Importance Of Compassion To Me

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Compassion means kindness to me. Compassion means caring to me. Compassion means forgiveness to me. Compassion means understanding to me. Compassion means love to me. Compassion means empathy to me.
I think Elie Wiesel talks about compassion because he wanted us to better understand it. Also, I think Elie Wiesel talks about compassion because he wanted us to know what the Jews had to go through. I also think Elie WIesel talks about compassion because he wanted us to know what compassion meant for the Jews. I also think Elie Wiesel talks about compassion because he wants us to know what it means to him as a former Holocaust survivor. I also think Elie Wiesel talks about compassion because he wants compassion to mean the same for us as it means
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When Rosa Parks sat in the front of the bus it impacted other people because, she showed us that no one deserves to be treated differently just because of the color of there skin. Blacks and Whites have the same rights as human beings. The example from my own life that showed compassion made an impact on me or someone else is when I open the door for a disabled person. By me opening the door to a person that was not able or had a hard time doing it for themselves did not only show compassion, but it also showed respect and understanding towards another person. The second example from current events that showed how compassion made an impact on me or someone else, was when Romanatwood a Youtuber gives a homeless person a doughnut every day. How Roman impacted the homeless person’s life by giving him the doughnut, is that the homeless gets to eat at least the doughnut when maybe he doesn’t have anything else to …show more content…
How Russia helping free the Jews impacted the US was that they saw other countries were against the abuse the Nazi were doing against the Jews and decided to make a difference by helping free them. The third example from my own life that showed how compassion made an impact on me or someone else was when I had to go downstairs with my younger brother because he was scared. How this made an impact on my brother was that he did not need to be afraid because no matter what he knew I was there and was going to be able to protect him and didn’t need to be scared anymore. The third example from current events that showed how compassion made an impact on me and or someone else was when Tom Brady donated 50 thousand dollars to charity. How this impacted the charity was that now they would have more money to continue helping people in

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