A Search for Hope

The emotion of hope is important because life is uncertain. Factors such as wealth, education and opportunity may play a role in dividing people into different social categories, but no amount of privilege or advantage can shield a person from disappointment, pain, loss or death. These are universal adversities for all humankind. The word hope can be defined in different ways. Many religious people think of hope as a virtue, along with faith and love. Survivors of trauma often credit hope as the inspiration that kept them going. A realists may say that hope is nothing more than wishful thinking. No matter how it is defined, whether it is a belief or a feeling, hope is the idea of something bigger than oneself. The application of hope can

In A Hope in the Unseen, Phillip’s father advises his kids to set attainable goals so they can have some security. The advice that Phillip’s father gives him and his siblings does have it strengths. As his father says, it does allow for some security in knowing their future. It also doesn’t set up for possible disappointment if their goals are not met.

              Hope (noun): A feeling of trust; A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen

For centuries, philosophers have been debating on what the purpose of life is. Most of them came to conclusion that the main goal of life is to attain happiness, which can only be found by pursuing wisdom and the only way to wisdom is through virtues. Furthermore, virtues are divided in classical and theological, and can most simply be described as desirable moral qualities. While the virtues such as prudence, justice, or charity are glorified, the virtue of hope is often times neglected. However, hope is the only way to any other virtue. In other words, if a person does not hope that there is something besides the visible, material world, they will not engage in any virtuous activities or pursuit of wisdom in the first place. Therefore, since it precedes all other virtues, hope is to be considered the most important virtue.

Hope is a lot of things that we use today. Today, I hoped that I would pass my chemistry test and at most only be insufficient in one class. A lot of people use hope just like me when I took the test. Another example is, our basketball team hopes to win and I hope I won't have to go to summer school. Hope is a big things that we should never let go, if you do no one will like the consequences.

Hope, as a concept, is multi faceted and has many different definitions. Realising that the word ‘hope’ can be used variably to mean different things, Dufault and Matrocchio (1985) devised a framework to identify distinct facets of hope while at the same time keeping its overall coherence intact. According to them, there are two prominent spheres of hope that are inter-related but different in nature. These are generalised hope and particularised

[A]How is it that people can power through the most troubling parts of their lives? How can people get past the difficulties that have made others quit? [B]Hope is a necessary drive to get people past the everyday challenges life tosses in their direction. [C]It provides people with the right mindset to overcome obstacles and to continue working hard to achieve the goals they set.[D]Hopes, dreams and goals push people to overcome the difficulties and obstacles that stand in their way of achieving greatness.

Andy’s interventions have implicit the word hope. Hope of being free, of achieve the things you desire the most. Of fighting for your dreams.

When people are going through hard times they often turn to a thing called, “hope.” According to Merriam-Webster’s online Dictionary, the definition of hope is, “to want something to happen or be true and think that it could happen or be true.” But what the dictionary doesn’t tell us is that, “hope,” can be something someone has. Emily Dickinson wrote in her poem “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” that hope is like a bird. In the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao hope is something they believed in for when the fuku had gone away. Hope cannot prevail unless there has been some sort of suffering. Both this poem and novel exemplify the suffering that has to happen before you can have hope. Emily Dickinson and Junot Diaz write about suffering and finding hope, this encourages their readers to

Hope is a 16 sixteen year old girl who just wants a normal life. She’s an undercover spy and is supposed to catch the most wanted criminal in America, Professor Louis. Therefore, Hope has to keep her secret or else the government workers who assigned her the “job” will assassinate her. The problem is that Hope is a terrible secret keeper, and another one of her most unfavorable traits is that she doesn’t really appreciate her family. For example, when Hope is out in public, she will act like she doesn’t even know her family because she doesn’t want to be embarrassed.

Throughout a person’s lifetime one can experience enough hope to continue what the are passionate about or despair on that hope. Hope is the will to push forward even if the odds are against you. This shown countless times in war, scientific breakthroughs, and even when people are in crisis we can come together and help each other out.

A current world example of hope is illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. for a better future. Mexicans, Muslims, Africans, and many other immigrants have an aspiration for coming in as illegals. This kind of aspiration consists to hope for a better living in the United States. It also refers to hope to live better off in the U.S. and leave behind their horrific past (if they even have one)

The term hope can be applied to many aspects of social interactions. Hope defines success in politics (Sleat, 2013). It is often being manipulated by politicians to gain individuals trust and respect. Thus, we can state that “public hopes” are not usually fulfilled, because they don’t reflect individual hopes (Lueck, 2007). Biblically, hope is the expectation for a positive outcome and the last resort in most difficult situations. Therefore, from religious standpoint, hope is individualistic in its nature.

While the virtues such as courage, justice, faith, or charity are glorified, the virtue of hope is often times neglected. However, hope is crucial for moving beyond the visible, material world, which is necessary for any kind of virtuous activities in pursuit of wisdom as well as useful for the well-being of a society. Hope steers a person towards the realization that Plato’s “imperishable Idea” exists, giving them trust that our sensations and perceptions could not be all that there is (62). It also meets Aristotle’s criterion for self-sufficiency since it “makes life desirable and lacking in nothing” (118). So how is hope different from other virtues? By looking at the work of Plato and Aristotle as well as the work of other scholars we

The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is systematically divided into three distinct progressions all of which vividly portray its ultimate theme. The first part of the play reveals the many different dreams that the various different family members have with the 10,000 dollar inheritance. Walter dreams of starting a liquor store. Beneatha dreams of going to medical school and Mama dreams of buying a new house. The second part of the play speaks about the loss of the family money and the loss of hope over their dreams. Finally, the third part is about the perseverance of the family even through their terrible hardship and their fight for pride even in the hardest of times. It is in the middle of the second and third progression that the conversation between Beneatha and Joseph Asagai takes place. The conversation between Beneatha and Joseph Asagai symbolizes mankind's inner turmoil through hardship. That being, does one look hopefully towards the future after hardship or does one loose all hope and accept fate as reality. This conversation fits perfectly with the structure and theme of the play.