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    First of all‚ a good occasion to lie is when you do not want to hurt other people’s feeling. If you know that the true is going to hurt someone‚ it is better to lie. For example‚ when I do not like my friend’s new hairstyle I just tell her that it looks nice even if I do not like it. When you do not want to be disrespectful with someone about an opinion you just try to agree with the other person even if you do not agree. To specific‚ if you think that an older person opinion is old-fashioned you

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    Lie and Business Context

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    in Business Q1: In a business context‚ is it ever okay to lie? If yes‚ what are those situations? Why is it okay to lie in these situations? In my opinion it’s not ok to lie as it is not ethical regardless of the situation. Businesses should be of fair in their dealings. One should always try to turn around the deal by working to improve such factors which would ultimately lead you to a lie in the business. In reality some people do lie in the business context to manipulate the situation or to gain

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    Common Lie Told

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    traveled and eroded path many others have trekked before you. A prominent lie in contemporary life is that each individual person is special‚ concealing the uniform homogenous truth of life. This lie is told to children from the very start of their lives. It is engraved into the child’s mind by parents‚ teachers‚ even the media and society. Parents teach their little superstar child that there is no body quite like them. This white lie is prevalent in the media. For example‚ the song‚ You Are Special

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    Depression is defined as a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person’s thoughts‚ behavior‚ feelings and sense of well-being. People with depressed mood can feel sad‚ anxious‚ empty‚ hopeless‚ helpless‚ worthless‚ guilty‚ irritable or restless. In “The Lie”‚ Lonnie is going through depression with narcissism. Lonnie wakes up every morning dreading getting up to Xana‚ the baby‚ and Clover‚ his wife‚ only to head to his miserable job at 6:15am every day. While Clover goes to

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    The Ways We Lie

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    Ways We Lie” We can’t go a day with out lying. No matter where we go lies are all around us. We can’t escape lies. It’s a ritual for us. We lie so much that sometimes we can’t even tell the truth from a lie. People ask questions and if you really don’t want to answer think up of a lie without effort and lie straight to their face. The reason some people lie is so that they don’t hurt some ones feelings. They take consideration of other peoples feelings and don’t want to hurt them. So they lie. A lot

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    two truths and a lie

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    Dear read The book that I read was called “two truths and a lie”(307pages) and its written by Sara Shepard‚ and this one book is part of a sequel because there’s 3 or more books written which are fallow ups to the first book. ‘Two truths and a lie’ is about two girls whose names are Sutton and Emma‚ even though Sutton and Emma are long lost sisters they have little things in common and have different lives. Emma lives in a foster home because her mom abandoned her in the hospital‚ and

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    The Ways We Lie

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    In "The Ways We Lie‚" by Stephanie Ericsson‚ the author depicts the many ways humans lie and justifies the reasons for doing so. There is the white lie‚ which is basically telling a harmless untruth instead of a harmful truth. Facades are basically changing your personality while ignoring the plain facts‚ as the title implies‚ is a false action done with the intent to deceive. Deflecting is not answering the question at all; it is being up-front about comfortable issues and not revealing the couple

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    Why People Commit Crimes

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    This means that the person violated laws constantly for a long or short time period. There are many reasons why criminals commit crimes. Some of the criminals commit crimes for necessity‚ others for mental illness‚ and others for bad influences or just wrong decisions. To get a better understanding of why criminals commit crimes and why they follow a criminal behavior I interviewed three people. I interviewed two law enforcement officers and one offender. Of course‚ each of the law enforcement officers

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    Why Good People Suffer

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    Why do good people suffer or why do bad things happen to good people?” This question seems to be very common these days. It seems as though good people get the brunt of all suffering‚ while evil-doers enjoy life. But if we observe closely‚ we see that everyone undergoes suffering in some form. Keeping this in mind‚ our question becomes meaningless. Just because a person is good does not mean there would be no suffering in his/her life. But what do we mean by „good‟? In Sanskrit‚ „sadhu‟ is the word

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    The Ways We Lie

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    Truth is dead but at the same time it isn’t‚ because we are all human and we all lie at one point‚ we all lie one point of the day. We lie because we are scared of what might happen if we tell the truth‚ because you think when you lie that you might not hurt the person who may be asking you a simple question like in a relationship you may ask your boyfriend/girlfriend: “Are you cheating?”‚ then they may say no because you don’t want to get caught‚ but really they might be cheating‚ so then you the

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