Compassion is an emotion we feel when others are in need‚ which motivates us to help them. Sympathy is a feeling of care and understanding for someone in need. Both‚ sympathy and compassion are about objects and are bound in rational thought whereas empathy is about subjects and is bound in emotions and feelings. In unpacking the nature of empathy‚ it won’t be out of place to single
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if he were speaking to another man (PSU World Campus‚ 2013). This could cause the woman to feel disappointment and frustration. The woman wants to communicate her day with the man‚ and vice versa because she is attempting to show her feelings of sympathy and commitment. This conversation would work better with fewer distractions and at a possible set time. The woman could tell the man that she would like to hear about his day and encourage him to share his feelings. Scenario 3: Conversation in
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harassment. Through this moral decency influenced the people that the law is wrong. The main goal was to embarrass the authorities publicly so they see the wrongness and injustice in the issue being addressed. They want the people watching to feel sympathy for those protesting and to ask themselves what the real issue is. This was a major tactic used in the success in the civil rights for African Americans. On 1 December 1955‚ in Montgomery‚ Alabama a 42-year old African American woman named Rosa
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Kreon are locked in an argument over the burial of her brother‚ Polyneices‚ with Antigone going against the law set up by Kreon and burying her brother. Both have their views and reasons for the way they act. Despite this‚ Antigone deserves more sympathy for her actions. She bases her actions on honor and dignity‚ while Kreon appears to play the role of an overbearing and cruel leader. Antigone is by no means a flawless character. She’s often rash and overdramatic. She is essentially what prompts
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Sympathy. A complex and multi-faceted emotion encompassing the perception‚ understanding‚ and reaction to the distress or need of another being. In the case of humans‚ Sympathy requires three key factors: attention to a subject‚ the belief that a person or group is in a state of need‚ and social and/or geographic proximity. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ one such character meets all three criteria: Mayella Ewell. She commands the reader’s attention via her prominent role in a controversial
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public amusement park ... and see her tears welled up when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children..” This is a good example of how MLK uses emotional appeal especially because he uses a child as his approach since it is easier to feel sympathy toward a child. He does this to make the reader feel the pain and disappointment colored people and especially children go through. Emotional appeal is always a strong way to get the author’s point through. Which is why MLK used it. “Our hopes
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This essay explores the various instances where "family" determines the characters actions and unltimatly directs the plot of the story. This is a very consice but specific essay‚ as we were limited to 500 words. Shiva Mohan Influence of "family" in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Family in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein demonstrates a myriad of roles‚ influencing Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Victor’s childhood establishes a connection between the reader and Victor‚ building his character. The
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prevented from moving on until ‘the foul crimes done in my days of nature/Are burnt and purged away’ which is the definition of Purgatory. This would evoke a certain amount of sympathy both in Hamlet and in the Elizabethan audience‚ to whom the idea of purgatory would have seemed a fate almost more terrible than Hell. Evoking sympathy is an important part in manipulation and the Ghost covers in within his first few
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They obviously feel sympathy towards their child as well as worried at the fact that their child could possibly die. The emotion invoked in the parent of a child cannot be felt by a doctor that is not emotionally connected to that child. This is why the doctor could never
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Scout was raised in a time with racial prejudices going on around her. This instilled in her the admirable qualities of courageousness and maturity. Her father‚ Atticus Finch‚ was fighting for the freedom of the opposing side‚ the one everybody despised. This caused her to be put in many dangerous and hate filled situations in public which included school and the majority of Maycomb County’s white community. One night‚ Atticus had to flee to the jailhouse where Tom Robinson was held. He was surrounded
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