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Regret Or Apology? - Research Paper

Regret Or Apology?

When does saying you're sorry go from an expression of regret to an
apology? The sad thing about this is that some people don't know the
difference. Deborah Tannen, a professor at Georgetown University, reports:

"The First Lady… 'I regret very much that the efforts on
health care were badly misunderstood, taken out of context,
and used politically against the Administration. I take
responsibility for that, and I'm very sorry for that' she said.
The first part of the quote clearly indicates that the fault was
not with her actions... but rather with the way they were
received and distorted by others. But because she said the
big bad 'S' word, all hell broke loose. ...

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Erich
Segal got it exactly wrong. Love doesn't mean never having to say you're
sorry. Love means being able to say you're sorry..., being strong enough
to admit you were at fault." Tannen boldly stated (109). I agree with her,
I don't think that saying you're sorry and admitting you were wrong makes
you weak at all. In my family I was taught that admitting that you were
wrong made you a stronger, better person. Not everyone was raised the same
way I was, in a household of nothing but women, so I guess that that is one
possible reason men may find it hard to admit guilt.
Why does it seem to be more of a task for men, well, not all men,
to apologize and admit they are wrong? Tannen says, "One C.E.O. found that
he could avoid it entirely: His deputy told me that part of his job was to
make the rounds after the boss had lost his temper and apologize for him."
(107). Men in power, especially, tend to have this problem with
apologizing a little more frequently than average ...

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Added: 8/12/2005 05:09:57 PM
Category: English
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