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    A Good Lie

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    feeling or insult them. Normally‚ I lie to avoid something bad that will hurt someone or make other people in trouble. I teach my kids early in elementary school not to lie‚ but sometimes it is necessary for them to lie. For instance‚ I used to tell my kids that if s stranger call the house when their mom is out‚ then just tell them that she is doing laundry‚ cooking‚ or taking a shower. I don’t want anyone to know that my kids are home alone. I consider this is a good lie because it’s for my children’s

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    A White Lie

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    Under normal circumstances‚ a lie is always bad‚ even harmful‚ but there are exceptions. When I was very little‚ Mom and Dad were always on business trips‚ so I stayed with my grandmother. I didn’t like to talk with others and to play with neighbors’ kids. They thought I was an unsociable and eccentric child. I just would like to think and behavior by myself. My grandmother was a very nagging person‚ at the very least I thought she was at that time. Every time she wanted to care about me‚

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    White Lie

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    A Lie is a Lie A lie is to deliver a false statement towards someone who does not know the truth. A white lie is defined as a well-intentioned false statement. These are commonly used in good faith toward a person‚ to keep them from knowing something that might hurt them. They are used daily on everyone from small children to elders in retirement homes. It does not affect a person’s emotions or someone’s way of thinking. Because there is no limit to small lies‚ it can lie can be small‚ drastic

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    Lie and Honesty

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    fact that‚ all too often‚ it is the liars and cheaters we reward. The good “honest” person doesn’t always win. Honesty is a trait that is very rare in this day and time. It is not uncommon to hear about individuals who are busted for lying‚ cheating or stealing. So where have all the good honest true people gone. Well we just don’t hear about the good someone does verses those who live their life by being dishonest and unfaithful. Before we started discussing honesty I just thought it related

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    Forced To Lie

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    According to the western dictionary‚ a lie is to make an untrue statement with the intent of deceiving (Lie‚ n.d.). The Army unconsciously self-created an environment that forces the majority of the Soldiers to lie. Since leaders of all levels expect their subordinates to comply with ridiculous amounts of mandatory training requirements‚ the reality is that it is nearly impossible to do it and it is mainly because of the lack of time. This will push any Soldier to use creative thinking to complete

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    Living A Lie

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    LIVING A LIE The controversial decision of Armand’s parents to keep his true identity from him until into his adulthood was wrong and drastically altered his mindset. Armand was raised with racial preferences and prejudices during all of his formative years and this taught him to believe that he was superior to other types of people. He developed a certain attitude in his personality where his thoughts‚ actions‚ and beliefs were ingrained with tradition and influenced by society. Armand’s parents

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    The Untold Lie

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    essence. Writer’s often stratigize realism in their work so visualization and relation is in grasp by their readers. The use of heavy description and dialogue accomplishes the sense of realism. "The Untold Lie‚" by Sherwood Anderson‚ displays the art of realism. While Anderson wrote "The Untold Lie" in the early 1900s‚ his character Windpeter Winter shows the same charateristics as men in society today. Every man loves action‚ Old Windpeters death was very intense‚ "He got drunk one evening in town

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    Is it wrong to lie

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    always morally wrong to lie? Yes‚ I strongly agree‚ others might disagree; moreover‚ this can depend on one’s own morals. A young mother or a young father might tell a story to their children about Santa Claus‚ the Easter Bunny‚ or the Tooth Fairy. Mothers and Fathers tell and read these stories to their children all of the time just like their mothers and fathers and their mothers and fathers. These are stories‚ told each year giving a child hopes and dreams. Is it a lie? I do not think so‚ because

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    The White Lie

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    The White Lie The white lie perpetuates itself in our daily lives; in our relationships‚ in our homes and at our jobs. It is a poisonous seed that once set‚ can stem disastrous outcomes. Everyone has used the little white lie at some point‚ but it is however‚ the work of arrogance and deceit‚ and brings about distrust‚ self degradation‚ and pain. We think that white lies are harmless; nothing would come of them. The grave reality is that this seemingly harmless lie is the root of even more complex

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    satisfied telling herself that this was fun she deserved. After some days Amna again asked her to join them as they were going to some concert and she wanted her to go too. Saira again gave the same reason to her parents knowing that there’s no way they would ever find out and thus these excuses continued‚ her studies were also affected. One day her mother noticed that some money was missing from her purse as well as from father’s drawer. Saira knew that if her mother found out that she had

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