Hope

relentless. “We don’t want your charity,” Hope called out for the fifth time that week, finding herself annoyed once more. She didn’t even bother with checking who it was. It was always either one of those charity people or the Tartines (although they usually said who they were and, depending on who it was, didn’t even knock at all--this phenomenon was most common with Rocky, Vella’s little sister). “We’re not here for charity,” a familiar voice replied. Hope stopped what she was doing…

City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution with over 4000 employees, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases and guided by a compassionate, patient-centered philosophy. Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Duarte, California, City of Hope is a remarkable non-profit institution, where compassion and advanced care go hand-in-hand with excellence in clinical and scientific research. City of Hope is a…

HOPE organization was started and founded in the city of Pontiac in 1998; HOPE stands for “Helping Oakland’s People Everyday”. Debbie Nelson (Shelter Manager) told me the story about a homeless man name Jim who froze to death behind a dumpster in 1998. Records show Jim went to the emergency room to be treated for frostbite in his toes. The emergency room treated Jim but released him with a paper prescription. Days later Jim returned to the emergency room, they treated him and release him a…

"Pathway of Hope" is a program that provides each mother with a counselor that helps them create a wholistic plan including medical, educational, legal, and household support, as well as employment education and guidance (Pathway of Hope). For the Antoinette Chambers-Currin and her family, "Pathway of Hope" helped them keep a roof over their head and food on their plates. While on the brink of eviction, Antoinette…

Nicole, the Executive Director of Health and Hope Clinic asked me to write a testimonial sharing my experience at their clinic yesterday. I told her that I will seek approval from the nursing administration before signing the papers that granted permission to publish it under my name and organization. I wrote a brief summary of my impression of the clinic. What do you think? ____________________ There are many qualities of Health and Hope Clinic that made a lasting positive impression on me as a…

never been shy about talking about hope. In several ways hope is one of the core aspects of our faith. The word “hope” appears 187 times in the NRSV translation of the Bible, so it would seem that we should be accustomed to the idea. This leads us to ask the important questions; what does hope mean to the Christian? How does the Bible define hope? How is hope essential to the faith? In this section I will address these questions and in doing so will illustrate how hope is a theological…

Garrett’s Hope Uh no here they come! Fight or flight which one to choose? Wait that’s not Bob and Fritz. I was all alone at a lunch table in the first grade. These two girls sit down with me not to bully me. “Hi I’m Khrysta and I’m Leigha,” they said. “Are you talking to me?” I thought. They are sitting next to kid who people call a weirdo, a Freak, a crybaby. The truth is I have S.P.D, Dyspraxia, and Anxiety and these two girls want to sit next to me? I asked in my head. “You look like a…

Fitzgerald uses the character of Gatsby and his “extraordinary gift for hope” (P. 2), to display how hope can turn a reality into an illusion, much like Daisy and Tom’s seemingly perfect life - due to their money - is really an illusion to mask their “vast carelessness” (P. 190) and unhappy lives. Gatsby is depicted as an incessant dreamer, someone who never gives up on his dreams, no matter the consequences. In order to achieve his dream of Daisy, he erases his past, becomes a bootlegger to…

what are the differences between hope and envy? At first, when brainstorming, the question of the different definitions and connotations of hope and envy arose. Some define hope as being “dangerous” (Shawshank Redemption 1994), while others believe that hope is a mechanism that shines light during difficult and dark times. Meursault, in The Stranger, argues that hope blinds someone from living in the present because hoping requires looking to the future. However, hope gives some people’s lives a…

Hope: A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Adolf Hitler was the darkness and he would overpower as many candles as he could when he had the chance. But, even though he was getting stronger, some candles wouldn’t be overtaken. As the stronger candles spread light, other candles were brought back and were able to defy the darkness in hope that the light would spread everywhere. The book “Daniel’s Story” tells the struggle of a young Jewish boy growing up in Germany…