In the article "The Ways We Lie" the author, Stephanie Ericsson, tells the tale of how frequent individuals lie in our world of today. Hence, she decided then to completely tell the truth for an entire week realizing, lying was somewhat of a natural instinct that many had to do at least once. Furthermore, Stephanie then began to categorize different types of lies in order to justify the reason as to why one would lie in that given type of way. Therefore, she placed lies in categories such as deflecting, white lies, omissions, facades, dismissal, ignoring the plain facts, group think, delusion, and out-and-out lies. In the end, she had gotten fired from her job, added stress to her personal relationship, and hurt others.…
The incident that occurred on September 11, 2001 has proposed many theories and ideas to what exactly happened. The video we watched introduced many different theories of the people who studied the event in depth and of some people who actually endured and experienced the event first hand. The ethos in the video are the theories and credibility given to them produced by the Italian directors or the people who studied the attack and what they think actually caused certain things that occurred during the attack. The logos in the video are the facts or reasoning in reference to what actually happened and what can be proven instead of assumed or thought to have happened. The pathos given in the video are those feelings and emotions the directors and producers want or strive you to feel during or after watching the video and while seeing their theories as to why it happened it happened or why it did not happen.…
The Product of Fear War is one of the inevitable consequences of the fall of man. Fear is a major factor in beginning this mass conflict, called war. Elie Wiesel the author of the autobiography, Night includes a statement in his book of the fear he experienced when he was surviving the Holocaust, “I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man” (68). This quote or statement from his book discusses fear as controlling his belief in God and doubting his survival.…
Throughout history, there have been world events that have happened that we learn about in school, by watching documentaries, reading books at the library, and even flipping through a newspaper or magazine. But how do we know for a fact that the information we are learning is historically correct? Although a majority of what we read is the truth, there are people who change history from what really happened to what they want the world to believe happened. And even if there are truthful articles and passages out there, because of certain people and their own biased opinions we never really know the truth.…
It was produced by author John Green and written by historian Raoul Mayer. Since the script is written by a historian and the show is produced by a reputable author, the information presented is fairly reliable, unbiased and trustworthy. However, since the video is a secondary source, most of the information is being presented is the writer’s interpretation,…
Lying… Is it okay to lie and if so, when should I lie? Many people think that it is sometimes okay to lie in certain situations such as protecting someone's feeling or possibly, savings someone's endangered life. Although others may argue that lying is never okay because you may lose your trust with someone close to you, which is completely possible and even though we all may be conflicted on the topic of lying there are positives and negatives to both sides of the spectrum. Most of us can agree that lying to protect someone's feelings is one of the most common reasons to lie to another.…
Who was the worst in an ethical standard? Chester Southam, the tuskegee Syphilis Study doctors, Richard TeLinde, or George Gey? What took me as strange was one of these was seemingly sound in their ethics. After researching George searching for a kernel of guilt I came up empty by both the standards of their time and today.…
During previous week in my ENGL 160 class our professor gave us first group project. The project is about to write a summary for book “Weaponized Lies”. We have 3 groups and each of them takes one chapter of the book and writing summary for them and in the end of the next week we are going to submit full summary for the whole book. I’m in the 3rd group and we cover 3 chapter of the book.…
Nation of Lies Why do we lie to others, but expect others to be honest with us? Today in society, lies have embodied the lives of many to the point where it has become a natural part of our lifestyle. Lying has become a natural habit for us, it has become a factor in how we carry out our lives. Whether we may have lied in consideration of how others may feel, or if it was because we did not want to carry out something we were assigned, lying has become so natural to us that we cannot distinguish it from what the truth really is. Lying has become a cultural cancer, as Stephanie Ericsson states in her essay, “The Ways We Lie”, that we have come to the point where we accepted it into our society.…
The video also portrays the only ideal way to solve the issues is to educate, which is something that does not occur often within poverty stricken cities in the United…
The main points of the documentary were showed some secrets about air force one to the audience. I picked this documentary for many reasons, I like the logic that this documentary used, this documentary followed time order and events order to voice the main point. Next, the credibility of this…
As I searched the web to watch Live From Baghdad, I prepared myself for a boring and dry documentary. I had assumed this would be about current coverage of our Iraq War. The opening scene was a standard reenactment in my eyes, akin to America’s Most Wanted. It wasn’t until the faces of Michael Keaton and Paul Guilfoyle appeared on the screen that I realized I wasn’t watching a documentary at all.…
Lying and deception is one of the most common sins that we see in law enforcement according to our ethic book. This is one of the sins that can easily be made, and most would see as not a very big sin depending on what an officer is lying about. A person of the law should never lie but some examples can be when a civilian reports an officer doing something they shouldn’t of done like speeding or turning their lights on to get through a light just so they don’t have to wait. Now when this gets reported an officer could easily lie and say he or she didn’t do this because there is most likely no evidence of this being done and it’s the officers word against the civilians. Now that is just a simple example of how an officer could lie to a leader or their department.…
America: War With Itself The Civil War was a war between two rivals, the South and the North. The South thought the war would last only a couple weeks or months, but it turns out, the war lasted over 4 years. Also, the South thought very little of the North during the war.…
In the essence of politics, it is better to be loved than feared as the latter can be a detriment to the individuals within a society. The universal consequence of being feared, in politics, is that it can lead to revolts and cause anarchy, which in turn is adverse for the politicians themselves. The effects of being feared in politics is explicit in various texts and text forms that have been written by many authors influenced by their historical context. This includes George Orwell’s satirical novel Animal Farm and James McTeigue’s 2005 allegorical film V for Vendetta .The notions of misuse of power, propaganda and exploitation, and rebellion all encapsulate to an extent that being loved in politics is better than being feared.…