Looking at light at the end of the tunnel during the hardships that one faces, is what helps people to live and…
The smallest things often have the biggest impact. Patricia McCormick develops this idea in her books Sold and Never Fall Down. In Sold, a young girl named Lakshmi gets torn out of her familiar life in the mountains in Nepal and sold into sexual slavery in India. In Never Fall Down, Arn is unfortunate enough to be captured and forced to work in a camp by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide. Both Lakshmi and Arn must find ways to survive, even though they have been abandoned in their darkest hours.…
What’s Left In The Box Zeus, the most powerful of all gods, created a woman from clay called Pandora and later gave Pandora the gift of a box with the condition that she must never open the box. Yet, when Pandora could no longer stand it, she took the key, and opened the box. Out poured disease, poverty, misery, death, and sadness - all shaped like tiny moths, which stung Pandora repeatedly and she slammed the lid shut, leaving hope in the box, which later fluttered from the box like a dragonfly, healing the wounds created by the moths. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, many characters’ lives changed for the better when they found hope, because hope can bring positive events to one’s life. We should have a source of hope.…
While reading The Management of Grief by Baharati Mukherjee, I noticed a couple different themes throughout. The main theme that caught my attention was having hope. In this short story, the main character Shaila loses her husband and two sons in a terrorist attack that left a whole plane full of people dead. Shaila has to come to an acceptance that her family is gone and move on. This theme is portrayed in the characters, Shaila and Judith Templeton the most, them being polar opposites.…
In the fictional story Children of the Sea, the author Edwidge Danticat, conveys an idea that life goes on. Danticat does so by portraying her characters as weak beings with lack of hope in the beginning and having them grow as strong, hopeful people who learn to let things go. The female character in Children of the Sea is a great example of gaining hope and understanding that life goes on. When the female character comes to the realization that there is nothing that she can do, she turns to hope as if it is her true guide. “People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us” (Children of the…
This concept analysis paper will clarify the meaning of hope, which is an abstract idea that every human has experienced in his or her lifetime. Eleanor Roosevelt stated that hope is the most important word of the English language (Roosevelt, 1949). Hope has the power to positively impact healing and inspires people to live. During the World War II, a survivor named Victor Frankl was imprisoned in a concentration camp held by the Nazis. This man was able to survive the horrible circumstances with the hope of seeing his family again.…
In this paper, I will discuss the orthodox definition of hope expressed in Adrienne Martin’s How We Hope: A Moral Psychology, and emphasize the inherent problems raised by Martin that challenge this definition. Martin derives the ‘orthodox definition’ of hope from the works of Day and Downie introduced in the late 1960s. Day states that “hope involves (1) desiring and (2) estimating a probability” and names these two constituents of hope as the desiderative and the estimative constituents, respectively (Day 89). And this definition has its merits: it seems illogical that A hopes that X will happen if A doesn’t desire X to happen OR X is impossible.…
Hopes, dreams, and goals; we all have them, but how do they push us to do more? This paper will be using three articles The Secret of Life by Walter Mitty, How We Lose Hope and How to Get it Back, and The Wills and Ways of Hope. These will demonstrate how hope can drive one to move forward by providing something to work toward. Hope and dreams allow people to feel like they have something important to work toward and goals provide specific objectives to get there. Hope can keep you alive in the harshest conditions or keep you working to finish an English paper.…
Editor’s Note These five poems were selected for their commentary on suffering, pain, and madness. Dickinson seems to have an unusual view on these topics because she views them not as purely negative, but rather as honest and having the ability to edify those have borne them. In some ways, Dickinson seems to portray them as natural reactions and alternatives to the stoicism and artificiality of society. It is interesting to consider how these topics affected Emily Dickinson specifically as a woman poet. How is suffering connected to women and the roles they expected to perform?…
Throughout a life time everybody is able to witness people who strive and prosper in times of conflict as a result of grasping onto something which gave them hope, and everybody also see’s people who subsequently perish as a result of not being able to find their inner hope. Proving my point to persuade my audience I was able to find evidence from the movie Paradise road using Rosemary as an example of perishing from losing all hope in opposed to Wilma Young whom was a ‘brave women’ and got through conflict by having hope for her future. Lastly I shared a personal experience of when I was confronted with conflict confining in hope to pull through, also using somebody I know of as an example of perishing due to not being able to confine in…
Hope is never ending because despite it having drawbacks something positive always remains. For instance, if one hopes for a better tomorrow and their dream is not fulfilled, almost instinctively one still keeps hoping. Hope is natural because no matter how many times one is let down, there is always a trickle of hope left in them. These ideas are corroborated from “Blackberry Picking”, by Seamus Heaney. In this text, Heaney presents a point that albeit the human soul is greedy, in its darkest of time, it too strives for hope.…
What exactly is a social imaginary? A social imaginary can be defined as the interpretive understanding of the world, what a good life looks like, and how we can attain it. A Social imaginary encompasses the creative and meaningful dimensions of the real world, the dimensions through which people in our society create their ways of living and the rules by which they live on earth. Growing up in an African American household, my parents taught me that life is tough and I would have to work two times harder than my competition to achieve success and be the best human being I can possibly be given my potential. I view the world we live in as a survival of the fittest type of environment which has shaped my social imaginary.…
Often time’s things happen in life that we do not expect. Many turning points in life happen and we have to, somehow, learn to deal with this new “problem.” Sometimes, the issue is so life changing, we tend to lose our minds and become lost on this path of greatness. When life has its difficulties, we often frown upon the things that have blessed us in the past.…
When an individual has a mental health disorder, the risk for self-injury or suicide increases. Suicide is the United States’ 10th leading cause of death, having 12.6 deaths per 100,000 individuals. It is also known that out of the estimated 1 million attempted suicides per year, approximately 90% of individuals who commit suicide successfully have a mental disorder than can potentially be treated. There are many factors that you can observe for to catch an individual preparing to kill themselves. Suicide warning signs are things to observe for that indicate if an individual is at a higher risk for attempt of suicide.…
Cherish hope The following quotation has been true to me in times of distress. It has also been helpful to women experiencing labour pains during child-birth. Knowing that in few hours’ time or the following day the child will be born and they will be free of pain helps them to bear the current labour pains with courage. “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.…