Persuasive Essay On Accepting The Truth

Everyone has come to a crossroad at some point in their life where they have to either face a harsh reality or hide behind a beautiful lie. At first glance the lie always looks great, and will usually make the situation better, at least in the moment. However, we end up looking back on all of the times we lied and got in trouble for it: the beatings we have taken for telling a lie, the times we have gotten our phone taken away, and most of all the friends we have lost for having the truth come out later. But maybe all of those people were wrong, ironically they stopped us from believing the truth about the truth for all those years. The truth does not matter because sometimes you never really know what is the truth, people believe what the want, and often times telling the truth is boring.

There were multiple things I did wrong, I lied and cheated. I was dishonest to Josh and Hayden. The reason this is a bad thing is that it hurt people I love. Lying will ruin relationships with people who are the closest to you. If lying was a regular thing, life would be difficult. People would have to figure out right from wrong and not even rely on books at that point. To lie is to achieve a purpose that has no beneficial ending. In the end of this grounding, I can definitely assure you I will not be lying again. This was not worth every cent of lying. In my life, I can’t imagine someone doing this to me. If Hayden lied to me, I honestly wouldn’t know because Hayden is a very good liar. I’m just joking, but it wouldn’t want to talk to them or trust them anymore. I couldn’t understand someone close to me, lying. In the end, the biggest person I hurt in the end was me.

White lies are the most commonly type of lies, but there are also lies to protect others, and lies to cause harm which are used less often. Teensagers lie when they feel like it and need to in a situation that is presented to them. Experts like Immanuel Kant explains that all lies are unjustified, whereas Randy Cohen and Bella DePaulo express their professional opinion that lying is usually justified. Lying to others is sometimes justified due to the fact that lies can harm relationships, protect others, and should be used in a life or death situation.

At least 11% of women smoke during pregnancy. Many of these women smoke without knowing the significant negative effects smoking has on their babies before, during, and after the pregnancy. When a woman smokes during pregnancy, she exposes her baby to dangerous chemicals such as tar, carbon monoxide, nicotine, and other poisonous chemicals that travels through the bloodstream and goes directly to the baby. Nicotine restricts the oxygen through the blood vessels throughout the body, including those leading to the umbilical cord. There are more than 4,000 chemicals in cigarettes. Among these chemicals, there are life-threatening issues that can happen while smoking during a

It does not matter how well made a product is, if nobody knows about it, then it will not sell. In order to make this well made product sell, one must advertise its usefulness and practicality to the correct audience. This targeted advertising is a very exact science, and if a company miscalculates on the smallest part of their market research and advertisement placement, then it will not succeed in selling the product or idea. One example of a well placed and persuasive ad can be found on the fifth page of the August 4th edition of Sports Illustrated.

According to the author Thomas P. Hughes, “Technology is messy and complex. It is difficult to define and to understand. In its variety, it is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences.” We, as a world, are very technologically advanced compared to that of earlier generations. The technology we have created has benefited our world in some ways and has deteriorated our world in others. Through our advancements, we have been given the chance to cure diseases, give sound to those who have never heard, keep families safe during hazardous conditions (SC4). While all of these amazements have been taking place, there is one type of technology that has affected our world in an unfavorable way. If I could change one thing about the world, I would prevent the invention of cellphones for their long-lasting effects; these effects include isolation, and poor communication skills, and poor listening skills (SC5).

“How are you?” What’s your automatic answer? Normally it’s “I’m good” or perhaps, “I’m fine.” How many times have you heard that lie, or even told it yourself? Rarely is “fine” ever used in the correct context. Whenever someone asks how you are, are you truly fine every time it’s asked? Or is something on your mind? Did something rough just happen? Why is it that we feel the need to hide our true feelings behind a lie that nearly everyone knows is rarely true? According to two articles, “On the Art of the Decay of Lying” by Mark Twain, and “Natural Born Liars” by David Livingstone Smith, we have two main reasons for lying. One reason is that it is ingrained in us through our social interactions, and another is that we have evolved to lie, that we’ve adapted so that lying enables us to hide our weakness so that others can’t exploit them. We can believe these lies to protect ourselves or protect others as well.

For decades, professors have struggled to keep student’s sole attention during lectures. This dilemma has become more prevalent in recent years with the increased presence of laptops in lecture halls across the country. Laptops provide an irrefutable amount of distraction with the entire internet being literally at the user’s fingertips. While some students believe that laptops help them take more in-depth notes and focus more in the classroom, most professors strongly refute this belief. Although they give several warnings against it, professors have seen with their own eyes that students are scrolling through their Facebook or Twitter feed when they should be taking notes. Due to the substantial number of students who multitask on their laptops instead of solely using them for notetaking, many professors have adopted policies explicitly banning laptops in the classroom. This debate between students and professors has prompted numerous researchers to study the effects of laptop use in the classroom, both on the individual using the laptop and those students surrounding the laptop user.

Growing up, we are dependably advised to never lie since it is the most noticeably awful thing you would ever do. "Lying will just prompt a frightful circumstance with not as much as average outcomes. While lying is not generally great, it is not generally terrible either. Samuel Butler once said, “Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him” (Butler, 1912). In any case, today it creates the impression that falsehoods are reasonably part of our lives. From time to time untruthfulness genuinely damages to others, yet there are a couple of conditions when lying is agreeable and it's a predominant decision. A lie can be satisfactory if it is said to decline hurting some individual's slant.

All throughout history, human society has told lies. The lies may be intention or non-intention but everyone has told a lie at least once in their lifetime. We learn from an early age of toddler, that lying is bad. We grow older, and learn telling lies only leads to big issues. Teenagers may tell a lie to hide the truth from their parents, a parent may tell a lie to hide the truth from the child. Either way may it be with good intentions or not, lying is bad. The debate remains, why do we still lie even after knowing it is wrong?

Belief - having an affinity in believing something is true. This single word, vague, and short. As submissive as it is, Belief tends to get on roads that it never means to. The road diverges into two, and a choice has to be made. Manipulation passes, and it takes a hold of Belief. Without any knowledge, he willingly follows. This is the basis of a belief. I love the manipulation angle. Usually I think of “belief” as such a positive, hopeful word. But you are right… it is equally dangerous. Good.

Studies have showed that 60 percent of people lie every 10 minutes; do you think you can tell when they do? (NBC News) No matter who you are, you have lied at least once in your lifetime, and you may know someone who lies constantly. Wouldn’t be nice to finally be able to catch them in the act? Using little more than a few observations and a bit of thinking, you too may be able to determine who is lying and who is not. Note: This may only apply if you can see or hear the person you are talking to. It can be very difficult to determine if someone is lying through text alone.

Today the truth represents many realities and every region uses faith as the tool to guide human’s to war, oppression and division.

It was his intelligence that drove every second of his ambitions that he once dreamed of as a kid. In three years, Bartholomew could see himself as a valedictorian of his high school and in seven years a graduate of a prestigious university… everything that he once pictured in his mind was becoming a reality. In seven years, every ounce of sweat and tears developed into the job he always pictured, a neurosurgeon. For twenty years he spent endless hours working, spending no time with his family, no time with himself, no time with his life. He had the time, yet he was determined to become someone well known and successful. By the time he noticed, forty more years had passed, he was eighty six years old, he wanted to spend time with his family, himself, and the life around him, but what he didn’t notice was that he was already dead.

This book is a true story based on author ‘Dave’ getting abused between the age of four and twelve by his mother. He lived in the heart of San Francisco with his mom Catherine, dad Stephen and three brothers Ron, Russell, and Stan. He got loved from parents until Catherine became alcoholic. Due to her depression, she became alcoholic, and she started to abuse Dave excluding three other brothers. Dave’s mom starved him, and she physically and emotionally abused him like forcing him to stand on a hot stove or making fun of him in front of others. Stephen knew that his son was getting abused by his wife, but he abandoned his son and left his family. Catherine’s violence got worse after Stephen left the house. One day, Dave’s school nurse found scars and bruises on Dave’s body, and she called the police. Police found out what Catherine has done to Dave, and they decided to isolate Dave from his mom, and that is when he became free.