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    response: "I try to be as honest as possible. Very rarely do I think lying’s the best [for any situation]." But what if he knew how lying is inevitable in our everyday lives and how they could be of use in certain situations‚ like Ericsson’s Vietnam veteran example? In "The Ways We Lie"‚ Ericsson covers on the many ways we lie in our daily lives‚ besides the typical deceptive statements. Some include the notorious ’white lies’‚ omission‚ delusion‚ facades‚ and groupthink scenarios. Lies are mostly devices

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    Susan Griffin

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    Susan Griffin compares and contrasts cellular life and weaponry as she writes her essay‚ Our Secret. She uses these ideas together with characters and events‚ to help explain causes and effects in the essay. She alternates from the cell’s function to the history of weaponry throughout the essay. With both these ideas‚ she starts at the elementary level‚ with a cell’s life and with the Vergeltungswaffe missile‚ and tells how they progress. In this essay‚ I will describe how Griffin uses cellular life

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    submit to a certain behavior or expectation‚ and there are other instances in which they have chosen to. “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericcson and “Why Don’t We Complain” by William F. Buckley Jr. are essays that cover‚ respectively‚ the subjects of lying and its presence and prevalence within society‚ and also the absence of complaining‚ or more so‚ not complaining‚ and the extent to which we make or do not make our voices heard on a day to day basis. They also stress‚ along with their main ideas

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    if someone wanted to go to the movies with a friend and the friend did not want to go‚ would he or she straight up say “no I don’t want to go”? Or would they claim to be busy with something else just so there’s no hard feelings? The article “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson discusses nine different types of lies people tell and/or encounter almost on a daily basis. The article focus’ on deciding when to lie and also how those lies being told not only affects the person the lie is being told

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    at some point in their lives. The simple true is we all lie. While reading the “Ways We Lie” by Ericsson’s it was very clear that lies are being told more than the truth. She explains many different types of lies being told from the smallest of lies to protect the emotional state of others‚ to the extreme lies being told and merely ignoring the plain facts of lies that cause real pain. Lying has become all most a reality and a real feeling‚ even when it is a lie. Why are we justifying are lies‚ does

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    Miriam Vargas Professor Helff WRT 101-601 September 30‚ 2010 How Lies Impact The People Who Tell Them The ways lies can impact or affect the lives of the people who tell them are explained in “The Ways We Lie” written by Stephanie Ericsson in 50 Essays. Ericsson talks about the types of lies and how it impacts the person who tells lies. For instance Ericsson Three Common Lies Ericsson uses are The White Lie‚ Deflecting‚ and Omission. Stephanie Ericsson on The White Lie explains how a sergeant

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    The Mobile‚ the Device that Changed the Way We Communicate Mobile phones have vastly changed the way we communicate today. A mobile phone can be all you need for communicating. From a mobile phone you can make calls‚ text message‚ BBM message‚ email‚ send and receive directions‚ go on the Internet‚ buy things‚ do online banking‚ listen to music and much more. In that one device you can do everything. There is no longer a need for multiple devices and you can be on the move doing it all. The

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    Fitness comes from the way you live all the time not just from experience done now and then Everyone wants to be healthy in order to be energetic and happy. That is why the first thing we wish somebody on any occasion is health. Mass media advertises healthy life-style‚ everywhere we can see anti-smoking‚ anti-alcohol campaigns. When will we take a move? Why do we start to solve our health problems only after they become almost incurable? Isn’t prevention better than cure? Traditionally‚ people

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    saw them being built"and how. To be capable to tell people of the time you stood among the people who rose against the barricades during the French revolution‚ or when you saw both the rise and the fall of the Roman empire. Why wouldn’t I like to live forever if I could manage to see and do things that would simply be impossible in the short time span of a normal human life. Living forever would be an amazing experience. Imagine the possibilities‚ you could explore the wonders of the world‚ not

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    Molly Jarrett October 1‚ 2012 Mrs. Barrett Journal #3 Susan Bordo’s passage‚ “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body‚” she really focuses on the male modeling and the views of males in advertisements. She truly portrays the changes from traditional to modern views of male modeling by society. The Abercrombie and Fitch advertisement is the more traditional of the two. I believe that it conveys all of the types of examples and traits that a traditional male model demonstrates. On the other

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