freedom‚ and he becomes the prioner of himself. [pic] "hope" "hope" is a dangerous thing in Shawshank‚ according to one prisoner who has stayed there for 30 years. sometimes it means punishments and even death. but our hero‚ Andy‚ doesn’t think so. he is always full of hope. with hope‚ he succeeds in establishing a new and well-arranged library for his fellow friends in Shawshank by writing letters to the government every week for 6 years. with hope‚ he plays the classcial music through the loudspeaker
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relate directly to Dickinson herself‚ but also the American people as a whole. “Hope” is a thing with feathers was written in 1861‚ the year that marks the start of the civil war. During this time period‚ the majority of Americans were most likely looking for hope. Due to the fact that this poem was written during the romanticist era and the civil war‚ it was inspiring and the poem itself gave hope. This theme of hope never fading away is still prevalent today just as much as it was in the nineteenth
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I hope you dance “And when you get the chance to sit it out or dance‚ I hope you dance.” (Sillers‚2010‚ ll.8.&9.) If you had the chance to sit it out or dance‚ would you dance? This amazingly‚ inspirational song was written by Tia Sillers when she was at her breaking point‚ sitting on the beach just after going through a heart wrenching divorce. It really is peculiar that such an inspirational and beautiful song such as “I hope you dance” was written at such a devastating time. As she sat beside
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today and will continue to affect our future. Many Americans have lost sight of the past and the people around them who share the same sense of patriotism. My hope for America’s future would be for Americans to accept and respect American history‚ to come together through differences‚ and to work together to better the nation. My first hope for the future of The United States involves Americans accepting and respecting our history. A few times in American
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In his memoir‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel showed that the Jewish people of Wiesel’s hometown‚ Sighet‚ held on to illusions that gave them a false sense of hope and safety before their arrival at Birkenau. An example of this is when foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet crying‚ but the people of Sighet rumored that the deportees “were in Galicia‚ working” (6) and “were content with their fate” (6). When Moishe the Beadle‚ one of the deportees‚ managed to escape and come back he informed the people of the
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Anne Frank. In this quote it is shown that forgiveness and hope are truly the key to getting through something. While 6 million people may have died in the Holocaust‚ think about all of the people who survived and struggled to have hope in the hard times. The only way to get through such a tragedy like the holocaust was to be optimistic‚ and try to forgive people for the horrible misfortunes they committed. Anne Frank and her family had hope and they lived in hiding for two years. While it may have
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Isi Agbi Freelance Academic Research 29 March‚ 2011 There Is No Hope of Doing Perfect Research (Griffiths‚ 1998‚ p97). Research as defined by Merriam Webster’s Dictionary is “ a studious inquiry or examination‚ especially‚ investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovering and interpretation of facts‚ revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts‚ or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws” With Merriam Webster’s definition of research in perspective
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“Imagine”: An Education that Fosters Hope (Original) Risa Sato (Age 16‚ Japan) International School of the Sacred Heart‚ Tokyo President Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial last month‚ 71 years after the first atomic bomb detonated in Hiroshima. The visit replayed over and over on the news and‚ at least for me‚ it was a flag of hope that marks how far we have come in rebuilding after World War II. Growing up in Japan‚ I’ve listened to numerous accounts of the atomic bomb‚ each unimaginable
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What Hope is There for Me? Even though it’s evening already‚ the excitement does not subside at all. It’s the long-awaited day of announcing the winners of the school’s writing contest‚ and the first prize winner has already been announced. Now with everyone eagerly awaiting for the host to announce who the 2nd prize winner is‚ among the crowd is a girl‚ Helena‚ her mind slowly drifting to her thoughts and wondering‚ ‘what hope is there for me?’. Helena loves stories and has read for as long as
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Hope Solo My Story By Hope Solo‚ was written to entertain the reader. The main purpose of this book was to get Hope’s story out there so she sounds like a mean person with no feelings. Hope Said some things that were rude about one of her teammates because she wasn’t started in an important game. Hope had a meltdown and he could be one of the reasons she wrote this book. Hope was upset and embarrassed the whole entire team. Her teammates hated her and the girl who she thought she was close to
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