'pull' teeth in the like manner" (20). About 1700, efforts were made in France to set up standard qualifications for dentists. Pierre Fauchard (father of modern dentistry), in 1728, gave an account of what may be done with the teeth, showing an attempt at job analysis, finally ending up with a statement of the qualifications for dentistry?"all of these operations (dental) demand a skillful, ste...

The insertion of the Brazilian Amazon region into the Brazilian and global economies is one of the challenges faced by the Brazilian economy. Accounting for 60% of the Brazilian territory, the region will play a key role in shaping the future growth and development of the Brazilian economy in the next decades. Energy availability has been the region’s main economic bottleneck. The energy divide...

Y ou can ask just about anyone you know about what they consider to be the most important jobs in our society and you can be sure that they will include nurses and teachers in their list. Such jobs are so important and require such dedication that it is common to refer to them as ‘vocations’ rather than jobs. The dictionary definition of ‘vocation’ uses words like ‘calling’ indicating that not ...

The notion that religion and modemity ate mutuaUy exclusive has been a leading theme oŸ the sociology of religion in France and has been amply confirmed by empirical studies of religious practice, clerical vocations, and parish culture. But recent work on popular religion, post-1968 ideological communities, and new religious movements has caUed the presumption of secularization into question. I...

are much more numerous and much more promising. The backward child has sufficient capacity, not only to make his way in the world socially and vocationally, but also to attain considerable success in many trades, occupations, and vocations in which he possesses special aptitude. He will attain such success if he is given proper vocational training in school in correlation with the literary work...

Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology. This is partly a continuation of the Brahmans' role as literate service people, owing to their traditions of education, learning and literacy, but the range of professions shows that any direct co...

John W. O’Malley, S.J., has proffered and used the concept of style so as to name something other than content that is needed in order understand argument or research. In a way, contemporary what rhetoric was grammar. This essay attempts capture O’Malley means by style, but also, more importantly seeks describe O’Malley’s own style. By employing different formats Jesuit Higher Education: A Jour...

Readability level of marine texts do influences cadets’ ability in comprehending Maritime English reading materials. This research investigates the readability for Mariners, an coursebook published by Language Competence Certification Tools Vocations (LCCTV) used first-year cadets at West Sumatera Merchant Marine Polytechnic. To this end, 10 selected from units were analysed. The Flesch-Kinca...

Social-historical study aimed at discussing the nursing and psychiatric nurse models, from the discourses published in the Annals of Nursing.The historical sources were articles published in the Annals of Nursing journal, from 1933 to 1951. An analysis of the discourse was subsidized by the genealogy of power by Michel Foucault.The analysis showed that the discourse on nursing and the psychiatr...