Barbara Lazear Ascher On Compassion The man’s grin is less the result of circumstance than dreams or madness. His buttonless shirt‚ with one sleeve missing‚ hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers. Carefully plaited dreadlocks bespeak a better time‚ long ago. As he crosses Manhattan’s Seventy-Ninth Street‚ his gait is the shuffle of the forgotten ones held in place by gravity rather than plans. On the corner of Madison Avenue‚ he stops before a blond baby in an Aprica stroller. The baby’s
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In Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay called "On Compassion" is about how she is looking around at people at a bus stop and she starts to point out the flaws in everyone that is there. In the opening sentence she talks about how sloppy this one man is by saying he has "his buttonless shirt‚ with one sleeve missing‚ hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers." She also says that everyone at the bus stop is just daydreaming and not paying attention on what they are doing. As it goes along the owner
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Author‚ Barbara Lazear Ascher‚ in her essay‚ On Compassion‚ draws attention to the homeless in New York and how they are affecting others. Ascher’s purpose is to invoke empathy among her readers. Using rhetorical questions‚ imagery‚ and compares the homeless of today to‚ Ascher inspires her readers to think about the poor situation the homeless are left with.She adopts a reflective and thoughtful tone in order to cause readers to wonder if people should be more compassionate towards the homeless
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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
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Challenging society’s viewpoints about compassion‚ Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay “On Compassion” calls to attention the act of giving to the homeless‚ and whether these actions are done out of true compassion or simple agitation. The various stories recalled within the essay are set in “The Empire State”‚ New York. As the essay begins‚ the author first writes about a homeless man who approaches a mother waiting a crosswalk with a stroller in hand. The man is distracted as he walks by the sight of
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" I don’t believe that one is born compassionate. Compassion is not character trait like a sunny disposition" - Barbara Ascher Aschen is saying that compassion is not something granted like a disposition. Indeed‚ compassion must be learned. Learned in response to the world surrounding us. It is obvious that a kid’s perception of the people and things around him will be altered if it’s parents don’t show respect to the homeless or the orphan. Education plays an important part. Such as a yorkshire
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The Article A Crime Of Compassion By Barbara Huttmann describes her experience as a nurse and her patient Mac. When Mac first entered the hospital he had a nagging cough‚ worked as a cop‚ and was strong‚ Independent‚ young man. Six months passed and Mac lost his youth‚ independency‚ Suffering from lung cancer‚ and was weak. Nurse Huttmann decides to let Mac die when he stops breathing for the 52 time’s in a month. Hutmann’s actions are correct in letting Mac die because Mac wanted to die‚ his quality
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Leo COMPARE AND CONTRAST Barbara Lazear Ascher and Anna Quindlen both write an essay which signifies their opinion about homelessness based on their observation on the society. Their essays states how people characterize and treat homeless as others. Ascher and Quindlen’s work also have message that they want readers to know and understand. On Ascher’s essay “On Compassion‚” she uses an example and symbolism such as the two homeless men to denote something. The first man who was mentioned on the
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‚ BARBARA LAZEAR ASCHER On Compassion Barbara Lazear Ascher‚ born in 1946‚ worked as a lawyer for two years before she became a full-time writer. Her essays‚ which have appeared in newspapers and magazines‚ have been collected in Playing after Dark (1986) and The Habit of Loving (1989). She has also written books about her brother’s death fi-om AIDS (Landscape without Grav- ity: A Memoir of Grief‚ 1993) and romance (Dancing in the Dark: Romance‚ Yearning‚ and the Search
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Is Compassion Really a Crime? Imagine standing in a hospital room watching a man suffer in agonizing pain day after day and not being able to do anything about it. This is the situation that Barbara Huttmann faces in her essay "A Crime of Compassion." Huttmann‚ a nurse‚ is forced to watch Mac live in agonizing pain without legally being able to let him die. The message that she displays in her essay is suffering people should be permitted to die if they aspire to do so. Using various rhetorical
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