Empathy

1. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It includes the following skills:  Emotional awareness - the ability to identify our own emotions and those of others;  The ability to use emotions in tasks like problems solving;  The ability to manage emotions by regulating our own emotions, and to cheer up or calm down other person emotions. Emotion refers to the feelings associated with the vigorous motion…

On September 11th, 2001, 8:45 a.m. eastern time, thousands of families lives were changed forever. Terrorist attacks occurred in the U.S. at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon building in Virginia, and in a hijacked passenger jet in Pennsylvania. Bringing almost 3,000 deaths, it was the largest loss of American life due to a foreign attack. Jonathan Safran’s captivating novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, documents this time through nine-year-old Oskar Schell’s…

My definition of compassion is when you are willing to help another being in need without the expectation or intent to receive anything in return. I was privileged to grow up with a mother that was very compassionate and caring, and from an early age she showed me that true compassion is giving without selflessness. I often find myself doing things out of compassion from day to day such as holding the door open for someone if I spot them trailing close by behind me. However in these same…

Everyone in their life has already or will experience what guilt is. We always feel guilty when you know you are letting someone down. You always feel guilty, when you tell a lie to your friends and parents. You always feel guilty when you steal something that doesn’t belong to you. There are many ways that you can feel guilty. Many people ask “ What is the definition of guilt?” Guilt is an emotion that you feel when you done something wrong or bad. Guilt is feeling regret and wishing that you…

lives. Dubus clearly examines how one family deals with the death of their youngest son. “Killings”, written in a very disconnected manner starts with no beginning details. Throughout the entire story Dubus never takes a side, never shows emotion or empathy towards anything. The impact of him never taking a side allows the reader to form their own opinions. Throughout the story, every time one of the killers refers to what they have done, they lack emotion when they are conversing.…

Thinking Critically About the Trait of Compassion The question has been asked many times over, what exactly is the personality trait known as compassion? This discussion will hopefully shed some light on this curious and complicated question. It will also address how it developed, how it might affect a person’s social behaviors as well as their interpersonal relationships. To open our discussion, let us take a closer look at a formal definition of compassion. Random House Dictionary defines…

In the poem, “Dialogue on Poverty” the setting of winter embodies the emotion of despair that both the poor and destitute man possess. During the time period in which this poem was written the intended audience was the wealthy nobility that was separated from poverty. Okura recognized that the nobility did not pay attention to the masses in poverty, and so he sought to change this with his poem. However, just outright telling the nobility to pay attention to the poor would be ineffective.…

According to Goleman and Denhardt, the four components of emotional intelligence are self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, and social skills. The first component is self-management. The book states that self-management is “the ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods and regulate your own behavior coupled with a propensity to pursue goals with energy and persistence.” There are seven competencies that deal with this component. Those competencies are…

Through examination of Antigone’s and Kreon’s origins of pride and reactions to consequences in Sophocles’ Antigone, I found that Antigone herself drew more of my sympathy. Her brother’s improper burial as her basis of pride along with her steadfastness through times of retribution appeals significantly to the pathos of the audience. Such qualities—especially in contrast to Kreon’s selfish hamartia of hubris—provide for a tip in the scale of sympathy in favor of Antigone in the Greek tragedy.…

In “After 9/11,” Charles Martin, the author, relates to the emotion condition of man in a way that few other could. Though he does so many times throughout this work, a focus should be placed on one particular chosen pair of words. Midway through this poem, Martin describes the many awful types of deaths that he victims suffered, but he ends his description by relating these deaths to the memory of those who saw the events on that day. Particularly, Martin writes, “The fall that our imaginations…