Keep Hope Alive

the movie is based around his journey to find his identity as well as his freedom and hope in order to survive. In this maximum security prison of Shawshank, prison life is designed to be harsh and breakdown the inmate’s spirits. On the inside the inmates have to find their sense of identity and purpose in order to fit in and survive. The film also takes a look on topics such as the fight for freedom and hope. Inmates are under strict orders by guards and are told what to do and when to do it,…

follows a seriously ill man, desperately clinging to his life, in hope of finding a safer place for his son, before he inevitably dies, a life that can no longer exist for anyone as the novel is a dystopia by nature. Throughout the book there are constant dangers which demand cautiousness, attention and intelligence from the pair to survive, most of which is escalated by other humans instinctive, and psychological need to keep themselves alive, no matter the cost to other human beings. The…

The machination of the Holocaust was no peccadillo. Between 6,000,000 and 11,000,000 Jews lost theirs lives. This was due to either being beaten, burned alive, gassed out, poisoned, starved to death, worked to death, or acquiring some sort of disease. Jewish people were ripped out of their homes and thrown into concentration camps. From there, they suffered and endured an onerous few years, if they survived that long. Those who survived were able to tell about their experiences. They gave…

many of which have been created by the advent of newer technology. Some of the current topics include the 13-year-old girl in California declared brain dead, the pregnant woman in Texas who was declared brain dead and the hospital obeying the law to keep her on life support to get the baby to an age to deliver, the issues or reproductive technology---how many embryo to implant, genetic disposition (getting a baby with blue eyes and an IQ of 175), abortion, and the large issue of alcohol or drug…

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, “Hope is in truth the worst of all evils, because it protracts the torment of men” (Nietzsche 45). The Road is set in a post-apocalyptic “grey world” where the last remnants of humanity fade away into oblivion. This world is literally “dead”(%^%), life as we know it is over and civilisation is beyond saving. To complicate the situation, however, McCarthy infuses hope into this dystopian world. This creates an illusion of hope where in fact, there is none for the…

THEY-CAN’T-DIE! Such devotion that a seventeen year old has in order to keep the last of his family alive, his sisters. In fact that same devotion which a twelve year old has to keep what is truly left of humankind in his world of script, an infant. So young that unable to eat, but so strong to understand and live in reality. Life in a world designed every inch by inch, word for word,and Life for Life! Imagine - YOU CAN’T, dream-YOU WON'T, Live- YOU’LL DIE! Alex, an inspiration for matters of…

Introduction In the novel, The Road, published in 2006, Cormac McCarthy displays an unbreakable bond between father and son, in a post-apocalyptic world. The Man sees his son as being his only sign on hope in the world at all. The exact setting isn’t given, nor is the names of the characters, but this is to show that this event may as well be happening to anyone and anywhere in the world. To begin, the character known as “The Man” wakes up in the wood with “The Boy”, they are both freezing and…

“Sorrow of Sarajevo”, this is to show how Sarajevo as a whole, felt grief and anguish after their loved ones were killed for no reason. They were trapped, unable to escape and flee from the endless consequences of war, they felt helpless had lost all hope for the siege to end . In the first stanza, the poet describes his surroundings and his daily lifestyle that he had grown accustomed to. “ The Sarajevo wind”, the wind could be interpreted as a calm, gentle breeze, which does not make much…

display man’s two responses to chaos: despair or hope. The composition in this painting is not one of stable organization. The bodies of the dead are entangled with those of the living, which produces a very desperate situation. However, the majority of the dead bodies are located in…

The Importance of Dreams in War and Cheese War and Cheese is a short film directed by Ben Garfield that observes the humble yet inspiring dream of Oleg Sirota. He wishes to build a cheese factory in his native Russia. Oleg narrates the film and discusses his goals for the future while also giving some background on the past history of Russia and how it has helped him pursue the things he wants. Overall, the film acknowledges the importance and beauty of both having a dream and working hard…