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    that the reaction of children toward lying was completely different when they grow up with a different culture. Although I knew that surrounding environment influences children’s behavior‚ I didn’t know that it also affects reaction when people lie. Thus‚ I learned that the relationship between children and lying was more profundity than I expected and made me the interest in lying. 3. Allison Curley. “The Truth About Lies: The Science

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    Is PVC an acceptable vent material for flue gases? Installing a new water heater or furnace can be tricky for the novice HVAC technician. There are many checks that need to be done and codes that need to be followed. While not being complete with the internals can lead to a harmful situation‚ one of the most important decisions that you will have to make is what material you should make the flue out of. Most furnace flues are made out of a metal material which is a proper decision do the high

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    Essay: What does the narrator seem to want from the reader? How does she go about getting what she wants? The meta-truth: metaphorical truth In Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir‚ Lauren Slater attempts to create a new kind of truth called metaphorical truth: emotional truth explained using metaphors instead of facts. She confuses fact and fiction even though it is a memoir and thus creates a convoluted tale of herself where she may or may not be epileptic. Initially‚ the readers believe that she uses

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    Frankie Younger PHIL 121Q Clark 1.31.17 On Truth and Lying in a Nonmoral Sense In this essay I intend to tease apart a passage from Nietzsche’s essay “On Truth and Lying in a Nonmoral Sense” pertaining to concept formation. I will break down his argument into its core constituents and entertain several readings of his claims‚ establishing one of them as closest to Nietzsche’s original intentions. Then‚ I will analyze how this argument fits into the rest of the essay‚ and of which specific interpretation

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    ADVERTISEMENT IS A LEGALISED FORM OF LYING Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an oft-quoted saying. But now-a-days the reverse of it is more true. In modern business‚ ’invention’ is mother of necessityIn this age of machinery‚ new things are produced everyday. Market is created for these things through advertisement Businessmen advertise their goods in various ways and thus spread a knowledge of their goods among the customers. It is through advertisement that people begin to feel a need for

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    Lying isn’t always harmful; in fact people do it every day without even noticing it. Lying helps keep injured people‚ the nation‚ and people in stressful situations calm. It can do just as much good as it can do harm. When people are hurt the worst thing to do is tell them the actual magnitude of the injury and get them scared‚ the only way to avoid this is to lie to them. The gruesome truth is that in war a lot of times limbs get blown off; even worse than that is it’s not unlikely for the person

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    never let the product shown live up to its full expectations. Such advertisements such as weight loss food which lets someone ‘eat as much food as they want and lose weight’‚ is just not that effective. H.G Wells quoted: “Advertising is legalized lying” In modern society‚ advertisers find new and more creative ways to advertise to their target audiences. Advertisers will spend hundreds of billions of dollars encouraging‚ persuading‚ and manipulating people to buy their product to make a profit by

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    Is torture ever an acceptable method of obtaining information? For most of us‚ our gut instinct is to say ’no’ and studies have shown that information obtained by the use of torture is unreliable. However‚ imagine a hypothetical situation where a terrorist group has planted a bomb and the government caught one of its members. This captured terrorist will only admit to planting a bomb in a high traffic area. Would that convince you to use torture? Or what if a terrorist captured your family and

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    “I have wasted my life.” That is the last verse in the poem‚ “Lying In a Hammock….” by James Wright‚ about a retired man who scrutinizes the atmosphere around him. Many great writers require their readers to look deeply into their words in order to draw the hidden meaning of their work. Using literary devices such as metaphors‚ symbols‚ allusions‚ and tone‚ a writer is able to disguise a central message or moral of a story. Therefore‚ sometimes the best moral of a story is the one the author does

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    resort to lying in certain situation. Often times a lawyer will lie in order to protect his client‚ or vice versa‚ a client will tell a lie in order to avoid being incarnated. There are many situations an individual will be placed in‚ and at some point in a person’s life they will need to tell a lie. Is it appropriate to lie? This is what Sissela Bok writes about in Lying: Moral choice in Public and Private Life. Bok acknowledges that despite numerous religious and moral statements against lying‚ people

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