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Professions : Topics in Social Science
1,082 words, approx. 4 pages
The term profession originally denoted a limited number of vocations which were the only occupations in pre-industrial Europe that enabled people with no unearned income to make a living without engaging in commerce or manual work. Law, medicine and...
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Profession : Economics Topics
101 words, approx. 1 pages
An occupation requiring a considerable period of education and training. The original professions were in medicine, the law, the church, the army and the universities. In the nineteenth century many occupations acquired the status of a profession by...
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Profession : Adult and Continuing Education
15 words, approx. 1 pages
A term for a high status occupation—there are no agreed definitions although many...
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Professions Summary
4,037 words, approx. 14 pages
The idea of a "profession" did not exist in ancient times. Although there were people who did what is currently denoted as professional work, these "professionals" often labored in dependent positions. For example,...
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Profession Information
2,730 words, approx. 9 pages
A profession is an occupation, vocation or career where specialized knowledge of a subject, field, or science is applied.[1] It is usually applied to occupations that involve prolonged academic training and a formal qualification. It is axiomatic that...
 


Quotations
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Profession Quotes
58 words, approx. 1 pages
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. I hold every man a debtor to his profession. Medicine is my lawful...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Sex Columnist Trades Her Oldest Profession For Chic Motherhood
4/16/2006: 1,180 words, approx. 4 pages
Last Thursday, April 6, New York writer Amy Sohn teetered onto a crimson-lit stage at Merkin Concert Hall in a polka-dotted cocktail dress and red patent-leather heels so high she could barely walk. Next to her was a strapping bald fellow named David Tronzo—recently voted...
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The New York Observer
Sex Columnist Trades Her Oldest Profession For Chic Motherhood
4/16/2006: 1,180 words, approx. 4 pages
Last Thursday, April 6, New York writer Amy Sohn teetered onto a crimson-lit stage at Merkin Concert Hall in a polka-dotted cocktail dress and red patent-leather heels so high she could barely walk. Next to her was a strapping bald fellow named David Tronzo—recently voted...
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The New York Observer
American Idle! Posh Peeps Profess Passion For Bad TV
1/28/2007: 1,095 words, approx. 4 pages
I believe that New Yorkers can now be divided fairly and squarely into two distinct groups: those who watch trash TV (the new intelligentsia), and those who don’t and inveigh against it (the narrow-minded poo-poo heads). I am also convinced that being a trash-watcher is...
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AP News
Flight attendants object to soap opera
1/21/2008: 396 words, approx. 1 pages
A popular new Thai soap opera about love and infidelity in the high skies has angered Thai Airways flight attendants who demanded Monday that the show be canceled for casting their profession in an unrealistic and immoral light."The Air Hostess War," which broadcast its first...
 


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