White lie Essay

will not hesitate and tell you yes, and then give you multiple reasons on why lying is a bad thing. But if you actually sit down and think, everyone lies several times a day sometimes without even knowing it because the lie was so small and meaningless. But in other occasions people lie to protect things they care for and about they are also willing to accept the consequences behind their lies and actions. Some may even feel that lying at that point of time it was acceptable due to the situation…

While researching texts and current events about our world, I found an interesting trend in today’s culture. There is an outbreak of misinformation throughout our society. Left and right there are different interpretations of the same information, minor or major details missing or being added. Also, at the top of social media there is an ongoing battle of what people feel and what they really mean. The number of incidents that are communicated in different façades and motives to spew people’s…

me! In all things else, I have striven to be true. Truth was the one virtue which I might have held fast, and did hold fast through all extremity; save when thy good,- thy life,- thy fame,- were put in question! Then I consented to deception. But a lie is never good, even though death threaten on the other side!’” (Page 109; Chapter XVII) Of all people, this statement should not be coming out of Hester’s mouth. It does not appear that she strives to be true. But this idea is one theme of the…

Okay,picture this!Your wonderful teacher,Mrs.Domingcil,asks you how her new white pants look today but secretly you know she looks very goofy but she is your teacher,what’s your answer?What about this,your best friend gots the hots for the new guy in school she asks you what you think of him and you know that he’s not in her league, but your friends really sensitive and her feelings get crushed easily,what do you say?These examples are why I firmly believe that lying is justified in our…

Pigsy fooled those of the woman he married into believing he was a hard working young man, but once his true identity of a pig was known they soon became fearful of him. Another instance was when the white dragon was punished for eating the white horse so he was then transformed into Tripitaka's white horse for the journey. The appearances that deceived were all to complete their own missions and ultimately teach a…

Choices can be very arduous, especially if they are life changing ones. In the book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, the main character, Jacob, has a to make a decision that will turn his world upside-down. Since Jacob has been on an island near Wales after his grandfather died, he began to realize his grandpa was not crazy, as everyone thought. All of his life, his grandpa told extravagant stories of children who could do magical things, like levitate or lift thousands of pounds.…

if everything was black and white.…

Lying often times is overlooked, many think that lying is bad, however, you can ask God for forgiveness and then everything is forgotten about. While God does forgive our sins that does not mean that lying is right. In Proverbs 19:9 it goes as far as to say, “A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.” In order to understand this we need to know what is meant by lying, as well as when it is accepted. God commands us to speak truth from our lips, and in…

Trethewey titled “White Lies” you are transported back into another time where you can see the emotions of a tattered past and how the memories still affect her…

more to it than that. Throughout the scenes a reader would find that Nora white told a nice number of white lies, but to protect her husband and children. In one instance she lied to her husband and kids claiming that she was creating ornaments and christmas gifts for the house, but was really selling them to pay off the loan that she used to pay off her husbands debt from him being very ill. The fact that Nora feels a need to lie about a dept that saved her husband 's life shows how very little…