanging out with them and they always make me laugh and it’s just fun to hangout with them I have known my friends for many years and still am friends with most of them.
3.The next thing I am thankful for is my computer because it’s one of like the most fun things to be on if you think about it you can do almost anything on a computer I’m not on the computer all that much but when I am on it it’s always fun.
4. I am thankful for all my clothes that my parents buy me and get me, a lot of clothes I don’t know why but they just do but it’s not like I don’t mind it or anything
5. I also am pretty thankful for cell phone because I am on it a lot and it’s really useful in life
6. I’m really thankful for my allowance because that’s how I buy all the stuff I need if I really want something so that’s important to me
7. I am also thankful for getting educated because that’s basically how my life gets started by going to school so that’s one of the things I am really thankful for
8. I am thankful for TV too because there are some really good shows I watch during the week when I’m just bored and have nothing to do
9. I am really thankful for food to because it’s like the best thing in the world and everyone knows it so yeah that’s like the thing I’m most thankful for like pizza macaroni and some other things are so good
10. I am pretty thankful for cars to I have an interest in cars because they look awesome and its very good for transportation even though I usually ride my bike places

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Blog #9
The requirements for being a cop are about a 4 year degree in criminal justice
The school that has criminal justice that I would mostly want to go to is Michigan state university the reason I would like to do that is because my sister is up there right now and I think it would be a place that I could probably get into easily if I try and want this job a lot and try my hardest. But some other schools that have the degree that I need are Adrian College, Albion College, Alma College, Andrews University, Calvin College, Ferris state university and Lake Michigan College.
It will take about 4 years then an additional 3 years of related work time experience
It costs about 16,687 to get your bachelors degree to become a cop at a university that is not that expensive so at Michigan state university it would probably cost even more than that.
As a police officer you could be sitting at an office working on a case or something or sitting at a station with your partner who knows or you could be out on duty at a place where a lot of crime goes on you could be doing a lot of things.
They make a little over 45,000 a year but agents who relocate to New York are entitled to locality pay over 26% of their base salary or around 11,700 which results in a salary of 57,000 a year
Many people have said being a police officer can have the least majority of work or it can be a lot of work because you really don’t know what is going to happen it’s not like people are going to tell you when they’re going to do crimes. So you basically have to always be on patrol looking out for people doing bad things in the city.
Now after looking over of being a cop it was pretty cool I liked some stuff and I didn’t like some things, like I did like how you always have to be on patrol looking out for what is happening in the city. I would love to be on patrol just sitting there most likely knowing something will happen it even could happen and second so I really would enjoy that. Other things that disappointed me was like the wage like how much money you make a year I thought you would make more money a year but I guess you don’t make as much as I thought but it doesn’t make me not want to be a cop though. But after researching it makes me think of me being a cop more and more as I research and it shows me more what it’s going to be like. But I thought I would not want to be a cop after I research but I actually want to more and more. The work you have to do to become a cop is a lot though you have to go to college and get your bachelors then go to a police school or academy to train for your job and get experience so yeah now I want to be a cop even more.
Top ten jobs
1. Federal agent
2. Bailiff
3. Security guard
4. Correctional officer
5. Inventor
6. Combat engineer
7. National guard
8. Judge
9. Heavy equipment operator
10. Firefighter

The reason why I would like to be a federal agent is because my whole life I have always liked the hands on stuff like investigating and the crime. It’s not in here but like a cop is what I would like to be when I get older. I’ll probably go to a police academy or school to get my cop license or whatever you need to become a cop. But getting back on topic I like just making the city a better place and doing what’s right for the community and I would not have a problem to be working out late or doing midnight shifts or if they need me in the office or whatever I would go to do what they need me to do and I think it would be more fun later at night because I think that’s when more of the crime goes on in the city because somehow criminals think they can get away with the things they do but cops know everything so they would somehow get caught. Also I think it would be awesome to be like you get to tell people what to do like you’re the boss of the city but then you still have a boss and have to follow some restrictions and rules
Then working as a bailiff I think it wouldn’t be all that bad but I would rather be a cop but being a bailiff would be cool because you get to know a lot more of the crime that goes on because your there in the court room seeing what the criminal did and what there consequence will be.