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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 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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    Lie Detector History of the Lie Detection Lie Detector Would you believe that an native born FBI agent would be capable of espionage? Robert Hanssen verbally made an agreement in 1976 for employment with the FBI; agreeing he would not be involved or conduct any sort of espionage. During the 25 years as FBI agent‚ Rob Hanssen‚ never took a polygraph test. CIA employees endured a polygraph as a condition of employment. In the FBI agents viewed polygraph for criminals to prove cases

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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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    People hurt other people because they either don’t like them or they’re scared. Sometimes people hurt others because they don’t believe in the same gods as the rest of the country/state. Why? Because they feel that if they can get rid of one man who doesn’t respect the states/countries gods then they can stop anyone else from doing so. Take Socrates for example. Socrates was tried for “corrupting the youth” and “refusing to worship the gods of the state and introducing new deities”. They found him

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    title of great king you have to destroy hundreds of villages and kill thousand of people. All these are old saying‚ but what about our new achievements word wars and cold wars. According to an internet site‚ “In terms of total numbers‚ the Soviet Union bore an incredible brunt of casualties during WWII. An estimated 16‚825‚000 people died in the war‚ over 15% of its population. China also lost an astounding 20‚000‚000 people during the conflict” (Business insider). This is a huge population loss which

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    why people get tatoos

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    Why do people get tattoos? Tattoos are expensive‚ they are painful and they are permanent. Many people find them unattractive‚ or even repulsive‚ others see the beauty in them. If you get a tattoo‚ you will be judged by others because of that tattoo. You may be labelled a criminal‚ a thug‚ uneducated and immature and you most certainly have some underlying psychological issues that you are trying to compensate for. People think that tattoos are just a cry for attention‚ a rebellion against society

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    Effect of Telling a Lie

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    minutes another lie that is said. Or can benefit everyone‚ or it may be for the worse. Lying is easily influenced by adolescents‚ such as children‚ parents have always taught their children that lying is a horrible habit and should be discouraged‚ as children grow‚ they learn the world around them‚ and can not avoid start lying‚ so lying is a bad habit because they are witnesses of the lies that are coming out of the mouth of all. There are two main types of lies‚ is the occasional white lie that does

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    The Ways We Lie

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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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    Chaucer Lie Theme

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    Overall Purpose/Theme: In the physician’s tale Chaucer shows how sin or lie can only lead to disbelief and heartbreak. The preeminent message depicted by the tale is that sin or lie will not go unpunished. Evidence to support the theme: 1. Judge Appius meets a girl while walking and he said he would do anything to marry her so he hatched out a plan to get her to the court the father knows what is happening so he tells the daughter you can either be shamed or dead and she says "Bless God that as a

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    the way we lie

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    People tell lies everyday‚whether it is a simple 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

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