Dishonesty

the argument made above, is the assumption that the inspectors would not check to see if the work was actually completed. If this happened, then the division would be penalized, and the division officer would probably be relieved because of his dishonesty. This would be a lose-lose situation that no one would benefit from. The utilitarian argument places a great amount of trust on assumptions that may or may not benefit the greater good. It is important to not heavily rely on assumptions when…

o’er the bounds of modesty” (4.2.25-27) Juliet is dishonest to her father about marrying Paris because she loves Romeo. Capulet assumes that Juliet has come to her senses about marrying, but Juliet has other thoughts about Paris. Juliet showing dishonesty to Capulet shows how well Juliet and Capulet are together as a…

Juliet has to lie to her parents and sneak around behind their backs as they would clearly not approve of the relationship between her and Romeo. The nurse and Friar Lawrence are getting involved in Romeo and Juliet’s lies as well. As a result of the dishonesty between Juliet and her family, Juliet then has to lie about death. When Romeo Montague is banished from Verona, Friar Lawrence has a plan for Juliet: “Tomorrow might look that thou lie alone,/ let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy…

It's Friday at Glendale Elementary school and that means it's Friday friendship friend of the week, day in Ms. Day’s class where the kids vote on who was the friend of the week with the winner getting a 150 mini chocolate bar bag prize. Susie had never won the Friday friendship friend of the week but this week was going to be different. Susie's friend Johnny had always won every Friday and she had never come close. Susie thought to herself I have to do something different than just being nice…

however it has been established that there are nonverbal actions that are related with a suspect’s dishonesty (Virij, 2008). Additionally, behaviors will differ across deceptive situations; as a result it is imperative the interviewer notes down changes in behaviors in response to the questions. According to Hoffman (2005), there are a series of verbal and non-verbal behaviors that may indicate dishonesty, examples for non-verbal behaviors include (1) sagging over or slanting back in the chair,…

an American Dream of sorts, though their dreams weren’t the conventional ones. The original principals of the Dream faded away, in their place, amorality and corruption. The fulfillment of one’s own American Dream is often marked by corruption, dishonesty, and hope. The original American Dream had nothing to do with achieving wealth, but had everything to do with achieving freedom and equality. The “fresh, green breast of the new world” (Fitzgerald 189) offered these two things to the Europeans…

Normally, when you hear of someone convicted guilty and sentenced to prison, you don’t really think much past it. Or at least I didn’t. The justice system is responsible to do everything in its power to conduct fair trials and base convictions not on opinion but solely on evidence. However, this is far from the truth. Specifically, Tulia, a small town in Northwest Texas, is a prime example of a town who suffered from this courtroom injustice. Nate Blakeslee tells the town’s true story in his…

distorting his goal of transformation, which is now Daisy. In order for Gatsby to achieve both the money and eventually Daisy he had to go to the measure of being dishonest. Therefore, Jay Gatsby is said to have created a false reality, one that involved dishonesty- to achieve money, which would eventually give him the ultimate factor for his ideal life-…

The American Nightmare In his well-renowned and criticized novel, The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald delves into a story that encaptures the diminishing of the American Dream in the 1920s. The Roaring Twenties was a time of lavish living and prosperity, a time in which people turned towards the materialistic world and the easy way to get things done quickly and effortlessly. This ideology was vastly different from the first colonists who came to the Americas with a dream, stated in the…

nature of wanting more and more. Madame Loisel in “The Necklace” could not be satisfied with her life, and the blessings before her. Madame Loisel’s greed did not only lead her to more unhappiness and dissatisfaction, but it caused her to express dishonesty, pretend to be someone she is not, and let her possessions possess her. Miller wrote, “After a lifetime of yearning for it, Madame Loisel is confronted with an upper class that isn’t what it was supposed to be in her vision” (1). After a…