Barbara Ascher On Compassion Summary

In high school, I took a graph design class and we were learning about pictures and how each picture out there is made of small pixels that you cannot really have a picture without, and you need to zoom in and focus to see these pixels but each pixel alone does not have any meaning. Only when you put these pixels together that is when you start to notice the small details that makes the bigger picture. After we took the pictures outside, I had to reread “on Compassion” by Barbara Ascher and began to understand what she was trying to say this time. She just wanted to notice what is going around her and when she did, she had noticed different scenes that made her questions if they are done because of care and love or feeling they are obligated to do them. in her paper she said, “ Twice I have witnessed this, and twice I have wondered, what compels this woman to feed this man?Pity?Care?Compassion?”(page 47).She shows different stories with the same question, why are they doing this? and as a reader, you can not really decide or have an answer either. In the same time, I like how she shows two sides of the story like the woman was afraid of a homeless guy, but in the same time she showed how she gave the money to her baby to give to the old man, which shows that she wants to
In the music video of “Starman”, he paints this idea as he stands in the middle of stage alone singing his song wearing these weird colors which were weird even for that time. In the background, there was a lot of people dancing and having fun and dressed according to that time period. Even if you do not listen to the song and saw the video, you will feel like it is a person struggling to fit in even though that is all what he wants. You can only notice something like this if you take a step back and take minute to realize the meaning behind a song like