Essays on Deception

Anybody who has read or watched The Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice & Fire Series –would agree with me that it is a series that shows every facet of deception used by humans.
According to Merriam-Webster, the word “deceive” means, “to make someone believe something that is not true” or “to cause to accept true or valid what is false or invalid.”
Deception is a form of dishonesty that is used everyone, every day. And the characters in this book are able to show how it is done so to achieve what one wants; whether it is something Continue reading...

Identify a moral agent.

The moral agent or agency in this case is Doctor ‘X’ and I. A moral agent is any being who can act with reference to wrong or right. A moral agent is anything that is accountable for decisions and behavior. Moral agents have responsibilities and rights and have the power to choose as well as make choices. The idea of being a moral agent explains why some people blame others for things they do and others told to take responsibility of their actions. Moral agents have the freedom of making decisions and taking on the consequences.
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There were two kings from Persian monarchies whom both married beautiful women. The kings changed their way of living because they were both deceived by their wives in different occasions. The king of the Persian in the Hebrew Bible by the name Ahasuerus, though known as Xerxers in his Greek name. Xerxes loved his wife and also, he used to flatter with her magnificent beauty. One day, he asked her to unveil to the prince’s feast as a sign of showing the equal sociality, but she refuses to do so; she says that was like going physically naked, Continue reading...

The film, Sleeping with the Enemy reviews interesting ideas that are relevant to the modern society. The film highlights that many developments happen in a society with the aim of improving people’s welfare. However, the ethical backgrounds of the events in the lives of common people dictate many elements about the relations of the people with their environments. Political and economic differences among the people lead to social deviations and disagreements among the people in the society. The ideas of death and social distractions are apparent in the film, sleeping with the Enemy. This film depicts a perfect Continue reading...

Descartes’ skepticism and confusions about self-believe, truth and knowledge are expressed in his First Meditation. He is confused by the nature of his sensory beliefs because most of the times they tend to mislead him. His distrust for his senses does not mean that he distrusts all of them. He only happens to distrust some of them when the conditions for trusting such senses are poor. He will trust his senses when the conditions are such that they are favorable and conducive to be trusted.
The other thing that makes Descartes skeptic about life and self-belief is in the Continue reading...

Introduction

According to Jowett & O’Donnell (1), propaganda is a method of communication which tries to elicit a response that propagates the desired intention of the propagandist. The art of propaganda has been studied in an array of multidisciplinary researches in the fields of journalism, sociology, history, political science and psychology. To study the art of propaganda as history means examining propagandist practices as distinct events and the resultant events as likely effects of propaganda. Nazi films were predominantly propagandist in that they aimed at influencing attitudes on life in a given context, and in terms of particular people and Continue reading...

Reflective Essay on Three Books

Introduction
Within the western philosophy, the main categories of ethics include meta-ethics, applied ethics, and normative ethics. This reflective essay is specifically concerned with normative ethics. By definition, normative ethics is the study of the ethical actions. This part of ethics is thus primarily concerned with the criteria of what is ethically wrong or right. Therefore, it includes formulation of the moral rules, which have straight implications for what ways of life, institutions, and human actions should be like. It believes that wrong or right are found in a person’s behavior. For this reason, this essay draws on Continue reading...

TWO PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS OF HUMOR

Aristotle’s Mean and Addison’s Extreme:
Two Philosophical Views of Humor
Humor is one of the fundamental aspects of human experiences; as such, it has been studied by many great philosophers. The use of language to produce a humorous effect is somewhat of a mystery, and its particularities could be thought of as unique to the human species. Thus, the definition and characterization of humor is not unequivocal, with different thinkers conceptualizing it in different manners. Aristotle and Joseph Addison are only two of the most remarkable philosophers to study this philosophical problem. Through the analysis of the Continue reading...

Introduction

China’s air pollution crisis is currently a topic of concern at national and international based. It is indicated that the growing stages of pollution, more than 24 times the WHO-suggested limits, make long and short-term health threats containing of high sterility rates, and make threats to both the internal city areas and external neighboring state’s solidity. Growing fears on the impacts of pollution grows a new query: will China’s air crisis directed to more enclosed cities.

Discussion

Nowadays pollution arises from day to day. Air pollution is very awful for our well-being so illnesses increase gradually. In Continue reading...

Business Culture Inside and Out

Book Review: Reflective Reaction on the Compare and Contrast of Readings
Introduction
Business is business, the new world tends to define business as something that is rather considered more as an institution that tends to bring better culture and better opportunities to members of the society. However, when it comes to the actual value of business, the industry of commerce defines business as a machine that brings in the different resources altogether to create a system that tends to manipulate operations for the sake of earning more money and gaining more profit from whatever could be gained from what Continue reading...

Introduction

The purpose of the following essay is to explore the fundamental aspects of the Descartes` theory on the distinctness of mind and body as formulated in the Sixth Meditation of a philosophical treatise ‘Meditations on the first philosophy’, as well as to present the objections against the Descartes` statement that the mind is distinct from the body. I would also like to briefly summarize the main points of the Sixth Meditation in regard to the existence of material things and the relation between the imagination and the pure intellection.
In the Sixth Meditation “Concerning the Existence of Material Things, Continue reading...

Aristotle is considered to be on one of the greatest philosophers that ever lived. He is referred to as the teacher of metaphysics ethics and logic. One of the most famous medieval fable stories concerning this great philosopher is titled “Phyllis et Aristotle” which when translated means Aristotle and Phyllis. This story is about how the great Aristotle, at the time living at the residence of one of his greatest disciples, Alexander the Great seeks to separate the powerful ruler from his wife, Phyllis whom Aristotle considered to be absorbing all his energy and time leading him to neglecting Continue reading...

The rational choice theory is of the opinion that an individual acts by weighing the costs and benefits brought about by an action at the end through the use of personal advantage. As far as crime is concerned, the theory assumes that the rational decisions made by criminals to engage in any crime are made through the revision of all outcomes and possibilities. The outcomes depend on the benefits the criminals get by committing these crimes. Criminals do however consider the consequences of their actions, such as imprisonment and tread with care in the process of committing a crime. Continue reading...

English

The Beatles made people swoon and dance to their tunes in the 60s and 70s, and it was during this time that a man by the name of Elvis Presley turned Pied Piper and had women the world over follow his music like the children of Hamelin. These personalities were so popular that they could make people stop in their tracks and take notice. So powerful was their music that even politicians tried to make use of their popularity to gain political mileage. Music has always found a way to one’s heart, and it’s no different when Continue reading...

Introduction

Marcus Aurelius is one of the most influential philosophers. Ideally, he has substantial reasons why he came up with his philosophical works including the “Meditations”. Stoic Aristo’s readings and reports influenced Aurelius’ efforts to come up with his philosophical piece of work. These readings initiated a sense of self-acceptance and confidence in Aurelius’ philosophical works. The “Meditations” is a very different from the text from the other philosophical texts. Most of the elements that are significant in the book elevate towards Aurelius’ personal experiences. Some of these experiences such as death and livelihood irritations manifest in the entire Continue reading...

Business Ethics Antitrust Law

Business Ethics Antitrust Law

Introduction

The antitrust laws aim at ensuring that all businesses in a given market play by the same rules. This is so because businesses in a free market may achieve the near-monopoly status via their own merits such as creating better production processes, offering the best quality service and decreasing costs among others. However, antitrust laws set vivid boundaries for fairness in the business by prohibiting practices that control free trading. It also restrains dominant firms from abusing their market position. The antitrust laws offer regulatory review of business mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures to ensure Continue reading...

In the Night written by the Elie Wiesel, the author describes his misery in the Holocaust. He uses the imagery to demonstrate the dehumanization of the Jewish people in the Nazi camp. These Jews were forced to survive deceitful conditions in the concentration camps. The incarcerated Jews were subjected to the most horrible forms of inhuman treatment. This made Jews lose their mentality and morality because they were pushed beyond their capability of dealing with oppressing brutality, starvation, exhaustion and diseases among others. The change of the character and morality can be attributed to the dehumanization that they experienced, Continue reading...

Philosophy

- The propositions differ with regard to the opinions and views held by different individuals. They do not belong to the foundation because they do not exist on their own but are derived from other factors. The doubt inherent in this regard is that a human could possibly be wrong and therefore should not necessarily form the standard for reference formulated them. We hold different beliefs, which may be contrary to propositions that others make. As such, while one thing may appear to be sensible to one person, it may be very different as per another person’s view. Continue reading...

Introduction

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the Shakespearean plays that are not traditionally taught in English courses. However, its lively plot and interesting characters make for a remarkable introduction to the Bard. This is because the story is mostly about various “courting” couples, which can be a lively topic as it elicits the timeless battle between the sexes. However, there are other themes and meanings which are explored in the play. The induction scene is an important part of this play because it shows how important different senses, particularly sight, are to humans. The induction scene begins Continue reading...

English

Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart can be described as a short story that hovers around the theme of crime and murder, and the short movie also justifies the duration of the story. The movie is more of a narrative; the protagonist is seen continuously describing his mind and moves directly to the camera. The movie can be categorized as being quantitative because of the attitude of the protagonist right through the movie. He says that he has no personal hatred for the old man, but it’s his vulture’s eyes that seem to make him go cold inside. Continue reading...

The image of the evil demon does not arouse the thoughts and use power over people to accept the things that are not true. Instead, the evil demon is a device which is a way by which Descartes thinks everything he used to think true to be false. It leads him to all his doubts he has acceptably raised regarding those things he regularly held to the truth. The acknowledgment that the understanding that he had gained on false grounds is at best uncertain and leads him to make up his mind to overturn all those things that he Continue reading...

Literature

QUESTION ONE: Love in LA
The setting of this story is located at the Freeway in Los Angeles. The protagonist is Jake, an irresponsible, lazy and self-absorbed person. The other character is Mariana, an innocent and naïve woman. Jake caused a careless accident by hitting Mariana’s car. Jake being a dishonest person, he cheated Mariana by giving her fake insurance and phone numbers. The freeway in the story symbolized freedom of Jake to daydream leading to an accident (Perrine, 2002). The themes of this story are deception, lies and fantasy. The irony is indicated by the fact Continue reading...

Film Studies

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Introduction

The issue of gender-based behavioral patterns has always been a point of artistic interest. After cinematography emerged as an independent kind of art and a cultural phenomenon, it also started viewing them as a mean to increase attractiveness and interest for the media. This essay is aimed at pointing out the main examples of female characters who express certain elements of what is commonly perceived as male behavior, sort them out and determine whether there is a certain trend towards “masculinization” of the females.
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This paper analyses the film Underworld: Awakening in terms of the three act structure and then compares it to two other films watched in class, namely: The Big Lebowski and American Gangster. This movie was the fourth in the Underworld sequel and was released on 20th January 2012. It was among the first films to garner more $ 100 million in revenues that year. It was the most watched of the four films in Underworld sequel. It fits well in the horror films genre but may as well fit as an action and science fiction movie.
The film begins with Continue reading...

English

Edgar Allen Poe can best be described as a writer who was seriously influenced by neo-Gothic interests. A great American writer, Poe was attracted and influenced by the neo-Gothic writers much before his time because of which, most of his work is on horror. Poe was also witness to a period of uncertainty in society as deceit, murder for gain, revenge and arson was quite common. While courts played an important role in trying to curb this menace, cases were manipulated to benefit the guilty. This had a profound impact on Poe who used certain themes of court matters Continue reading...

Business Law

Business Law
The subject of the essay is the rescission of the contract due to misrepresentation of Elvis Eggplant to induce Mr. Manfredi to buy the café from Happy Hippie Pty Ltd. The fraudulent scheme employed by Elvis led Mr. Manfredi to believe that the café was a profitable business to induce him to buy it.

Issue in the case:

The issue in this particular case is whether or not Mr. Manfredi can rescind the contract that was obtained by material false representation by Mr. Elvis Eggplant. Elvis misrepresented the past and future profitability of the vegetarian café by inflated at least 60 Continue reading...

The American dream is an ideal, an aspiration that is embodied in the pursuit of happiness and self-satisfaction that has been the banner of the United States as personified in its philosophy of freedom. This ideology wants people to believe that everyone can achieve prosperity and success in the land of the free provided that one strives hard because there is very little barrier that would deter one from accomplishing their goals of a better life. Although the specificity of the American Dream varies and changes over time, the general concept remains the same—that anyone who works hard Continue reading...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

- Two popular forms of analysis when attempting to assess if an individual is lying include polygraph tests and voice stress assessments. The two tests are similar in nature when concerning their directive and administration, but are gauged rather differently. For example, according to Ken Alder’s, “The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession,” base questions are given prior to the technical polygraph test, wherein the individual is connected to a machine that will monitor heart rate and pulse in an attempt to assess honesty . In comparison, Harry Hollien and associates, authors of, “Issues in Forensic Voice,” Continue reading...

A polygraph test measures the pulse, blood pressure, respiration, perspiration and skin conductivity of a test subject, in the belief that the telling of a truth or a lie has an effect that manifests in these physiological indices. Throughout its history and since its invention, the polygraph has enjoyed claims of up to 90% accuracy from its advocates. However, the accuracy of the polygraph has widely been criticized as there is not enough evidence to support these claims. Further, research shows that most studies carried out to establish the validity of the polygraph do not meet scientific standards of Continue reading...

Human factor is the major challenge that stands on the way of the specialists in the field of criminal law. Sometimes, the clues may be confusing and the only way to solve the case is retrieving the answer from the people involved. This is when deception and lie become the ultimate challenge in the struggle for the truth. To deal with this problem, the science offered the criminalists a marvelous solution – the lie detector, the device that recognizes the lie. But is it really that good and accurate? The work of the polygraph is based on reading the basic Continue reading...

“A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Traditional convention suffered a string of devastating shocks in the first half of the twentieth century. A world war, a Great Depression, and another world war shattered many people’s faith in traditional institutions. A propos, Flannery O’Connor dispenses with the conventional tropes of hero and villain in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” She gives the reader a villain who is not evil and a hero who is not good.
Despite the third-person narration, this is the Grandmother’s story. The narrator presents her thoughts and feelings, but the other characters exhibit no evidence of inner Continue reading...

Voice Stress Analysis

Voice Stress Analysis

Introduction

Voice Stress Analysis (VSA) is a technology that can help in recording the psychophysiological stress responses in the human voice, especially in conditions when the person is in psychological stress due to some external stimulus, such as questions, and consequences related to the answer could be highly undesirable for subject under trial.

Lie detection is one of the most important procedures in identifying the deceptive mind. Many theories have been presented about lie detection throughout the history. In the police interrogation, “gut reaction” is considered as an important tool to identify whether the person is telling Continue reading...

Dare

Upon reading the instructions for this assignment, I decided to listen to recordings from the beginning, middle and end of the timeline of accessible tapes. Accordingly, I chose the recordings for July 27, 1972; March 20, 1973 and April 25, 1973. I had never heard the recordings or read the transcripts prior to this assignment so it was a very interesting experience. Indeed, in actually hearing the conversation it was like going back in time. On the one hand, hearing the president speak so casually and at times offensively made me realize that despite the status of the office, Continue reading...

What is CVSA?

Computerized Voice Stress Analyzer (CVSA) is a lie detection software program that is designed to measure the changes in a subject’s voice patterns caused by physical efforts or stress as he tries to hide deceptive responses when speaking during an investigative interview. The CVSA program is among lie detection technologies that purport to work by analyzing voice stresses (Damphousse, 2014). During testing process, a subject will be speaking as the microphone plugged into the computer taps his voice patterns for analysis. When the subject speaks, frequencies of his voice patterns will form dynamic graphs on the computer screen. Continue reading...

In the study conducted by authors Alex B. Van Zant and Laura J. Kray, they explored on the concept of truthfulness and honesty. In the study, the researchers stated their objective as attempting to limit the incidence by which people lie. They hypothesized that lying and deception can be averted if face-to-face interaction can instigate moral concern as with the other forms of communication. Simplifying this, the authors believed that when interaction is direct and visual, the possibility of deception will be averted. The authors’ further claims that with face-to-face interaction the players in the communication process will feel Continue reading...

Book Review

Question 1
In defense of his statement, Diamond says that the location in which a particular culture took as a settlement area led to their ability to progress. The key things that defined the growth of a culture were animal domestication and agriculture. Apart from that, the ability of a community to come up with ways to have significant health traits, such as developing immunity vaccines, is significant. In short, the reason America and Europe progressed is due to the lack of some of the key features. It led them to travel far in search of them. Through the Continue reading...

PROFESSORINSTITUTION

Operant Conditioning 2
Introduction
Operant conditioning is a type of learning where a subject’s behavior is modified through antecedents and consequences. The concept was first discovered by Ivan Pavlov who was studying the digestive system of dogs. The theory of behaviorism was introduced by John B. Watson. Later, B.F. Skinner helped define the mechanics of behaviorism through his work. Over the years behaviorism has grown in popularity and scope. Research has shaped the practice of behaviorism as it has been adapted by many disciplines (education, psychology). The most popular use of Behavioral Therapy today is found in treating Continue reading...

Question 1 b

The manipulation of images has triggered different reactions form the people. The manipulation of images has been used mostly by criminals so hide their images from the public when they are conducting their crimes. The IT professionals should take the responsibility of educating the public since they have the skills and the expertise. The consumers should have the responsibility of finding the materials form the internet and from all the materials available that help one in the understanding of the differences between a true image and n altered one. The consumers could also rely on the IT specialists at Continue reading...

Voice Stress Analysis

Voice Stress Analysis

Polygraph is to elicit admissions even before the exam
Although courts have not generally allowed polygraph evidences, there are cases when they can be complimentary to the court’s findings. However, the court should qualify its expert examiners, device and the conditions under which the examination will take place. The polygraph tests are done in advance because the jury does not want being usurped by their findings. As the findings from polygraph can be erroneous, courts are normally reluctant to endorse them, because they are taken as close to calculated gamble. Therefore, they should come even Continue reading...

- Harry and Reasons for escapes.
- Types of magic tricks and escapes.
Harry Houdini performed magic tricks in which he escaped from bondage by different objects. It included chains and handcuffs through which he would be tied first before he could manage to get off the chains and escape. He also performed magic tricks in which he was buried, but still managed to get him out of the coffins and the soil hence cheating death. His escapes were from different objects that were tied around his body or in the hands and legs only (Phillips).
- Relationship with Continue reading...