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    reasonability and duty to disclose any and all information when dealing with rational adult consumers. Although withholding information does not constitute deception‚ it is a cause for someone to have false beliefs. Jean McGuire’s selling techniques did not include withholding information instead she gave false information to the prospective buyer. Maybe buyers need a little push to entice and increase their motivation‚ but the use of psychological manipulation is incorrect. Most people want what that

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    lack of analysis due to his faith. As previously stated‚ Bush had a messianic nature in which he believed that dismantling the Iraqi government was a religiously righteous deed to do‚ even though he had little to no factual evidence to support his pretenses. Bush and his decision to invade Iraq exemplify Carr’s theory that purpose overshadows analysis. At the same time‚ Bush’s messianic nature is directly correlated with another realist critique of Liberal Internationalism. Reinhold Niebuhr‚ a protestant

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    in a society can spread faster than a brush fire‚ and be more dangerous then a San Francisco earthquake. There is a process of four combined steps that will ultimately lead to this disaster; a fearful event‚ promotion of the event‚ attacks due to pretense‚ and total panic and chaos. Webster’s dictionary defines hysteria as a state of unmanageable fear or excess. The process of hysteria is initiated by an event which brings fear‚ and will eventually cause social unrest‚ chaos‚ and distrust. This

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    Towards the middle of Lewis’s speech‚ he criticizes the American politics by questioning the whereabouts of a political party that will not give false hope pretenses in it’s promise and claim to help out the civilians marching in Washington. Lewis complicates the idea of American politicians and politics being productive and moral when he announces‚ “...American politics is dominated by politicians who build their careers on immoral compromises...ally themselves with open forms of political‚ economic

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    In the famous Michigan case of Sherwood v. Walker‚ this very topic was at hand. Sherwood had bought a cow from Walker under the pretense that it was a barren cow. “Sherwood agreed to purchase the cow for $80. If the cow had been fertile it would have been worth $750 to $1000. Walker later discovered that the cow was with calf and refused to complete the transaction.” (Sherwood v

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    U.S. government decided to declare war on Mexico. Although the United States war against Mexico resulted in the gaining of America’s most valuable land‚ the war itself was unjust because Texas was wrong from the beginning‚ the war was based on false pretense‚ and expanding slavery was the goal. To start‚ Texas was wrong from the beginning for going against Mexico’s laws‚ which was the spark that led to an unethical war. According to Rafael Antonio Manchola in his letter to a military

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    rather than warmer”. This is symbolic of Miss Havisham‚ allowing her family into her house but is not warm to them. She is not welcoming them‚ but tolerating them. She doesn’t really want them to visit‚ and she accepts them on false pretense because they come on false pretence. The family doesn’t really care for her‚ but are only concerned about getting their hands on her

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    text: Large companies are sometimes guilty of unethical behavior. Often this unethical behavior takes the form of false or misleading financial statements. In one of the largest corporate fraud cases in history‚ energy giant Enron Corporation was forced to file for bankruptcy in December 2001 amid allegations that the company’s financial statements were deliberately misleading and false. Enron’s bankruptcy not only destroyed that company‚ but its auditor Arthur Andersen as well. More recently‚ in

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    Essay #1 In the time of Gregory of tours Eastern Europe as we know it today was in a state of constant change. Regularly new leaders were rising and falling from the barbarian tribes of the Franks and Gaul’s which took over their formerly Roman owned land. Gregory specifically describes the massive amounts of violence that hangs over that ancient world like a black cloud. Merovingian Gaul was a whirlpool of violence and war in the sixth century. Very few kings took territory and held it for long

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    the lack of a strong father figure leads them to develop detrimental personality traits that ultimately distance them from their families and the ones that they love. In Death of a Salesman‚ the main character‚ Willy Loman is consumed by his false pretenses of what a real man should be. These illusions include how he believes that a real man is measured by how big his bank account is and how popular he is. Willy feeds these falsities into the mind of his eldest son‚ Biff‚ who believes them to be

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