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    for the prisoners. One of the prisoners breaks free and leaves the cave. He realizes that someone else has controlled his life and disguised the truth about a new world outside the cave. This illustrates some of the social issues that are being constantly happened in our world today. We are the reflection of the prisoners who are occupied from the truth by the media, government, and even religion. We are being controlled by the media because we can see

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    The image titled "Inconvenient truth" by Clay Benette demonstrates something that occurs within our society constantly. A voluminous amount of people in line are conveyed - waiting to buy their ticket to something which seems to be titled "A Reassuring Lie". With joy on their faces, they wait patiently and walk in with calm. However what is also depicted towards the left would be the only individual with a frown among their faces. The individual in the photo booth does not receive any people who

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    develops the central motif of truth, through examples of the plays major characters, to describe a rationalization flaw that lurks in the human psyche. You can liken human's attitude to the truth as a teenager trying to discover the world through trial and error whilst ignoring what a blissful state he experienced before his quest. This is evident due to the (somewhat) childish and pervasive logic applied by Oedipus. The human psyche will always attempt to react to the truth with open eyes(Ears? Nose

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    The Face Behind the Truth in Cinema

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    Oscar Wild once said, “The truth is rarely pure and never simple” and he is right. But no matter what the outcome is, or how complex the truth is, we will always strive for the truth. The concept of truth is no stranger to film documentaries, and one filmmaker that certainty was aware of that was Dziga Vertov. During the 1920’s Vertov created a newsreel series to promote the concept of ‘Kinopravda” which translated to English mean “Film truth.” Unfortunately, Vertov was ahead of his time, and this

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    lying gets better with practice, the truth gets more painful,” uses red thread and paper to represent both the truth and lie. The performative piece of this work forces the viewers to interact with the piece, and though there were no limits to how far you could pull the piece apart, many were hesitant to pull it further apart than it was willing to go. Despite this, the piece slowly became more open. This is a reflection of the haiku’s representation of time “the truth gets more painful.” The lie gets

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    The truth shall set you free whenever it is needed. On page 269, Antoine Thomas, a star football player for Lake Windsor High School. He told the truth to Mr. Donelly a sports writer for the sports section of the newspaper. When he saw Paul Fisher, the protagonist of the story outside of Mr. Donelly’s house he said “ The truth shall set you free.” This really hit Paul because he is always afraid to tell the truth. Paul really thinks about what Antoine said to him for a while. He can never build the

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    questioned the appropriateness of usage of word ‘truth’ in the context of complex human experience. Do I agree with this view? Yes, I do if it is used to generalize or to stereotype the human experience. Growing up abroad, I often feel my common sense is not so common sense to the most of Canadians. Hence, I have been forcing myself to acknowledge this difference and adjusting my behaviour accordingly. The same realization occur about norm and truth not only when I face such cultural differences

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    In the short story by Anna Guest, “Beauty is Truth,” the main character learned that to be beautiful is to be true to who you really are. The same concept applies for the article, “US Beauty queen Victoria Graham doesn't hide her scars,” written by Victoria St. Martin. These two sources have the theme that something beautiful doesn't have to be perfect or pretty, it has to be real and truthful. In the short story, “Beauty is Truth” written by Anna Guest, is about a girl,Jeanie, her mom and her brother

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    Truth can be seen as objective or subjective by people. By definition, objective truth is a truth that is the same for everyone no matter what. Our beliefs, whatever they are, have no bearing on the facts of the world around us. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that truth is likely to be considered objective. Truth of a matter is not dependant on someone's beliefs. Objective truth has concepts that are proven and concepts behind them that we cannot change such as math. In math, there is

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    Absolute Truth and Personal Belief are mutually exclusive concepts; however, personal belief without a foundation of absolute truth is dangerous to the human soul. Unless on the witness stand in a court of law, or the thought of facing their Creator in the afterlife, the average person hardly thinks about absolute truth governing their daily lives. Few people wish to hear the truth about themselves; people generally prefer to believe whatever makes them feel comfortable in the moment.

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