The Norway Room at UN Evan Schneider 612

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The Norway Room at UNEvan Schneider 612
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Evan Schneiderhttp//twitter.com/evanschneider

• Evan Schneider Location UN Headquarters, New York
  http//www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
• Bio Photographer for United Nations Headquarters
  in New York

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EmpathyPut yourself in someone elses
shoesWriter/Audience/Critic

• Empathy, literally without words for emotions, is
  the capacity to, through consciousness rather
  than physically, share the sadness or happiness
  of another sentient being.
• The ability to imagine oneself as another person
  is a sophisticated imaginative process. However
  the basic capacity to recognize emotions is
  probably innate and may be achieved
  unconsciously. Yet it can be trained, and
  achieved with various degrees of intensity or
  accuracy.

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Empathy and Sympathy

• are relationships based on Shared Emotions
  Understanding. Empathy is understood as the
  ability to mutually experience the thoughts,
  emotions, and direct experience of others without
  them being directly communicated intentionally.
• Sympathy is a feeling of care and understanding
  for suffering beings.
• Both have similar usage but differ in their
  emotional meaning.

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Empathy vs. sympathy

• The ability to co-experience and relate to the
  thoughts, emotions, or experience of another
  without them being communicated directly by the
  individual

• The ability to understand and to support the
  emotional situation or experience of another
  being with compassion and sensitivity

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Relationship

• empathy
• Friends, Family, Community
• I can empathize with how aggrieved you must be at
  the loss of your beloved.

• sympathy
• Poor and less fortunate
• I offer my sympathy at the loss of your loved
  one.

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Five-paragraph Essayknown as a hamburger essay

• Introduction a thematic overview of the topic,
  and introduction of the thesis
• Narration a review of the background literature
  to orient the reader to the topic also, a
  structural overview of the essay
• Affirmation the evidence and arguments in favor
  of the thesis
• Negation the evidence and arguments against the
  thesis these also require either "refutation" or
  "concession"
• Conclusion summary of the argument, and
  association of the thesis and argument with
  larger, connected issues.

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Five-part Essay

• Another popular form of the 5 part essay consists
  of
• Introduction Introducing a topic. An important
  part of this is the three pronged thesis.
• Body Paragraph 1 Explaining the first part of the
  three pronged thesis
• Body Paragraph 2 Explaining the second part of
  the three pronged thesis
• Body Paragraph 3 Explaining the third part of the
  three pronged thesis
• Conclusion Summing up points and restating thesis

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Criticism of the Five-paragraph EssayReinforcing
a formulaCurbing creativity/Oversimplification

• According to Thomas E. Nunnally and Kimberley
  Wesley, most teachers and professors consider the
  five-paragraph form ultimately restricting for
  fully developing an idea. Wesley argues that the
  form is never appropriate. Nunnally states that
  the form can be good for developing analytical
  skills that should then be expanded.

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Open-ended openerhow to make a claimparallel
structure 614

• Since the beginning of time we have been
  polluting the universe. We must therefore stop
  polluting Albany because pollution is destroying
  the air, the water, and the community.
• Open-ended as opposed to a dead-end thesis/claim
• Note the thesis will lead to further treatment of
  the issue under three headings the air the
  water and the community.

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Open-ended ClaimParallel Structure

• Cultural loneliness, caused by or derived from
  language barrier, cultural deficit and cultural
  puritanism, intended or unintended, has still
  been haunting us in the context of multicultural
  America.

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John Milton(9 December 1608 8 November
1674)Logos right reason 617

• an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant
  for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known
  for his epic poem Paradise Lost 1667
• Magnum opus for masterpiece

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Cold Intelligence

• Cold intelligence
• Empathy
• Logos logic
• Ethos character/value
• Pathos appeal to feelings

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Herakles/ Heracles struggling with the Nemean
lion, an example of Ethos (Character)

• The lack of emotion reflects an ability to
  withstand the tension of the moment, a quality
  the Greeks called ethoscalmness in front of
  danger.
• Its opposite is pathos, an engagement of the
  moment, represented by the snarling lion.

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Fallacies 619

• Post Hoc--Latin
• after this afterward
• http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/posthoc
• 1. the fallacy of assuming that temporal
  succession is evidence of causal relation
• 2. from Latin, short for Post hoc ergo propter
  hoc after this, therefore on account of this

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FallaciesNon sequitur 620

• Non sequitur
• 1. Logic . an inference or a conclusion that does
  not follow from the premises.
• 2. a statement containing an illogical
  conclusion.
• http//dictionary.reference.com/browse/Nonsequitu
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FallaciesRed Herring 620

• Red herring is an idiomatic expression referring
  to the rhetorical or literary tactic of diverting
  attention away from an item of significance.