The students were recently shown a touching music video about the 9/11 disaster to truly understand the meaning of sympathy and understand how it is different from empathy. The beautiful song elevated the sense of brotherhood amongst students. The students voiced their opinion/feelings with an open heart much to the surprise of their facilitators……
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As we came to know that we have to go the IT room, various thought came in our mind as to why we were going there. But once we were in IT room, it was a twist. Ma’am suddenly showed us a video of "He aint heavy he is my brother" . But the video shown to us made us feel really very emphatic for those who suffered from the attack. We saw that during the 9/11 attack family members and non-family members were helping each other. Fire fighters played the most important role. They did not care for their own lives, instead they thought of the people who were in need. At that point of time religion, caste, race etc did not have any effect on the minds of the fire fighters. This is a perfect example of empathy and also the fact that brotherhood is not yet extinct. As spoken in the first line of the poem, "he aint heavy, he is my brother, means that the people were not a burden for anyone at that time. During the attack people were in grief and tears were rolling down from their eyes. The crash of 9/11 attack just took a second but the impact was just unimaginable
Ashu Goel
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Humans have always shown a feeling of sympathy whenever a disaster or a sad thing happens. The event of 9/11 attack took away lives of thousands of people with it. The sufferings were sympathised by many people, but it was the firefighters, the rescue operation workers and the volunteers helping in the rescue work who showed empathy not sympathy. They were helping selflessly and they did not care who they were helping. They just helped anybody who was in need. The line of the song, "he aint heavy he is my brother" correctly expresses the feeling of the people who were working tirelessly in the rescue operations.
Tizil Saini
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Those of us who watched the terror of the 9/11 attacks could certainly sympathize, but could we empathize? Actually, many of us could, though few of us can lay claim to really knowing what it might be like to either be in that attack or lose loved ones in it.
ReplyDeleteAll Americans shared in the common ground that America had been attacked. People with no relationship to any person affected by the attack were stunned, shocked, saddened, in grief. We were not just sympathetic, and many arose to express empathy. This is perhaps the best example of how empathy differs from sympathy. Sympathy expressed to a person in grief suggests that person is alone in their grief. Empathy suggests you're in it with them, you can imagine what it is to be in their shoes, and you are together with them in emotional turmoil and loss. Even the best people in the world may have a hard time expressing true empathy.
9\11 terror attack was a shock for the whole world.As we saw that vedio we started realising that bad moments unites everyone together ,by forgetting all sorrows and who is the one with us,is he a enemy or a friend;at that time everyone was just and just a sufferer who was suffering and going through a great shock.We can empathyse in many ways but its upto us that how we want to do it.9\11 terror attack was one of the best example for empathy .as vaibhav said we can differenciate between sympathy and empathy after seeing the unity of the people and the way they shared each other's pain through the vedio.One thing is as clear as a crystal that symapathysing is easy but empathysing is very hard and needs great courage.
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DeleteThe tragic bomb attacks on thetwin towers of the world Trade centre, left people horrified. But at the same time it had an immediate and overwhelming affect upon the american people.The whole America stood up for saving the victims of the attack, irrespective of their society,symthy or empathy are both acts of feeling but with symthy you feel for the people. So i pray to god that terrorism should be removed forever. Those of us who watched the terror attacks could certainly symthize also many of us were able to empathize, which is not a very common act of expression among the people.
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