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    What defines a liar? A person who tells lies repeatedly. Greg Mortenson is a liar. In Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson promotes the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but his fabricated stories, misuse of money, and continuous lies overshadow his positive efforts. Greg Mortenson is believed to be using his book to promote the need for education, especially for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and…

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    The differences between documentaries and films can be observed when they share premise. Set in the 1970s, The Walk (2015), a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, is based on the legendary true story of tightrope walker Phillippe Petit and his plan to wire walk without a safety harness between the twin towers with the help of his team. The documentary Man on Wire (2008), directed by James Marsh, contains the same storyline as the film, however, it differs from it as the two are different types of…

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    The truth is not simple. We assume that there is a distinctive division between the truth and fiction: one where there is only black and white without any overlap between the two possibilities. Yet, it appears they behave in a gradient manner instead of the stark dichromatic relationship that we originally inferred. For example, three pieces of poetic work published by separate authors offer the readers an insightful dialogue between the differing interpretations of the reality of working-class…

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    One Man’s Truth For the past twenty years, literary theorists have challenged the notion of truth in autobiographical texts. Indeed, they have even asserted that memoirs are merely representations of events, perspectives and experiences. Yet, such statements fail to recognise the very purpose of autobiographical texts- to provide cathartic release and to send a message about how the world is, was and could be. Of course, such texts represent events, create perspectives and detail key…

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    tradename for Abcon 2001 Inc., which Mr. Macera did not know about. AMCI had been a company started for the negotiations with Mr. Macera, and he was told by the defendants that they had 25 years of experience of selling advertising space, when the truth was, the Macera billboard was the first business interaction for…

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    Oedipus begins the story as a noble king with the ability to see, but ignorant to the vision, and refusal to learn and accept the prophecy. Over the course of the story, though, many people, including Teiresias, a blind prophet, try to show him the truth. Throughout Oedipus Rex, Oedipus experiences extreme physical changes, symbolic of his mental changes, as he learns more about himself. In the first scene, Oedipus calls upon Teiresias to help make clear the prophecy, and clarify who Oedipus…

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    John states that that specific question is probably his least favorite topic of conversation in the entire world, and “unable to answer the question and aware of the tension existing between [himself] and Jack… prevaricates, until his wife, Lila, eventually, after some thought, answers the question with the simple words: ‘A person can change’” (Leah, 53). Although this comment may initially appear insignificant, Lila’s input into the conversation brings a fresh attitude to John’s closed-minded…

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    www.snopes.com https://archive.is/rd9VU https://archive.is/hswTS#selection-957.0-1384.0 Fake News Why the fake news article is more attract than true story? Social media growing so fast because of technology. So some people want to defame someone or some companies, they will use a salient exemplar in the article then let the readers to believe the story is reality. In those articles, the authors told us people what event to cause those people dies in the cinema. When people use upload…

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    My objective in this paper is to discuss the credibility of the pragmatic theory of truth in contest to the coherence theory. Although some scholars support different components of the coherence theory, I will discuss the issues that delegitimizes the entire premise of this theory. This paper will provide an outline of the coherence and the pragmatic theory of truth through a condensed analysis of works/research conducted from different philosophers. Subsequently, I plan to argue against the…

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    "65% percent of those questioned said it was sometimes Ok to lie to avoid hurting someone's feelings..."(Article 1 Paragraph 7). Basically, this means that people will use lying as a way of protecting themselves from the consequences of telling the truth. This is important, because this shows that lying is used to not only protect others but yourself. For instance, Time…

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