Swimming Upstream - To Boost Your Self-esteem

The inspiring true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Always overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers, it is only when Tony displays an extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his father's heart.

Harold Fingleton, a vile, brutal harbor laborer, is obsessed with sports and macho toughness to the point of encouraging eldest son Harold to bully sensitive junior Tony, whom both abuse as 'sissy'. Only when he discovers Tony and his sweet, timid brother John have a talent for swimming, he turns away from boxer Harold to make them both toil in the pool beyond exhaustion. yet only John gets proud paternal praise, Tony is systematically ignored or belittled. After Tony proves himself the very best, dad actually devotes to training John to steal his place on the road to the Olympics, thus over-straining their close fraternal bond.

It´s a great inspirational story for those in need of sel-esteem and self-diligence boost.

Swimming Upstream

The Death of Bad Manners?

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Bad manners: Old-fashioned manners are long gone

Please. Thank you. No, sir. Yes, ma’am. If these words sound foreign to you, it’s because we are in the middle of a rude awakening: manners, it seems, are dead in today’s society—and it’s not going unnoticed. In fact, 76% of adults believe Americans are ruder and less civilized than they were 20 or 30 years ago.
From the road to the sky, people are seeing more rudeness, hearing more rudeness, and speaking more rudeness. The question is: why? In the below infographic, we share shocking stats about just how rude today’s society is—and why old-fashioned manners have become extinct.

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