Lie detection

The profusion of power in understanding a person’s weaknesses allows for the potential of manipulation. When utilized in the right way, this power has the capability of persuading people to do things they never could have imagined. Through the actions of the characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare demonstrates how manipulation of the naive can result in one’s success, but when used carelessly, it can lead to fatal consequences. If clever enough, exploiting the weak…

Author Zhou Weihui once said “Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn’t understood”. Occasionally, people with strange thoughts or ideas are viewed as insane, because their notions are abnormal to society. Their intelligence isn’t understood for the simple fact that society have an expectation and those who deviates from those expectancy is considered mad; but what if the people who are consider crazy are in fact the ones that are sane? The…

Did Father Flynn commit the crime or not? That is the question all the readers are asking themselves in the play, Doubt: A Parable. Sister Aloysius accuses Father Flynn on many different occasions, affecting his mental stability. Based on the evidence in John Patrick Shanley’s play, Doubt: A Parable, I conclude Father Flynn is guilty because of Donald and Father Flynn’s suspicious behavior. Also, Father Flynn is guilty because of how defensive he is and he eventually resigns. Donald Muller and…

Dishonesty is a common theme in many works of literature. The denotation of dishonesty will be: When one person is deceptive either by intentionally withholding information or by making a false statement to another with the intent of deceit. In Natsume Sōseki’s 1916 novel Kokoro and Mark Twain’s 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main characters have to deal with the dishonesty that occurs in their friendships. In Kokoro, Sensei, after losing everything to his uncle, thus making…

1) What are Othello's internal conflicts? What are his external conflicts? INTERNAL Most prevalent on Othello's mind is fact that Desdemona might be cheating on him. He is unsure because there's hard evidence of her cheating on him with Cassio. When Iago tells him to watch Desdemona's interaction with Cassio carefully, he observes that Desdemona mentions Cassio frequently. This enrages him and pushes him to think that she is guilty of infidelity. The evidence that pushes Othello's mind over the…

If one is honest, they are to be free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere. The quality of being honest is honesty. Although characters in The Great Gatsby are quite sincere, they fall short in the possession of honesty. The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which depicts how American life was during the Roaring Twenties. The narrator of the novel is Nick Carraway, a former soldier whom is now selling bonds in New York. This novel became significant because it has given a…

community and divided by factions. The faction’s names are Abnegation, Dauntless, Candor, Erudite, and Amity. Abnegation is a faction that values selflessness most. Dauntless are supposed to be brave and fearless. Candor is always honest and they never lie. Amity is the peaceful faction that works on farms. Then lastly, Erudite, are the smartest people of the factions. Beatrice Prior grew up with her mom, dad, and brother in the faction of Abnegation. In the beginning of the book Beatrice is…

Throughout, the works of A Doll House and Their Eyes Were Watching God honesty of the highest caliber was on display down to the smallest minutae in the successful relationships found in said works. This statement does ring true in the relationships found, but also, there is a very unhealthy relationship found within A Doll House which accurately displays not only the antithesis of honesty in the relationship, but also how such rank and vile dishonesty condemns a single relationship. The…

not a useless concept. Every time we open our mouths, lies fall out. Truth is a yardstick that we can never measure up to as long as we are human. Nonetheless, we can follow the mathematician’s example. Lies are not created equally, and truth and lie are not binary. The Earth is flat and the Earth is round are both lies, but they are far from the same. Despite the impossibility of ever quite reaching the truth, we can get close enough. Civilization and progress are built on the backs of…

Lynch begins by defining lying, “To lie, rather, is to assert something you believe to be false with the intention of misleading or deceiving”(Lynch 148). Lynch then defines deceiving as the aim to pass oneself as believing what one does not believe and to keep this intention from the listener…