Finding Hope Essays

  • Finding Hope in Failure

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    It was a cold, dark morning when the phone rang. It was boisterously loud and the clock read six o'clock. The deafening noise jolted us again, and there was only one way to make it stop. Chris picked up the phone and in a tired, drowsy voice, answered, "Hello." "Wake up call," I could hear Coach on the other end of the line. "Wake everyone else up in the room and the bus will leave at seven." "Okay," and with that, Chris hung up the telephone. I could hear him bury his head back into his pillow

  • Finding Hope in The Grapes of Wrath

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    Finding Hope in The Grapes of Wrath Having watched the movie "Grapes of Wrath", I have been given the opportunity to see the troubles that would have befell migrant workers during the Great Depression. Though the Joads were a fictitious family, I was able to identify with many signs of hope that they could hold onto. Some of these families who made the journey in real life carried on when all they had was hope. The three major signs of hope which I discovered were, overcoming adversity

  • Finding Hope in James Muyskens' The Sufficiency of Hope

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    Finding Hope in James Muyskens' The Sufficiency of Hope Most people hope the world is the way they believe it is. That is, most people hope that their view of the world is right. They usually do not hope for the truth about things to be much better than what they suppose it is. Sometimes the hope is a factor in causing the belief; sometimes the hope stems from the desire to be right about one's belief; and in some cases the hope may follow the belief, i.e., one becomes accustomed even to an

  • Finding Hope in Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Finding Hope in Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God recognizes that there are problems to the human condition, such as the need to possess, the fear of the unknown and resulting stagnation. But Hurston does not leave us with the hopelessness of Fitzgerald or Hemingway, rather, she extends a recognition and understanding of humanity's need to escape emptiness. "Dem meatskins is got tuh rattle tuh make out they's alive (183)" Her solution is simple: "Yuh got tuh go there

  • Junior Finding Hope

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    Junior Finding Hope in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Webster's dictionary defines hope as “to want something to happen or be true and to think that it could happen or be true.” The book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie is about a boy named Junior who lives on an Indian reservation. He is very poor and is the town punching bag. He gets beat up everyday and he he had medical problems since birth. Juniors character teaches us that you have to go

  • Memory Using Schemas

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    schemas. Bransford and Johnson did research on memory for text passages that had been well comprehended or poorly comprehended. Their major finding was that memory was superior for passages that were made easy to comprehend. For our experiment we used two different groups of students. We gave them different titles and read them a passage with the intentions of finding out how many ideas they were able to recall. Since our first experiment found no significant difference, we conducted a second experiment

  • Georg Simon Ohm

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    most information about Georg is in German. There is even a College named after him: Georg-Simon-Ohm Fachhochschule Nuernberg. To much dismay not a whole lot has been written about him. Usually you will find a paragraph of the summary of his life. I hope to change this flaw in the history books by telling you as much as I could find on his life. When Georg was growing up his dad, owner of a prosperous locksmith business, wanted young Georg to study mathematics before joining the family business. Georg

  • Video Conferencing Report

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    do this. I then moved on to finding about how hard it would be to set up and use, because if it would be really complicated it wouldn't be a good idea because it would take a lot of experienced staff to help the students learn, but if my research proved that video conferencing was simple the students would easily gain the knowledge from learning themselves and therefore it would be worthwhile. The final part of research I did before my report was finding out what the uses would be if

  • The Effects of Levels of Processing on Memory

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    an independent groups design. PB4: Identify the advantages(s) and disadvantage(s) of the chosen research method. (2 marks) The activity is artificial. However, the findings can be used to help improve the memory. The study is well controlled, so it is unlikely that there are any other factors affecting the findings. However, some participants may guess the aim, and may either try to help the experimenter or hinder. As I am using an independent groups design, there will be no problem

  • Suriname

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    and S. Allen Counter and David Evens on the topic of Maroon arts of the Suriname. I will explain how they present their findings. And tell what I think they would say the most important discovery or confirmation is. After all of this is done I will do follow up art historical research in the same area. The main focus of my research would be why anyone would be interested in finding out more about this particular region?fs art. The calabash maroon arts would be the art form I would research (relying

  • Methods Of Personality Research ? Clinical Vs. Experimental

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    theories of personality have developed over the years. From Sigmund Freud to B.F. Skinner, everyone seems to have not only an opinion of what personality is and how it develops but also an idea as to what is the best way to measure and report their findings. In order to test their theories, it was necessary to formulate methods of research that were effective, ethical and would provide a solid foundation for future personality research.Although both the clinical and experimental methods of personality

  • Life's Findings in Homer's Odyssey

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    The Odyssey:  Life's Findings Homer's The Odyssey can be truly considered as one of the best epic poems of all time. Odysseus' journey in returning home becomes a test to prove himself. Only on the testing grounds of life can one discover inegrity, loyalty and perseverance. Homer's craft is so profound that theme's found in the poem still pertains to man today. The Odyssey is truly remarable in that Odyseus' character, his morals, and his views are stil admired by people today. A man's actions

  • A New Genus of Hominins Found in Kenya

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    A New Genus of Hominins Found in Kenya Whenever finding new fossils, most people get excited in learning more about the mysterious history of life on earth. No one fossil finding may be more important than another, but when discovering a fossil that adds a new genus name to a species, it gets exciting. This is especially true when the fossil gives more insight to the evolution of humans. In Kenya, a new genus of hominins was found. The new genus was assigned because this hominin had a combination

  • Finding Hope In Disney's Film Tuesdays With Morrie

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    It was about the world ending, because no one was finding joy in daily lives anymore. Then one optimist, just a young teenage girl, changes the outcome of the world’s future by finding the good things. The beautiful butterfly, the bad joke her brother told. After watching Tomorrowland, my whole world changed. Suddenly, everything seemed brighter. No longer tired, I

  • Humor in Task-Oriented Group Discussions

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    then they will be able to predict who will do so, and in what environment or circumstances. Through various methods and procedures, there were more theories generated dealing with: the content of humor episodes and time dependence. (Findings are found in the Findings /Results section below). Methods and Procedures: To carry this study out, they used event history techniques in order to analyze humor attempts and successes. They did this using groups of 6 people each. They further used their results

  • Crime and Punishment

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    things that they have determined are valid in their conscience. Raskolnikov cites such “extraordinary men” as Newton, Mahomet, and Napoleon. He tells us that Newton had the right to kill hundreds of men in order to bring to the world knowledge of his findings. Napoleon and other leaders created a new word. They overturned laws and created new ones. They had the right to uphold their new ideals, even if it meant killing innocent men. Therefore Raskolnicov believes that some “extraordinary” humans like

  • Towers of Hanoi

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    noticed that if you take a certain number of moves for example 3 and then double it you end up with 6. You only then need to add another 1 to make 7, which is the next amount of moves. This works for any number of moves for finding the next amount of moves. To simplify my findings I produced a formula as shown below.

  • Counseling Processes

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    counseling process upon which they are about to embark. In the process, the counselee's needs are assessed and appropriate therapy may be chosen. 3. Questionnaires or tests may be given to the counselee to prove or disprove the counselor's initial findings. It may be too early to judge the counselee right away but this may help the counselor in the totality of the sessions. 4. The counselor needs to determine, with greater accuracy, the nature of the emotion and experience that is behind the counselee's

  • The Evolution of Ichthyosaurs- Large Aquatic Reptiles

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    The Evolution of Ichthyosaurs- Large Aquatic Reptiles In the early 1800’s, a new discovery that left paleontologists in awe was the fossil finding of the immeasurable amount of species of reptiles, Ichthyosaurs. Greek for “fish lizards”, these fossils were found all over the world. Because these large aquatic reptiles migrated just as whales do today, paleontologists have had the amazing advantage of collecting fascinating bone fragments throughout the past 177 years. Ichthyosaurs swam the ocean

  • Rearranging Letters in a Word

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    Word For this piece of coursework I am going to investigate the number of different ways I can write a word, re-arranging the letters without having any repeats of the sequence. After I have finished my investigations I will try and use my findings to draw together a formula which I could then use to find out how many ways a word can be written for any chosen word. My initial step is to write the name 'EMMA' with as many different arrangements I can find. ======================================================================