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    In the search for hope for the protagonists of “The Sun Also Rises” Is there any hope for the Lost Generation? Do the title of the novel and the seemingly hopeful epigraph indicate that the Lost Generation still have the possibility to regain any of the values they have lost during the WW1? The epigraph to “The Sun Also Rises” contains a quote from Gertrude Stein‚ saying: “You are all a lost generation”. This proclamation is juxtaposed with the passage from

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    Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope can be dangerous. In “Unbroken‚” a novel by Laura Hillenbrand‚ hope is the only thing that doesn’t leave this novel for the main character‚ Louie Zamperini. Every ounce of human strength is tested and the audience sees what makes a human unbreakable. For miles and miles‚ all the American Military airman could see was water. Tangled in fear‚ he was only surviving off of hope. His name was Louie. When Louie was a

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    lived in a world where it was not accepted. She was isolated from the world around her‚ having little hope. Throughout the novel‚ symbols such as the character of the kind woman‚ the wild rose bush outside of the prison doors and the character of Pearl‚ Hester Prynne’s illegitimate child‚ are used to show that even in a world full of sin and darkness‚ there is always hope. In The Scarlet Letter hope is symbolized through characters such as the kind woman. After Hester leaves her jail cell in the first

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    to intensify his loneliness and emptiness by using negative words such as no one and not. (Rice 141). The quote also proves that his life is hopeless by using a metaphor that means that there is light‚ meaning hope‚ but there is actually no light‚ showing that vampires basically has no hope. Rice also characterizes the vampires’ lives as “a silver clock ticking in a void” which means that time is endlessly going‚ but

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    such as “My Country” by Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar and “Australia” by Alec Derwent Hope‚ we can understand their varying yet essentially similar views of the Australian landscape through their life experiences and their opposing uses of word choice and symbolism. The commonalities start off with both poets being born in New South Wales‚ Australia. Mackellar was born in 1885 (Unknown‚ 2011) while Hope in 1907 (University of Sydney‚ Unknown date). Mackellar wrote “My Country” during the First

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    refute all false claims about Catholicism and to show all men that the Catholic faith is true‚ in the simplest way of looking at reality itself. Before I dive right into the report I’d like to discuss the several authors of the book “Reasons For Hope”. There are four authors that contributed to the book: Warren H. Carroll‚ William H. Marshner‚ Jefferey A. Mirus and Kristin M. Popik Burns. All of these authors have something in common and they all played a huge role in creating the book. Warren

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    using similes the author effectively shows her feelings of sadness through losing hope and giving in. The author in “Hands Like Ice” feels that the main character‚ who has gone through a dramatic stage‚ was very important to her. She also feels that this person was very dear to them and she didn’t realize it until the character passes away. As the author felt overwhelmed by all her emotions‚ she began to lose hope for her loved one‚“I felt like I was in a snowstorm but never let up‚”(15). The author

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    Andy Warhol was born on August 6 ‚ 1928 and was an American artist who was a figure in letting pop art be known. Pop art is art based on modern popular culture and the mass media. Before becoming an artist Warhol was gained acknowledgement when he did whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements he also designed album covers and promotional materials. He was also a commercial artist. Around the 1950s he started to exhibit the work he did . He exhibited his work at galleries in New York and he did

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    Adagio and Hope The Albinoni’s Adagio serves as an instrument through which hope in the future of Sarajevo is restored. A burnt fragment of the composition is found in the remnants of a burned library‚ and over the course of twelve years‚ it is meticulously reconstructed. This is the source of the cellist’s faith‚ because it is proof “that something could be almost erased from existence in the landscape of a ruined city‚ and then rebuilt until it is new and worthwhile” (2). The cellist hopes that like

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    Something like hope! By: Shawn Goodman *This book something like hope is about mainly about‚ 17-year-old Shavonne has been in a juvenile detention since the seventh grade. Mr. Delpopolo is the first counselor to treat her as an equal‚ and he helps her get to the bottom of her self-destructive behavior‚ her guilt about past actions‚ and her fears about leaving the Center when she turns 18. *Shavonne tells him the truth about her crack-addicted mother‚ the child she had (and gave up to foster

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