Kaur English 1100 Professor Joakin Nilsson 5 June‚ 2012 The Ways We Lie Summary In “The Ways We Lie‚” Stephanie Ericsson presents the idea about how lies exist in the everyday aspects of our lives. She describes ten different forms of lies that individuals use. She defines a lie as “a false statement or action especially made with the intend to deceive” on page no.409 of Bedford Reader. In her essay she argues that everybody lies and tries to find excuses to justify it
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The Ways We Lie By Stephanie Ericsson It is curious to think that any one person could be telling a lie without knowing that they are. In the essay “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson‚ she explores the thought of how lies are incorporated into everyday life. According to this essay‚ “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”. How do we know what the
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The Ways We Lie It is curious to know that every day without thinking everyone tells lies “The Ways we lie” by Stephanie Ericcson is a realistic text that demonstrates what a lie is‚ why lies are told‚ how lies are justified‚ and consequences. According to this essay “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.” (Page 408 of The Bedford Reader). Ericsson
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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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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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The Ways We Lie In the essay‚ "The Ways We Lie‚” the author‚ Stephanie Ericsson‚ tells about the many ways people lie and explains the reasons for doing so. In her essay‚ she talks about ten specific ways of lying that she believes are prevalent in today’s society. First is “the white lie‚” which is basically telling a harmless lie instead of the truth‚ if the truth is destructive. She writes‚ “Telling a friend he looks great when he looks like hell can be based in a decision that the friends needs
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Lying is “a false statement or action made with the intent to deceive.” (Ericsson1) Lying is a bad thing for anyone to do for various reasons. Three writers that agree are Stephanie Ericsson author of “The ways we Lie”‚ Richard Gunderman author of “is lying bad for us?”‚ and Angela Haupts author of “How lying affects your health”. These three writers give great insight on how these lies can affect ones mental health‚ as well as their psychological health and also how you can improve from those negative
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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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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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white lire or 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
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