Hope Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The overall expositional context of the Great Gatsby concerns a societal conflict between new wealth and the established hierarchy of wealth. However, from the standpoint of the protagonist’s perspective, there is a theme more central than the societal context of the story. This story is a love story about a self-made man who earned his wealth as means to the end of getting the girl. This is the most enduring and universal story in the book. Like a good storyteller, F. Scot Fitzgerald uses symbolism, metaphor, imagery and diction to convey this central message. As this theme is a timeless one, it is one ...

The daughter of a King, Andromache was married to Hector of Troy and Achilles slew not only her beloved husband, but her seven brothers shortly after her nuptials. A classic figure in Greek mythology and a key character of any epic of the Trojan War, Andromache is certainly portrayed in various publications, including the Illiad, the Aeneid, The Trojan Women, and Ars Amatoria. Obviously each poet, writer, playwright or screenwriter has all viewed Andromache through their own lens. For the purpose of this paper, however, we will focus on Euripides’ perspective in The Trojan Women and Virgil’s view in the ...

Someone once aptly said – everything belongs to the mind; shut your mind and the world disappears. True to this, freedom too is a state of the mind. With freedom come happiness, serenity and also responsibility. The stepping stone to attain this freedom is based on a strong foundation laid by courage. Courage can be depicted either subtly or explicitly in innumerable forms. Free Enterprise, written by Michelle Cliff and Bailey’s Café, by Gloria Naylor are two novels that unfold and unravel the lives of an array of bizarre and unique characters and the intense struggle of every individual at some point ...

Introduction

Concept analysis involves processes designed to familiarize a researcher with a particular concept based on his or her field of study (Southern Louisiana University, 2013). In the field of nursing, some of the major concepts include; managed care, health, nursing, coping and parenting (Snider, 2003). In reference to the concept of coping, an analysis will make it possible to communicate meanings, feelings and understandings related to it.

Definition of concept: Hope in coping with terminal illness

According to Johnson (2007), a terminal illness is a disease that has proven to be beyond possible cure or adequate treatment thus leading to death as an inevitable end. Some of these are progressive illnesses such ...

Literature Review

Abstract
This literature review paper focusses on the subject of the role of dreams and the relationship between those dreams and hope. For this purpose three readings of different genres have been selected, to see what and how the three writers have expressed their dreams. The three pieces of literature under study are, a poem called ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake, Martin Luther’s speech ‘I have a dream’ and the speech by Abraham Lincoln, popularly known as the ‘Gettysburg Address’.
‘The Chimney Sweeper’ by William Blake addresses the issue of child labor and the social oppression that a ...

At the beginning of Miles Corwin’s book, And Still We Rise, he includes the Proverbs 13:12 quote, “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.” To me, hope differs from desire because hope is a feeling one has if they feel there is a possibility of change or growth. Hope does not have to be specific. On the other hand, desire can only truly come if there is hope, and tends to be about a specific thing. I believe Corwin included this proverb because in writing about Crenshaw High School, he saw a demonstration ...

In this exercise, there will be an elaborate comparison of three works by different authors. The comparison will entail the similarities of the works as well as their differences. A conclusion will be made after the analysis of the work to determine the results of the evaluation and their relevance in the study. The works entail Emerson’s Circles, William’s Clotel and Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.

Emerson elaborates on the difference between understanding and the reasoning, in addition accounts for both spiritual and ordinary perspectives. Natural world can be realized via understanding by the ability of the intelligence ...

“Hope, Healing, and the struggle” by Braverman is about the struggles of the Pakistani people against the Israeli discriminatory conditions like the wall he talks about in “A wall in Jerusalem”, (Braverman 1). Jesus’ son on the other hand tells about the lives of the addicts in the stories and how they overdose on drugs in presence of their lovers. Interestingly, they live in a life of struggle and loss of direction. Jesus’ son is a tale of the young addicts without hope, and in need of healing while living with the struggles of their lives. Johnson chose the ...

All children grow up in the magical world of fairy tales that have been so gripping and inspiring. Most of the legends are about challenges and tough times plus how the main character deals with injustices in their lives. Although the primary motive behind telling those fairy tales is pure entertainment for children, the tales are well known as a literary genre. Thus, there is a lot more to those fairy tales as they have a lot to offer to people of all age groups. The setting of the storyline sis simple in nature and magical. The characters are ...

Introduction

The heavenly Christmas Tree is a book by Fyodor Dostoyevski which highlights the story of a poor boy just after his mothers death. The pain of having to overcome the death of her mother on Christmas Eve as well as obtaining his necessities makes his day both hard and unbearable. To add pain to all this, nobody seems to care about him as he is encountered with negative reactions at all places he visits. The thought of how different the situation would have been if his mother were alive brings him fantasies, which are only fulfilled in his death. There is a ...

The character of the Messiah King, Joshua or J is introduced in Keret’s wistful novella towards the end of the story. That however, does not undermine the social significance that the Messiah King has in the story and the larger social context. Like most of the characters in the Novella, the Messiah King keeps on searching for something more extravagant and meaningful than what the world of the living on earth and world of the dead suicides offer. This paper seeks to analyze the character of the Messiah King as portrayed in the novella. It seeks to further ...

Management Accounting Literature Review

The business environment in Malaysia has experienced several changes over the recent years. These changes have been brought about by globalization that has introduced new technologies in the country. The technologies have opened the business environment in Malaysia to new challenges and competitive forces. The central Government economic policy has helped business people to mitigate challenges associated with management accounting. The policy is in line with the country’s vision 2020, which aims at reforming the management of its resources, and it has contributed greatly to the manufacturing industry in the country. The manufacturing industry is a key contributor to ...

The traditional Buddhist practices of compassion are a way of helping people undergoing traumatic and terrorizing event to integrate and accept their emotions into their lives. These practices include tantric visualization, mind awareness, and calming relaxation. In many spiritual traditions, it is said that in times of great difficulty and adversity, people have the most potential. Adversity offers a perfect opportunity for attaining enlightenment, but difficult times do not always lead to enlightenment. In fact, when things get really difficult, it leads to a big mess and a lot of neurosis. This is because people get squeezed.
A single event like the ...

Thesis: The theme of disguise as brought out in THEODYSSEY, its significance, purpose, context and effectiveness.

1. Reasons why gods and mortal men use disguises.
2. Effectiveness and context of these disguises.
3. ATHENA disguised as a young boy. Reasons for this particular disguise and its effectiveness
4. ATHENA disguised as MENTES. The context in which she uses this disguise and its measure of success towards achieving her goals.
5. ATHENA disguised as TELEMACHUS. The reasons that inspired this disguise, its relevance and context in which it is used.
6. ATHNA disguised as MENTOR. Her prediction of what this disguise would have, its relevance towards a greater enlightenment if Greek society and ...

Introduction

Whatever aims one may have after completing their period in the University, the education is important in helping to open doors for them in areas that would otherwise be impossible without a degree. When one gets into the university, it is believed that this is one of the crucial stages of their professional development and lays down the groundwork for their success in the future. Whether it is at the stage of enrolling in the university to get their first degree or around the end of the student’s education, most students will likely keep an eye on their ...

The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck epitomizes the nature of Elisa Allen’s confinement. The chrysanthemums have been used to symbolize Elisa particularly. The Tinker has also been used to embody the wants that Elisa has. The narrator effectively uses symbolism to compare the Salinas Valley to a pot that is closed, due to the existence of the high gray-flannel fog during winter that is closed on the valley right from the sky and to all corners of the world. The chrysanthemums have been used to symbolize the inner self of Elisa, who was very frustrated in life due to ...

Literature review: Poem “The Final Hour” by Yevgeniy Yevtushenko

The first thought after reading the poem is a doubt. Will there really be an end and liberation? Is there really anything out there greater than every day routine, and is there really anything beyond just striving to survive in everyday world? The struggle for resources that are becoming more and more scarce and the rat-race everyone has to participate in trying to catch up to today’s world pace is voiding a human of anything for the soul. In fact to the point that the human is not a soul, but a mere number, an account, an employee, a customer, and as a poet ...

The short story, ‘Ethan Frome’ written by Edith Wharton in the early 1900’s, tells the story of Ethan who grew up on a farm where his descendants lived and worked and died. Ethan’s story is told from the first person point of view and details the story of a sad and unfortunate young man who lives in a New England village. The choices that he has made have him trapped hopelessly in situations that befall him one by one. Ethan had left home to study technology at a college in Worcester. He had big dreams of living in the city where ...

Question 1:

The civil rights era was an era that goes down in America’s history as the stepping stone for equality. It was characterized by events that were and are still celebrated as US’ most important stepping stones to full democracy. One of Martin Luther King’s most famous speeches, I Have a Dream, he gives some of the hopes that he desires to see. He describes his desire to see black people, referred to as “sons of former slaves”, living in harmony with the whites referred to as “the sons former slave owners” (James, 2004).
The Civil Rights Movement ...

Analysis: Out of the Dust

Abstract
Karen Hesse's book Out of the Dust takes an unconventional approach to fiction, depicting the events of a full-length novel in a number of free verse poems. The tale of a family of farmers attempting to survive the Dust Bowl, Hesse's work is fascinating in its minimalism and heartbreaking in its focus. Hesse's free verse prose lends a childlike sense of simplicity and wonder to these heavy themes, showing just how dramatic these conditions can affect a child of that age; the result is an intelligent and thoughtful book on life in the Dust Bowl.
Karen Hesse's book Out of the ...

Nursing

Lack of sleep can affect performance in the paramedics industry (Taheri et.al, 2004). As such, techniques to reduce the impact of this irregularity ought to be developed. Clients’ lives become at risk when functions cannot be executed efficiently due to lack of sleep. This literature review explains the importance/significance of the lack of sleep; describes current state of knowledge available on the issue; offers a critical appraisal of key papers; submits a theoretical or conceptual frame that is useful to guide data collection and/or interpret findings and identifies gaps in current knowledge leading logically to the research question and hypotheses.

Importance/significance of the lack of sleep

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Abstract

This peer review looks at Alex Pierce’s story, The Challenging Two Mile, which is a story about a young man who is running a two mile race at Virginia State Championships. This tale is a self-reflection and personal growth story that follows a chronological plot format, focusing on the character and his pain as the main imagery from the audience’s viewpoint. While the overall image of the two-mile race sets the backdrop, it is the internal and external body struggles that make this story so captivating. Fast-paced and well-written it is an honest, simple and down-to-earth learning ...

The play “The Importance of being Earnest” was written by Oscar Wilde, and was first seen in a theater in 1895. The play is a comedy which uses various literary techniques to bring out various themes in the Victorian era. Irony is a major literary technique in the play in which the protagonist named Jack uses the name Earnest as an alibi whenever he wishes to escape from his reality. He has created an imaginary character in his head in which he has a younger brother by the name Earnest (Wilde 15). In his real world, he is however ...

Abstract

Rising rates of recidivism in the United States have developed concerns pertaining to the effectiveness of prisons as correctional facilities. In this study, the focus is to assess the suitability of faith-based correctional methods in promoting inmates reentry into the society. Some discussed methods include Inner change programs, prison chaplaincy, and meditational strategies. Several studies have indicated significant declines in recidivism rates among inmates who participated in these initiates. For example, Duwe & Johnson (2013) found that inmates who engaged in Inner change programs in Minnesota were less likely to be arrested by at least 8% compared to their counterparts ...

What is the meaning of life? This question has pre-occupied human existence for ages. This quest for meaning is reflected in scientific expeditions, art, and in most religious gatherings. In “O Me! O Life!” Walt Whitman mocks this human pre-occupation with finding meaning. The fear of not knowing what life is and of being dissatisfied with one’s contribution cripples the spirit of life. Not only does he see human folly in people around him but also in himself. Life has become a “recurring” and “endless” lamentation on sorrow, sorrow that is induced by constant self-flagellation. This paper seeks to ...

In the Night written by the Elie Wiesel, the author describes his misery in the Holocaust. He uses the imagery to demonstrate the dehumanization of the Jewish people in the Nazi camp. These Jews were forced to survive deceitful conditions in the concentration camps. The incarcerated Jews were subjected to the most horrible forms of inhuman treatment. This made Jews lose their mentality and morality because they were pushed beyond their capability of dealing with oppressing brutality, starvation, exhaustion and diseases among others. The change of the character and morality can be attributed to the dehumanization that they experienced, ...

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Political repression is a theme that transverses across the two novels including Chinua’s Things Fall Apart and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis. Though the political repression is caused by different players in the two accounts, the reaction of the main characters in the two novels to the political oppression is both similar and distinct in several ways. The similarities in the response of the two main characters; Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart and Marjane in Persepolis can be attributed to the resemblance in the political regimes affecting them. On the other hand, the contrast in the reaction ...

The Great Gatsby is an American based novel that was written in the year nineteen twenty y five by Fitzgerald F. Scott. The Novel primarily focuses on a very young and rich boy known as Jay Gatsby. Major themes handled include the theme of change and resistance, idealism and social encounter. The novel is with no doubt a good piece of art and I always find myself reading it over and over. The novel's ending is indeed a very fabulous one and captures the attention of its reader. Here is how the novel ends:
"And as I sat there brooding on ...

Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis, The last days of Judas Iscariot is a play about the trial of Judas Iscariot betrayal to Jesus Christ. The play starts with Henrietta Iscariot (the mother of Judas) who says, “The world tells me that God is in heaven, and my son is in hell. If my son is in hell then, there is no heaven. ” With the statement, Henrietta was defending Judas by insinuating that if Jesus died for human sin then her son might as well as be forgiven. The scene then changes to the courtroom where Judas is motionlessly sitting in a ...

Introduction

Rural urban migration in search of greener pastures and better living conditions has led to the escalation of homelessness in major cities of Egypt. Children are the most affected considering their tender age and the fact that they cannot do most of the things for themselves. Most parents abandon their children as they realize the challenge of providing for their needs. Other parents perish in sickness, disease and accidents and hence leaving behind helpless children. With no one to take care of them, destitute children end up spending their lives in their streets with the hope that they will ...

The novel The Great Gatsby was written by F. S. Fitzgerald in 1925. It continued the Dreiser’s theme of the American tragedy. The events took place in the Jazz age. Imagine a country at the height of its economic growth. The world is ruled by money, luxury, prosperity, and well-being. The twenties were the happiest time in the United States. Nobody could even imagine the Great Depression. At the street musicians started to play improvised jazz, which displaced the old classical styles in music. It was the golden age in the American literature that gave us the works of ...

IV.

It was early in the morning, and everything in Abraham’s

and Eliezer, the faithful servant, accompanied him along
the road until he turned back again. They rode along in har-
many, Abraham and Isaac, until they came to Mount Mo-
riah. Abraham made everything ready for the sacrifice, calmly
and gently, but when he turned away and drew the knife,

Isaac saw that Abraham’s left hand was clenched in despair,

that a shudder went through his whole body — but Abraham
drew the knife.

Then they returned home again, and Sarah hurried to meet

them, but Isaac had lost the faith. Not a word is ever said of
this in the world, and Isaac never talked to anyone about
what he had seen, and ...

American literature knows many authors who had a tragic destiny, who quit early and did not implement what their gift engaged for. Amid an American life, these authors were perishing from loneliness and alcoholism. They stayed with no help and without a word of participation, as if they were in an abandoned desert. Every event like this repeatedly calls the attention of intellectual people all over the world to vice of American capitalistic culture and American lifestyle, which is extremely indifferent to people’s destinies. In the period of time “amid two wars”, there was the most evident drama – the tragic ...

1. What evidence-based communication skills, change processes, and interventions are you using to guide your work in the field experience? Please be complete and provide at least 2 examples of how you are using these practices.
The main process employed in change was team-based implementation. A committee consisting of staff members, this writer, and the nurse educator was formed for the project. The committee provided a venue for participants to provide input during the development of the project, and to take part in its implementation. Doing so ensured the optimization of the knowledge and skills of the committee members, ...

Why Kafka Wrote the Story

Kafka wrote the story to explore the chaotic nature of the universe. The term “metamorphosis” centers on absurd, wild, and irrational nature of the world inhabited by human beings. For instance, Gregor turns into a giant insect. There is no physical and natural occurrence to explain his metamorphosis. Kafka wrote the story to show that the world does not explain the things that happen around us. They just happen.

The Concept of Human Nature

In the text, human nature happens to exhibit close connection and social ties between individuals in the universe. The ties happen through structures such as families. When Gregor changes into a giant ...

The urge to tackle the reception of the arts is what differentiates the criticism Daniel Mendelsohn has on the United 93 film that depicts the happenings of September 2001 in the US. He has mastered the ability to pen down his reviews as commentaries in a cultural manner. His article September 11 at the Movies is one artistic response to the film United 93 that defines that day. Moments before the towers got hit; Daniel says his mind was on a classical Greek drama the Aeschylus’ Persians that is a true example of a real historical event (Mendelsohn, 43). This thought is what ...

Wilfred Owen, the poet who poured his heart out in the lines of the war-poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, was himself a soldier who faced the harrowing experiences of war and was left with an everlasting scar on his mind. He could never get over the trauma and tragedy of warfare and his poems are among the most emphatic piece of literary works which denounce warfare and exemplify the brutalities of violence and the ultimate futility which leads to irreplaceable loss of lives and psychological strain. The poem is a first-hand account of the mental effect of war on the mind ...

Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner are two of the most prominent writers of the modern literary era. In fact in an event held in the year 1957 at the Virginia University, Faulkner openly stated that his works were influenced by Conrad’s writing style. Faulkner have rated ‘ A Heart of Darkness’ as one of his favorite books, and reportedly when he travelled through Kent he remarked to his mother about the serenity of the place, and commented that ‘ no wonder Conrad writes such fine books from here’. Such was the admiration he carried for Conrad. Both of them wrote ...

Dear Jannette:

Living in America it is easy to become overweight, there is temptation on every block and cheap fast food is everywhere. No one can really say that he or she has never succumbed to the lure of sweet, delicious, tantalizing food.
You and I have been friends for many years and you have stayed close to me as a sister; sometimes even more than a sister. Over the years I have watched you gain more and more weight and I fear for you because diabetes runs in your family. If you continue to gain weight and become diabetic without doubt ...

Analysis of “A Rose for Emily”

Abstract
This paper is an analysis of the character in “A Rose for Emily.” It shows how her father, a selfish man deprived her of a better life and how she faces adversity.

Even though Mr. Grierson is penniless, no suitor is good enough for his daughter, after he dies, his daughter Emily holds on to the only two things left from her pass, her name andher aristocratic arrogance.
Emily lives a sheltered life while her father is alive, she is totally dependent upon him, and she is not even allowed friends. She is not prepared to face the world ...

Introduction

One of the darkest plays of William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” is a poem that holds a significant artistic and symbolic power, striking by the brutality and violence of the murdering acts committed by Macbeth and his wife, which are, in the end, the results of uttered prophecies. The poem imposes a note of dark mystery and an estate of anxiousness, because of the murderers committed by Macbeth, which indicate the force of evil taking over the human nature through rage, despair, thirst for power, violence and agony. Likewise, the presence of the unnatural elements (the three witches and their prophecies, the ghosts of ...

This paper focusses on the subject of deferred dreams and we study three poems in this regard. The poems ‘Wild Nights’ by Emily Dickinson, ‘Harlem’ and ‘Let America be America Again’ both by Langston Hughes, all highlight the pain of deferred dreams in different ways and related to different circumstances.
Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Wild Nights’ is a love poem expressing sexual passion and love. The poem falls into the genre of lyric poetry, there are three stanzas in the poem and each one has a quatrain. The poem expresses ardent affections and yearning to unite with the lover. The ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's existentialist 1864 novel Notes from the Underground tells the tale of the Underground Man, a rambling, incoherent, and bitter civil servant in St. Petersburg. The novel's story is told from the perspective of this strange and mercurial character, in the form of monologues and diary entries that convey the man's potentially skewed perspective. While we see the world through his eyes (and therefore his morals), the Underground Man is most decidedly an anti-hero in his actions and attitudes. Unlike most virtuous heroes in fiction, an anti-hero does not fight for a greater cause, nor does he stand up for ...

Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet Twenty-nine

Often time writers writing express their inner turmoil. Although there is no record saying that sonnet twenty-nine is a result of tumult facing Shakespeare at the time the sonnet was produced, it is safe to say that he did draw some inspiration from the state of his mental and financial well-being during that particular time of his life.
Some of the best writings are the writing one has lived. Fifteen ninety-two, the year sonnet twenty-nine was written, was not a good year for Shakespeare. The theatres closed due to the outbreak of a plague, bringing a halt to his livelihood; and literary ...

The book under the title ‘The mimic men’ is narrative book which has a simple structure to understand since it heavily employs the use of flashbacks and flash forwards. This makes it simple to understand what the protagonist in the novel has gone through (James, paragraph 2). The book is more of a confession and autobiography of the protagonist (Singh) who has just retired in one of the suburbs in London after spending many years in Isabella as a minister (Roberts, paragraph 2).
The book revolves around the world of Isabella, an island which has just received independence from its colonialists. ...

Wild Geese, a poem by Mary Oliver, is a compelling literary piece that encourages people to have hope in life, obey natural instincts and have the determination to succeed. The Poem achieves this by employing anaphora, metaphors and simple, standard language as its core literary elements.

The author uses- anaphora- the repetition of a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses (online writing lab, n.d.). This is best exemplified in three lines that begin with “you”: “You do not have to walk,” “You do not have to be good,” and “You only have to let” (Oliver, 1986). She also ...

According to Edmund Morgan, "the central Puritan dilemma was the problem of doing right in a world that does wrong." If this is to be believed, then the works of many important Puritan authors would express this dilemma through prose - their feeble attempts to make right this flawed world that they lived in. In this essay, the concept of right versus wrong will be explored in the works of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor.

William Bradford's book Of Plymouth Plantation was the perfect example of this dilemma; the Puritans themselves went to Plymouth in order ...

Introduction

The book “Things fall apart” speaks of the collapse or the disintegration of the Igbo culture. The setting is in Nigeria, in the 1890’s. It shows the tense interaction between the Igbo and the Christians and the clash of both cultures. As the Christians preach and try to win converts, they encounter a high degree of resistance as the people cling to their many gods, magic and definitions of taboo behavior.

The Conflict between Christianity and Igbo Culture

The Europeans arrival in Okwonko’s village creates havoc. First of all the Christians believe in one God. He is three in one as He exists in the ...

Part of the enjoyment of poetry is the acceptance that some poems or parts of poems cannot be pinned down to a single meaning. Explore this view of poetry, and the ways in which poets use of language and from invites different readings.

In this essay I will be exploring ‘Blackberry-Picking’ by Seamus Heaney, ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ by Maya Angelou. In different ways they show that poems cannot be pinned down to a single meaning.

The structure of ‘Blackberry-Picking’ is essentially that of two, not-quite-equal halves. The first 16 ...