It has been reported in a research by Roy Baumeister and Julie Exline that self-control temporarily weakens after exertion, replenishes with rest, and becomes stronger with exercise.
Self-control is an ability to subdue impulses or to regulations one's emotions, thoughts, and actions in order to fulfill specific (longer-term) goals, especially when faced with temptations and impulses. This enables a person to plan, evaluate alternative actions instead of getting carried away by impulses, and prevents him/her from behaving in a way that he/she might regret later on. Willpower is the ability to exert self-control.
During both periods, countries with much wealth and power wanted to expand their territories and become huge empires. Of course, we all know how that ended with many of them either being completely wiped off the map, or becoming significantly weaker after a while.
A president's legislative initiatives are significantly more successful when the President is a member of the same party as Congress.
This is due to a system that rewards legislative accomplishment and legislative obstruction.
If the President is a member of a different party from Congress, then there is a good chance that the members of Congress will be unwilling, in the current environment, to "reach" across the aisle and work with the President on legislation.
In 1779, James Robertson traveled along the Cumberland River and settled in an area known as French Lick, an area now known as Nashville.
