In the Legend of the Buddha Shakyamuni, the word "compassion" appears several times throughout the text. In the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word "compassion" is defined in two different ways. ... I feel that the second definition of compassion (or karuna) pertains to the legend. Compassion in Sanskrit is defined as "pity, active sympathy and gentle affection felt for all sentient beings." ... The second definition of compassion illustrates Buddha's desire to elevate himself beyond the realm of the living and onto a more infinite, spiritual level. ...

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The dictionary defines honesty as marked by or displaying integrity. ... Life should be full of compassion. ... The dictionary defines compassion as a deep awareness of the sufferings of another coupled with the wish to relieve it. Mature adults are people that have compassion. ... The dictionary defines a loyal person as someone who is faithful to a person, ideal, custom, or duty. ...

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"Love" a word easy to spell, difficult to define and nearly impossible to live without it. ... It is can be used to describe a plethora of issues like feelings, emotions, attraction, attachments, kindness, compassion, affection, friendship, and romance. ... This paper is about my fascination in defining love from different perspectives. ... Love is an elaborate word that is difficult to define using a single definition. ... The Merriam Web Dictionary defines love as a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection; a loyal and benevolent concern for others. ...

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The project must demonstrate compassion and promote the cause of peace. ... (p. 7)" Now how can someone, like myself, ethically and logically refute Catalano, a person promoting peace and compassion? ... Who is really to say that best way to improve upon anything is through peace and compassion. ... Once again I have an ethical issue with this because who is to define that peaceful means are the best way to resolve something. ... But here you get into things like what exactly is defined as peaceful, no bleeding, no raising of voices, no one dies? ...

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Liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence II. ... Compassion in Dying v. ... We do have compassion. ... Yet, we lack the compassion to allow euthanasia. ... In the case of Compassion in Dying v. ...

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Those three main values include passion, dedication, and compassion. ... Throughout this essay, I will describe and define each of these values, telling what they mean to me, personally, and where I believe I inherited them. ... Webster defines the word Passion as, "a strong liking for or devotion to some activity, object, or concept." ... Jesus showed compassion on me by dying for me and covering my sins. Without His compassion, all other values are worthless. ...

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Theresa Murphy's middle name could well be compassion. ... When it comes to compassion and empathy Theresa definitely sets the standard. Thank you, Theresa, for living the moral focus trait of compassion. ... Weston Davis - An athlete is defined as, "a person who has a natural ability in sports, games, or other activities requiring strength, skill and endurance." ...

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He defines two key motivating principles: self-preservation and pity (Discourse 54/55). ... Rousseau argues that the innate feeling of compassion compels natural man. ... Compassion replaced the action of laws, customs or virtues in the state of nature. ... Through his observation of the DeLacey family he discovers concept of compassion (pitty). ... The monster's compassion and love for the family is illustrated with these gestures. ...

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The young man realized how cruel the upper class were and showed compassion towards Akaky by not participating in teasing him. ... They fail, so one of his office mates, moved my compassion, gives him advice. ... He shows no compassion to him while he is dying. ... The only thing to ever show Akaky warmth and compassion was his new overcoat. ... Society and rank will always define Akaky, but he wanted so compassion from his peers....

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They define "good" as what makes life easier, safer, with such qualities as patience, humility, charity, modesty and compassion. ... Patience, modesty, charity and compassion are some of the virtues that Nietszche believes to be "sour grapes". ... It would include such virtues as personal power, strength, courage, pride, independence, patience, kindness, charity and compassion. ...

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In the Oxford Dictionary, murder is defined as "the unlawful killing of a human being by another with malice aforethought". ... The physician is merely performing an act of compassion towards the patient by ending the pain and suffering. ... The government should show some compassion towards these patients by letting physicians help end the pain and let them finally rest in peace....

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It is defined as the act of killing someone painlessly. ... After reading the story, "A Crime of Compassion" I found myself sympathizing with Mac. ... The nurse in "A Crime of Compassion" was faced with a living, breathing human being who was desperate for help. ...

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Dick uses Rick Deckerd as an example of why humanity cannot be defined by empathy. ... The author perfectly utilizes Rick's emotionally suspect character in a demonstration that humanity cannot be clearly defined, when Rick attempts to administer a Voigt-Kampff test on Luba Luft. ... Similar to Rick, John Isidore provides an example of why humanity cannot be defined by its compassion. ... Dick tells us that empathy is not a defining human characteristic. Perhaps humanity cannot be defined, and there are no important differences between humans and androids. ...

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Three major themes that Mark Twain and Harper Lee explore in Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird are appearance versus reality, the corruption and materialism of humans, and the importance of compassion. ... Great philosophers have said that greed is a part of human nature, a defining characteristic of humanity. ... The world in which we live has many people with the virtue of compassion, the ability to aid others while they are feeling down. ... Compassion is very evident in the To Kill a Mockingbird story. ... Cunningham, "pay with potatoes." (18) The whole community has a se...

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In a post-apocalyptic world where replicants of humans are stronger, physically and intellectually, humans begin to cling the idea of compassion as the one distinguishing factor between humans and androids. ... In that split second, the pre-programmed (or possibly developed) compassion and the "real" compassion are distinguished, and, in the case of all the androids presented in the book, can mean life or death. ... In other words, the replicants actually can feel sympathy and compassion, but their response time (measured in milliseconds) is minutely slower. ... If one can care for an ani...

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"A Worn Path," had a very definable theme. ... This wasn't just her duty or showing compassion, it was being selfless. ... That is why I believe the theme of this story can be defined as: Many times the most unfortunate people can be the most sacrificial. ...

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Define the six parts of tragedy by Aristotle- Aristotle believed that were six parts of tragedy, plot, character, thought (theme), language, melody (music), and spectacle. ... Define tragedy- Tragedy can be defined a numerous amount of ways, for instance, if a person commits an unfortunate error like not paying attention while driving he or she can be caught in a tragic accident. ... These occurrences affect us, leaving us filled with compassion and no understanding of why this happened. ...

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Although this statement leaves sparse room for argument, it does little to define what love is beyond the vague realm of wonderful. In this essay I will attempt the difficult task of defining love by looking at the history, explaining what love is not, and examining the uses of love and the results of that usage. Humans have this thing we call love, an unexplainable feeling of compassion. ... I will try now, to define what I see as love from an evolutionary standpoint. ...

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Ahimsa: Jainism explains that violence is not defined by actual harm for this may be unintentional. It is the intention to harm, the absence of compassion, and the ignorance that makes an action violent. ...

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Developing good citizen-athletes involves defining and developing the relationship from athlete to athlete, from athlete to team, and from athlete to community. ... Compassion is the emotion of caring for people and for other living things. Compassion gives a person an emotional bond with his or her world. Respect is similar to compassion but different in some ways. An important aspect of respect is self-respect, whereas compassion is directed toward others. ...

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Compassion for the small one is drowned out under a demand for rights, but the rights of the unborn is often left unconsidered. ... It is only through combination, however, that the sex cells contain the full complement of heredity units that defines a human being. This procedure of combination defines conception. ... Pro-life activists claim that abortion is immoral because it is simply defined as murder. ... Some women may look at having an abortion to solve her personal problems, but in all, women are abandoning the abortion because it weakens their great strengths like creation, ...

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There is no love, no compassion, no emotion, just raw pleasure. Gloria Steinem tries to show this difference between true love-making (erotica) and an act of sex for entertainment or mere pleasure (pornography, in which the female is the victim) by clearly defining the two terms in her essay. ... They begin to associate violence with sex and think that the two naturally go together but in reality sex is about compassion and that the violence is a by-product of the in-equality between men and women. ...

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His existence plays a defining role in every decision I have made and will make in the future. ... Lastly, he is a forgiving god who will always forgive our inequities because of his everlasting compassion and love for us. ...

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