Essays on Liar

PART ONE

Deception is a conscious and intentional act, usually meant to foster a certain conviction or belief in another person, this belief is however, considered false by the person deceiving. Depending on which type of liar one is, there are certain cues that fall under verbal and none-verbal which can be of help in identifying a lie. One can be an occasional liar, frequent liar, habitual liar, or professional liar. Depending on the type of liar, one will elicit different behavioral cues which might be difficult to catch but not impossible. The prudent thing to do is establish a baseline ...

Everyone desires to understand the significance of life, to unveil the importance of human beings and reconcile that importance to the surroundings. Many philosophers, alive and dead, from Descartes to Eve Cole, have indulged in the question of the significance of a human life, and the relationships that people form. In real life situations, many leaders; religious, political and academic, push forwards thoughts about life. Professional counselors and psychologists make a lot of money by telling people how they can achieve their full potential. In the literal works; Doll House by Ibsen, The Plague by Albert Camus, Ikiru by ...

Body Language

The term ‘body language’ speaks for itself. It conveys the following meaning: your body can speak without words. In fact, it is a kind of non-verbal communication, which sometimes tells more than words. That is why it is important to learn body language, in order to understand it and to know how to apply this knowledge in practice.

Psychologists unanimously agree that emotions can be understood with the help of face expressions. The Facial Expression Program is aimed at making emotions easier to understand (Russell and Fernández Dols 3-4). It is composed of assumptions, methods and theories. The ...

Shakira

Sometimes we stop in front of difficulties and obstacles. Sometimes it seems that all things are lost and everything is against us. At this moment there comes a tipping moment when you need to gather your strength and go forward for your dream. Look around you! We will never see a society in which everybody is happy and satisfied. It is, in fact, a mythical representation, especially under the blows of fate. We can improve out lives every day and every moment. We shoud not give up, if we want to succeed. Let us see what the failures were ...

Any relationship is bound to face challenges from the individuals because it involves two people who are different. Individuals are unique and not any two are similar; even identical twins are different in one way or the other. Misunderstandings arebound to occur due to the uniqueness of personality and behavior of each individual and therefore causing conflict. People who decide to be in a relationship, therefore, must understand their differences to ensure efficient and healthy coexistence. Communication is an integral part of any union because it provides better understanding which is an essential requirement for a successful relationship between ...

A social commentary is a piece of work that expresses opinions and expressions about a historical event, appealing to the audience’s sense of social justice. George MacDonald Fraser wrote a novel known as “Flashman “in 1969, which he identified as a reflection of his childhood memoirs.The novel entails the escapades of Flashman. The character is a fictional character that initially appeared in Tom Brown’s work “School days”. The author used his interest in being a soldier in Asia, and quitting his job as a journalist as the majormotivation for writing this novel, and the other series that ...

I, Robot is a collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov written in the 40s and published as a collection in 1950. These are all stories related to the concept of robotics, and in particular highly advanced and intelligent robots. While the short stories as originally written had no single-story thread, these stories did all exist in a common universe and on occasion characters from one story will show up in one of the other stories, such as robopsychologist Susan Calvin or other less important characters like Powell or Donovan. Moreover, in order to tie them all together when ...

Art and Politics

Life has become lot more complicated than what it was ever before in the history of mankind. Probably, even in comparison to as late as the last fifty years, life today is far more complex, communicative, and all life events seem to happen in real time. Today, there is so much knowledge about everything and knowledge is virtually free. Knowledge no longer endows a strategic advantage on the holder of knowledge. There is so much complexity that everything seems specialize. Knowledge is so freely available today that everyone acquires it at all levels and therefore carry an opinion of ...

Exam #1

- What are the two types of statistics? (5pts.)

The two types of statistics are descriptive and inferential. In descriptive statistics, the data of a population is summarized graphically or numerically through derivation of statistics related to central tendency and dispersion around the same. The shape and nature of distribution is also used in descriptive statistics. In inferential statistics, the parameters of a population are inferred according to sample statistics. This involves the estimation of statistics of a group allowing for approximation of information data relating to the entire population. In this type of statistics, modeling are used to generate mathematical ...

Human Behavior: Lying

Lying is one of the most common human behaviors with many people terming it as wrong but necessary at times. Lying can be described as a form of deception, and has three main features: a lie has to communicate some information; the liar has to have the intention to mislead or deceive and; the liar is aware that he or she is telling a lie (BBC, 2013). Therefore, lying does not have to communicate false information, but it is the intention of the liar to deceive by giving false information that constitutes lying. But what motivates lying?

Humanistic theory of motivation illustrated ...

Analysis

As noted in the introduction, the author of this report is not trying to sway anyone’s minds when it comes to whether global warming exists or not. Based on the totality of what is coming out in the press and the science community, the planet probably is warming and humans are probably at least a small (if not a major) factor in all of the above. However, some of the talking heads, “scientists”, politicians and other people in the global warming/climate paradigm are acting extremely suspiciously and/or in an obtuse or irresponsible way. The author of this report is happy ...

Introduction

Homicide is defined as the act in, which a person kills another person. There have been times when people have compared homicide with murder. This is the reason that has caused many researchers in the society to try to investigate the difference between the two terms. Some of the findings that came out were that homicide is much more than just plain murder. The truth is that murder can be said to be another form of the homicide, which is stated to be in the criminal homicide characteristics. The other types of homicide can be stated to be capital murder, ...

I would like to begin with one short story that I have heard some time ago and which is still in my head. Answering the question what is man, Plato said that a human is a two-legged animal with feathers. Then, he proposed such alternatives: 1) but if to pluck the feathers from a cock, will he become a human; 2) and if a man is without legs then he will be not a human anymore? According to this, it is important to think about human not only as one of the biological kinds of mammals, not only as a biological creature, but a spiritual one. ...

Abstract:

This paper is about the virtue of honesty what it means, what makes an honest person different from a dishonest person. Lying is almost inevitable, sometimes you have to lie to avoid the conflict, sometimes to avoid the embarrassment, sometimes it is revenge or a negative emotion that compels a person to lie. Two extreme cases are discussed in this paper: one when a person lies for no clear reason only the excitement or thrill of cheating others makes a person lie again and again and the opposite extreme of this is the person who cannot lie at all. There are certain advantages attached ...

Regardless of the reason for which it occurs, lying allows the creation of a world in which individuals would want to live. The girls from “Girl, Interrupted”, the women from “Notes on Scandal”, Humbert Humbert in “Lolita” or William Styron in “Darkness Visible” all appeal to lies for creating the reality that they envision or for depicting the world in which they think they live. Juxtaposing two worlds, the imagined and the real one, the characters of the above mentioned readings and films balance their existence in the two worlds by appealing to lies, for justifying their dual existence. For ...

1 a). In the context, Frankfurt writes“Liars must believe they know the truth first, however, bullshitters don’t need to know the truth.” What then, do you believe to be a fundamental difference between lying and bullshitting? Answer: Liars must know the truth and they consciously fabricate a lie. Their intention is to oppose the truth. However, bullshitters don’t have a strong stand for or against the truth. Their intention is to get away simply with exaggeration and extrapolation. A person talking bullshit is unconcerned with the truth and is loose with her/his words. There are laxity and aloofness towards the ...

How to help children cope with divorce

Introduction As most people well know especially those with kids, divorce is the hardest thing that a child ever has to go through. Many children are scarred for life by their parent’s divorce, and ultimately take it out on different people as well as other family members. It can be said that divorce is the driving spike in a marriage, and deals more than its fair share of pain to both the child as well as the parents. The children who the divorce affects usually want to know what exactly happened to mom and dad that made them decide ...

Introduction

Deception is the act of telling a deliberate lie or giving some misleading information deliberately. It is a very common act within the society, and self-reporting researches have shown that every person tells approximately two lies per day and tells a lie once in every four, social interactions (Albrechtsen, 2010). Bearing in mind that the decisions made in the criminal justice system has severe consequences on an individual, there raises the question of whether deception is ethical within this system, and whether the end justifies the means. This paper aims at investigating deception by the investigation officers within the criminal justice system ...

A lie has several features, which qualifies any statement to be termed as a lie. A lie is supposed to pass certain information. In the same context, it is supposed to be misleading or bearing information, which is not true. The liar on his or her hand believes that the information in the statement is not true. The above feature qualifies a statement to be a lie. Lies are meant for several reasons to get out of a difficult situation and to put off someone among other reasons. A lie, which the liar uses it for some good purpose, is called a white lie. ...

Introduction: Afghanistan as America’s Longest War

In Chapter 2 of her book, Every Man in this Village is a Liar, Megan Stack described the start of the Afghan War in 2001 and the failed attempt to capture or kill Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. Bin Laden is dead now, of course, gunned down by a Navy SEAL team at his hideout in Pakistan, but the war in Afghanistan drags on despite all loss of popular support for it there or in the United States. None of the conditions Stack observed in 2001, such as the corruption of the warlords, the poverty and despair of the common ...

A birthday party was given for Robert Frost when he turned eighty five years old. His publishers, Henry Holt and Company hosted a party on March 26, 1959. The guest speaker at the event was the essayist Louis Trilling. During the speech Trilling referred to Frost as “a terrifying poet.” This comment caused a controversy. In the April issue of The New York Times Book Review the columnist J. Donald Adams criticized Tilling for using that description of Robert Frost. Several people had their angry letters published.

Does Trilling make a good point that Frost’s poems are terrifying? The poems will be ...

Introduction

"To lie is to state something that one knows to be false or that one has not reasonably ascertained to be true with the intention that it be taken for the truth by oneself or someone else’ (Aldert Vrij 2011) .In spite of our intentions in everyday life, we all are all faced with situations that require our economy with the truth. The discussion below explores the types of lies, reasons why people tell such lies with emphasis on the benefits that accrue to liars from their actions. The giveaway cues of detecting them and the ethical issues surrounding ...

When Back Seat Dodge first opened in 1966 the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors threatened to withhold funding from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art if it insisted on including the work in a Kienholz retrospective. The museum finally agreed that the door would only be opened if someone over eighteen years old requested it and there was no one under that age present. The public was shocked that the museum would host a potentially pornographic display, so much so that over two hundred people lined up to see it. It has been that way ever since. Back Seat ...

Lying is one of the most common wrong acts, found in the people’s behavior. A scholar even told that there is no use of wasting the time thinking on lying because it is an inescapable part of human beings. This tendency is very often meant to deceit others by hiding the truth but every deception is not necessarily a lie. Sometimes lying is necessary for a smooth life because the truth is very harsh and not always acceptable in the practical life. Everything on this earth has at least two aspects usually, the lying is also not any exception and ...

Rhetorical and literary strategies the author uses to achieve her purpose

In "The Ways We Lie,” Stephanie Ericson tells about the different ways people lie and further explains the reasons for lying. The story explains the different kinds of lies told daily by most people, and the justification for these lies. In achieving this, she perfectly uses rhetorical and literary strategies as described hereunder.

Organization:

The article (editorial) begins as a narrative and revolves around a simple and factual generalization that human beings are liars. The author speaks directly to the reader and incorporates the reader in the story through the use of “we”. She then takes the reader through a journey of self-realization. ...

Are subprime loans an unethical financial instrument, or are they ethical but misused in a way that created ethical issues?

Subprime loans are not considered to be an unethical financial instrument. However, their misuse results in both ethical and legal issues. Original goal of subprime lending is helping borrowers with low credit ratings or those who cannot maintain their repayment schedule to receive loans at a rate above prime loans.

Subprime loans appeared in 1970s, when social activists mobilized President Administration and U.S. Congress to deal with social injustices in home ownership, and provide loan opportunities to people from low-income neighborhoods (Eastburn 14). Since then lenders could charge higher rates to this kind of borrowers due to added risk, and ...