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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Tristan Fox Block 7 The Ways We Lie 1. Ericsson uses the same reference of her bank in the intro and the conclusion to prove her point and in the end the intro and conclusion make the whole story stick together. 2. The White Lie is a very informative section and uses a good example to prove her point. The next section I analyzed is very similar but the example in this one comes first and then she explains after. 3. In a way omission is like a syntactic ambiguity where faulty sentence
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The Ways We Lie It is curious to know that every day without thinking everyone tells lies “The Ways we lie” by Stephanie Ericcson is a realistic text that demonstrates what a lie is‚ why lies are told‚ how lies are justified‚ and consequences. 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.” (Page 408 of The Bedford Reader). Ericsson
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Technology has changed the world. Technology has affected education‚ medication‚ social life‚ and etc. There are many people in this world that don’t like using technology and won’t use it only for an important thing. Technology has changed and affected the world in a positive and negative way. As technology continuously changes throughout time‚ so does the ways teachers use in their classrooms. A few years ago‚ schools had chalk boards then changed to white boards. Nowadays‚ teachers are using
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The mind and body communicate biologically in three ways. Those three ways are autonomic nervous system (ANS)‚ endocrine system and the immune system. The autonomic nervous system is a group of nerves that control anatomical processes like the heart rate‚ blood pressure‚ breathing and the functions of the gastrointestinal‚ sweating and elimination. These things that are happening in our bodies right now without us knowing about it. We definitely wouldn’t have control of any of these‚ except for
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Last month I was discouraged about my life. I was worried about it because I didn’t know what I want to be and what I am studying for. I didn’t have a goal like others so it seem like I just go to study in every day. I didn’t know what I want to do after I finish school even if I am a third year student. That time made me crazy hence I decided to look for inspirations on the Internet. Then I found a movie that names Pursuit of happyness. I enjoyed it and I was very impressed this movie. It made me
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Military technology and strategies have constantly evolved throughout history. However‚ within the last few centuries‚ the world has seen warfare evolve at such a rapid rate‚ that it seems no two wars are fought the same. With ever-changing technologies‚ soldiers’ duties and skills have had to adapt along with them. Yet‚ soldiers are not the only ones who have been affected by changes in warfare. With the emergence of the Napoleonic and World Wars‚ the people of a given country became involved
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Reflection Paper Classrooms have changed a lot over the past four decades. When I was a child‚ I do not recall having any diverse learners in my classes. There were some children in my neighborhood who had learning disabilities‚ but they attended school somewhere else and I had little exposure to children that were different from myself. Today‚ my own children attend school in a very different environment than I did. Both of my daughters have boys in their classes who have Asperger’s Syndrome. They
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ATTHIEST .I have Skepticism; I often question the belief of others. I often questioned in my mind the beliefs of my professor in philosophy about his perspective in religion. I don’t believe that religion is necessary‚ as long as we believe in GOD‚ we are spiritually religious. Religion stopped from being a spiritual guide‚ and became a tool to control and manage the behavior of people. The priests began to give themselves more and more powers‚ and they led many societies into wars and ways of life that
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Have you every had a dog as a pet? Dogs have changed over time. 35‚000 years ago‚ they were wolves that attacked humans. They got to know humans and they started to help people. They made them do the hard work that people could not do. Over time they started to become smaller and humans started to care about them more. Dogs are a mans best friend. The relationship between dogs and humans has changed over time. 35‚000 years ago‚ there was wolves and humans. Humans regarded wolves as threats
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