Is it ok to lie?

John Paul DeTrolio
ENGW1101
1/31/2016
Prof. Young

                                                                        Is it Ok to Lie?

As children, it is drummed into their heads "DO NOT LIE". Even if a child learns this, they still will tell a lie at least once in their lives. Most of the time people--including adults-- can get in trouble if they lie however, it is done almost everyday. So is it okay to lie? This is a touchy question. Any person responding to this is either for lying or against it. It is nearly impossible to have a legitimate reason to believe in both at once.
This deduction leads me to believe that lying is wrong. Lying is wrong because it is impossible to draw a line on when it becomes bad. Whether you're  lying to a kid about the tooth fairy, or an adult lying about cheating on his wife, there is no measurement on how serious both these lies are. We only assume one is worse because we believe it is. Many people think its wrong to tell a child that Santa Claus is not real, yet these people are the same people that get mad if they have been lied to. It is all based on personal preference. Since there is absolutely no science or reasoning behind lying, a world where lying is encouraged would result in  anarchy. In short, a world with lying can lead to anarchy where a world without lying is more stable and predicable. Because of this, I believe that lying is wrong.

Getting to Know You Assignment

John Paul DeTrolio
ENGW1101
1/27/2016
Prof. Young

                                                                  Getting to Know Me

Well for those who do not know me, my name is John Paul DeTrolio. Eventually I would like to become a veterinarian and be able to help and treat many cute and cool animals. As nerdy as it sounds, I want to be an  animal hero. To me, a hero is someone who helps. I have always been passionate about everything biology themed. Ever since I could walk, I would go outside and play. Because of that, I  enjoy many outdoor activities like fishing, kayaking, hiking, tree climbing, and just about anything else one can do outside. Along with playing outside I use to play many sports like baseball, football, and basketball. I had played most of these sports for years and it was hard having to quit playing them in high school. Currently I do not play any of these sports seriously, but I still play them with friends for fun.The most ridiculous lie I ever told was to my younger sister. One day after annoying me all day, she deserved to suffer a little. When my parents left the room I told her she was adopted. I kept making up facts like; I went to the adoption clinic to pick her up, she is so much paler than me, her eyes are to big for our family, and so on. After causing her to experience an identity crisis, my parents came into the room to see my sister in a corner crying. After she told them what happened I got in trouble.
Fast forwarding to about eighth grade, something revolutionary happened. I was able to make a Facebook account! In the beginning I use to post something almost everyday. However as the years have gone by, I barely post at all. As I continued to write in high school, I started realizing that I wasn't very special. If I were to honestly judge myself as a writer I would give myself a C+ maybe a B. To be honest I never found anything fun about sitting down forming a thesis and writing a paper trying to explain why I was right. This process is boring to me. At least in science you're performing experiments and testing data, but in writing, I'm just trying to contort each sentence into its longest possible form. Although writing is not my favorite subject, my experiences are not that bad. As I had continued taking the coarse, my goal was always to become a better writer. Sadly, like a new years resolution, it barely happened. This semester though, I am going to change my goal. Instead of trying to become a better writer, I am going to try and make writing more fun. By being more fun I can write better papers, and actually enjoy the class.
Hopefully this would lead me to be a much better writer than I was in high school. In high school I failed a lot. However, these failures were nowhere near the shame of my biggest failure. That infamous distinction was the first time I took my drivers test. I perfectly executed a parallel park, but the instructor opened the door and said I was to close to the curb, he then failed me. I was devastated. With all this excitement in my life its quite hard to get around to a good book. Along with not really having a passion for reading , I have a short attention span. So I never really got into reading, this includes high school and college books. The last thing I read cover to cover were magazines called Zoobooks. These were magazines about animals and I loved them. I could read one a day, however thats really the only literature I can remember reading cover to cover.