Reeling in Research

1. The topic that I focused on from the video, "Passion Project" was empathy. In the article, The Psycology of Empathy, by Saberi Roy, she explains how empathy is the capability to feel for another person. If you see someone being sad, you are able to feel their sad. Empathy relates to my own essay because I mention how teachers shouldn't give students homework because a student wants to feel the feeling of completion and relief after the exhausting day of school. Roy states,"Empathy is thus described as recognizing other people's emotions through intuition and is marked by a feeling of connecting to the other person." The teacher should be able to feel the same feeling the student is feeling. The teachers themselves don't want to have to feel like their day isn't over either. The article also relates to my essay because I mentioned how teachers giving homework gives them a chance to get lazy as educators, allowing them to not care, and not motivate their students. Roy states,"Empathy is about motivating or influencing the other person by tapping in on his or her emotions." This means that teachers would get the chance to better focus on their students if they didn't need to worry about grading a homework assignment.

What I am passionate about is my writing, I like to write comedy, stories, poems or songs, I mean they aren't that good but I like them, or whatever I have done, I never finish any of the pieces.

I am in school because I hope to take advantage of the education I can receive here in America and the opportunity my parents tell me they didn't have the chance to get.

In this class I just hope to pass or if not be taught well enough to where retaking it would be an ease.