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    in his character that lead to his downfall, mainly his unchecked ambition and his fastly held masculinity. Furthermore, he possesses villainous traits such as his ruthlessness, selfishness and immorality. Finally, there is certainly an element of sympathy and pity felt for him…

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    slogan that says, “The American issue.” This ad attempts to appeal to the audience’s sympathy for children while also presenting a national problem: this is America’s issue and it needs to be solved by you, the American people. In slide eleven, a soldier presents the question, “Will you back me? Or back booze?” In an attempt to persuade people to vote for temperance, the source tries to appeal to one’s support and sympathy for a soldier. By appealing to one’s patriotism, the various…

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    I always have a strong reaction of disgust when this person continually mopes around complaining of pain; which feels as if obtaining sympathy is her goal. Consequently, I often ignore her pleas of sympathy, distance myself and find myself superficially showing acceptance, by not hugging her as meaningfully and not sharing my love as openly. It irritates me that she uses her health as an excuse for being lazy. My mother and father rarely ever complained of how they felt, even when they were…

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    motive. Yet, throughout the novel In Cold Blood, Truman Capote masterfully weaves a complex web of factual evidence and first-hand accounts to repaint a cold-blooded killer as a human being in which to sympathize with. The most obvious way Perry draws sympathy is his traumatic and turbulent childhood. Smith spent the first few years of life moving constantly with his family, often living off “mush and Hersey kisses and condensed milk.” (131). When Perry was six, his mother took him and his…

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    Reflections Reflect on the needs of the elderly Havighurst (1952) disclosure that all the adoration and care on our elderly relative . Because they have ended up old and moderate, does not imply that we ought to disregard them or let them be restricted to themselves. Elderly are basic to individuals, they have feeling, social acknowledgment and has self-as steam We has gone to our administration target, Miss Cheng (ping), she is a loquacious lady. She has recounted to us diverse stories in her…

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    a more despairing, hopeless, and generally dark tone, as they are used to describe the very thing that ultimately caused so much despair and hopelessness for Juturna. These words, as a result, help to emphasize Juturna’s suffering, which evokes sympathy from the reader. She also uses words such as “sorrow,” “shadows,” “haughty” (to describe Jupiter), and “hard” (to describe her own life). These words focus more on her general situation, despair, hopelessness, and how she was filled with…

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    “Arabs were not a corrupt offshoot of the rest of humanity. The same rules and moral standards applied to them as to anyone else in the world. Saying anything else was patronizing trash masquerading as sympathy. To accept a lie from am Arab but no one else meant you saw fundamental weakness in them as if they were granted permission to be irrational.” In this passage, Darwish is expressing his thoughts on Arabic plights; specifically, Egypt. He believes in holding Egypt to the same standards…

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    the speech Clinton wrote was very effective in showing support for the American people during the tragedy because the words which were used by him showed sympathy, offered hope, and offered help. Firstly, I believe Clinton's speech was effective in showing support for the American people during the tragedy became the words he used shows sympathy. As stated in the text, "a tree takes a long time to grow, and wounds take a long time to heal. But we must begin (22,70). Furthermore, Clinton knew the…

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    (Golding 46). Through his own sympathy he shows for the oppressed, Piggy is able to instantly gain power as both the sympathy Piggy has and the sympathy he shows reveal his knowledge that when “nobody [likes]” someone, “they never [become] powerful” (Lehrer). Because Piggy chooses to invoke pathos against Jack, he is able to make Jack more hated and himself more liked, lending him power over Jack. As a result, Piggy is able to gain power by creating feelings of sympathy for himself, which leads…

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    entertaining and informative style of the characters and how they feel tend to draw us into Burma. Orwell utilizes the use of ethos throughout the story making you sympathize with the main character. In "Shooting an Elephant", Orwell tries to gain the sympathy of the Burman folk by expressing his feelings as an English man in Burma, yet he fails to convey to the Burmese his intentions, troubled with his morals, and showing a sense of tenderness to the dying Elephant. In his short story, Orwell…

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