When the going gets tough‚ the tough get going. This saying originally said by Joseph P. Kennedy‚ father of former president John F. Kennedy‚ and made famous by the Billy Ocean song‚ is very motivational to people all over the world. Its tricky play on words and its motivational tone make it a very interesting quote to look at in depth and to explain exactly what it means. Throughout this essay you will learn what this saying means‚ what being tough is‚ and the true meaning of perseverance When
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Suzannah Lipscomb in "Who Was Henry VIII And When Did It All Go Wrong?." talks about the different ways our society perceives the personality of Henry VIII‚ from a overly sentimental man child in “The private life of Henry VIII”‚ to an infantile but handsome king in the Tudors. She considers that this versions are not truthful to the true Henry and contribute to alter the perception of Henry’s true personality. Another obstacle for the truth about him is the focus that is given to his surroundings
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found the poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman interesting. The poem was straightforward for the most part so I found it easier to read than many of the other poems. First‚ I found the use of the word gliding in the poem very strange. The speaker was in an astronomy lecture hall and he stood up and left in the middle of the lecture. When I imagine an individual standing up in the middle of a hall‚ I think of it being disturbing‚ loud and annoying. The choice of the words rising
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place. The book ‚ When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe‚ follows innocent people through their horrific experiences that they had to go through during World War 2. The innocent characters have to live through anguish from being raped‚ having their children mistreated‚ and being dehumanized. Tess Uriza Holthe‚ in When The Elephants Dance‚ captures the dreadful reality that war harms the most innocent. When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe provides horrible stories of innocent women
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The real life battles in life are fought between the mind and soul far from comprehension. In When I Lay My Burden Down‚ Maya Angelou sets the stage in her childhood in the segregated rural South. Maya Angelou and her family‚ more specifically her grandmother‚ are continuously humiliated by the “powhitetrash”‚ or the poor white girls of her neighborhood. Due to the intense segregation that was present at the time in both the nation and in her society‚ Maya Angelou implies how the “white folk” are
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Integrative case: What went wrong at university hospital? In this memo‚ I would like to clarify the causes of the failure of the training program in the hospital and propose the new way of the training that could be more useful for both senior managers and the employees. According to the failed implementation of the training in the use of new equipment and software‚ First of all‚ one of the causes of the failure is the absence of survey need assessment of employees. The hospital’s senior management
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Benefits of exercise: reduction of anxiety and improvements of well-being of pregnant women. Physical fitness has many positive effects on individuals’ physical health and well-being (). Exercise has been shown in previously conducted research to help ease muscle tension‚ alleviate back pain‚ and help regulate blood pressure (Jones‚ Dean and Lo‚ 2002). Exercise activity releases endorphins in the brain‚ which can improve mental focus‚ reduce anxiety and boost self-esteem (McArthur and Raedeke‚
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When a country develops its technology‚ the traditional skills and way of life dies out. Is it pointless to keep them alive? Agree or disagree. Looking at our history‚ it is not difficult to discover that when a country develops its technology‚ the traditional skills and ways of life are actually dying out in today’s society. However‚ not all countries are developed and therefore still using their traditional knowledge to survive. There is a possibility that it is pointless to keep them alive‚ this
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When You Reach Me follows a sixth-grade protagonist‚ Miranda. She lives with her single mother who has a kindhearted boyfriend‚ Richard. Miranda’s best friend Sal‚ who she knew since she was a small child‚ had recently started ignoring Miranda after he had been punched in the face by another boy‚ Marcus. A homeless man lives on the corner of Miranda’s street. She calls him the "laughing man" for his tendency to laugh without cause. Miranda notices that he always utters the words "book bag pocket
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This is a very somber‚ regretful and resigned poem. It has a quiet‚ dreamlike feeling to it‚ achieved by an undulating rhyme scheme (ABBA) and use of soft-sounding‚ uncomplicated words that are nevertheless powerful. The theme is the painful one of unrequited love‚ which Yeats manipulates in an interesting manner. Instead of focusing upon the present or the past‚ as is usually the case with this often used theme‚ Yeats looks to the future‚ a future in which the two people in the poem are destined
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