‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘Our Love Now’ by Martyn Lowery. These two poems were my first choice as they both link to the theme of love‚ yet they are significantly different as they show how their ideas of love differ. ‘Valentine’ has the idea that love is original and true rather than hiding behind false pretences i.e. ‘a red rose’ or ‘a satin heart’ (Duffy 1993). Whereas ‘Our Love Now’ has two different perspectives‚ the males idea is that although the relationship is broken it can be fixed
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How many of you familiar with Pilates?? Well‚ if you have not heard of Pilates‚ it can be used to replace your usual workouts as well as help with medical conditions. Like any work out‚ some like it and some don ’t; it all depends on what you are looking for and how you want to achieve it. But for those who are not really familiar with the method‚ I will inform you on what Pilates is‚ how it came about and why some people use it. Pilates is a workout that can‚ like yoga‚ be done anywhere‚ anytime
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How successfully does ‘Demeter’ bring the collection to a close? Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘The Worlds Wife’ explores fiction and fantasy subverted with real life everyday experiences to reveal the truth. Through dramatizing scenes from childhood to adult life she discovers consolation and relief from love. The collections poems are questioning theories‚ marriage and themes such as feminism. Duffy does this in a very liberated‚ witty and sometimes uncomfortable way. Demeter successfully brings this collection
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The History of Pilates Pilates is a form of exercise which focuses primarily on improving flexibility‚ strength and overall body awareness. Pilates consists of a series of controlled movements that can be performed on either the floor with a mat‚ or specially designed spring-resistant equipment which is all supervised by a trained Pilate’s instructor. The exercises of Pilate’s focus on strengthening ones core while continuously breathing deeply. Created in the 1920’s by a physical trainer
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Clinical Pilates and Back Pain The fundamental principles of the Pilates method are known as an exercise method that in properly trained hands can promote back health and enhance overall well-being. As health professionals‚ we all have patients that would benefit from increasing their physical activity‚ as well as those we see too often with strains‚ sprains and the common injuries resulting from too much too soon of the wrong exercise for their bodies. The Pilates method is a known exercise program
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Yoga and Pilates are two of the most popular mind-body exercises today. It sees that these days you can hardly turn on a television without hearing someone mention Pilates or Yoga. Articles on both os these movement therapies fill numerous magazines and it seems "everyone who is anyone" is doing one or the other. Why all the excitement? What is so special about these techniques? What are the similarities and differences between Pilates and Yoga? Yoga‚ as we all know it‚ is aimed to unite the
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own problems Carol Ann Duffy seems to ask political/feminist questions in the following poems and believes women to be partly responsible for mass production‚ industrialisation and technology. The women in Duffy’s poems are seen as obsessive (The Diet‚ Work) and not in control (the woman who shopped). All three poems seem to combine aspects of femininity into one character such as gluttony‚ self-harm/losing oneself and seek to change themselves in some way. It seems Duffy has a major conflict with
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In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ ‘education for leisure’ and Sheenagh Pugh’s‚ ‘she was nineteen and she was bored’‚ both poets look on modern society in a negative way. Both poems look at the themes of suffering and unhappiness when cast out from society.which are two states that are inextricably linkable. Unhappiness can come as a result of suffering‚ or the need to make others suffer can come from pure unhappiness. Duffy and Pugh both make these distinctions in their work‚ and are able to engage the
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day basis. Some doctors suggest that their patients incorporate some physical activity into their daily routines‚ in addition to their medications. The most common forms of physical activity suggested by a health professional included Yoga and the Pilates method as two of the top choices; they are encouraged because they both include physical activity with meditation and breathing. Physical activity is good for chronic pain suffers‚ it has been proven to decrease depression and anxiety therefore improving
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a great workout‚ Pilates is now also being thought of as a form of therapy. Doctors have begun to prescribe Pilates to help treat conditions including: acute and chronic low back pain‚ sciatica‚ overuse injuries‚ tendonitis‚ headache/neck pain‚ repetitive stress disorders‚ foot/ankle pain‚ postural issues‚ pelvic/spinal instability‚ shoulder pain‚ women’s health issues‚ orthopedic injuries‚ neurological/ balance disorders‚ and scoliosis as well as many others. Benefits of Pilates have been shown
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