It is easy to confuse empathy with sympathy, but the concepts are different in two important ways. First, sympathy means you feel compassion for another person's predicament, whereas empathy means you have a personal sense of what that predicament is like. Consider the difference between sympathizing with an unwed mother or a homeless person and empathizing with them—imagining what it would be

like to be in their position. When you sympathize, it is the other's confusion, joy, or pain. When you empathize, the experience becomes your own, at least for the moment. Empathy is different from sympathy in a second way. We sympathize only when we accept the reasons for another's pain as valid, whereas it's possible to empathize without feeling sympathy. You can empathize with a difficult relative, a rude stranger, and even a criminal without feeling much sympathy for them. Empathizing allows you to understand another person's motives without requiring you to agree with them. After empathizing you will almost certainly understand them better, but sympathy won't always follow. Neither sympathy nor empathy is identical to the "I know how you feel" type of response that some people offer when faced with another's expression of emotion. Hearing someone else's account—of falling in love or losing a job, for example—might remind you of a similar experience, but it is highly unlikely that your experience matched his or hers. Furthermore, an "I know how you feel" response can be interpreted as a conversational "take-away" in which you disregard the other person's story and begin telling yours. There is no consistent evidence that suggests that the ability to empathize is better for one sex or the other. Some people, however, seem to have a hereditary capacity for greater empathizing than do others. Studies of identical and fraternal twins indicate that identical female twins are more similar to one another in their ability to empathize than are fraternal twins. Interestingly, there seems to be no difference between male twins. Although empathy may have a biological basis, the role of environment can still play an important role. For example, parents who are sensitive to their children's feelings tend to have children who also are sensitive to the feelings of others. "Hearing someone else's account—of falling in love or losing a job, for example-- might remind you of a similar experience, but it is highly unlikely that your experience matched his or hers." "Furthermore, an "I know how you feel" response can be interpreted as a conversational "take-away" in which you disregard the other person's story and begin telling yours." How are the above two sentences from the third paragraph related?

a. The second sentence contrasts with the first.
b. The second sentence summarizes the content of the first.
c. The second sentence adds a fact about something mentioned in the first.
d. The second sentence gives an example of something mentioned in the first.


C

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Use the present indicative of the verbs in the list to complete the following sentences. sentarse          acostarse          divertirse          levantarse Tú siempre _________________ en las fiestas del club.

What will be an ideal response?

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Quelle famille!

Guillaume and Layla have been dating for a while and it is time for Guillaume to meet Layla’s family. Guillaume finds that Layla’s family is very different from his own! Complete Layla’s sentences with the correct possessive adjectives. Layla: Voici (1) ____________________ mère. Elle s’appelle Henriette. Je te présente (2) ____________________ père, Georges. Il n’est pas très gentil, alors ne t’approche pas trop de lui (don’t get too close to him)! Voilà (3) ____________________ frères jumeaux: Titi (4) (____________________ vrai prénom est Christian) et Mimi (5) (____________________ prénom est Milo). Personne ne les appelle par (6) ____________________ (their) prénoms. Ils ont 30 ans, mais ils ne font rien: ils ne travaillent pas. C’est pour ça qu’ils sont toujours chez (7) ____________________ (our) parents. Et voici Romane, (8) ____________________ petite sœur. Elle n’est jamais de bonne humeur depuis que (since) (9) _______________ petit ami l’a quittée il y a trois ans. Alors, ne t’approche pas trop d’elle non plus (neither)! Finalement, (10) _______________ (our) chien, Atack. Attention, parce qu’il est méchant. Alors, ne t’approche pas trop de lui non plus! Guillaume: Quelle famille! Est-ce que (11) _______________ (your, inf.) tantes, oncles et cousins sont un peu plus normaux au moins? Même (12) _______________ (your, inf.) chien est hostile!

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Voy a poner la basura ________________ del fregadero.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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How does Emilia die?

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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