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    Lie Detection

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    discovered that 91% among the two thousand Americans that he interviewed lies regularly both work and home. Based on research by Robert Feldman‚ in any given conversation‚ an average of two to three lies occurs every ten minutes. So‚ why do people lie? It is because they want to avoid punishment‚ protect themselves‚ look good and gain socially. Therefore‚ by understanding body language‚ individuals able to know attitude‚ feelings‚ and emotion of a person. Gestures are the most reliable clue to

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    Speech On Lie

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    Speech on Lie Anything is better than lies and deceit!”  ― Leo Tolstoy Why shouldn’t we lie?:Lying breaks the basic rule of conduct that helps people get along in the world: treating others in the same way in which you would like to be treated. When you lie‚ it shows that you care more about yourself-and about what the false information can do for you-than about other people‚ who may face problems because of it. Imagine what your life would be like if people frequently lied to you. You would make

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    Truth or Lie?

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    Truth or Lie? Admit it: You’ve lied. You told your boss you were at home with the flu when really you are spending the day going shopping at the mall. You told your friend that she looked fabulous in that new polka dot dress she just bought. According to the free online dictionary‚ a lie is defined as a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. There are several different reasons that a person might lie. For example‚ you might lie to keep yourself

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    Saira feel guilty. She thought for a moment and realized that it would be very wrong for the poor maid to be punished for a crime that Saira had committed. She was frightened deep inside but she also wanted to save the innocent maid so she decided to lie yet once again. She ran to her mother and said that she had stolen the money to buy some books to get good grades. Her mother

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    and how it caused the world to be connected is explained with examples from: the film titled Little White Lie‚ a guest speaker named Rebecca Campbell‚ and the novel by J. California Cooper titled Family. The first set of examples of passing come from Little White Lie. This film was all about the life of a girl named Lacy‚ and lived most of her life believing she was passing. Lacy was a half white‚ half black Jew that grew up believing

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    ways we lie

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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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    The Ways We Lie

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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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     or tring to avoid trouble‚ or may think the lie will be the better answer. Nice people will tell the ugly person "you are not ugly." When you lose a game‚ your friends will tell you "you are very good." Have uncountable numbers of lies are "white lie". They lie for not get hurt thelistenerfrom the truth. Many kind of lie in the world‚ it is in the every where of the world. Also lies have some kind are for self satisfy. Multiple purposes lie in the world. We should telling the truth‚ better than lie people. I used be a big liar

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    Way We Lie

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    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 it’s not really bothering anyone or anything

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    The Ways We Lie

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    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. A lot

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