When a person tells a lie‚ they steal someone else’s right to the truth. Stephanie Ericsson in “The Ways We Lie” explains ten specific lies that she believes are prevalent in today’s society. The reading begins by the “The White Lie” being the most harmless lie. Then she describes “Out-and-Out Lies” being the worst lie because it ignores the truth to escape responsibility. Ericsson attempted to go an entire week without telling a lie to analyze how conversation would be if it were all honest
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memoir A Long Way Gone‚ the author‚ Ishmael Beah‚ relates his story to the title. On page 65‚ the author says: “We were a long way from Mattru Jong. A long way gone.” The title‚ A Long Way Gone‚ gives the reader a glimpse of how far Ishmael is away from Mattru Jong‚ his life before being a soldier‚ and how distant he is with himself. Mattru Jong is a city in Sierra Leone‚ which Ishmael‚ his brother‚ Junior‚ and a few friends travel to in chapter 1 to attend a talent show. While on the way to Mattru
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In “Irked By The Way Millennials Speak?” Geoff Nunberg argues that the phrase “I feel like” can be used in a positive and negative context. As many individuals have different opinions on the phrase‚ Nunberg explores the two sides. To start off‚ the negative aspect of the phrase is looked at as beating the bush and not truly stating opinions. The Millennials are most often afraid to state their opinions because they do not want their peers to judge them based on their opinions. As the younger generation
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I looked like her". Visual media is often the first place young women look and start to believe that they are not up to society’s beauty standards. This is often because actresses and models have unrealistic body images. Kilbourne in "The Dangerous Way Ads See Women" displays various ads showing how various visual medias demean young women. Many of these ads give young girls the impression that if you are not physically beautiful‚ life is going to not be as fulfilling. The ads that Kilbourne shows
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sociocultural construct‚ her stories pursue to cognize how the forces of society and culture have the ability to influence individuals’ thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviors. In Orringer’s “Note to Sixth Grade Self” and “The Smoothest Way is Full of Stones” depicting the ways in which harsh sociocultural constructs define adolescent’s revelations about their greater identities within the world is a prominent theme.
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Stephanie Ericsson is going to explain lying in her article “Ways We Lie” her main point is to show that lying is not only going to hurt you but also others. I agree with Ericsson about all people lie. Ericsson starts off with explaining the white lie which is a lie that you use when you think it is necessary to lie rather than to tell the truth. Sometimes you think a lie is easier for someone to handle rather than the cold hard truth. The next lie Ericsson talks about is facades or mask we all have
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John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” is a short commentary that seems to be about how different classes of people perceive art‚ how its meaning has changed through the ages‚ and how the introduction of technology has affected it. Berger seems to be an extremely controversial art critic‚ based off opinions of him that range from “stimulating” to “preposterous”. He has been praised numerous times‚ yet condemned just as much. His writings can seem extremely complex and difficult‚ even cryptic at times; but
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Nobody spoke a word. When the boys finally spoke to ask the man’s name he says “Its not necessary. This way we will all be safe.” Once the boys could walk again‚ they realized that they were only a half mile from the village they just ran from. The man told them that the hut was his fishing hut that he used to store fish and equipment. For the next 2 weeks
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In “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson‚ she talks about the many different types of lies. She says that we all lie‚ and we all lie in most of the ways she mentions. In my opinion‚ I agree with most of what she says. It is true that we all lie in some way‚ but we might not all lie in the same way. Some people like to use the “lie of omission” while others might to tend towards the “white lie.” While these lies‚ in my opinion‚ tend to be the most common‚ some of her other example of lying
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The story told by Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is an amazing recollection of the effects that the extreme violence of war can have on a person‚ including physical‚ psychological‚ and social trauma‚ in which a boy tries to survive and escape his past as a child soldier. Civil war brings along not only violence‚ sadness‚ poverty‚ death etc. but also horrible conditions in which the victims that suffer the consequences are the children. Kids in third world countries‚ like
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