Search results for "Vocation" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • experience of prison awakened in him a vocation for service, and a subsequent ... with a sizable inheritance but no true vocation. His Calvinist faith and ...
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  • ===Religious vocation=== Pacioli became a Minorite Franciscan friar in 1487, and resumed teaching at Perugia until 1791. National Gallery (Great ...
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  • in his study, The Written' as the Vocation of Conceiving Jewishly, ... *McGinley, John W. The Written' as the Vocation of Conceiving ...
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  • Fichte develops nationalism in Vocation of Man (1800). In this political ... *The Vocation of Man Translated by Peter Preuss. Indianapolis, IN: ...
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  • opposition to his son's musical vocation had driven him from home ... He soon began to follow his true vocation, finding a place in the ...
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  • holy orders are considered more of a vocation than occupation as they ... Any individual who feels a vocation to serve for the sake of God’s ...
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  • Beecher was a woman who was aware of her vocation at an early age. She came a prestigious background yet was not afforded a similar education ...
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  • wrote Hosshin shu (Examples of Religious Vocation), a collection of stories ... Hosshin shu (“Examples of Religious Vocation”). He also compiled a ...
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  • a nun, but was told she did not have the vocation. Instead, she vowed that ... *I feel in me the vocation of the priest. With what love, O Jesus ...
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  • In the sociology of politics and government, Politics as a Vocation ... *Weber, Max. 2004. The Vocation Lectures: Science As a Vocation, Politics ...
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  • === Vocation === Unable to obtain the consent of her father, Teresa left her parental home secretly one morning in November of 1535, and entered ...
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  • his famous lecture on "Politics as a Vocation" in 1919. Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures: Science as a Vocation and Politics ...
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  • Technical School, and discovered his vocation in 1903 or 1904 during a holiday spent in Cheshire. Owen was raised as an Anglican of the evangelical ...
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  • taking the name Teresa. Her family supported her vocation, but wanted her to live closer to Santiago and to choose a more comfortable accommodation ...
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  • celibate, he saw his career as a lay-vocation. A leader of his own nation ... celibate, he saw his career as a lay-vocation. He spoke of himself as ...
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  • women of Hull House: A study in spirituality, vocation, and friendship. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791434885 ==External links== ...
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  • and physics as a career, eschewed law as a vocation, nor did he follow the footsteps of many of his siblings who became priests or nuns. ...
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  • in fact, 'live by poetry'; it was a vocation, at once difficult as sainthood and easy as breathing." {| border="0" ...
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  • women of Hull House: A study in spirituality, vocation, and friendship. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791434885 ==External links== ...
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  • were for persons with a full-time religious vocation, rather than those involved in the secular world. It lays stress on the passive qualities and ...
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  • to all this was derision, and he made it his vocation to set out a rational, naturalistic account both of the world and of the human place in it ...
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  • Housman always found his true vocation in classical studies and treated poetry as a secondary activity. He never spoke about his poetry in public ...
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  • * Initiation into a mystical vocation: "the vocation of a medicine man or a shaman." This is limited to the few who are "destined ...
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  • elder son, John, was now old enough to choose a vocation, and became a miniature-painter. The second child, Peggy, had begun to paint also, amateurishly ...
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  • their son gave early evidence of a religious vocation. ===A gifted speaker=== He was educated under the Conventual Franciscans of Brindisi. Already ...
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  • because of his age, and returned to his former vocation as a preacher. He delivered a course of sermons at Angers, and in the next year moved to Bordeaux ...
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  • small town. Her father continued to resist her vocation, telling her, “I would almost rather see you dead!” and paid only for her basic needs. ...
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  • Like his student Crates, Diogenes seemed to have a vocation to provoke others into elevating their understanding of moral value, and for promoting virtue ...
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  • October 4, 1416. His superiors, fearing this vocation to be a passing fancy, tested him severely, even sending him away twice; but he remained day and ...
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  • Cesare's religious vocation was never strong, and he gained a reputation at the papal court for his womanizing, lavish clothing, and hunting ...
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  • #To pursue my religious vocation with integrity upon graduation. ==Notable Alumni== *Gordon Anderson - president of Paragon House, editor-in-chief ...
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  • of the French Revolution caused him to give this vocation up, and in its place, he accepted a chair in mathematics at the Military School of Auxerre ...
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  • eldest sister and her husband to teach him his vocation. In 1885, after passing his examinations and presenting "a tail-coat, well-made," ...
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  • Marian attended William Penn High School until her music vocation arose. She transferred to South Philadelphia High School, focusing on music ...
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  • methods to help students explore vocation needs and interests. Classroom guidance lessons are designed to be preventive in nature and include ...
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  • however, forbade anyone to interfere with her vocation. ===Ascetic tradition=== Catherine now wore a habit and white veil, which showed her to ...
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  • poetry, which he felt was incompatible with his vocation. Writing would remain something of a painful concern for him as he felt that his interest in ...
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  • Frank Gilbreth discovered his vocation when, as a young building contractor, he sought ways to make bricklaying faster and easier. This grew ...
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  • in the robes of monks at various stages of their vocation. One difference is that rhe robes of getshül novices do not include the "holes" ...
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  • 19, 2023. Walcott had an early sense of a vocation as a writer. In the poem ... prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation." ...
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  • Struck blind at the age of seven, Charles found his vocation as a rhythm and blues artist early in his life. For much of his adult years Charles ...
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  • In Naples Boccaccio began what he considered his true vocation, poetry. Works produced in this period include Filostrato (the source for Chaucer ...
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  • related to a specific trade, occupation, or "vocation." Vocational education might be contrasted with education in a usually broader scientific ...
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  • rigorous and imbued with a sense of vocation to he help the sick and injured. Nightingale has referred to her longing and subsequent career as ...
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  • of the 1840s and 1850s, Dickinson found her vocation as a poet. Most of her work is reflective of life's small moments and some larger issues ...
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  • to the religious life," a valid lay vocation. Ibid, p 14. =====Crusades===== [[Image:B Urban II2.jpg|thumb|left|Pope Urban II preaches the ...
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  • with even greater energy and with a second vocation as a health campaigner. He advocated vegetarianism, avoiding red meat, and exercise, writing How ...
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  • embraces is considered to be his vocation; that is to say, it is dependent ... a visit to a monastery and tests his vocation. Usually he must spend some ...
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  • away from their original military vocation was the essence of the system's demise. ==Janissary corps== [[Image:Surname 22b.jpg|thumb|250px ...
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  • ; "A Vocation and a Voice" ; "Ti Demon" ; "The White Eagle" ; "A Pair of Silk Stockings" ; "Vagabonds ...
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