Compassion Essay

“Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves,” - Mason Cooley. Compassion is a valuable part of Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, and the representation of this quote can be shown throughout various spots in the novel. Compassion is a rare trait to have, and the people who do acquire it often prosper in academics as well as social skills. Lee does an extraordinary job of showing how being compassionate allows one to thrive and achieve remarkable goals all…

On Compassion What is one of the biggest factors that contributes to so many of today’s social issues? It is the lack of understanding and care for others, known as compassion. In Barbara Ascher’s, “On Compassion”, she uses multiple examples of instances that the true intention behind the actions were unclear on if they were from a place of compassion or not. Ultimately, Ascher comes to close her essay with the idea that yes, compassion is something we do and MUST learn. Although there are…

In Barbara Lazear Ascher's essay, On Compassion, Asher provides many anecdotes and analyzation of compassion. Ascher declares that “ I don’t believe that one is born compassionate.”(par. 13) and that it “It must be learned, and it is learned by having adversity at our windows,”(par.13). Asher's statement stating that one is not born compassionate is untrue. We are born are compassionate, but circumstance decides who we are compassionate to. When you look at a baby, you initially think he is…

There is a distinct difference between compassion fatigue and burnout. Burnout is a term used to describe exhaustion, lack of enthusiasm, and motivation to continue to work. For healthcare professionals, associate burnout with decreased retention, patient satisfaction, and increased turnover. However, define compassion fatigue as a continuous empathetic and intense contact with patients. The symptoms for both are quite the same, but significantly different. However, the difference is burnout can…

Wouldn’t you think that compassion is always a good thing? Generally we associate this with good. However, in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates how the theme of compassion, though can be good, also could be dangerous. Atticus shows great compassion for Bob Ewell through the quarrel of the Tom Robinson trial. Like on page 235, “I think I understand,” said Atticus. “It might be because he knows in his heart that very few people in Maycomb really believed his and Mayella’s…

In her essay, “On Compassion”, Barbara Ascher uses ethos and references to Greek tragedy to demonstrate the purpose of her essay; that compassion can be learned by witnessing the adversity or poverty around you, and that we should not ignore the helpless, because they remind us of our own selves. Ascher also uses examples of current events related to the homeless to emphasize her perspective on compassion. She believes that compassion is something that is learned, not a character trait.…

Compassion is defined as when someone takes on the perspective of and feel the emotions of another person and has the desire to help. Aging is a natural process in life that can often lead to the need of help from others as either the mind or the body begins to deteriorate. Because aging can occur quicker than we anticipate, adjusting to the changes that accompany it can be a painful or traumatic experience for some. The elderly or their families don 't need sympathy, or to feel sorry for them,…

program on preventing and treating compassion fatigue in emergency nurses [Electronic version]. Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, 35(3), 247-258. Introduction - Emergency Room (ER) nurses risk compassion fatigue due to multiple work environment stressors such as; noise level, patient volume, continuous influx of patients, frequency of patient deaths, witnessing devastating trauma and illness. Compassion fatigue leads to psychological and physical problems resulting…

leave prominence on the phrases, as well as creating a rhythmic effect to make it memorable and more gratifying to read. For example, anaphora is used in a passage of Barbara Lazear Ascher On Compassion, a passage about a few brief encounters with homeless people, where she struggles to understand the compassion of others. “Twice I have witnessed this, and twice I have wondered, what compels this woman to feed this man?” (Paragraph 9). The part of this sentence that qualifies it to fall under…

Rising employee turnover rates are resulting in understaffing, which lead to nurses taking on a higher patient load each shift exposing them further to the burdens of handling traumatic situations on a daily basis. These strains can develop into compassion fatigue. Where there is stress there are opportunities for error and these errors put patients at risk. If nurses are not given the resources to care for themselves they are not able to offer the kind of care their patient’s require. Body…