Hopeful

To begin with, human rights has failed in terms of international law. Human rights are defined as “the existence of rights that all human beings possess that even one’s own government cannot infringe on or deny and then can be protected by external elements, as through the United Nations.” There are 30 provisions in the Declaration of Human Rights that was passed on December 10th, 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. However, not many of these are seen as universal. Most of these…

chapter two (28-30) where we enter a scene in which April and Frank are coming to the end of a heated argument. The silent mutual agreement to return home, takes us back to their first encounter with Revolutionary Road. The flashback highlights the hopeful ideals the protagonists had before being constricted into the very plastic suburban culture of the area, later observed in this passage. When contrasted with the present time, it is clear that falling into conformity is the reason for the…

unavoidable topic still relevant to this day. Both pieces explore similar themes yet use different tones and devices. Though Four Poems For Robin focuses on the stages of getting over someone by using a gradation of time and Lego House employs a hopeful tone, both works contribute to portraying what it means to be emotionally invested in someone. Four Poems For Robin was written for a woman named Robin, potentially Gary Snyder’s love interest while he was travelling through Japan. Each poem…

small girl of 10 years old, who believed that food appeared on the table, who picked flowers for amusement, recognized what her family was classified as in the real world through one man’s death. Just as Walker desires, Myop changed from naive and hopeful for her future too aware of her surroundings and realistic. The quote, “Myop laid down her flowers. And the summer was over.”, establishes this point. When Myop saw this tall man, decapitated, tortured, horrifically murdered, Walker seems to…

In the sections 64-67 of “Phaedo” by Plato from Athens provides argues why a person that has practiced philosophy should be pleased and hopeful when approaching death. The arguments are presented through a dialogue between Socrates and two characters (Cebes and Simmias) while imprisoned, as the three await for the recently ingested poison to take full effect. Plato provides support to the main argument through five points: first, a definition of death; second, matters that concern philosophers;…

institution and making the highest income. My perspective on what being successful is having the ability to accept where you are in life regardless of your situation and making the most of every day. I would define my identity as. My identity is hopeful because I am able to keep faith through difficulties.…

Michele a mother of three kids, a wife, and a daughter said with triumph. Michele, a 33 year old, had heard about the 9/11 when she was only 17, lived in Reading and it was September 11, 2001, when it had happened. She grew up worried and also hopeful how it all started. She was just in school when it happened. She came home and heard her mom crying, screaming, and yelling about what had happened. Michele, scared and petrified, turned on the news and saw what happened. She had found out the…

The truth is, suffering is a fundamental part of livelihood. However, once a new meaning is found in suffering, survival becomes the best option to stay hopeful as it allows one to take revenge and gain success. In the novel “The Marrow Thieves” by Cherie Dimaline, the struggle to survive and the importance of staying hopeful and not give up is pivotal for the lives of Frenchie, a sixteen year old, who has lost his brother, Mitch, and his mother to the Recruiters as well as his companions as…

I like to think of my life as if I am walking a border, an imaginary one, where I am halfway between sanity and insanity, where nothing is ever certain and nothing is ever uncertain, and where life’ pieces fall in and out of place like a game of snakes and ladders. Nostalgia is a feeling that is all too familiar to me. I often find myself reminiscing about the past, thinking of the girl I once was, of the dreams I once had, of the life I once led. Although I have only lived a short time, sixteen…

According to google, an optimist is “a person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something.” Bottom, a mechanical in the play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, is not the wittiest in the play. However, his optimism, humor, and confidence assists him by making Pyramus And Thisbe an interesting play within the play. Because Bottom is confident, he lacks fear of anything. Bottom’s confidence grows when he offers to play more than one part in the…