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    that case we have been lying since we were young even if we don’t know. Everyone lies it’s part of human-nature, we lie everyday. According to a study a person lies three times every ten minutes and that's a lot. People lie to look good,but it doesn’t always end well, people start to lose trust. I think we shouldn’t lie because people end up not trusting you anymore. Then why do we lie? “It boils down to the shifting sands of the self and trying to look good both to ourselves and others” experts…

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    Lovely Bones Themes

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    It wraps up the lies and made-up stories, discussing the real root of evil in all actions and the good intentions that lie in between the lines. The fear of something we’ve never experienced may be rational to the extent of our own understanding, but The Lovely Bones points out that there are much worse things than the inevitable. The individual mysteries embodied within…

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    Misrepresentation Explain to Ms Cheesecake what is a misrepresentation? Misrepresentation is once somebody says a false statement whether or not it's law or a fact and it get them to enter in to a contract. Therefore it's somebody lying to steer them to enter a contract. Therefore it's one thing that is claimed throughout a negotiation that is untrue. This can be one thing that happens often and might cause plenty of disputes that are taken into legal matters. falsity may be one thing minor…

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    In the short story ´´The Parsley Garden´´ a turkish immigrant named Al Condraj learns the consequences of his actions mentally, and physically. From this altercation he realizes that his self worth is all he needs. In the past this story takes place in North America in the early 1900s in it starts with Al Condraj finding a hammer on the floor, his only desire was to build a bench. He did not realize he was committing a crime. Al says ´´I didn mean to steal it´´. Al Condraj felt guilty of this…

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    Who is Dill? Dill is different he is an outsider at the start of the book, but having relatives in Maycomb, as well as being a child, grants him immediate acceptance in the town. Dill is an interesting character because his personality is a lot like many of the story's other characters. As such, Dill functions as a sort of moral thermometer for the reader in understanding Maycomb. Readers, especially those who don't live in the South, are as much strangers to Maycomb as Dill is, and so he paves…

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    The Ways We Lie

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    our nature to tell lies as often as every day, it is common that we do not realize that we tell these lies. Why is it that we don't realize how much we lie ? Often times we as humans are asked to do things we do not want to. Whether it’s going to a friend’s basketball game, or giving a friend a ride, to get out of doing these things we usually lie. As little as the situation, we use little white lies to create a sense of deception so the person we are lying to leaves us alone. Lying is not…

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    1: The book The Cheating Culture, has changed my opinion on what I consider cheating in my life. Before reading this book I thought that cheating was only big things like taking performance enhancing drugs in sports or giving answers to a friend on a test. Whereas just slightly bending the rules didn’t occur to me as cheating. Also I came to a realization that almost everyone cheats or has cheated before. The people that due cheat risk a loss but also gain a huge reward if they don’t get caught.…

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    definitely something not everyone is capable of doing, so keeping away from lies will certainly keep you away from stress and trouble. On the other hand, you may think that it would be justified to lie when you are in a life or death situation. Although you may say that it would be a perfectly good exception to lie in this case, it would still not be acceptable because even when someone lies in this type of situation, you still have the possibility to get caught even when you don’t…

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    We Ought To Lie Analysis

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    activity. A commonplace illustration is lying and the adage "you ought to lie". When we make this saying a widespread law, we make it something everybody should to do, constantly. At the end of the day, we get the law "you ought to dependably lie". In any case, it's unrealistic for us to need this to be a widespread law, in light of the fact that such a law is counter-intuitive; if everybody dependably lied, the very idea of a lie would be obliterated on the grounds that lying is just…

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    Steve McCurry, a world-renowned photographer, the author of Sharbat Gula, has been the center of a controversy because he uses Photoshop in his photographs. Many people argued that his use of Photoshop in his photograph is not ethical. I was very curious why using a worldwide renowned software could be unethical. Thus, I did some searches on the Internet and I found that this is a common problem in the field of journalism, not just Steve McCurry and his behavior. In my opinion, using Photoshop…

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