Empathy

Unfortunately, anger has been apart of my life far more than I would have liked for it to be. My family has been based around anger and resentment for years. I saw my family hide away anger, never dealing with it. They simply would pretend that nothing was happening and their anger would turn into resentment, which turned into a grudge. They justify holding on to a grudge by saying that they are only protecting themselves. In my immediate family I realized that anger was handled by yelling until…

Pathos is the most important part of the rhetorical argument because it truly expresses the feelings of the writer to the audience and easily allows them to absorb the material due to the emotion filled with writing. Pathos is defined as the power of speech, literature, and other forms of expression of evoking a feeling of sympathy and compassion from the reader. The essay will demonstrate how the effective use of pathos will strengthen arguments. Pathos is the strongest of the three rhetorical…

Anger is just an external expression of our internal feelings like fear, frustration and hurt. We need to have a better understanding of our ‘anger’. Many a times without understanding the basics behind anger, we tend to express it and later regret for it. What is the way, by which we can understand our anger?. To understand our anger, we need to follow ABCD model or the Responsibility Empowering Action Method. Situation: I am angry towards by wife. I have asked her to arrange my shelve. But…

What can define the kindness of strangers? How they look or talk? Or just who they are as a person? How can you tell if you are actually getting help, or just getting pity? Can those two things really be the same thing? After all help is help no matter how you get it. Think about these question as I evaluate both “Angela’s Ashes”(McCourt) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”(Twain). Being poor is always hard, and being poor in Limerick, Ireland during the 1930’s seemed to top the cake in…

The phrase “like father, like son” is never more well applied to any duo as it is to Victor and his Creature. Both of these characters display acts of such deplorable moral character that it renders them both unpitiable. While many would say that the Creature is only bad because others around him treat him badly, the heinousness of his crimes would prove otherwise. Pity for the Creature in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is woefully misplaced: both he and Victor are impulsive, selfish, and lack in…

A game of emotions Human beings are known to be unpredictable, adaptable to every situation, and most definitely flawed. Such imperfections often stand out when reading popular books about a perfect character or watching movies with an unrealistic ending. Sometimes, the reality of life comes last in these works and people are left to wonder if they truly are the only flawed ones. Nevertheless, authors like Esi Edugyan have refrained from embellishing the human nature in some of their works and…

Why are women able to be deadly? People normally sympathize with women. Some people have to realize that not all women deserve that sympathy. No matter how much a women look fine it does not mean they actually are. There are books, movies, and TV shows that have been created to show why not all women deserve sympathy and are not always innocent either. In the TV show Deadly Women, Season 5 Episode 2, the show depicts women as being capable of murder because when strong emotions are aroused,…

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…

“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…

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…