Deception

Wild animals are no different than civilized humans in that we live by one simple rule: eat or be eaten. We find the will to survive by any means. Insects use their camouflage abilities, lions their speed, and men their strength. Women, however, use their cunningness to survive. Whether flaunting accentuated features, beaming a beguiling smile, or toying with emotions, a woman 's survival comes down to her ability to physically or mentally deceive her opponent by any means possible. John…

truth lies within. Sometimes people can be deceiving, even those you'd least expect it from. They make you feel like you can trust them and they are a true supporter, however, they're your enemy waiting for your downfall. Betrayal is the act of deception. You make others believe in a false idea, just to wrongfully affect them in the end. Though betrayal is mainly looked as a negative action, its long-lasting effects can be positive. In the poem, “The Overcoming”, the poet shows the transition…

Appearances are often misleading and not everything one sees is true. In Alexander the False Prophet, Lucian exposes Alexander as a fraud by pointing out Alexander’s manipulative actions to deceive others and by revealing Alexander’s methods of deceptions. Lucian successfully convinces his readers that Alexander is a scammer and a false prophet due to his credibility factor which includes his personal connections to the subject of his writing. Lucian accomplished it by describing Alexander’s…

manipulate, deceive, and lie to people. Helen’s main goal is to be reunited with her husband, Menelaos, in her homeland. Helen persuades characters to do things her way by manipulation, lies, and deception. Throughout Helen, the main character manipulates Teucros, Menelaos, and Theoclymenos using deception, persuasion, and deceit which derive from her use of rhetoric. Helen manipulates these men to achieve her end goal of being reunited with her husband Menelaos. Helen’s manipulation begins…

Steve McCurry, a world-renowned photographer, the author of Sharbat Gula, has been the center of a controversy because he uses Photoshop in his photographs. Many people argued that his use of Photoshop in his photograph is not ethical. I was very curious why using a worldwide renowned software could be unethical. Thus, I did some searches on the Internet and I found that this is a common problem in the field of journalism, not just Steve McCurry and his behavior. In my opinion, using Photoshop…

Theodore M. Benditt claims “Literature provides many good examples of revenge as a strategic device in a struggle for standing” (360). Hamlet uses deceit as a “strategic device” to get his revenge on his uncle. Just because Hamlet used deception as a device it does mean that mean his actions are acceptable. Hamlet deceived everyone except the select few that were with him at the revelation of his father’s death. Hamlet played the game of lies with his family he created a play to try to spark…

students. If a teacher was to intentionally spread misconceptions to his or her students without their knowledge, the students would generally accept it as legitimate facts though it is not. I feel the English language must not serve as a tool for deception by…

humans are asked to do things we do not want to. Whether it’s going to a friend’s basketball game, or giving a friend a ride, to get out of doing these things we usually lie. As little as the situation, we use little white lies to create a sense of deception so the person we are lying to leaves us alone. Lying is not always a used to hurt or manipulate, but sometimes used to distract or redirect for the greater good. Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who was a very prominent figure…

Charles Johnson’s compendium of the “[lives] of the [h]ighwaymen” includes a text about a clever seventeenth-century confidence trickster named Mary Carleton (Johnson 221). The biography of Mary Carleton reveals her ability to exploit human emotions and tendencies for personal gain and highlights her proficiency at creating new façades and employing different tactics in order to successfully manipulate others in a wide range of scenarios, unlike other fraudsters. Mary resorted to continuously…

professor at the Michigan State University in the Department of Communications, it's found that, "when honesty was sufficient to meet situational demands, honest messages were selected, generated, and observed 98.5% to 100% of the time. Alternatively, deception was observed 60.0% to 64.3% of the time when variations in the same situations made the truth problematic" (Levine). This research shows that most often humans lie simply because the truth would cause more problems than the lie therefore…