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    S. think lying is unacceptable‚ yet 65 percent of people in America believe lying is ok. I firmly believe lying is not acceptable in our society. Lying is unacceptable as it is morally wrong. For example‚ Truthfulness are statements which cannot be avoided is the duty of a duty of a person to everyone‚ however bad the disadvantage.(Kant‚ 4) The people have a duty to not lie no matter the reason‚ like to protect people from emotional pain. Kant believes that there are no excuses for lying‚ except

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    1- Did you enjoy the film? What parts made a particular impression on you? Yes‚ I enjoy the movie because it show how the world will be if everyone tells the truth. The particular parts that I liked most was when mark tried to tell his friends that he lied telling them obvious things that wasn’t truth but they believed him so he couldn’t told them what he has done. 2- What were the main features of a world whit out lies? Did you find the world convincing? The main features were that everyone

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    Imagine you were playing baseball and all of a sudden you hit a homerun and break a window. What would you do would you say the truth or just say a lie. In this case‚ I firmly believe that lying is okay when you are trying to save someone’s life or get someone out of trouble. Lying is justified when it it can be used to protect and care for others. According to the Associated Press Ipsos poll‚ they say that “two-thirds said it was okay to lie especially when you are trying to protect others (2)

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    third step is achieved when they begin to see each other as individuals‚ not group members. This occurs in the beginning of the movie when Coach Boone forces each Black student to interact individually with each White student to learn personal details about each other. The last step is supportive authority‚ which is shown when Coach Boone and Coach Yoast also learn to see the

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    and were soon to be forgotten. As we learn from the book he categorizes the truth in two ways (happening truth and story truth)‚ leaving us realizing that the truth is only how you see it. Telling a story in first person can be reliable. This is why the narrator writes these war stories mostly in third people because he wants us to believe him. The book is divided into the happening truth and story truth. The happening truth is what actually happened‚ the real event.

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    The Truth is in the Knowledge Aaron Gillett University of Laverne Abstract “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Truth is education‚ but a person could never find the truth without being enlightened. The truth is the easiest thing to find‚ but many people do not care to find it. Most are more comfortable with the truth or afraid of what actually might be true. However‚ if they would just be optimistic and fearless they might actually experience

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    Good morning/afternoon Mrs Morgan and fellow class members. Good poetry makes you think and feel about issues and ideas raised by the poet. Judith Beveridge explores the beauty of nature and man’s relationship to it. Judith Beveridge shows the cruelty of humans towards animals and nature in her poems. The first poem I have chosen to talk about is “The Shark”. This poem is about a bunch of fishermen on a boat‚ who catch a shark and later discover that the shark has eaten a young boy. “The

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    technical advances and thus attract the buyer‚ and thus gives a sense of direction in the market. Without advertising‚ the human will not know how to differentiate one product from another‚ and buying would become like feeding data to a computer. About religion‚ many people think they are greater than Jesus Christ. They think‚ they can Force their own religion on someone else. My advise is‚ do not ’show off or advertise your religion‚ b-cos it is a tool given by one’s parents to him/her. When a

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    were interrupted by other thoughts of big bombs dropping on our house and smashing into pieces. I couldn’t think about anything everything I thought of was interrupted by bombs and battlefields (basically my prediction of the future) I was given some odd information from the professor. And the two questions that kept me up at night Is Edmund lying or Lucy lying? Who is telling the truth? And the biggest one of all is Lucy sick mad devastated? That was a nightmare. The thoughts inside my head caused

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    Book Review Obesity is an upcoming and extremely prevalent phenomenon in America today. Author‚ Judith Moore of the book “Fat Girl” discusses some of the issues fat girls face. Her book is less about every stereo-typed fat girl and more about her story individually. Judith Moore chooses to take a different route‚ instead of complaining continuously about being fat‚ she explains in depth why she believes she is fat. She is not lazy; she expresses her knowledge of diets and her experiences of strenuous

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