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CALL 911!: True Stories from my Life in Emergency Dispatch

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Call 911! True Stories from My Life in Emergency Dispatch is a record of the nail-biting, true tales from a Michigan county emergency call center and a story of personal and professional growth of its author, Kelly Rasmussen. Through it all, you will learn the pressures and perks, the highs and lows, the gratifying successes and the heartbreaking failures that the average emergency dispatch operator must face every day as part of a very demanding job.In Call 911 Rasmussen assembles a collection of events from her career in emergency dispatch. When woven together these outline the story of one remarkable woman's personal journey on the road of leadership. On this journey she learns that leadership is more than just demand and direction; good, effective leadership also involves healthy doses of cooperation and compassion. As an integral part of the machinery that protects us all, she shares valuable lessons in communicating, listening and understanding the mechanics of people.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Dream Makers; Introduction: Globalizing Indigenous Film & Media; He Who Dreams: Reflections on an Indigenous Life in Film; Speakin' Out Blak: New & Emergent Aboriginal Filmmakers Finding Their Voices; Taking Pictures B(l)ack: The Work of Tracey Moffatt; The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Arctic History as Post/Colonial Cinema; Re-Historicizing in Indigenous Short Film: Wayne Blair's Djarn Djarns & Black Talk; "Once upon a Time in a Land Far, Far Away": Representations of the Pre-Colonial World in Atanarjuat, Ofelas & 10 Canoes; Ka Whawhai Tanu Matou: Indigenous Television in Aotearoa/New Zealand; Aboriginal New Media Arts: A Real Cultural Practice?; In Search of "We": Caching Igloolik Video in the South; The Prince George Metis Elders Documentary Project: Matching Product with Process in New Forms of Documentary; "Whacking the Indigenous Funny Bone": Native Humour & Its Healing Powers in Drew Hayden Taylor's Redskins, Tricksters, & Puppy Stew; Situating Indigenous Knowledges: The Talking Back of Alanis Obomsawin & Shelley Niro; "I Wanted to Say How Beautiful We Are": Cultural Politics in Loretta Todd's Hands of History; Filming Indigeneity as Flanerie: Dialectic & Subtext in Terrance .Odette's Heater; Playing with Land Issues: Subversive Hybridity in The Price of Milk.

About the Author :
Kelly R. Rasmussen began her career as a 911 dispatcher in 1986 and rose through the ranks to achieve her goal of becoming a 911 center director. Kelly's passion, knowledge and experience in all roles in the 911 center aided her in co-founding Success Communications, Inc., the premier public safety training company in North America.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781590792162
  • Publisher: Select Books Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Select Books Inc
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 139 mm
  • Weight: 204 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1590792165
  • Publisher Date: 03 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: True Stories from my Life in Emergency Dispatch
  • Width: 82 mm


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