Hope

the hope diamond. The Hope diamond is the largest blue diamond in the world. The diamond originally weighed an impressive 112 carats, although it has since been cut down to a still staggering 45.52 carats. It is currently held in the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. were it is a hotly visited item. The diamond has an impressive history, and in order to study that history, it is first important to understand the individuals who owned it. Over its…

reserve. But against all the odds, this boy named Junior keeps hope through all the hardships. One day, while at class, he got to the point of frustration that he threw a book across the class. It ended up breaking his teacher’s nose. While suspended at his home, Mr.P visited him. He explained why he forgave him. After that, Mr.P said that Junior should leave the reservation so he can keep his spirits up. In the story, “Hope on Hope” by Sherman Alexie, the story conveys a message that even in…

Hope is defined as the feeling to desire something that may happen or to look forward with desire and reasonable confidence. Bluntly, hope is something that you believe. But, once you believe something that never happens, it becomes a delusion. The delusion is a belief in something despite the fact that it’s completely untrue. Hope is an ambition; something that one must have control over. Once it has been let go the obsession begins to take control making life a continuous battle of searching…

the colour of your skin. As sad as it is, this was all a reality for the Aboriginals when the European settled in Australia. The Aboriginals strived for the day where they could be treated like white people. This is the topic of the poem “Song of Hope” by Kath Walker, or, Oodgeroo. The poem was published in the 1960’s. It was set in Australia around the time it was published, as Aboriginals were discriminated against quite freely at the time. Oodgeroo was born on the third of November, 1920,…

1980, a young one-legged man ran a distance of 5,373 kilometers in 143 days, in hopes to find a cure for cancer, costing him his life. This great Canadian hero was named Terry Fox, born on July 28, 1958. He created the Marathon of Hope to raise money and to help find a cure for cancer; therefore, our greatest Canadian individual was Terry Fox. Terry Fox can be considered a courageous man, because he ran the Marathon of Hope while he had an amputated leg. Terry was compassionate because his run…

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing. – Raymond Williams A Marxist reading of “Work Without Hope” The themes of productivity, alienation, class struggle and hegemony are revealed in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Work Without Hope”. The first stanza depicts a natural world busy at work and this work is part of a natural process. “All Nature seems at work”; bees and birds are considered productive organisms and a Marxist reading could view this natural…

slammed and the wood of the log cabin vibrated and cracked.We knew telling our oldest daughter Hope about the move would be hard. She was twelve and had just started to make friends with some of the girls she went to school with. My husband Gary and I had an easy life raising Hope. She always studied and worked hard in school, and then helped as much as she could with the oxen and cows along with her father. Hope never failed to get good grades, keep the house clean, and be kind to everyone.…

After seeing his ex-wife Julian for the first time in twenty years, a spark of hope seems to awaken inside of Theo. Something he thought he had forgotten for good, had once again awaken. By accepting to help his ex-wife, this behavior reveals to us that Theo lived longing for Julian’s love. In other words, all this time that Theo lived by himself he still longed for a reconciliation between him and his wife. In the movie Theo seems to have mixed feelings and he asks Julian, you seemed to be…

put into them. After walking around confused trying to decide which piece I would like to analyze, I found Hope II by Gustav Klimt. While reading the excerpt next to this painting I was surprised to learn that painting of pregnant women were considered to be rare. This painting caught my eye immediately and I knew I was going to write about it. The Austrian painter Gustav Klimt painted Hope II in 1907-08. It is painted from oil, gold, and platinum on canvas. I chose this painting to…

Blankets for Hope, an organization that provides blankets to individuals without homes. Scattered across the venue’s sidewalks and under makeshift tents, were an untold amount of bodies curled up together. Shocked, I saw people walk past them as if they were a piece of the daily scenery. Blankets for Hope began when I refused to accept this sight as the norm of everyday life. While the club is small in size, the impact it has, not only on the community and on myself, is large. Blankets for…