Essays on Faith

Those who live without hope have a very heavy burden. Hope is definitely the light in the dark tunnel. The truth is that while many people around the world are living in harsh conditions, and those in such circumstances hold the ray of hope that things can change. This is one of the thoughts coming…

Nelson Mandela once said, “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears” The idea of hope being a gift that helps us move forward in difficult moments is explored by Emily Dickinson in the extended metaphor poem entitled “Hope” is the thing with feathers” and by Dylan Thomas in the villanelle poem entitled “Do…

Finally, i am in the big city. Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda, along with my mom, sister, and brothers. The period of time leading up to this has been a mixture of excitement and preparation, dreaming and working, hoping. Hoping for something better, putting the past behind him – the death, the history, the…

Under the rule of martial law, civilians are forced to silence. Their cries for change seem to be in vain, and their hope for a better future can turn into a blind optimism or into a spark that revives a revolutionizing spirit. These statements resonate to the tragic short story of “No One Writes to…

What is hope? Why we need hope? Is it a state of mind or an emotion? These are the most common questions that comes to a person mind. To define hope psychologists and theorist have did lots of researches and they have come with different definitions depend on which psychologist or theorist you follow, but…

Civil rights leader and activist Martin Luther King Jr speaks in his letter from Birmingham Jail, that we must, “carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountains of disappointment.” However, what is hope really? Emily Dickinson speaks about hope in her poem, ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ and compares hope to a bird….

Who’s that one person we look up too? It could be a family member, friend, or even a teacher. We tend to find someone who seems to have everything together going on within their life and conductly has a clear mindset of the goals they are willing to achieve. From sticking within the cracks of…

Charlotte Bunch once said, “Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.” This quote shows that children grow up with their family members not liking a certain race or the way other people are raised and that leads to the children growing up…

During the early 1800s many new religious sects were growing in the United States. Religious denominations tried to spread their unique set of beliefs. Joseph Smith found a new church based on revelation that was translated into The Book of Mormon. The work tells a story of a prophet named Lehi who sailed to North…

The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and acceptance of a diversity of faith expressions. The purpose of this paper is to complete a comparative analysis of two faith philosophies towards providing health care, one being the Christian…