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    Ball Don't Lie

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    Summer Reading 10th Grade Ball Don’t Lie Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena was a legendary realistic fiction novel in which a young boy faced the challenges of everyday life in the projects. The protagonist Sticky is a boy from the slums of California who spent a large portion of his life in an orphanage. Throughout the years he has changed foster parents‚ but has never found the right one. Sticky is passionate about basketball and is known to be a prodigy at what he does. He

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    Truth and Beauty

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    Truth and Beauty Megan D. ENG 4U1 February 18‚ 2014 Ms. Reid Truth and beauty can seem to be two different things; I believe beauty is stereotypically a physical feature and truth coming from within the individual. After this unit‚ I have learned that truth is beautiful but beauty is not always truthful. I find truth is a more of a beneficial characteristic to possess; beauty will eventually fade‚ leaving only the truth behind. Outer beauty has never been my first

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    Mirrors Don't lie

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    were often depicted holding hand mirrors. With their capacity to reflect back nearly all incident light upon them and so recapitulate the scene they face‚ mirrors are like pieces of dreams‚ their images hyper-real and profoundly fake. Mirrors reveal truths you may not want to see. Give them a little smoke and a house to call their own‚ and mirrors will tell you nothing but lies. To scientists‚ the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of mirrors make them powerful tools for exploring questions about

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    ETMA 01 The two resources which I have chosen I feel reflect some of the contrasting models of disability which we have looked at in Units 1-4 of the course materials (E214‚ The Open University‚ 2010). The first resource comes from the National Autistic Society’s website and the second comes from the national newspaper The Guardian. The first resource (Appendix A) is an information page entitled ‘What is Asperger Syndrome’ and particularly focusses on the medical/deficit model of disability

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    The Reality of the Truth

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    What exactly is the truth? Is it reality‚ sincerity‚ integrity? Is it accuracy and honesty? How can we tell the difference between the truth and lies? Why does the media have the power to decide for us what is true? As Oscar Wilde once said ’The truth is rarely pure and never simple’. This statement sums up the difficulties of telling the truth‚ and this is furthermore shown in Rob Sitch et al’s Frontline‚ Lies by Michael Leunig and the poem Nothing to Report by May Herschel Clarke. The television

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    Truth and Justice

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    In the crucible it is clear that different characters have different understandings of the concept of truth and justice. In the following essay I am going to critically analyse the views held by these characters. Even though John is a man of integrity who holds himself to high moral standard there are times when he lapses occasionally‚ this is evident when we discover his affair with Abigail. despite the fact that he had terminated his liaison with her there is still a part in him that cares about

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    Reason Why Children Lie

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    to lie in their lives to avoid saying something they do not want to. Adults do it sometimes when they want to keep their children happy and avoid them from being sad if parents tell them the truth. Now children do lie quite more than adults for their own reasons. The real question is why do children lie? Children lie often because they think the truth hurts people’s feelings and they are afraid of telling the truth. Parents teach their kids not to lie‚ but yet they allow their children to lie when

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    Truth In Othello

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    The truth always comes to fruition‚ but sometimes too late. In Othello‚ Iago deceives everyone around him in order to destroy Othello and those close to him. By the time Iago’s lies are revealed Othello already participated in the deaths of the people he held closest to him as a result he took his own life. Othello by Shakespeare is an ethnic cultural literary piece because Iago felt he was stripped of his rightful position as lieutenant‚ Iago did not believe Othello should be general since he was

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    Miscontrued Truths

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    Stephanie Smith Sean Wheaton English 102 16 Nov 2013 Can Misconstrued Truth Lead to Altered Realities? A History of Histories Undoing. As the dust fell‚ there lie three men‚ gunned down in a vacant lot just behind the O.K. Corral. The Earp brothers along with good friend‚ and known gunslinger Doc Holliday stood in the dust-clearing road. Wounded but not defeated these heroes victoriously took their place in history and hearts all around the world. Tombstone was one of many movies that

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    by describing the “noble lie” written in Book 3 of Plato’s Republic‚ not specifically the myth of the metals‚ but a more general idea.  I will argue this lie is justifiable‚ even in modern‚ more liberal contexts than Ancient Greece. Once the noble lie is correctly defined‚ it is clear how one could use it in building the “Just City.” In establishing the lie it is important to differentiate the terms “myth” and “falsehood” with fiction. We must look at the noble lie as a lie not intended to deceive

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