Kavel Rao Yuen Freshman English 3/12/17 Week 1 Reading Journal 1. (A) Straight from the outset‚ after announcing Lydia’s death‚ Ng writes‚ "No one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast" (Ng 1). (B) Lydia is dead‚ and the only clue is her banal absence from the breakfast table. Ng’s first description of Lydia‚ whose death the plot revolves around‚ portrays her as just a regular high schooler‚ just going through the motions of life. 2. (A) When Lydia’s mother first starts
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Only a fully formed human being with a capacity for reason can understand the Noble Lie and be persuaded by it." Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Yes‚ I agree with this statement in the sense that a reasonable human being should always work towards exploring his own mind as opposed to thinking through other people’s mind. For example‚ Thrasymachus justifies this statement when he says‚ “What folly. Socrates‚ has taken possession of you all? And why‚ sillybillies‚ do you knock under to
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Why people tell lie outline Let’s say that‚ we always hear lies everywhere. Lies can hurt other people‚ and lies can be a joke to have fun with everyone. Lies can also be a way to glossing over the fact. Lies can protect who are telling the lie. Everyone lies‚ although the ideas of lying to people are wrong‚ but people still lie about anything in their life. In this essay‚ it will talk about which ways people will lie and how they lie. 1: Sometimes‚ some people will use a lie to hurt or laugh
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Freshman fifteen is the NEW EPIDEMIC!!.. or not? Studies have uncovered that on average‚ college students (specifically freshmen) are gaining weight at an abnormal pace. Although‚ evidence does not support the statement of a fifteen pound increase. Weight gain is still a predominant issue that is affecting many undergraduates. The infamous term freshman fifteen stems from the notion that when a student transitions from high school to college this can be a drastic and impactful change. As their routines
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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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The life experiences of Sir Walter Raleigh influenced the style of his writing. The style of his writing is revealed in his poems “the lie”‚ “sir Walter Raleigh to the queen”‚ and “the nymph’s reply to the shepherd. Raleigh was born around 1552 in Hayes Barton‚ Devonshire (pg.1063). Raleigh was famed for being a courtier‚ a navigator‚ a poet‚ and a historian. After a failed expedition in South America he was arrested in connection with destruction of a Spanish settlement (pg.1063) with his confrontation
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First of all‚ a good occasion to lie is when you do not want to hurt other people’s feeling. If you know that the true is going to hurt someone‚ it is better to lie. For example‚ when I do not like my friend’s new hairstyle I just tell her that it looks nice even if I do not like it. When you do not want to be disrespectful with someone about an opinion you just try to agree with the other person even if you do not agree. To specific‚ if you think that an older person opinion is old-fashioned you
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Christopher Behrens The Nobility of a Lie Frederick Nietzsche once wrote that the “untruth‚ [or lie]‚ is a condition of life.”At least in terms of creating a stable society‚ Socrates would seem to agree. In The Republic‚ Socrates points out that civilization is most prone to instability when founded on what he calls a“noble lie.”The lie which‚ despite its falsehood‚ serves for the good of society. His noble lie can be broken into two parts: a justification on why the lie applies to all of a society’s members
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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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Although taboo in Western culture‚ co-sleeping is making a comeback. After the retraction of previous statements against co-sleeping‚ Dr. Richard Ferber‚ child sleep guru‚ has now sided with a family’s decision to share a bed with their infants. Although the American Society of Pediatrics warns that sleeping with your infant can increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome‚ the exact cause of SIDS is still unknown. The emotional benefits of sharing a bed with your baby can be enormous and some
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