In order to really have empathy, you need to hear the whole story so, you need to look at both sides. Looking at both sides will help to eliminate being biased towards one side. According to Bloom, “Further, spotlights only illuminate what they are pointed at, so empathy reflects our biases.” (Bloom 1) This means if you only look at one side, you may feel empathy towards that side because that is what you are shown, but you should look…
He starts off talking about how other people start speeches and that he doesn’t want his speech to be like that, but instead talk about something more important to him. One point he says is that, “the exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people, given those people’s two different belief templates and two different ways of constructing meaning from experience.” This example shows that if there are two people, because they have different experiences,…
1. In two healthy paragraphs, summarize the piece AND show (with framed quotes and paraphrase from the text) what you believe to be the author’s three main points/arguments. Support with textual evidence and include your own initial response to the material. Bloom’s three main arguments are that empathy, empathy is stronger when we know the person, empathy is stronger when its one specific person, and it is harder to empathize with everyone because there are so many people who deserve it….
Later in the story shows that her views fully changed as she got older. She went from not listening to other’s ideas to not listening to her family’s ideas and beliefs. Chen said, “Today, Megan and Grace’s only connection to Westboro is virtual. Although Phelps-Roper no longer believes that the Bible is the word of God, she still reads it to try and find scriptural arguments that could encourage Westboro to take a more humane approach to the world. Sometimes…
Later in the story shows that her views fully changed as she got older. Chen said, “Today, Megan and Grace’s only connection to Westboro is virtual. Although Phelps-Roper no longer believes that the Bible is the word of God, she still reads it to try and find scriptural arguments that could encourage Westboro to take a more humane approach to the world. Sometimes she’ll tweet passages, knowing that church members will see them.” This shows that after getting different perspectives,…
The feedback that I got the most was to shorten a quote, and to add myself more. I did not add myself to much of the essay and mostly went into details of Konnikova and Chen. For my next draft, I can add experiences to relate myself back to the quotes that I chose. Some things that I saw that I can do in my own essay is also adding my own experiences. My biggest challenge doing peer review is…
Lamotte says that it is more about the process than the final product. She talks about people comparing their first drafts to people who published their final pieces and says they also have drafts that are not as good. If you write a bad first draft, it is easier to revise it than to just write a perfect draft on the first try. I agree with this because in the first draft, you are already trying to say everything, so…
BeforeRobin Dunbar was trying to discover why animals spend so much time grooming, but instead found how the size of a portion of your brain can affect someone socially. The rule of three is what she found. Maria Konnikova said that “The Dunbar number is actually a series of them. The best known, a hundred and fifty, is the number of people we call casual friends.” This means the average person has 150 people that they may talk to, but…
1. Who is Adrian Chen? and how does his background/areas of expertise help inform you about his perspective as it relates to this article? He is a journalist, editor, and blogger. His background and areas off expertise can help inform you about his perspective because people can always be biased depending on how they grew up or what they learned throughout the years. 2. Write a brief summary, using your words and direct quotes, of Megan Phelps-Roper’s personal transformation, as…
