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    The Way We Dress

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    The Way We Dress It is an idea greatly recognized that the way we dress says a great deal about who we are. Some would go so far as to say that by analyzing the manner in which others dress‚ we can effectively pinpoint small personality traits‚ and proceed to determine the lifestyle and background of others. In our current economically and socially driven society‚ there are many types of people‚ therefore creating a plethora of ways to dress. However‚ in most cases it can be agreed upon that there

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    a more complex lie. In article "the way we lie" written by Stephanie Ericsson she explains the different forms of lying‚ and how life is harder when we don’t lie to authority figures‚ people we love.In the short story " shooting an elephant" the narrator is guilty of lying to the Native people in the village he is in. The narrator puts up a facade that he is like any other white man and can kill anything. A facade is an illusion‚ we put on to portray what we think the world expects from us. The

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    In "The Ways We Lie‚" by Stephanie Ericsson‚ the author depicts the many ways humans lie and justifies the reasons for doing so. There is the white lie‚ which is basically telling an untruth . Facades are basically changing your personality while ignoring the plain facts‚ as the title implies‚ is a false action done with the intent to deceive. Deflecting is not answering the question at all; it is being up-front about comfortable issues and not revealing the couple of very important issues that changes

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    “The Ways We Lie” We can’t go a day with out lying. No matter where we go lies are all around us. We can’t escape lies. It’s a ritual for us. We lie so much that sometimes we can’t even tell the truth from a lie. People ask questions and if you really don’t want to answer think up of a lie without effort and lie straight to their face. The reason some people lie is so that they don’t hurt some ones feelings. They take consideration of other peoples feelings and don’t want to hurt them. So they lie

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    Quintarius Oliver October 16‚ 2012 Freshman Composition/ Professor Tompkins “The Way We Lie” Stephanie Ericsson First off let me start of by saying that we lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we leave out things‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we try to be inconsideration of other people feelings‚ we conveniently forget some aspects of the truth and even keep secrets. Like most people‚ I find myself in situations of small falsehoods and still think of my self of an honest person. Sure I lie‚ but

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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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    In "The Ways We Lie‚" by Stephanie Ericsson‚ the author depicts the many ways humans lie and justifies the reasons for doing so. There is the white lie‚ which is basically telling a harmless untruth instead of a harmful truth. Facades are basically changing your personality while ignoring the plain facts‚ as the title implies‚ is a false action done with the intent to deceive. Deflecting is not answering the question at all; it is being up-front about comfortable issues and not revealing the couple

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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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    Can Advertising Influence the Way We Live Our Life? The prevalence of advertising in modern‚ consumer driven‚ societies is strong and growing more all the time‚ with television‚ radio‚ the Internet‚ newspapers and magazines the most ubiquitous platforms. With advertising companies increasingly looking for new media and platforms on which to advertise: roller coasters such as the "Pepsi Max T Big One" and the "Playstation" at Blackpool’s Pleasure Beach‚ and aspects of every commercialized sport

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    DO WE EAT TO LIVE OR LIVE TO EAT??? Do we eat to live or live to eat? In my opinion all people eat to live. I have no doubt about the accuracy of that fact. Yet‚ I want to entertain the idea that it is possible to live to eat. What do I mean when I say‚ “eat to live”? All humans need to eat in order to survive. Once you stop eating‚ you will die. To avoid this fate‚ you and I eat food and drink water. On the other hand‚ “living to eat”‚ is a concept that implies my eating is beyond and above my

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