Throughout time, plentiful narratives have originated on individuals achieving astonishing things after receiving a ‘calling’ to a certain vocation. Examples range from the biblical calling of Moses in the desert to liberate the people of Israel from their oppression and slavery in Egypt [1] to Frodo Baggins being called to the quest aimed at destroying the ring of Sauron [2]. More recently and...

* © Dennis S. Sears, 2006. ** Senior Law Librarian, Howard W. Hunter Law Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 1. See E.A. Feazel, The Status of the Law Librarian, 2 LAW. LIBR. J. 21 (1909). For a more recent perspective, see Richard A. Danner, Redefining a Profession, 90 LAW. LIBR. J. 315 (1998). 2. “‘[T]he calling or occupation which one professes to understand and follow; a vocatio...

BACKGROUND Applying for medical school is the first and also one of the most important career choices a physician makes. It is important to understand the reasons behind this decision if we are to choose the best applicants for medical schools and enable them to pursue satisfying careers. METHODS Respondents to the Finnish Junior Physician 88, Physician 1998 and Physician 2008 studies were as...

The classification of names of people or objects based on the features acquired by the names and the sorting instructions provided is a commonplace occurrence. For example, given the names Renoir, Pollock, James and Voltaire the average adult would be able to classify them differentially based on the instruction to classify them based on vocation or nationality. In general, such a repertoire re...

Although others had been concerned about the vocational and occupational problems of youth, vocational counseling as a field of professional concern is usually considered to have begun with the work, of Frank Parsons in the early years of this century. (1) The model developed by Parsons dominated the field for the next thirty years. The goal of vocational guidance was "the choice of a vocation,...

The analyses presented in this paper focus on the accompaniment for catechised their holistic development. Thus described, educational activity of a catechist is consistent with principle faithfulness to God and man. It always concerns specific person developmental predispositions who lives community influenced by modern culture. By referring Catechetical directory literature subject, it was po...

PURPOSE This study assessed the impact of stuttering via a questionnaire in which fluent individuals were asked to assume the mindset of persons who stutter (PWS) in various life aspects, including vocation, romance, daily activities, friends/social life, family and general lifestyle. The perceived impact of stuttering through the mind's eyes of nonstutterers is supposed to reflect respondents'...

Catholic social teaching addresses social, economic, political, and cultural issues. It exhibits both theoretical and practical aspects. Firstly, it formulates moral principles for social and economic life. Secondly, it elaborates on their practical application on ruling economic relationships and within a specified time. It means that Catholic social teaching has a moral character of teaching....