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    Abigail Williams Quotes

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    she says so won’t come back to make her seem like she is lying. Abigail started off in the novel as an intelligent, dependent, and strong character. If she wanted to have everyone attention she made sure she had it even if it was in the craziest ways. She was able to lie her way through a lot of things but soon it was going to catch up with her. In the crucible by Arthur Miller he uses Abigail as the Devil figure sending the message that lying to get what is wanted will not always turn out as planned

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    They should be able to tell that Lucy doesn’t want them thinking she’s lying. It doesn’t make sense to walk through a wardrobe into a whole new world, but it does make sense for a little girl to make something like that up, but they know Lucy and that she doesn’t like to lie so why would they think Lucy’s lying? Why would they think she was going mad? I believe they think she’s lying all because of Edmund. He is the lier, he has been to Narnia and says they were just pretending

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    Morals In The Crucible

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    Commandment is crucial to everyone who believes in God and studies the Bible. It applies to all forms of lying. If it is impossible for God to lie, why does everyone do it? The article titled, “Moral Truth” by All About Philosophy, explains how people's morals come into play when telling a lie. Everyone is entitled to their own morals, whether it is right or wrong, but the truth is something definite. With lying, you either did it or you did not. This is where moral truth comes into play. The Crucible by Arthur

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    Being truthful is hard in today’s day and age, everywhere you turn people are lying and it isn’t intentional it’s just the way people are. Telling the whole story is unnecessary if it doesn’t help the situation, complete honesty is unachievable because lying is unavoidable, and people don’t tell the whole truth because they want to protect people’s feelings. Telling the whole story doesn’t necessarily help in certain situations. If you could possibly put someone in a bad situation than some things

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    why. Some people might define lying as good, a way to spare another from pain or themselves. Others may see it badly. As for the definition of lies from dictionary.com “a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.” Negatively we have all mastered the art of lying as we developed over the centuries. It has become a necessary to life where it has become a habit. Lying is an act that we are all guilty of. For many of us lying is daily habit, where we might

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    What Makes King Lear Lie

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    decision had large scale repercussions and had the opportunity to change the plot tragically . Most notably is the amount of lying that is done by the characters in this play. Everyone was thirsty for power and the only way to replenish their needs was by deceiving others to get even the slightest advantage. If the characters did not lie so much and did not resort to lying to solve their problems, this play would not be called a tragedy. Now let’s call ourselves Gloucester and jump right into this

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    it's Nat’s job as a parent to protect them. For Mat and his family to survive he had to keep his children calm. If Nat wouldn't have lied to them he couldn't have kept them calm. In the situation Nat was in staying calm is what kept them alive. Lying kept Nat’s children from being scared, which let him focus at the tasks he needed to finish. If Nat couldn't finish his tasks, His family would die. Anyways, if Nat told his kids the truth, they weren't old enough to understand,

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    The Ways I Lie Although I consider myself to be an overall honest person, lying is a part of my daily life. I use these lies when they are more convenient to me or to another person, and when they will get me out of trouble. The following are some of the ways I lie regularly. White Lies When a friend asks me if their outfit looks good or if their breath smells unpleasant, I tend to lie and tell them what they are hoping to hear. This is due in part to my thinking that they will be better off believing

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    This topic has been very interesting to me. Up until now I would have never seen bullshit and lying as two different things. However, according to Frankfurt’s definitions of bullshit and lying, they are distinctly two different things. A person who bullshits have a certain lack of connection or concern about the truth. When a person bullshit’s they have a sort of indifference to the reality of what they are describing or explaining. What the person is saying happened or how they feel is the false

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    Knowing when to identify when a person is being deceiving or lying to another person is an advantage when living in the world today. Within this paper there will be tactics to spotting certain lies, whether it is through verbally or nonverbally instances. This will be useful if one was hiring a new employee, speaking to their child about problems, confronting their girlfriend or boyfriend about affairs that might be happening, or maybe even dating a new person, having the ability to tell if there

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