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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Hope

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on hope. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task B · ReflectivePrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on hope.

  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

    Emily Dickinson

  • He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

    Francis Bacon

  • Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

    Martin Luther

Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.

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