Essays on Hope

No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The novel, written between 1956-1957 and first published in 1961, is the story of an impoverished, retired colonel, a veteran of the Civil War, who still…

In Carrie Underwood’s music video for the track “See You Again,” soldiers are depicted returning to their families at an airport. The video shows a young girl enthusiastically running towards her father and embracing him, while a large sign that says “Welcome home daddy!” is displayed in the background. This emotional scene serves as a…

My most memorable year was 2014 when I suffered from a type of traumatic brain injury called a concussion. It is ironic that I call it my most memorable year because throughout most of it I could not even remember what I did the previous day, let alone most of the first couple months after…

What are two things you’ve learned about suffering through this text? The first thing that I learned is the necessity of lament and its correlation to the good. Through embodied hope I gained insight as to how I have dealt with pain and how culture looks at pain. I have dealt with pain by pushing…

In America’s time of despair, families, friends and acquaintances drowned among the onslaught on dreams, hope and companionship resulting from The Great Depression. Man’s ability to hope and dream in times of adversity is their ability to survive and having “hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness”…

The old woman from Voltaire’s Candide once stated: “A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but I still loved life” (Voltaire 30). For some people, this is the way life is. While there is suffering in the present, life’s beauty can provide hope for a better future. Other people however, believe…

America is the most immigrated country in the world, taking in over a million immigrants each year. The history of the United States and the monumental figures that fill the government shoes have formed hope for the future. People like Abe Lincoln for example and his hopeful speeches in some dark times in our country,…

According to American Cancer Society, there will be approximately 1,762,450 cancer cases diagnosed in 2019 alone. This is an extremely large portion of the human population and it is absolutely startling. Luckily, there have been many advancements over time and doctors and researchers are working eagerly to discover more effective treatments. One of these discoveries…

Climate change is no doubt one of the biggest threats to humanity. Economic instability, famine, and war are all possible outcomes along with monumental loss of biodiversity and displacement of millions of people. Unfortunately, we are already seeing the devastating effects of climate change which includes melting ice caps, rising sea levels (along with increasing…

Hope in Chronicles It is only Monday and anxiety and fear have been the theme of the day. I wish I could tell you that I have been a stoic follower of Christ with no fear of tomorrow but this has not been the case. As COVID-19 has been the revolving news for what feels…