Promise

In Rossetti’s poem, “Promises Like Pie-Crust," she excavates the dormant hesitation that is brought about by a naive past relationship. This hesitation is verbalized through the use of paradox: “Promise me no promises, So I will not promise you.” This plea is the evidence of a previous betrayal of trust, prompting the resistance of anything involving a commitment. The line, “Keep we both our liberties” refers to the abstinence from promises and depicts how they are viewed as constricting and…

The Tennessee Promise Scholarship has become a defining moment in the future of college education. Now that the Tennessee Promise Scholarship is available, many new students can get the aid they need to succeed in college and in their future. It is hoped that many incoming college freshmen will take part in this program, which will provide them with their first two years free, leading them to a full degree. While the Tennessee Promise Scholarship and HOPE scholarship have many positive traits,…

America’s College Promise “Forty percent of college students chose community college…Whoever you are, this plan is your chance to graduate ready for the new economy, without a load of debt,” quoted President Barack Obama (Calvert 2). Let’s say you decide to go to a community college after high school. You would most likely be saving a lot of money by going to a community college instead of a four-year school or university. Imagine how much you would save if all fifty states in the U.S. decide…

necessity in most households? Most parents encourage their children to go to college from a very young age. For a lot, it’s simply a way of life. You grow up, leave high school, and then go straight into college. In Frank Bruni’s, “The Imperiled Promise of College,” he speaks about how numerous people are going to college, yet a lot of them don’t have jobs after they receive their diploma, or that their job has nothing to do with what they have studied. The reason for this is, they are not…

In “The Promise of Sociology”, an excerpt from C. Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination, the writer branches out upon the subject of sociology and its impact on individuals and communities both throughout history and in the modern day. Mills begins the passage by calling attention to the common experience that all mankind shares of being bound by their circumstances and never allowing themselves to expand their awareness. I think that Mills uses this idea for two reasons. First, by applying…

f-assessed-food-security#sthash.DFq7ZVzQ.dpuf). We have been fighting against the hunger since the Green Revolution in the 20th Century, but we still have a long way to walk before its end (Borlaug, N. E. (October 2000). Ending World Hunger. The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry. Plant Physiology vol. 124 no. 2 487-490. Retrieved from http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/124/2/487#ref-list-1). That is why I believe that the Genetically Engineered (GE) food have a…

In Joan Didion’s excerpt ‘The Promise of the Prison’, from The People and Promises of California, Didion talks about California and the hopes residents were instilled by the building of prisons. The prisons being built were going to provide protection and a substantial amount of job opportunities for residents. Didion mentioned that by the year 2000 California had over “33 penitentiaries and 162,000 inmates,the largest in the western hemisphere.” This number has increased since then not just in…

Sara Ahmed, the author of The Promise of Happiness, offers a new perspective on happiness. Unlike many others, she does not attempt to define happiness, nor describe the ways to achieve it. Instead, she examines happiness through the lenses of several different moral theories including utilitarianism and deontology. Through this careful examination, she is led to the conclusion that happiness varies from person to person and there is no clear identifiable source that is applicable to everyone.…

Suburban America: Problems and Promises, a documentary produced by Ron Rudaitis, examines the changing face of suburbia in America. The intended audience for this documentary would be society, because it explored how the suburban community has and is changing historically, politically and socially. Through the documentary, Ron explored the issues that are associated with suburbs and how they are growing to become sustainable environmental regions, the changing infrastructure and redevelopment of…

managed to reach a point where I began making false promises to myself and others about addressing my situation. Among those empty promises was the one where I claimed I would give up drinking, attend rehab and try to get my life back on track. I even fiddled with the thought of seeking inpatient assistance if things weren't working as planned. Let's be clear and fair. Even I was convinced that I was being genuine when I initially made these promises. I still trust that I made them with good…