Summer+Assignment+3++On+Compassion

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1. Find three rhetorical appeals to pathos (emotion) and list the exact quotes. a.

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2. What is the effect of these appeals on you the reader? Do you think that the author’s appeals to pathos provoke unrecognized sympathy for the homeless? Do they simply reinforce your already empathetic view of those in need? Do they not impact your thinking at all?

3. Is the author correct in saying that we are “not born compassionate?” Explain using your life as evidence in defense of your claim.

4. Write a narrative of at least 200 words describing in detail a time when adversity became “so familiar that [you] beg[a]n to identify and empathize with it.”

*Good narratives show, they do not tell. Pay attention to the following characteristics of a good narrative: //It is much more interesting to actually recreate an incident// // for readers than to simply tell about it. // * ** relates events in sequence. **// The creation of specific scenes set at actual times and in // // actual places. Show, don't tell. // //Do you recall sights, sounds, smells, tactile feelings, and// // tastes? Use actual or re-created dialogue? Give actual // // names of people and places. // //Do you grow from change? Is there a conflict between// // characters? Is there a contrast between the past and the // // present? //  * ** makes a point, communicates a main idea or dominant ** // Your details, specific scenes, accounts of changes or conflicts, and connections between past and present should point to a single main idea or dominant impression for your paper as a whole. While not stating a flat "moral" of the story, the importance of your memory must be clear to your reader // // Source: http://glory.gc.maricopa.edu/~mdesoto/101online_new/assignment3writing.htm //
 * ** involves readers in the story. **
 * ** includes detailed observations of people, places, and **
 * events **.
 * *presents important changes, contrasts, or conflicts and **
 * creates tension **.
 * impression. **