Hope and Glory

John Wooden is a teacher and a legendary coach who led his team to a record-breaking number of wins and NCAA Championships. In 2001, he gave a TedTalk focused on his experiences as a teacher and a coach and how they have changed his definition of success. During this TedTalk Wooden gave his own definition of success and talked about the events that led to his forming of this new definition. Wooden also quoted different poems and verses that he felt accurately described what he had come to know…

20 more steps until this narrow hall turns into an open room with a stained glass window on the east wall- the perfect place for a new beginning, a new story. They are ways to start over, or escape the reality that is ours. Stories bring readers’ hopes and tales to life, which are dreams put onto paper. The greatest of books contain a few characteristics that create this desired escape. Multiple qualities make up a good book, but a great book contains moments of romance. The book My Life Next…

Hope is a Drive Hope is the only drive people have in tragic situations. Throughout Ishmael’s memoir of his experience in the war he had drive, hope, and faith within himself. He had faith that he and his brother Junior would find safety from the war. Having this faith allowed Ishmael to create a forward drive that kept him running. After he and his brother were separated by the rebels in an ambush, he realized that it was easier to hope for a better day. He was confident that someday…

Abstract “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters”. – Henry David Thoreau Dreaming is what gives humans hope for a better future, a future in time where things have improved from the current reality. The theme of dreams and hopes have occupied the most brilliant authors’ thoughts ever since the existence of time. F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the writers that had the purpose to reflect the corruption of society in the 1920s, often referred to as “The roaring twenties” or the “Jazz age” , in…

I remember it like it was yesterday, I was about Eleven or Twelve years old. What had started out as a great day took a turn for the worst. My brother, Bobby, was moving to San Diego and had decided to take our pit bull red with him. My mother, my step-dad and myself were all against him taking red but he was really my brothers dog so we couldn’t tell him not to. We all really loved that dog, to us he was part of the family. It was going well for the first couple days, it was hard getting used…

at me with admiration and utter awe. I was from America. Yes, this may seem completely normal, but to the thirty South African children, America represented so much more than just a country on the other side of the world. America represented hope. A type of hope that gave them the will to live and survive in the harsh conditions they were forced to inhabit in. However, never did I see a sad face in my time I spent in Africa, only laughter and happiness shone from these people. The sheer…

Hope is the feeling responsible for preventing people from giving up and quitting. The power of hope gives people a reason to keep fighting for the future they desire. In Kamala Markandaya’s novel, Nectar in a Sieve, which takes place in the 1950s, she tells her readers about the hope two destitute farmers in rural India: Nathan and Rukmani. They face monsoons, droughts, and other hardships that attempt to destroy their lives and those of their children, but through the troubles, they meet…

Through Anne Frank’s writing she demonstrates her hope, faith and resilience despite her desperation. Anne had expectations and desires….. , she had complete trust and confidence in God and certain people and she was able to tolerate the most extreme circumstances. Anne Frank displays in her writing her hope, faith and resilience despite the terrible situation that she has endured. Throughout Anne’s diary entries she continues to display hope. Anne has a desire of being free again and living…

The definition of optimism is seeing something good in bad as well as having hope. Jackie Robinson felt belligerent when he was getting a lot of racism still he didn’t do anything because he knew that one day he would be treated with respect even if they didn’t like him. That is optimism, he hoped to be treated with respect even that in that movements where there was a lot of racism. A other example of optimism is Malala she fought for woman to have education until one day when she was going…

In Death of a Salesman there is a large amount of false hope present throughout the entire film. Linda provides the support her family needs in order for them to all stay together, even if the things she supported were not true. She supported her husband, and two sons even as they were lost and disorganized. Linda’s support toward her family leads the audience to recognize the theme of lost identity. Throughout the film Linda’s positive attitude influences Willy, Biff, and Happy. Willy’s…