Common causes, cures for a persistent cough. Cough for a minute or two, and you may think something has gone down the wrong pipe.. Cough for a day or two, and you may think you've picked up a cold or the flu. After a week, bronchitis or allergies may come to mind.
Some ninety years ago Vladimir Lenin coined the phrase âuseful idiotâ and it originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would âsell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with which we will hang them (the West).â.
Martin Seligman and his colleagues coined the term learned helplessness in the late 1960s. They had observed that laboratory animals subjected to various ordeals from which they could not escape lost the will to help themselves even when escape became possible.ou believe your actions are largely futile, and you've little real power to change your situation. Learned helplessness is a condition of resignation. You feel like you've been banging your head against a brick wall, and there's simply no point in trying any further.