Compassion Essays

In conducting my ‘day of compassion’, I had to define what compassion was to me first. Defining it was very difficult since I did not know where to set the standards. Coming up with something arbitrary, I defined compassion rather loosely as being ‘caring, loving, merciful and empathic’ to other …

Compassion is a complex notion thought to have powerful influences on therapeutic relationships. The concept of measuring compassion in nursing has catalysed research into quantifying this otherwise invisible act of humanity (Sturgeon 2008). Person-centred care; attuning your kindness and competence to meet the unique needs of another person, is accepted …

“Compassion is what causes us to forgive. Not because someone deserves it, but because they need it” (Giles 1). In the plays Macbeth and The Tempest, Shakespeare poses the questions of humanity and clearly defines it along the lines of the story. Macbeth follows the story of a power-hungry couple …

Many poets write about death and how they feel when they lose loved ones, and a good example of this W. H Auden whose poem ,’stop all the clocks… ‘ outlines his feelings about how he thinks the world should change because his lover is dead. Another poem by Christana …

Compassion is seen around the world. Or so it’s thought. Barbara Ascher questions whether or not compassion is real or if it’s driven by fear in her essay “On Compassion.” She takes an attitude that it is fear-driven, and tries to sway the reader to think as she does. Trying …

The man’s grin is less the result of circumstance than dreams or madness. His buttonless shirt, with one sleeve missing, hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers. Carefully plaited dreadlocks bespeak a better time, long ago. As he crosses Manhattan’s Seventy-Ninth Street, his gait is the shuffle of the …

When an individual is willing to grow up, sooner or later, that person will experience many adversities that at times might take them by surprise, and cause them to question their ethical morals. Beverly Mitchell once stated, “Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and …

A Crime of Compassion or Just a Crime? In “A Crime of Compassions” Barbara Huttman (writer) told the audience in the Phil Donahue show and every person that read A Crime of Compassion about Mac and the way Mac suffered from lung cancer. “Mac was a young, witty, macho cop …