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    Why would someone ever do this? That is something that many people ask as they read the stories of families that have been killed, women raped, and children kidnapped right from their homes. As secrets are reviled you rethink who you may be able to trust in your life. In Jane Valez-Mitchell’s Secrets can be Murder; the Killer Next Door, the journalist behind the scenes discovers what goes through the mind of all these criminals as they commit their acts. As lie after lie is told to the media as

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    Why our History Textbooks are a Lie Throughout our educational careers, we have been taught to trust our textbooks. They have always been a source that you can count on to get the correct answer to your question. Teachers have taught us that the textbook is always right, and that there should be no reason not to trust in it. However, all of this has been a lie. As we get older, and have a wider perspective of our society we begin to see that our textbooks have not given the entire truth.They focus

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    and I really hate those. Oh wait, this might actually be interesting. What could I look into that actually peaks my curiosity? Maybe why a human might kill another. That could be interesting, but then again murders usually have motives and motives are a type of answer. What about a question of, are humans the only animals that have morals that they follow and if so why? No, too bland and I am not really interested in that. Well, guess I will study for The Canterbury Tales test and work on French. It

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    how bad the food was, how poor everyone was and how terrible the jobs they had to do were. People were constantly dying and children as young as five years old were having to work to help support their families.Life was miserable, but as time went on things started to change.Life got worse and people died left and right. People only cared about themselves and didnt care about anyone. Life got better and more people like the government worked to change how everything was done. Dishonesty has many

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    Is Lying Okay?

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    tumor so he would not get her traumatized (para 13). This shows how Smith did not want to stress and harm his daughter. This also shows how lying can prevent physical harm. All together, a lie should be for a good reason such as to keep a person’s life safe and free from harm. Second, people should also lie to spare someone’s feelings,“... Teresa Velin, a mother… says it was just too darn hot and she didn’t feel up to getting dressed and leaving home for a recent movie date. So she told a friend

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    The Importance Of Lying

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    Philosophy at Luther College in Decorah says, “… we can’t survive without...” and is “… a strategy that we use to save ourselves from social and psychological chaos” (World Cat Identities, 2010). Whilst the words, “always tell the truth” and “don’t lie” are repeatedly told to children, as we get older however, always telling the truth becomes harder to carry out in society. Whilst lying is something everyone does, it is condemned and considered unethical by many, and more importantly from a religious

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    be raped by Tom Robinson, a local black worker at the cotton mill. She wants to use this attention to fit in and feel accepted. Mayella isn’t like any of the normal girls her age and right now that's all she wants to be. Mayella is trying so hard to do that. On top of all that, she has an abusive, drunk father who doesn’t support the family like he should, leaving the job to Mayella. Mayella Ewell is a sympathetic character because she comes from a

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    the “eyes” several times throughout his short story, “Killings.” Matt, the main character, notices the emotions that are conveyed through a person’s eyes more than anything else. His entire story is vaguely centered around the hidden feelings that people have, but refuse to show. Dubus uses the repetition of the “eyes” to show how much is really concealed within a person. William Henry, a well-known chemist, once said, “The eyes shout what the lips fear to say.” Henry put into words what Dubus was

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    the lying side of it, but once again it was to protect Jim. He cares about Jim and doesn't want to see anything happen to him, so he would rather just tell little lies to keep Jim out of trouble. Not only does Huck lie for unselfish reasons, but he also feels very bad when he does lie. For instance, Huck feels very dishonest for lying to Mary Jane and her sisters. Huckleberry Finn feels bad that the sisters have given these two frauds all the money and property, so he decides to tell Mary Jane the

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    night, which was a lie, she would never do that in her life. One was explaining how she thought this one girl’s outfit was ugly. She was not wrong. The last one was telling a story about how in class they were playing a review game for a test and she knew every answer. When I listen to all of these stories I can only think of what really happened. I do not say anything because I know that them telling these stories are just a part of their personality and there is nothing I could do about it. I could

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