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    pathological liar. She is constantly talking about the past and all the stuff that anyone did as if she remembers it all and knows everything. The scene where she tells the kids that the house that they’re driving by is Ed Peckram’s house is a good example of her not really knowing it all. The house turned out to not be Ed’s and because of her mistake The sons stole a random family’s air compressor and had to sneak back to give it back. An example of her being a possible pathological liar is how…

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    John that his wife is a witch. Abigail is making up to lies to protect herself and using her power to convince him. Therefore John Proctor doesn’t believe her. Abigail tries to tell John her duties by God as, “God gave me the strength to call them liars, and God made men to listen to me, and by God I will scrub the world clean for the love of Him” (150). Abigail tells Proctor God has given her strength to call out the witches in Salem and she has a purpose to clean the world from all the…

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    other individuals”(Dobrow), which backs up the fact that Dick is more of a psychopath due to his hostile actions. With the factual evidence that hostile people develop a tendency to lie often, the readers can reasonably assume that Dick is a malicious liar. But this is not the only trait that makes up the perfect murderer, because Dick also had his head injury and he lacks…

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    autism . With that being said, Christopher struggles with the ability to have social interactions and has a fear of strangers. He hates being touched, can’t eat anything with the color yellow or brown, but likes the color red, and has trust issues with liars. When Christopher finds a black poodle, lying in the middle of his neighbor's lawn and has a garden fork stabbed through its body, he decides to become like Sherlock Holmes and try to solve the murder case of “who killed Wellington?”.…

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    Kantianism and Utilitarianism ethics are the opposite of each other. Kantianism intends to conform to the rules that are considered correct independently of the consequences deriving from the action. From the view of Kantianism, the outcome of an action is something secondary and if the result of this action is followed by evil, injustice or pain, then it was because of the responsibility of others of not being able to respect the moral law to which they should have been attuned to. On the…

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    caught my attention, and it was created by Metlife. A little girl is walking with her father, and he’s reading a paper she wrote about him. It starts off about how amazing he is and it’s full of amazing complements, but as he reads on he is labeled a liar. It shows how much he sacrifices for his daughter as the note is being narrated in the little girl 's voice. Originally She explains that her dad does so much for her. He plays with her, he helps her with her homework, and he buys her food.…

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    Misogyny In Hamlet

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    Hamlet’s behavior towards the women he has interacted with throughout the play has been spiteful and hateful. Hamlet views all women as liars and traitors in response to how Ophelia and Gertrude have hurt him. Hamlet doesn’t believe that women are capable of loving and that any women, who claim to love him or any man, are lying because they want something. Whenever Hamlet encounters and…

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    “The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide” -Hannah Arendt. This quotation expresses the way lying is a coverup for a bigger problem that someone wishes to hide. Lying is done on purpose in order to deceive someone just like in the novel The Girl on the Train. In this novel, characters such as the protagonist, Rachel, an alcoholic and Tom, Rachel’s ex husband both play a role in…

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    In his 1977 essay, “In Defense of Masks”, Kenneth Gergen introduces the concept of multiple personas and personalities as being ‘masks’. In his psychological and sociological research, Gergen concludes that people do not have a coherent sense of identity and need masks to be happy, healthy, and successful in society. I agree with Gergen because different situations call for different personalities; such as acting professional for a job interview, being lively with friends, or maintaining a…

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    He states, “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life” (16). Holden lies so much to cover up who he really is-a kid who is angry and depressed about his brother’s death. There are many instances where through the novel where Holden lies about his life. Holden is caught in his…

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