A Comparative Essay On Hope

Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright is a must read for any Christian looking to expand their understanding of faith. Surprised by Hope gives us a full understanding of salvation as it is revealed in the Bible. This book also tells us how we should act in our lives and in this world as God’s redeemed people. It reveals incredible insight that is important to us because it explains just how crucial our role in this world is. Wright talks about the way things currently are and how they will be with the resurrection and our salvation. The book expands on the Christian mission and what it means to live with hope and faith and attempts to answer the very famous question: What is heaven?

Hope is something that keeps us alive when there is nothing else to rely on. The dictionary definition of hope explains it as the feeling that what is wanted can be had or the events will turn out for the best. Hope is simply believing in positive results about every situation in our life. I feel that hope is a wonderful thing. It is a pushing force that gives me the strength and motivates me to move forward regardless the situation.

Despite the bitter realities, we always search for the silver lining or light at the end of the tunnel. There's always that one key aspect that keeps one motivated to continue on. The value of Hope is proven in Elie Wiesel's memoir Knight as well as throughout The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy. Although the key to survival is maintaining hope, while simultaneously the delusions can be one's Achilles Heal.

Individuals of a certain society are raised with a particular set of ideals and values that are ingrained in their perception of everyday life. One may wonder how such individuals can continue life if they must abandon all of their fundamental principles of living. Jonathan Lear describes in his book, Radical Hope, how Plenty Coups, the last chief of the Crow nation, was able to help his tribe discontinue their particular way of life in order to survive in the future. Lear states how Plenty Coups does this: “Precisely because Plenty Coups sees that a traditional way of life is coming to an end, he is in a position to embrace a peculiar form of hopefulness. It is basically the hope for revival: for coming back to life in a form that is not yet intelligible” (Lear 2006: 95). Through this statement, Lear implies many things. As a young boy, Plenty Coups experiences a dream in which he is told that the Crow culture is coming to an end and is given advice on how he must proceed with his life through certain virtues, such as listening and recognizing wisdom of others. His dream is interpreted by the Crow elders as an inevitable halt to their way of living. As Plenty Coups is able to anticipate the complete demolition of the Crow culture and its values, he recognizes he must adapt his perception of everyday life to whatever the necessary circumstances demand. Although he may be only following the instructions of what he had been told in his dream, Plenty Coups commits himself to an

The first time I heard “Ar'nt I a Woman?” was freshman year of high school, during our annual African-American Heritage assembly. The crowd, always restless and inattentive, chattered and snapchatted away as the speech and presenter were announced. A lanky girl shuffled on stage, folding in on herself as she walked, arrived center stage, and began to speak. As she went on, her spine straightened, her murmurs turned to phrases enunciated so clearly her tongue seemed to be working three times as hard as a normal person’s. By the end of the speech, she had the undivided attention of the audience, all holding their breath because of how passionately and honestly she presented this glimpse into life as a black woman. Both Chapter 4 of A Shining Thread of Hope by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson, and Sojourner Truth’s “Ar'nt I a Woman?” speech serve the same general goal: showcasing the mistreatment of African American Women by society . While Truth’s speech is from her perspective, full of rage and frustration, A Shining thread gives her experiences important context. .

As shown on the cover page, I did my project on Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer, which was published in 2000, and Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver, which was published in 1988. Hope Was Here is about a 16 year old girl, who is being raised by her Aunt Addie, who is a chef. Her mom, Deena deemed hereself unfit to take care of Tulip, who later changed her name to Hope as soon as she turned 12. Hope is a teenage waitress, and her Aunt Addie and she have moved around a lot. The story starts with Addie and Hope just arrived in the small rural town of Mulhoney, Wisconsin, from their last place of employment in New York. Hope spends the summer waitressing at the Welcome Stairways Diner, and Addie and her end up being involved the diner’s owner, who is recovering from leukemia, G.T. Stoops’ political campaign to clean up corruption in the town. Along the way, Addie and Hope both find love, and Hope finds the father figure she has so desperately wanted. While Say Goodnight, Gracie is about a 17-year-old girl, named Morgan Hackett dealing with her best friend, Jimmy’s death. Jimmy and Morgan have known each other their entire lives, and they spend almost all of their free time with each other. Their relationship left little room in their lives for other friends. When Jimmy dies, Morgan settles in a deep depression. She now wonders how she

Introduction In The Anatomy of Hope, Jerome Groopman defines hope as "the elevating feeling we experience when we see—in the mind's eye—a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion" (Groopman, 2004, p. xiv). He also describes hope as "an act of defiance that … permits a person to live his life on his own terms.

As Abraham Lincoln famously stated in his Gettysburg Address, government is “of the people, by the people, [and] for the people” (Lincoln). In the memoir The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, the disconnected world of politics is explored, with the aim of finding the essence of American government, the body that was able to keep America united through civil rights struggles, numerous wars, and financial depressions. That unifying force, through the government, is the American people, all of their joint morals, convictions, and goals that they share, Obama portrays the government as an administrative body meant to serve all of its people, stand above all of the differences that pit different groups of people against

psychological pain and discomfort. Hope has been pinpointed as a necessity in the lives of

Anita Beckerman and Celeste Northrop published article about their study titled "HOPE, CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE ELDERLY", it was published in may 1996 by the Journal of Gerontological Nursing. The study was produced to compare the amount of hope and the defining aspects of hope in the varying levels of health and age of individuals. Ninety-four residents volunteered and consented to completing the questionnaire, ages ranging from 58years to 100 year of age. Seventy Five percent of participants stated that they had access to support systems needed to deal with their illnesses, these support systems included kids, siblings and attorneys. Twenty Three percent of residents responded that they did not have any support systems due to dead significant

As Joe starts to fully understand what magic is about, I believe that his starts to see magic as a way to promise false hope. This is done through the lines “that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash.” Though such a concept is seemingly impossible, but there is still hope. However, Joe continues to disagree with such false hope given that he states “true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish.” What I believe he means by this is that the true magic (true sentiment) in this broken world (from tragic events plaguing society) is vanishing (letting go of false hope).

After hearing some of my peers complain about the book, I was nervous about reading it. Once I began to read it, I feel in love with the first chapter alone. I have experienced a few of the eleven primary factors of therapeutic experience. However, I did not put them in specific categories.

Reverend Wright interpreted the Bible as the story of the struggles of black people with an outrage at what he saw as racism of everything from daily life in Chicago to American foreign policy. He was making Trinity a social force, initiating day care, drug counseling, legal aid and tutoring. From that point Obama merged the stories of ordinary black people with the stories of survival, and freedom, and hope from the bible so they became the story of all Americans. It was a 1988 sermon called The Audacity to Hope that turned Obama, in his late 20s, from spiritual outsider to enthusiastic churchgoer, the sermon illustrated the power of faith to inspire underdogs. Mr. Obama was baptized that year, and joining Trinity helped him embrace the African

I think that writing is very important to Hope because she has a lot of thoughts from her life and her days waitressing. Also Hope has moved to many different places. I think she likes to write about the places she's been to so that she doesn't forget about them. Also Hope has always wanted a father. Because of that she keeps a scrapbook for him when he finally comes to her. I don't think I can relate to hope because I have never really moved before so I don't write down things when I go to new places. But when I have to write for school, I usually write down things that I don't actually put in whatever i'm writing, just like Hope writes letters she doesn't

Hope, by definition means to look forward to something with reasonable desire and confidence. Hope also means a person or thing in which expectations are centered. When discussing the word hope, one must consider the core values by which the word works around. You could hope for financial success, world peace, or simply hope for some good out of your day. In 2006, Barack Obama wrote the political biography The Audacity of Hope to outline his core political and spiritual beliefs, as well as his opinions on different aspects of American culture. The Illinois senator divided the book into nine chapters, each concentrating on both his own and the United States’ successes and failures in local and state politics. While revealing great