Cold Hard Truth

I’m not one to lie; that’s not who I am. I’m not going to say that I am the best person that has ever existed. Why? Because it would be a lie. I do, however, have some characteristics of myself that are positive. Clearly, the first is being truthful. The last four months of my life have been extremely testing and have made me hate myself as a person. Mostly due to what other people have said about me. Most of their allegations were correct. My sophomore year I lost who I was. I became, I don’t…

It is not often quite nice to convey an individual to do what one commands. Even if lying is necessary, one will use it to fit his needs. However, not all situations are bad situations. An example of lying to control someone’s actions is portrayed in between the stories “The Pimienta Pancakes” by O. Henry and “The Open Window” By Saki. In the greater scheme of what is wrong and right, lying is wrong unless it is used for the greater good. “The Pimienta Pancakes” By O. Henry Takes place in the…

the white lie, façades, ignoring the plain facts, deflecting, omission, stereotypes and clichés, groupthink, out-and-out lies, dismissal, and delusion. A white lie is a lie we tell in order to prevent more harm than good if we were to have told the truth. Façades are the way that we present ourselves to make it seems as we are better than we actually are. What ignoring the plain facts means is that even if you know someone or something is problematic and you continue to use their services…

A scenario given is that “prisoners are released…[and] turns his neck around and walks towards the light” (Plato, 360 AD, p.1), which represents that one prisoner will realize the unknown truth and knowledge. This finding of light will cause for him to "suffer sharp pains…will not be able to see the realities of which his former state he seen the shadows, [and will fancy that those shadows are truer than the objects which are now shown” (Plato…

because they have no faith and would not be able to believe in the better story. Pi creates the better story because he knows that he will not be able to forgive himself for the things he did in the real story. He even says, “It’s the plain truth plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story” (Martel 164). Without the idea that Richard Parker did all the sinful actions he did Pi would not be able to forgive himself. The author even says, “After all these…

Both are alike and vary in many ways and the harsh truth is that none of it can be completely proven, we just either believe one or the other or neither. Over the years, the believers created many problems and controversies that affected the whole world, yet people still believe in one because people are…

My great-grandfather enlisted in the second world war instead of completing high school, although he is now in his early nineties he is still very clear-minded and able to hold a conversation despite being hard of hearing. I have found in my discussions with him and his elderly friends that he believes whatever he is told by the media or even by his next door neighbor, as long as what they say verifies his long held beliefs. This parallels the cave dwellers…

existence holds. An important piece of this experience is the man’s introduction to complete brightness, now that he beholds a world under sunlight. The sun in the Allegory of the Cave is representative of the absolute Truth or Good that a philosopher seeks after. When the source of Truth and Good shines its light on the man’s life, everything is suddenly…

DOUBT: DOUBTING THE HIGH GROUND Like the work says, “Doubt is a thing that can sustain us…” And throughout the parable, as it were, Doubt sustains us not only with brilliant powerhouse performances from some of our times greatest actors, but additionally with the ponderance of our own certainties on, well, everything really, but especially our own morality. What better place to question people’s place in the world than in a Catholic elementary school right after Kennedy’s assassination? In…

Inside the story of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” we find prisoners held down by shackles inside a dark den with an only source of light that is fire behind them, as a result, that all they can see are shadows, until one day one prisoner breaks free and escape from the cavern and sees “reality”, but momentarily he gets temporary blindness because he wasn't adapted to light by the cause that all he saw in his life were shadows and darkness, after a while he explores and sees the sun he admires…