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    Humans that have a complete lack of empathy are diagnosed with a mental illness, possibly narcissistic or antisocial personality disorder. They are seen as sick or can even be seen as inhuman. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick attests that a person’s humanity lies in his ability to feel empathetic, and to be without empathy is to be inhuman. Rick Deckard makes his living as a bounty hunter retiring escaped androids. An android’s lack of empathy is the only defining…

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    “Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person believes or realizes—accurately or not—that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of remorse.” (Websters Dictionary). Guilt can cause shame and catalyze us into actions we never thought possible. Guilt can force us to make reparations for our wrongs or lead to resentment…

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    Guilt is defined as the fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime by Merriam-Webster Dictionary. In the same dictionary, shame is defined as a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. These two feelings go hand-in-hand. It is sometimes good to have guilt and a little shame, because not everyone is perfect. When Guilt and shame takes over, they can make us do things that we think are going to help us not feel guilt…

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    Sympathy can be related to different types of opinions and other matters to society. Everybody has a different types of opinion or matter. Crooks is a sympathetic character because he's different than the others. They treat him different because of his race. “Crooks had retired into terrible protective dignity of the negro.”(80).. Crooks was named by his crooked back by a kick of a horse. His character was used as an image of discrimination in the south. “ She turned to him and…

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    The journal Psychological Science, researchers found that individuals who watch uplifting clips in movies, T.V. shows, etc. are more likely to act in a altruistic behavior soon after the clips. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus shows the whole town of Maycomb that anyone can have compassion towards one another, even those who seem undeserving. It is hard to care about matters in hand especially when other don’t support your proposition like in part one of To Kill a Mockingbird…

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    girls in Church; Riots Flare; 2 Boys Slain” in the New York Times. The poem, “The Ballad of Birmingham”, written by Dudley Randall, changes events, details of the girls killed, information of their mothers, and the voice’s point of view to elicit empathy, involve the reader emotionally, and demonstrate symbolism to personalize the event. Randall changes the reason of why the daughter goes to church on Sunday. Sitton states the girls killed in the bombing were in Sunday School for a lesson on “A…

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    Murder and Cowardice, shown on the Australian television show “Sunday Night” on Friday March 12 2012, documents the 4 day survival story of 10 workers who were abandoned out at sea during a massive storm and left to die. Sunday Night produced a sympathetic documentary about 10 innocent oil rig workers who are caught in amongst a massive storm along with the choice of the Captain on the Mermaid Vigilance a passing ship to leave the men to their death. This documentary represents the situation as…

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    The prompt is true in the context of ethics: reason is the slave of the passions in the sense that practical reason alone cannot give rise to moral motivation. As a way of knowing, reason structures the world for us by laying a diagram of how objects and ideas are connected; however, this is merely cold information, devoid of any significance on its own. The passions, or emotions, will be the dominant driver for ethical activity because it is directly connected to our our personal preferences…

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    Parenting class - Lesson plan 1. Objective: I will teach the five steps of emotional coaching from the Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child parenting program using the following teaching methods and activities from TNGC: I will be teaching the parents these objectives by first letting them see the five steps themselves and for them to put the steps in the order they think they belong in. Then we will discuss the importance of the order and each of the steps in depth. I will also ask…

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    Empathy is a harder thing to understand for some people than others. Empathy is commonly switched with sympathy, which they have different meanings. Paul Bloom, a psychologist and professor at Yale, is writing a book against empathy. Do you think empathy is a bad thing or a good thing? People will always have different opinions and viewpoints on this topic like most other things. I am here to tell you why I think why empathy is good but also bad to some extent. I am supposed to stand for or…

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