...The book Nothing But the Truth, it’s very relatable, has a very interesting moral, and involves a lot of fame, though some people may say it has a dull start and not much dialogue. In reality, the book starts to get a lot more entertaining after the third chapter. Due to relatable characters the book Nothing But the Truth is very relatable because all the teachers in the school are very mean and unfair to Philip Malloy, especially Ms. Margaret Narwin. Ms. Narwin is Philip’s homeroom and English teacher, and Philip also dislikes Ms. Narwin. In the mornings when the announcements come on they listen to the Star Spangled Banner. Philip always liked to hum the Star Spangled Banner in all of his other homerooms in the past years and the teachers were fine with it. But Ms. Narwin sent Philip to the office, every time he did it. He got suspended after a while of doing...
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...He never doubts his father’s love for him; however, he begins to have more serious doubts about his father’s choices. While the boy initially persists on remaining the ‘good guys’, he soon becomes aware of death and the harsh brutality that others turn to in order to survive. This is groundwork for his final act that requires tremendous maturity: as his father lies dying, he vows to continue on his journey south and to retain the ‘fire’ within. While the actual journey is ultimately useless, the painful transition from a boy to strong-willed young man is a triumph. It is the gradual weakening of childhood innocence that is one of the most painfully real and heartbreaking truths of ‘The Road.’ However, in a sense, it is time for the father to die when the son is mature enough to make his own moral decisions for the new generation and learn his own way of life, his own...
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...Fabrication is looked at the same way lying is, wrong. Coming up with fiction when the truth needs to be told. John Proctor in The Crucible, is a farmer in a Puritan society. Proctor has a wife, Elizabeth, and three boys, but only two are baptized. In Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, John Proctor was a dishonest man by lying, being dishonest towards Reverend Hale, and betraying his family by being actively involved in adultery. John Proctor is a dishonorable man because he lies.This is an issue because his wife is becoming weary of him. In Act I, John Proctor was alone in a room with Abigail Williams. When Abigail asked how Proctor calls her a child, Proctor replies with, “...I may think of you softly from time to time” (Miller 146). This quote relates directly to Proctor; he states, to Elizabeth, that he does not think...
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...I should have expected her when I saw the headline that morning. “Man Found Dead In Desert” wasn’t much information but his picture was plastered across the front page. I thought Olivia would be too busy, or too depressed, to stop by but there was banging on my door around eleven in the morning. I got up and let her in, I wasn’t prepared for the fury of her entrance. “He’s dead!” She came in, took the door from my grip to slam it shut and emphasize her words. “I told you something was wrong and now he’s gone!” She was in my face but I didn’t move, I just watched her as her voice got higher and higher. “You said he was just on vacation but I told you something was wrong and you didn’t do anything! Why didn’t you do something?” “I’m sorry...
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...Scout didn’t let society grasp her thoughts due to her main influence and hero in her life, Atticus. “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts (Lee 79).” Opinions are the main influences in society. In most statements told by members of society, the adjectives incorporated are the personal opinion of their speaker. Once those adjectives are removed, you get the facts that are not biased or altered. Atticus taught Scout that she shouldn’t judge others based on the opinion and stereotypes labeled to the individual. Atticus was incredibly wise and displayed characteristics many in Maycomb lacked of. Scout learned to be more accepting and willing to experience new things because she was surrounded by many that had unique views compared to those of the...
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...John Proctor’s Outstanding Personality The Crucible was a play in 1962 about the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. The trials began after girls started accusing many people of witchcraft. John Proctor and Abigail Williams which is the leader of the girls had an affair. Abigail wanted John’s wife dead so she could be with him, and she would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. John Proctor's honest, selfless, and vulnerable ways are revealed in The Crucible. John Proctor is an honest man. For example in the book Proctor states “Mr. Parris discovered them sportin’ in the woods. They were startled and took sick” (Miller 33). John is honest in this quote by telling Reverend Hale about the girls being in the woods doing witchcraft, he was...
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...This father used whatever he had to to ensure the safety of his son. Guito uses comedy to protect his son from the actual truth. All he wanted was to make sure that Giosue never found out what they were really in, Guito did everything he could to make sure that Giosue didn’t find out that they were actually in a Concentration Camp being kill and used as slaves. Throughout some parts of the movie Guido does some things that are funny but they aren’t meant to make someone laugh, no they were meant so that Giosue believed he was just playing a game. Guito made Giosue believe that he was playing a game trying to win and that the rest of the people were just players playing too trying to beat Guito and Giosue. So as you see this wasn’t meant to be funny but to hide the truth from his son. In the film Guito makes jokes but to make Giosue smile and keep his happiness intact and not to let him suffer even though Guito knew that this was not easy, he didn’t care what he had to do all he cared about was his son and wife. See his humor didn’t just make Dora his wife fall in love with him it also made his son believe in him. When Guito his son and the rest of the jews arrived to the camp a German Officer entered their camp and asked for someone that spoke...
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...Juan Martinez Erik Moellering ENG 111 LYD1 7 February 2014 The Truth about Having a Job When I was a kid I remember seeing my parents working and bringing home money. I wanted to experience having a job myself and see how it was. After I had a taste of having a job and having responsibilities I saw how difficult it was. My experience is related to Plato’s, “Allegory of the Cave” because like the prisoner’s I too was blinded by the truth. When I was a kid I remember going out every Friday and eating out with my family. I do not remember a time when we did not do that. I believed it was really easy to go to work every day and make money. My dad was an executive general manager at a trucking company named JB Hunt. My dad often told me that to have a good job you must have a good college degree. I did not believe him, I believed that to have a job you just have to go look for one. Like the prisoners in the allegory of the cave, the shadows to me were seeing what I could and that was my parents bringing home money. I did not see how they did it or how difficult it was to have a job. When I finally turned sixteen I was old enough to have a job. I finally got to the point where I could experience it myself and determine how difficult it was to have a job. At the beginning it was a little hard but not as bad as I had expected and I always told myself, “see this is not that bad,” I could do anything I wanted without an education. After I graduated from high school, I got a job...
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...Knowledge and Truth Although the quest for knowledge plays a big role in Sophocles' play "Oedipus Rex,” translated by Dudley Fittz and Robert Fitzgerald, the consequences of wanting to know the truth led to an unforeseen exile. Though Oedipus was very dignified, his pursuit for knowledge and truth resulted in ruin as Oedipus uncovered his destiny, which he was better off not knowing. Because Oedipus was a king of great honor; his power prevented him from acknowledging the words of his own people and accepting the truth. Oedipus, once a man of power and wealth, lost all respect creating ramifications that he later endured. The power of truth became the biggest obstacles for Oedipus' character to accept amongst the vigilant kingdom he was living in. Oedipus' was unwilling to see the truth behind his very own prophecy spoken by his kingdom of people, to whom he should have always been willing to listen. He requested to hear the spoken words of Thebes and summoned them to hear, “Children, I would not have you speak through messengers, and therefore I have come myself to hear you— I, Oedipus, who bear the famous name” (Sophocles 3). Not realizing the slander of the town was about him, Oedipus requested to be told the truth spoken throughout his people. Because of his request to hear the truth, Oedipus’ was hit with the truth of his past. He is dignified enough to be told up front with out having to hear through the gossip, however this caused him to hear the truth of his own prophecy...
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...relationship. These problems and issues involving history draw heavily on problems that still to this day remain prevalent, especially living in a state such as New Mexico. This all leads up to a rather spectacular conclusion in which classical notations of history are “re-worked” if you would to show a stark new knowledge (or lack thereof) of how In certain situations human nature tends to transcend its own history. These conclusions, the special conclusions are more common in our conditions of today. Lone star especially during a time in which these types of inferences and stigmas were so prevalent, provided an insight into the ways we can exist outside our cultural history by choosing to exist only in the present. Choosing to let blood only mean what we let it, and re-working historical contingencies towards our advantage is what lone star is truly about. The stage was set for this classic re-working expectance in the town of Frontera, a town in which “nineteen out of twenty” people are Mexican with the rest being black or white. The town’s inner power infrastructure seemingly rests in the hands of the white minority, but not...
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...in the United States to hold state and local governments, as well as businesses and schools, accountable for discrimination (“Martin Luther King Legacy of Courage”). Martin Luther King Jr,leader of U.S Civil rights movement(“Martin Luther King Legacy of Courage”). Lots of battle stories involving courage are told in the United States. All these stories suggest that war requires a special kind of bravery or courage, both moral and physical. According to Peter Olstoorn, Defense Minister of the Netherlands, moral courage gives armed forces self-confidence, integrity, and leadership and physical courage allows them to feel no threat of death. We always see soldiers willingly risk their life and fight with great determination for country. They not only put their lives on the line, but they also put their emotions and reputation on the line ("Courage in the Military: Physical and Moral”). The story of Breaden Marrocco (veteran) shows us his courage and also shows that humanity is greater than failure. He was struck by a powerful bomb in Iraq and became the first service member to survive after losing all four limbs. After losing all his limbs, he did not let himself down. Over the last several years, he has learned to use all four artificial limbs and to walk again. Last year, he became the first service member to receive a double-arm transplant. It has been six months since his operation and last week he showed up in the press with his officer. He showed the press what he...
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...in the garden and then something started to happen inside of me. I felt this power. I saw Buddha there with us in the garden glowing. Qiao told me to open my eyes and stand up. So I stood up with a teardrop running down my face. Qiao told me to use that power and channel it through my fists. Qiao told me to swing both my hands now. As I swung, Qiao placed a thick piece of wood in my way. I felt the life from my soul go through my hands. Both of my fists struck the wood and it broke up into small pieces. Qiao smiled at me saying, “My friend, you have found the middle way,” and then bowed to me. Buddha said with a big smile on his face, “You have just learnt the Almighty push. Also, another reason we don't use it too often is because channeling the power of your soul will shorten your life with every use. It is called the Almighty push for a reason. You're pushing out the power that was given by the Almighty God. That tear that I shed was not from sadness but joy. If you have ever cried from joy, you will then find true happiness. There, Buddha told me his work was done and went back to his place to meditate. Qiao was in shock. He told me he couldn’t believe that Buddha got up to speak. Qiao started to really teach me the ways of the Buddha. He taught me about the enlighten path, it means to release one's self of earthly objects. Qiao told me the ones who try to be perfect will never be enlightened. No matter what we have and what humans do, we will never be perfect. What we...
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...condition at this point; so to give what could be an overwhelming amount of information could be confusing or based on research, potentially harmful. First I’ll address the reason why keeping a patient’s hopes up is so important. Since the publication of Henry Beecher’s The Powerful Placebo in 1955, which brought the idea of this phenomenon to public attention, there have been many experiments conducted to test the placebo effect. A good deal of these experiments involved the consumption of alcohol and the effect it can have on our bodies. A specific example of such an experiment would be one conducted by Seema Assefi and Maryanne Garry, two psychologists from Victoria University in New Zealand. They split 148 students into two groups and told one group that they were being served vodka and tonic while telling the other that they were being served just tonic, however the reality was that both groups were being served only tonic and neither group was being served any alcohol. Over time the group that believed their...
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...Most of the time Judge Danforth will condemn someone, when they are trying to defend themselves or others. Giles explained to Danforth, that Thomas Putnam was murdering people, for their land. When he asks him who told him this, Giles refuses to tell him, so Danforth says, “Old man if your informant tells the truth, let him come here openly like a decent man. But if he hide in anonymity, I must know why” (3.449-451). Danforth proceeds to arrest Giles, until he confesses. He is painfully interrogated and eventually killed, due to Danforth’s orders. Also, when Proctor refuses to sign the document, because it would make him look bad, Danforth says, “You will give me your honest confession, or I cannot keep you from the rope“ (4.734-737). Danforth...
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...What exactly is the truth? What is true and how do we determine this? Although these questions offer great similarity, they are two completely different questions. In order to determine what is true, we must evaluate what is considered the truth. Absolute statements are often relative to context such as language, setting, culture, and belief, however, although absolute facts might exist in theory, do we really have access to them? I believe that Absolute occurence is indeed irrelevant, just because something happens it doesn't mean it's true and that maybe something that didn't or hasn't happened yet is actually the truth. Human Actions such as exaggeration, perception and a sense of trust come into play when determine the truthfulness of something being told. First of all, absolute occurence is indeed irrelevant. Truth as it seems, doesn't exist. Tim O’Brien has attempted to tackle this subject in his book The Things They Carried. Readers often wonder if this book is true, is it based on facts, or is it real. Even if the occurrences in this...
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