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    Effect of Telling a Lie

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    minutes another lie that is said. Or can benefit everyone‚ or it may be for the worse. Lying is easily influenced by adolescents‚ such as children‚ parents have always taught their children that lying is a horrible habit and should be discouraged‚ as children grow‚ they learn the world around them‚ and can not avoid start lying‚ so lying is a bad habit because they are witnesses of the lies that are coming out of the mouth of all. There are two main types of lies‚ is the occasional white lie that does

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    Should We Lie

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    Assignment 1 Final draft Yi Chen Should we lie? What is the conversation? In the class we did talk a lot about that. Some said very simply‚ “it’s talking”; some other used dictionary and said “it’s the exchange of information.” They are all right but my definition for the term “conversation” is that it’s basically the one of the connections between human beings‚ which is considered as the most important one and serves as the cornerstone of the human society. Dances and

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    TOK ESSAY “Art is a lie that brings us nearer to the truth” (Pablo Picasso) There are different ways for art to portray elements of truth and lies; but what Picasso was mostly referring to with his quote was that art might be a representation of the truth however lies to the human eye in terms of perception. The word art is somehow “controversial‚ especially in contemporary philosophy” because it relies on different AOK’s and WOK’s. The main area of art focused to support Picasso’s quote

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    A DISCURSIVE ESSAY (The other side of truth) Task: To write a short essay (300-800) words on the theme of truth. Beverley Naidoo grew up in South Africa but as a white child‚ she did not question why her family had all of the privileges that black families did not share. However when she went she went to university in the 1960’s she became involved in the anti-apartheid movement and spent eight weeks in prison. She has written about South Africa in “journey to jo’burg” and “no turning

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    Common Lie Told

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    traveled and eroded path many others have trekked before you. A prominent lie in contemporary life is that each individual person is special‚ concealing the uniform homogenous truth of life. This lie is told to children from the very start of their lives. It is engraved into the child’s mind by parents‚ teachers‚ even the media and society. Parents teach their little superstar child that there is no body quite like them. This white lie is prevalent in the media. For example‚ the song‚ You Are Special

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    The Ways We Lie Essay

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    Lying is “a false statement or action made with the intent to deceive.” (Ericsson1) Lying is a bad thing for anyone to do for various reasons. Three writers that agree are Stephanie Ericsson author of “The ways we Lie”‚ Richard Gunderman author of “is lying bad for us?”‚ and Angela Haupts author of “How lying affects your health”. These three writers give great insight on how these lies can affect ones mental health‚ as well as their psychological health and also how you can improve from those negative

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    Why We Lie

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    People may lie a couple times‚ but that doesn’t make them are liar. Your lying depends on the situation that you encounter. Some people think that lying is the worst thing; and on the contrast other people think that sometimes it would be necessary to lie. Lying can be acceptable on the situation‚ if there good intention behind it .For instance‚ if you think that I am giving my friend a moral to make him happy‚ then that kind of lying would be appropriate and acceptable. Wouldn’t be embarrassed for

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    Truth and Beauty Essay takes Keats’ poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" to illustrate that beauty is not necessarily truth when a pleasing form replaces substance. TRUTH AND BEAUTYAt this point in the year‚ when time is measured by how many shopping days are left... the Jewish person often finds himself re-defining who he is in relationship to his Judaism. The festival of Chanukah - the most noticeable aspect of Kislev‚ is all about redefining and rededicating ourselves to the values and principles

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    Analysis: The Lie Detector

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    Hersh Patel Professor Kathryn Lafferty English 101 24 September 2015 The Lie Detector In today’s world people are not believable. The people that you shouldn’t trust are judged to be marvelous people. On the other hand good people are misjudged as lousy people. This is what make the world corrupt. In the case of Adnan Syed vs. the state there was only one testimony by someone named Jay. Jay’s testimony is inconsistent because he is lying: about the call made from Best Buy‚ Jay tampered with evidence

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    Truth

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    Langston Hughes In question one‚ speaking of “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”‚ it asks about why the river is “apt metaphor for the human soul.” The answer to that question is because rivers map out areas‚ like the Euphrates is mentioned‚ well in the beginning of time the Euphrates was a pretty important river. Then Hughes talks about the Congo‚ Nile‚ Mississippi‚ and New Orleans River‚ thus detailing or mapping out man’s movement across the globe. Also notice that the author chooses rivers that have

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