What is the difference between sympathy and empathy?

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The Self and Perception Discussion

What is the difference between sympathy and empathy? Why does the use of empathy make someone a more effective communicator?

200 words

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How do this week’s texts relate to Narayan’s critique of the “package picture” of cultures?

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Please number your answers, and write a well-written paragraph to respond to each question in the prompt. I expect that it will take you around 400 words to thoroughly answer all questions. Submit your reflection as a Word document or PDF.

  1. How do this week’s texts relate to Narayan’s critique of the “package picture” of cultures? Mention at least three texts (in addition to Narayan) and explain how they connect.
  2. Look for an example of the kind of reductive thinking that Attiah critiques. First, search for news articles that discuss a social-justice issue of your choice in a country in the Global South (the rest of the world besides the US, Canada, European countries, Russian, Australia, and New Zealand, which are sometimes). If you need ideas for topics, you can look up child marriage, honor killings, female genital mutilation/cutting, or femicide. After you choose an article that you believe shows reductive thinking, think about the perspective the news article is told from and the audience it’s geared to, and the impact of the author’s perspective and audience. Think about how the story might be told differently if it were told by someone else or geared toward a different audience. Think about what transnational feminist solidarity without pity or condescension would look like for this issue. Then answer the following question: what is your news article about, and how does it demonstrate reductive thinking or “single stories” about a country or group of people? Explain how the article you chose relates to Attiah’s article. Please include a link to the article you chose.
  3. For the assigned texts that you have not yet discussed in detail in your answers to other questions, what stood out to you most, and how did you see these texts connecting to the rest of the week’s materials?

Assigned Texts:

  • “On Transnational Feminist Solidarity” (Links to an external site.) by Hadeel Abdelhy
  • “Undoing the ‘Package Picture’ of Culture” (Links to an external site.) by Uma Narayan (read slowly)
  • “‘African’ Drumming, the Homogenisation of a Continent” (Links to an external site.) by Nathan Holder
  • “I’ve Seen First-Hand the Toxic Racism in International Women’s Rights Groups” (Links to an external site.) by Lori Adelman
  • “How Western Media Would Cover Minneapolis if it Happened in Another Country” (Links to an external site.) by Karen Attiah (Attiah PDF) (Links to an external site.)
  • “Hyphen-Nation” (Links to an external site.) (watch all nine stories 1–2 minute stories)
  • “Gate 4-A” (Links to an external site.) by Naomi Shihab Nye

Essay: Reading Analysis

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Important Due Dates:   Please remember that you lose points if you are unprepared on workshop days such as brainstorm, outline and rough draft. Late steps suffer a ten point deduction and those steps must be checked off before the final draft of the essay is completed. Check in with me about how you are verifying that your process is complete. Only essays with all the process steps completed are eligible for a grade.  If you have received fewer than seven points on any of the steps, it is your responsibility to check in with me before the next step of the essay is due to talk about revision.

 

Outline due Sept 29 for CRN 22479 and Sept 30 for CRN 20619 and 20611 by the beginning of your scheduled class session.

Make sure to attend the REQUIRED ZOOM session during your scheduled class time. Remember this may be different than the 20611 that appears on our shell.

 

Rough Draft due Oct. 11

If you do not turn your rough draft in on time, you will not be paired for peer review and will lose those ten points. Additionally, it is your responsibility to schedule a visit to the writing center to receive feedback and revision strategies.

 

Final Draft due Oct 18

This draft must be 1000-1250 words.  Do not count the Works Cited toward this minimum development. Make sure you have considered not only the feedback you received on your rough draft but also addressed all suggestions on content and formatting you received on Essay 1.

 

Essay Two Prompt

This essay will identify and fully articulate the theme of one literary story. That means you will step back from the work and express an opinion about what value the story has for the reader. What human truth is the writer sharing? To defend that interpretation, use literary devices (such as plot, characterization, symbolism, irony, setting, etc.) that the author utilizes to realize the theme. You will support your theme statement with direct quotations from the story.

 

Texts

· Choose ONE of the short stories we discussed as a class. “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,” “The Red Convertible” or “Say Yes.”

· You may NOT use “Offerings”

 

Brainstorm ideas:

· In choosing the story, think about what class discussion really engaged you.

· You might also harvest quotations you are confident about discussing and explaining. If you’ve got at least six quotations, you can shape your discussion around logical paragraphing.

· Think about what tool helped you best unlock a story. You might use that to help you locate suitable quotations, and it will also help you think about essay organization.

 

In this essay I’ll be looking for:

· A general introduction and conclusion that express how the story speaks to today’s reader and a thesis that states a general theme that can be explored with formal criticism.

· Your ability to use literary devices to organize and discuss the points you make. DO NOT provide a laundry list of literary terms. Do apply the literary terminology to help you defend your theme and develop your commentary.

· Your ability to select appropriate quotations, cite them properly, and offer commentary that explains how the evidence selected defends or clarifies your theme.

· Attention to word choice and academic tone.

Logtic And Photos.

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Photo 121 – History and Appreciation of Photography Vocabulary for Photograph Analysis Exercises General vocabulary:

o Abstract: an image that emphasizes formal elements (line, shape, etc.) rather than specific, recognizable objects.

o Representational: Images of recognizable objects. o Subject: The main object or person in a photograph. o Content: The subject, topic or information captured in a photograph o Objective: The capturing of a subject in a non-subjective way, showing no personal bias,

not making any statement. Showing the subject as is. o Intention: The reasons why the artist created this work or the reasons for the choices

(could be formal or aesthetic) she made in creating this work. o Expressive: Showing emotion o Theme: a consistent, dominant, and unifying idea in a body or collection of work. o Geometric shape: shapes found in geometry like circles, squares, triangle, and

rectangles. o Organic shape: shapes based on natural objects such as trees, rocks, leaves. o Landscape: Environment (can be natural or man-made like buildings).

Visual Elements in art/photography:

o Line: What kind of lines are in the photograph? Curvy, straight, thin, thick? One single line? Multiple lines? Are the lines creating some kind of directions or movements? Is a natural line formed by the object itself (like an electrical line) or is it a group of objects that formed a line (like a bunch of cones lined up to form a line)?

o Shape: Are the shapes geometric or organic? One shape or many? Do they form a pattern?

o Space: Does the photograph seem to show depth? Shallow? What made this (like large cones in front and gets smaller as they move into the back – this creates depth)? Is there a spatial illusion? What about the negative/background space?

o Texture: Does the image/object feel rough? Smooth? Does it look wet? Shiny? If you could touch the surface what do you think it would feel like?

o Value: How dark is the darkest value? The lightest? Is there a long range of grays? Does the foreground or main object have the lightest or darkest value?

Components in art/photography:

o Vantage point or Angle: Where is the photographer’s vantage point? Does it seem like the photographer is very low on the ground pointing the camera up? The opposite?

o Background or negative space: Not the main object or point of interest in the photograph. This can be supporting landscape, objects, buildings, or people.

 

 

o Balance: Are the visual elements in the photograph evenly (symmetrical) distributed? Or the opposite (Asymmetrical)? How does the evenness make you feel? What about the unbalanced asymmetrical placement of objects? Does it make you feel uneasy?

o Focus: Which object(s) are most prominently focused in the photograph? o Light: Which part of the photograph is highlighted? Shadows? Is the light natural or

artificial? Is it soft lighting? Harsh light? Is it a direct light source (light shining on the subject)? Or is it a reflected source (light bouncing off something else onto the subject)? Can you guess the time of day base of the lighting?

o Repetition: Are there a group of shapes that are grouped together to create a pattern (this can be objects or the negative/background spaces)?

o Composition: The arrangement of the formal elements that make up the photograph. o Contour: The outline of an object or shape. Does the light cause the objects to form an

outline? What purpose does this serve? Does the shadow or value or light form an illusion of lines that move your eyes from certain point to point?

o Contrast: Strong visual differences between light and dark, smooth and rough textures, single object that connotes light weight vs a large group of objects that give the notion of heavy weight, etc.…

o Framing or Edge of paper: How did the photographer crop or frame the work? Does the object/image end at exactly the end of the edge of the paper? Does the object/image get cut off? Are there a lot of space left at the top of the paper? Does this make everything seem really crowded in the space? Does the amount of space devoted to the top make the sky/space see, bigger? Ask why the object/image ends where it ends? Why are things placed where they are?

o Setting: The actual environment where the image/object is photographed? Is it indoor? Outdoor? On a table? On a stage? Describe the space.