Essays on Hope

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,” opens the first lines of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (9). But is it truly the people who are at fault, or rather has society itself gone mad? Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem is…

Introduction “‘Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” was one of 1800 poems written by Emily Dickinson in 1862 (Spacey). In her poem, the speaker compares hope to a bird that is always present in the human soul and never stops singing its tunes. The bird…

A confident desire for change, generally that is hope; it does not matter the kind of change one would be hoping for, neither does it matter the circumstances that have made them want that change. All that matters is the confident desire that the change…

Introduction Bronte has an interesting look on hope. In her poem called “Life” she explains some days you might have rough cloudy days, causing you to trudge but hope will pick you up and your despair will vanish. On the other hand, Emily Dickinson has…

Hope is the feeling of desire for a certain thing to happen. When we think of the future we are optimistic that it will be the best possible. In the book “Children of Men” by P.D. James one of the main themes is hope for…

Introduction A Man’s Search For Meaning is finding a purpose in life in a bad situation. We are all guilty of looking at how bad we have it, when there are other people suffering a lot worse than us. There is meaning life, you are…

Chapter 14 and 15 of the novel, The Breadwinner, tells us that nothing is impossible when you work together and keep believing. In this section, Parvana finds a girl named Homa in the streets and she brings her home. Homa’s family was killed by the…

“Angela’s Ashes” and “The Street” are both descriptive short stories that use vivid imagery to paint a picture in your mind. The use of similes and adjectives put you in the midst of the stories and help you better understand the characters and plots. Both…

Children are a Hope for Humanity Various clues in Children of Men point towards the fact that no children are left in the futuristic world of the year 2027. For some unknown reason, women are infertile and can no longer procreate. The director focused on…

Ever since my very first day at Allerton Grange I knew that I wanted to do well in my education. I accepted that everyday of the past five years at school have been of great importance to my future, from general lessons to participation in…

I have selected the art work called New Hope (Falcon heavy side boosters, first landing) because it really caught my attention and I thought it looked really cool the way Adam Fung can make a painting look like if it was a picture taken. In…

Hope can mean diverse things, especially in the book 1984. At the beginning of the story, hope was not expressed much. Winston seemed gloomy, as if his life would never get better. He began to feel like there was no point to live anymore. He…

Life can be hard sometimes, often quite unpredictable. Everyone has pain and suffering in their life, unfortunately some more than others. The bad things that happen in our life does not define us. How we overcome these bad things, these obstacles that life has thrown…

ALBA (La Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América), stands as an intercontinental project for Latin American and Caribbean socio-economic and political integration. Translating into “The Dawn” in Spanish, with the logo symbolising the Bolivarian region of South America radiating like the sun, to…

The movie starts with the quote “Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever”. This quote foretells the viewer that this movie is about religion and authority. The title of the film itself tells…