Career Context Clues

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CareerContext Clues

• What do they do?

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ANGELA Angela liked drawing freehand with
pencils on paper better than using the computer
for her cartoons. That is why she sat with
crumpled paper on the floor. The crumpled pieces
of paper were ideas that she tried and did not
like. Her editor expected a cartoon today but
she was unable to think of a subject. She took a
break and got up from her desk. Looking out her
window, she saw a police officer writing a ticket
for an irate driver. The idea was just what she
needed. She would make fun of irate drivers,
angry that they were caught breaking the law.She
made her deadline just in time. The cartoon was a
great success with a police officer calmly
writing while the driver's eyes are popping and
his jaw is drooping.
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WHAT DOES A CARTOONIST DO? A cartoonist draws
cartoons. There are many different types of
cartoons such as sports cartoons, political
cartoons, funny paper cartoons and more. However,
a cartoonist should not be confused with an
illustrator. Drama begins with the author,
whether a playwright or a screenwriter, a
choreographer or composer for opera. He or she
creates the story and the characters. A director
then interprets the written work and directs its
performance by actors. An illustrator draws
pictures from life a cartoonist draws from his
or her imagination, often distorting the picture.
For instance, an illustrator might draw an
illustration of a young man. The illustrator will
try to imitate life. The cartoonist will distort
the actual appearance of the subject by enlarging
prominent parts of his or her body. Cartoonists
rarely have formal training. Their talent is
natural, though they work hard to improve their
craft.
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JEFFREY'S STUTTER Mr. Rand, the speech
therapist, asked Jeffrey to pronounce a number of
words. Jeffrey said them quietly because he did
not want the therapist to notice that he
stuttered as he did not want his classmates to
know that he stuttered. That is why he never
volunteered to answer questions in class. He
said "letter" and "imagine" and "course" and
"leaflet" for the therapist. Mr. Rand then asked
him to stand and say each word slowly such as
"let-ter". When doing so, Jeffrey said them
without stuttering. He was pleased that he could
do that. Bit by bit he said the words more
quickly. It took many weeks but Mr. Rand helped
Jeffrey speak without stuttering. He began
answering questions in class. At first he was
nervous doing so but eventually he became
confident that he could answer without
stuttering. In the beginning he had some trouble
but after a few weeks the problem went away,
thanks to Mr. Rand and Jeffrey's desire and hard
work.
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WHAT DOES A SPEECH THERAPIST DO? A speech
therapist is a person who helps people who have
speech problems speak properly. Though it is
unfortunate, some people are hurt in accidents or
have afflictions that interfere with their
ability to talk. This problem can be tragic
because the ability to shape our thoughts into
words and communicate our thoughts through speech
is one of the things that make humans different
from the animals. Though a person who cannot
talk is no less human because of that, speech is
important for all things that we do. In school,
among our friends, at the store we speak in order
to communicate our thoughts to others and make
them understand what those thoughts are. Such
problems as stuttering or being unable to
pronounce certain words or sounds interfere with
the ability to communicate. A speech therapist
helps people correct those problems. For this
reason many schools have speech therapists on
their staffs to help pupils with their ability to
speak.
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RYAN'S MOTHER Ryans mother limped a great deal
due to a vertebrae in her back that had slipped
out of line. She had gone to many doctors and
therapists but they had been unable to help her
without an expensive operation that her work did
not give her time to have. As a last resort
before surgery, she went to a chiropractor. The
doctor was very friendly and greeted Ryan and his
mother with a broad smile. While Ryan waited in
the reception area, his mother went into a
treatment room with the doctor. After a half
hour, she returned and they left. She continued
to limp and complain of the pain in her back on
the way home. However, after three more visits,
she walked without a limp and felt only a little
pain from her condition. After a few more visits,
she seemed cured. The slipped vertebrae was back
in place and she felt no more pain. The
chiropractor had done with her hands what the
medical doctors had said only surgery could
accomplish. Ryan was happy for his mother and
she was happy to be pain free.
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WHAT DOES A CHIROPRACTOR DO? A chiropractor is
a physical therapist who manipulates the bones
and muscles of the human body to relieve pain. By
massage and hand pressure, chiropractors relieve
pain caused by stress, muscular and nerve
injuries and other afflictions. Chiropractors
are trained in special Colleges of Chiropractic
where the course is for four years and results in
a doctoral degree.
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ANDRE Andre was a friend of Phillips father and
an accountant. Phillips father asked him if he
would take Phillip on as an intern so that he
could learn what it was like to be around people
who were working in an office. Andre was glad to
do so. Andre was busy studying the books of a
large amusement park that a client wished to buy.
It was up to Andre to make a report of the
accounts and the profits and losses of the
business so that his client could make an
informed decision. Phillip helped him by getting
coffee and lunch and placing files in
alphabetical order. In return, Andre told him
what he was doing and showed him how he did his
job. The business was complicated because it made
money not only from the rides, but from the
concession stands that sell food and drinks, the
game booths, the parking fees, the rental of its
space for events by performers and others.
However, the business had to pay taxes, rental
for the space on which it was built, its
employees salaries, insurance premiums,
maintenance for the rides and other costs. Andre
had to review all of the bills and payments and
income to determine the profit or loss of the
business. At each step of the way, he showed
Phillip what he did and explained why he did that
and why it was needed. The next time Phillip went
to an amusement park, he looked at it much
differently from the way he did before he
interned with Andre.
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WHAT DOES AN ACCOUNTANT DO? Many years ago, an
archeologist was digging in the soil of the
Middle East in a place that was then called
Mesopotamia (Mess-O-Pet-Ay-mia),now called Iraq.
While doing so, he found clay tablets with curios
figures cut into them. The tablets were from a
city that was populated and famous thousands of
years ago. The figures cut into the ancient
tablets told the archeologist that the city was a
trading center that shipped goods to other parts
of the world and received goods from those
places. The figures were a record of the goods
that were sent and the goods that were received
and their cost. Such records are called accounts.
The people who keep those records and determine
the loss or profit from such transactions are
accountants. Modern accountants do much the same
thing. Accountants determine how much taxes we
should properly pay. Some people and corporations
have so much money and goods that they require
accountants to help them determine their tax
burden. Corporations and businesses, large and
small, require accountants to do their accounts
and track the flow of money which is the lifeline
of every business. People purchasing businesses
must have accountants review the books of the
business (which means the accounts) to determine
whether the business is healthy and what it is
worth. Thus, accountants are crucial to the
economy of the world because they help people at
all levels to determine their taxes, their
profits and their available resources for doing
additional business.
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ROBBIE GOES TO WORK WITH HIS FATHER Robbie
joined his father at work and helped his father,
who is a carpenter, construct a fence around a
house. Holes were dug and filled with cement into
which posts were installed before they arrived
with the truck filled with wood for his father to
work with. The first thing they did was to
connect the posts one to the other with cross
bars at top and bottom. Robbie's father measured
the distances and cut pieces of wood with his
power saw to fit the distances. He then measure
each post with his ruler to determine where each
cross bar should go. That task completed, he
nailed each of the crossbars all around the
house, first using his level to be sure that each
cross bar was straight. When the cross bars were
in place, Robbie helped his father take the
pickets from his truck. The pickets had been cut
in advance at Robbie's father's carpentry shop.
There were many if them. Each had to be carefully
nailed to the cross bars. But before nailing, the
distance between the pickets had to be measured
and each had to be tested with the level to make
sure that it was straight, a crooked fence looks
strange and would not please the customer. It
took all afternoon to measure, level and nail the
pickets around the house. Then, a gate had to be
built. Robbie's father built a wooden square and
nailed pickets to it. He then hung it at the
opening before the front door of the house.
However, the gate stuck, so Robbie's father had
to shave a little bit off it with a plane. Then
it fit just right. When Robbie looked at the
fence, he was proud of what his father and he had
built.
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WHAT DOES A CARPENTER DO? A carpenter works with
wood. He cuts and shapes wood and constructs
things from it. He constructs panels and wall
interiors, fences and doors. Closely related to a
carpenter is a cabinet maker who makes cabinets
and closets and decorates with wood. In the
construction of buildings, carpenters make wood
floors and hang doors and build wooden wall
interiors. They create door frames and window
sills and paneling to keep us warm when the wind
blows and dry when the rain falls. They use many
different tools such as saws and hammers with
which to cut wood and hold it in place. They use
tape measures and rulers to measure spaces and
the size of the wood needed for the project on
which they are working. They use planes to shave
the wood ever so little so that doors and windows
don't stick. They use levels to be sure that the
project is level with the ground rather than
akimbo at a strange angle. Every where you go
you can see the work of carpenters all around,
even at home.
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WHAT DOES AN ARCHAEOLOGIST DO? An archaeologist
is a scientist and a historian who studies the
history of human beings. He or she studies the
development of humans and societies from their
beginnings thousands of years ago to the present.
That study is done by searching for evidence of
human life all over the world in objects and
remains of people. All of what we know of the
development of humanity and society is learned
from the evidence discovered by archaeologists
and the related field of anthropology. From
evidence found by archaeologists, anthropologists
can determine the level of civilization of the
humans that the archaeologists have discovered
and from geologists can be determined the age of
the society. Archaeology requires study in
colleges and universities with field work on
archaeological digs, which are sites where
evidence of people from the past is found.
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