Sympathy

The goal of a historian is to give an accurate account of an event that took place. Any additions of opinions and personal views could give false information to the reader. One particular excerpt that shifted the change of history is “The Siege of Guanajuato”, an excerpt, written after the year 1810 by, Lucas Alamán, an advocate for conservatism and a son of a wealthy family. Alamán writes a secondary source that details, a description of the leader Miguel Hidalgo, a priest who led siege to the…

Katie Rose Guest Pryal proposes that empathy takes action, not just an emotion. Often confused with sympathy, empathy requires the ability to understand a predicament from another person’s perspective, while sympathy only entails the feeling of pity for another’s difficulty. In To Kill a Mockingbird, although Atticus advocates empathizing with others, Pryal rather implies that Atticus exhibits sympathy. In addition, the jurors lack empathy in that they do not perceive the world from African…

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 compassion as “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering (Dictionary.com, 2015).” A person who feels and displays compassion is referred to as being compassionate.…

Trigger Warnings Many students believe a professor should warn students about content being taught in the class that might offend the student, these are called trigger warnings. Do trigger warnings do a service for the student or a disservice? Triger warnings do a disservice by limiting the student’s right to acquire knowledge, limiting others’ rights to gain knowledge and denying the student’s ability to participate in academic discourse. Students believe trigger warnings do them a service…

Ambivalence For many clients a disruption within their life can occur when they feel pushes and pulls of compete ting feelings known as ambivalence or of two minds. Personally I can relate to how if the competing feelings are not addressed if cannot manage on own it can lead to a disruption of life. Personally I struggle with high anxiety, and depression. I have had moments within my life where my feelings feel mixed and require opposing responses which can become overwhelming. I found reading…

Being the bystander is as dangerous as being the perpetrator. Nathaniel Hawthorne exemplifies this adage in his novel, The Scarlet Letter, through his brilliant characterization of the protagonist: Hester Prynne. Hawthorne follows Hester’s lamentable alienation from society through her affair with Arthur Dimmesdale. In her segregation, Hester is revealed as an affectionate, intelligent, and sympathetic figure that is forced to persevere and endlessly battle the constant, everyday struggles of…

emotions as if he loves his wife and treats her in way a wife supposed to be treated even if it is physically, mentally, or financially. He tries to prove his sympathy and love for her, admit he did wrong and is now willing to fix it, and acknowledge the fact that he messed up. Despite Torval rude ways and his many flaws, there should be some sympathy for Torvald. He was trying to change for the better not only for him, but to save his marriage and children. Although he was willing to change…

The two artworks that will be discussed in this essay is The Third Of May which is a oil painting made in 1814 by Francisco Goya and The Butcher Boys wish is a 3D, mixed media ( bone, clay, plaster etc.) sculpture made in 1984 by Jane Alexander. The Third Of May creates a very dull mood. The artist has chosen earth tones, and there is a strong contrast of dark and light within the artwork. This dramatic lighting is seen through the focal point; the young Spanish man with his arm's…

American trial for them. In the end, a trial did happen and this trial greatly impacted the United States. The court judges decided that these slaves were not guilty, so they were granted their freedom. Furthermore, this trial made many people feel sympathy towards the slaves, improved the living style for freed slaves, and laid the foundation of abolishing slavery in the future.…

point that the reader response is to begin to take Stanley’s side and view Blanche as a woman who is living a fantasy of events to manipulate those around her or to continue on Blanches side as she recounts the tale of her young husband to elicit sympathy and understanding in her past behaviors. The clashing of these two ideas of what Blanche is and what she should be continues as Stanley succeeds in upsetting Mitch with his own telling of Blanche’s past, and Blanche attempts to remedy this with…