Pham‚ Kent 3A Dec/10/10 Is lie good or bad??? I recently read the story named” The Whole Truth”. This story was telling us lies are a bad idea but you can lie in some situations. This story told us about a yound man named Bob‚ he lied to a parking lot owner that he was graduated from high school and he was 21 years old but actually he was 18. He got a job. After 4 months‚ his boss suggested him to go to college. He feel nervous because he lied to his boss and that will
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The Ways We Lie By Stephanie Ericsson It is curious to think that any one person could be telling a lie without knowing that they are. In the essay “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson‚ she explores the thought of how lies are incorporated into everyday life. According to this essay‚ “We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions”. How do we know what
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small lie or a big lie‚ there is always some form of consequence to each and every fib. There are a few certain articles such as‚ “A Philosopher on Lying‚” by Immanuel Kant who also believe lying should not be tolerated in any way. Just like in the article I mentioned earlier‚ “A Philosopher on Lying‚” a German philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant‚ explains his point of view on lying. Every lie is dangerous; the size of the lie doesn’t matter. As Kant states in the article‚ “Don’t tell someone a lie‚ because
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At some point in their lives‚ everyone will have to tell a lie. There are many reasons and motives to lie‚ but all require the same basic set of skills in order to do it effectively. The lie must be believable‚ consistent‚ and delivered correctly. Lying is done for three main reasons: to spare someone’s feelings‚ to brag‚ and to cover something up. Lying to spare someone’s feelings and to brag are the simplest forms of lies‚ and are fairly easy. Lying to cover something up is the most useful and
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Ways We Lie” We can’t go a day with out lying. No matter where we go lies are all around us. We can’t escape lies. It’s a ritual for us. We lie so much that sometimes we can’t even tell the truth from a lie. People ask questions and if you really don’t want to answer think up of a lie without effort and lie straight to their face. The reason some people lie is so that they don’t hurt some ones feelings. They take consideration of other peoples feelings and don’t want to hurt them. So they lie. A lot
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Truth is dead but at the same time it isn’t‚ because we are all human and we all lie at one point‚ we all lie one point of the day. We lie because we are scared of what might happen if we tell the truth‚ because you think when you lie that you might not hurt the person who may be asking you a simple question like in a relationship you may ask your boyfriend/girlfriend: “Are you cheating?”‚ then they may say no because you don’t want to get caught‚ but really they might be cheating‚ so then you the
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Questions for Close Reading: 1. “We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions.” 2. When Stephanie Ericsson went a whole week without telling a single lie‚ she recalled it “paralyzing.” She discovered that telling the truth all the time is “nearly impossible.” 3. A lie is a false action done with the intent to deceive. “Ignoring the
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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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people find themselves doing it anyway. In fact‚ more than 80 percent of women admit to occasionally telling what they consider harmless half-truths‚ says Susan Shapiro Barash‚ author of Little White Lies‚ Deep Dark Secrets: The Truth About Why Women Lie (St. Martin’s Press‚ $15‚ amazon.com). And 75 percent admit to lying to loved ones about money in particular. The tendency to tell tales is “a very natural human trait‚” explains David L. Smith‚ Ph.D.‚ associate professor of philosophy at the University
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In "The Ways We Lie‚" by Stephanie Ericsson‚ the author depicts the many ways humans lie and justifies the reasons for doing so. There is the white lie‚ which is basically telling an untruth . Facades are basically changing your personality while ignoring the plain facts‚ as the title implies‚ is a false action done with the intent to deceive. Deflecting is not answering the question at all; it is being up-front about comfortable issues and not revealing the couple of very important issues that changes
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