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    the couple cope with Winzy’s inability to physically look older‚ their relationship quickly deteriorates and jealousy and insecurity ensue‚ largely coming from Bertha’s end. Due to this jealousy‚ Bertha is treated as a character not deserving of sympathy and it can

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    Politeness maxims 1 Politeness maxims According to Geoffrey Leech‚ there is a politeness principle with conversational maxims similar to those formulated by Paul Grice. He lists six maxims: tact‚ generosity‚ approbation‚ modesty‚ agreement‚ and sympathy. The first and second form a pair‚ as do the third and the fourth. These maxims vary from culture to culture: what may be considered polite in one culture may be strange or downright rude in another. The Tact maxim The tact maxim states: ’Minimize

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    Ophelia is more of a side character more than a main character in Hamlet. Lady Macbeth and Ophelia have their similarities and differences that will be focused on. Lady Macbeth and Ophelia impact the reader in a similar way‚ because they receive no sympathy from the reader‚ but Lady Macbeth and Ophelia have attitudes‚ desires‚ and deaths that impact the plays in different ways. Lady

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    The protagonist in a novel is the main character. Readers can feel sympathy or have a lack of sympathy for the protagonist in the novel. In the novel‚ The Catcher In the Rye by J. D. Salinger‚ Salinger creates an unsympathetic protagonist named Holden Caulfield. Readers are unsympathetic toward Holden because he grasped onto Allie’s death‚ frequently makes poor decisions and constantly criticizes minor characters without getting to know them. The trait of holding on to the past displays the unsympathetic

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    increases the likelihood of the audience believing everything said and shown in the film. Food Inc. reveals that companies only care about the profit‚ not the animals‚ consumers‚ workers‚ or environment. The film attempts to get the audience to feel sympathy for their cause‚ and call for action. Food Inc. reveals that companies only care about the profit‚ not the animals‚ workers‚ consumers‚ or the environment. The filmmakers begin their argument by talking about the negative impact the food industry

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    Death of the Moth.

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    can’t anymore. Slowly excepting it’s death after fighting it back for as long as it could. The message in this essay is death. It eventually comes to everyone and everything. For it’s stronger than the moth‚ stronger than life it’s self. Woolf has sympathy for the moth and realizes that life is truly life precious. The month is so determined to continue living. She had tried to assist the moth by using her pencil to bring him back up but laid it down shortly afterwords. It danced around the window

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    look more closely at the notion that animals feel emotions. As a result of their observations of various species of animals‚ a number of these researchers have come to the conclusion that animals do exhibit a wide range of emotions‚ such as grief‚ sympathy‚ and joy. One of the major reasons research into animal emotions has been avoided is that scientists fear being accused of anthropomorphism—the act of attributing human qualities to animals. To do so is perceived as unscientific (Masson and McCarthy

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    ‘with a lighter tread’ because she has difficulty ensuring both of them could be ‘fed’ and begged for ‘at least bread’. The poet’s striking way of conveying the woman’s feelings towards the child and her action in attempting to save the child evokes sympathy of the readers and b. The woman has a bleak outlook on life. The phrase ‘If it grow to hero it will die or let loose’ indicating the child would eventually die even it grows up to become a hero despite being saved‚ therefore there is no need to

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    groups help in the socialization of the individuals and maintain social control over them. The attitude of kindness‚ love‚ sympathy‚ mutual help and sacrifice which provide the cementing force to social structure is developed in the primary group. The primary group is a heaven for the individuals where they can find comfort and security. The primary relations are based on sympathy and mutual identification. The quality of behavior that a child picks up during its childhood in primary groups finds expression

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    their sympathy towards Jessica. This is seen in the first sentence‚ when she is begrudgingly awakened by her alarm clock‚ “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! It’s 5:00 a.m. My eyes are heavy with sleep and struggle to open”(83). Hemauer uses specific words to achieve ethos‚ such as‚ “heavy” and “struggle” to convey that‚ at age ten‚ she was already faced with tremendous responsibility and commitment everyday‚ when she heard the sound of her alarm clock. The use of “5:00 a.m.” also is used to attain sympathy because

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