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    Imagine a traffic jam‚ one that slows every car for miles to a stop. Now imagine a traffic jam that could be deadly. That’s exactly what could happen if your arteries become clogged. The blood that supplies your body with important nutrients and keeps you alive could come to a shocking and deadly stand still. All because of a faulty diet. I sat down today with a few people to test their knowledge and find out their opinions when it comes to their dietary health and cardiovascular health in general

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    Hope. It stands for hold on‚ pain ends. It means‚ there’s still a chance. It’s giving you‚ a reason to stay strong. And it’s telling you‚ to never give up. Hope is the little flame inside you‚ that comes out only when it’s dark. It’s telling you to hold on‚ to stay strong‚ and to never give up. Because that’s what hope does. It makes us believe that nothing’s impossible‚ that we will overcome‚ and it’s what makes us survivors. It’s always there‚ but you only see it if you believe it. Sometimes‚

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    The theme of hope is present in a plethora of American literature. Hope can be both a positive and negative quality. Hope is threaded into the following three pieces of literature: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. In the preceding literature hope plays a strong role in improving characters’ lives. Hope helps some people and is useless to others. Langston Hughes writes‚ “Hold fast to dreams‚/ For

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    American History: Our Hope for the Future America what does this means to you? To me this country represents hope. Our hope for our country to survive is what keeps us together during the trials and error. That’s what helps us in the future. This country learned from the trial and errors it went through.What helped our country survive is the hope of the people. That’s what brought this country together. Even through the trials and errors it is hope that brings us back together. Hope is what keeps us going

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    Emily Dickinson and “Crossing the Bar” by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson are similar in two ways. They are also different in one way. First‚ they are both referring to death. Secondly‚ they are showing death in the form of a journey. Finally‚ they are different in the way that “Because I could not stop for Death” is using personification for death. Where “Crossing the Bar” is using metaphors to describe death. Our first similarity is that both the poems are referring to death. In “Crossing the Bar” our reader

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    Hope is mankind’s greatest weakness and greatest strength.” -Unknown Empires can be created‚ revolutions can begin‚ all because of a string of hope. Without this emotion‚ many historical events would not have occurred‚ such as the Holocaust‚ one of the most infamous genocides in history. In the book Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ he writes about the Holocaust and his time in several concentration camps with his father. Hope plays an important part in this story; it became the catalyst of the Holocaust

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    the song as not hope for the future‚ but hope for the future has already been lost. As it may seem that the future lies within the Proles‚ because they make up 75% of Oceania. We also know they are the most uneducated and less willing to revolt because of their freedom and privileges they have from The Party. The beginning of the song describes what is hidden in many; the concept of hope. When we analyze the first verse of the song‚ we see the lyrics “my people be free”. “The Hope Song” was made

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    the most important one being that one must never lose hope. Khaled Hosseini shows us that with hope you can overcome any situation. Laila had thought she had lost Tariq‚ yet she still had hope for a better life. At the end of the story she and Tariq reunite with their daughter and her son and she was able to get away from the cruelty and abuse that Rasheed inflicted on her. The characters in the novel have to remind themselves to have hope in dealing with their harsh realities‚ be it political

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    Hope is a recurring topic found all throughout history. It is found in the ancient tale of Pandora and her box‚ where hope is the only good thing that comes out of the box‚ as well as the “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King Jr‚ telling of his hope for a nondiscriminatory world. Hope also is the topic of Emily Dickinson’s poem titled “Hope is the Thing with Feathers‚” which goes as follows: ’Hope’ is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words—

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    Is Their Hope In The Road? In Cormac McCarthy’s book The Road‚ a father and his son try to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where the majority of people have turned to cannibalism and the environment is twisted and dark. Despite their being glimpses of hope and the Son being showed as the next Messiah‚ a message of hope could in no way be conveyed in the book. The book is depressing‚ sad‚ and makes readers feel grateful for what they have and that they do not have to go through what the protagonists

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