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I dont know the story.. .
 
        
             
        
        
        
D. There was a sharp softness...
an oxymoron is a figure of speech in which opposite terms appear 
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
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The author point out the ability of human beings to have feelings for each other through empathy which inturn create altruistic human behavior.
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Empathy result in having compassion and understanding feelings of people who are afflicted and it's encourage others to render help. Empathy is a motivator of altruism. Altruism is a person's ego who has problems and anxieties and go out to render help to others who need it. Altruism born out of empathy is the true altruism because it is the desire to help people who are afflicted.
 
        
             
        
        
        
In "The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband", the option that best describes how most of the residents in Unity Mansions felt about Mrs. Tall and Mr. Short when they first moved to their community is 2 coolly indifferent.