...A common feeling amongst humans is “fear” which is felt when one feels like someone or something is dangerous. Fear is brought on by the sense of danger which leads people to become more cautious of their every move. This feeling is one African Americans experience not because they are always feeling afraid of something but because of the action of “segregation” setting them apart from the whites.The isolated feeling is done through “discrimination” demonstrated by the whites unjust treatment of African Americans. The ever-present fear that African Americans experience within society has been embedded through generations of segregation and discrimination causing Black people to believe they must hide behind a mask and to believe they must act “twice as good” in order to protect their body. Falling victim to generations of segregation and discrimination, African Americans experience a constant feeling of fear. Baldwin explores the idea of the segregated world in which he lives when he “discovered the weight of white people in the world. [he] saw that this had been for [his] ancestors and now would be for [him] an awful thing to live with and...
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...Fundamentally, the economic fear from white American workers during the antebellum period up to the present day has remained a critical factor in the African American labor crisis. Today, this economic fear continues to underwrite the present-day under-enforcement of employment discrimination and other civil rights laws. This economic fear became more and more noticeable and shrill both during and immediately after the American Civil War. Lucidly describing conditions on the ground during the period of Reconstruction (1865-1877), W.E.B. Du Bois wrote: “The poor whites… were absolutely at sea. The Negro was to become apparently their fellow laborer. But were the whites to be bound to the black laborer by economic condition and destiny, or...
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...Fear, a complex concept, is the driving factor of everyday life. Fear determines how a person acts, their impressions, their style and many other simple choices they make on an everyday basis. Fear challenges a person to achieve the impossible and, but more importantly, it keeps them alive. A simple fear, like crossing the road, keeps people from running out into the world and being crushed so badly they will never recover. It is fear that protects life, but on the other hand, it could also ruin life. To find a balance between legitimate fear and unreasonable fear is a constant struggle. Fear is a misunderstood idea in the lives of Americans; it should provide a life worth living not shut it down. Terrorism is a fear that is often misrepresented. It is just the fear of people who are inhumane and find happiness in creating fear. Foreign terrorists, like Isis, are the most feared type, but they should not be. Only one in 110 million people die from terrorism (Source A). While this number seems so unrealistic, the truth is that foreign terrorism is not what Americans should...
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...All dying experiences are unique and influenced by many factors, such as the cause of death, length of the process, and beliefs of the person. Each patient understands death from his or her own point of view. Two patients with the exact same diagnosis will each comprehend their dying process differently. Whether it is age, gender, race, religion, the way he/she was raised, all people will uniquely experience the dying process. It is hard to quantify death because of this. First, we need to begin with definition of a critical word. Death anxiety is one found in almost every text describing the dying process. According to the Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, death anxiety refers to the “fear and anxiety related to the anticipation, and awareness, of dying, death, and nonexistence. It can vary according to the person’s stage of development and sociocultural life experiences” (Gellman, 2013). This one definition already shows that there is going to be relationships between the dying process and age, gender, and different races. Effects of Gender on the Dying Process The connection of gender to the dying process is fairly inconsistent. Some reports state that there is no difference in gender relationship to death and the quality of the dying process (Venegas and Alvarado,...
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...Forever 21: Dealing with America’s Fear of Aging and Death Margaret Kimble Developmental Psychology 210 Liberty University Abstract Mankind has tried to cheat aging and death by freezing their remains, cosmetic surgery or marrying outside their generation hoping to stay young. However, these attempts are futile and Americans cannot hold back the clock or trick death. The clock is ticking and when it stops I will die and so will you no one knows when. Although there is a great deal of research on aging and death, no one has discovered how to halt the inevitable. It is a scientific and biblical fact that human beings will age and die. All life ends in death. This paper will cover some of the issues regarding, fear of death, and fear of aging. It will also explore if Americans fear death and aging because we have no control over it or we don’t understand it. Fear of aging can be attributed the fear of our health failing; losing our memory, independence and the energy for living our lives to the fullest (Berger, 2001). Fear of death can be attributed to not being able to speak to someone who is still experiencing it. Many fear growing older because of the onslaught of mental deterioration such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease; which are attributed to old age. (Philipchalk, 1994). Fear of aging and death is caused by America’s negative concept; it is the natural progression of life. In Strongman’s research he found that a dominant aspect of aging is death...
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...When the there is a major problem, the world loses its ability to judge if it's right or wrong. There is panic and fear among the people. Fear is a strong emotion and can lead people to do things that’s not right. Just like in the Salem trials there were many innocent that died. During this time everyone was afraid. This led people to falsely accuse someone else to save their own lives. This same fear grows and grows throughout the people. Just like during the Salem trials, today there is fear of many things. One of them is fear of illegal immigrants. Why so many people afraid of this is because there is a group that feeds the fear for their own benefit. Both in Salem and today fear has led to many wrong doings. Most people hear what they want...
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...can cause great injury or even death if bitten by them. Coincidentally many people are fearful of spiders, which often time disables them with fear in the presence of this animal. Many people live their entire lives with the fear of spiders. This paper will discuss how these people can learn through exposure therapy to extinct their fear of spiders. Personally I am not afraid of spiders; however, my four-year-old daughter screams and runs out of the room at the sight of a crawling spider. Although the spider she is afraid of is not harmful, her mom, as a precaution has taught her that spiders are bad. Additionally, I believe that others like my daughter have been taught by someone close to them at a young age to be fearful of spiders because they are poisonous, and unattractive. There is evidence that offspring of a phobic individual are at greater risk for developing the same specific phobia subtype because children tend to mirror their parents’ tendencies and fears King, Muris (2004). According to the DSM-IV-TR American Psychiatric Association DBM-IV-TR, (2000), a specific phobia is characterized by clinically significant anxiety provoked by exposure to a specific feared object or situation. Exposure to the feared stimulus invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response that may take the form of a panic attack. Because of the fear of the specific object or situation, people with specific phobias tend to exhibit avoidance behavior or endure situations with relative distress...
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...an individual learns through a reward system. It is more or less association made between behavior and consequence of that behavior. Phobias and addictions develop through these two types of conditioning. Phobias develop through classical conditioning and addictions through operant conditioning. Through the past decades, psychologists studied these two relationships to develop a more understanding of these emotional disorders. Phobias and addictions are negative behaviors and usually come from classical conditioning or operant conditioning. Phobias happen out of a fear of something and addictions happen because an individual becomes controlled by an activity or habit. People react to fears and habits in different ways. What one-person fears, another does not. The same goes for habits or addictions. What one person may enjoy enough to become addicted, another person can walk away from it. Every person handles fears and addictions in very...
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...Why does fear work? Especially in the twenty-first century, how is it that political figures can still use scare tactics to win votes? In this paper, I will be using work from Hanna Arednt, Walter Benjamin, and Emile Durkheim to explain how, even in a society striving towards equality, fear can cause progress to unravel. To do this, I will begin by assessing Nazi Germany through the lens’ of Arendt four pillars of work to analyze how such an evil man managed to accumulate so many devoted followers. Following this, I will be applying these same four pillars to a popular television show in North America, American Horror Story (2011). The logic behind this comparison comes from the famous quote ‘life imitates art, ’ and the most recent season...
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...limitations in treatment of anxiety disorders. This paper will also show what this clinician has learned and will take forward into the daily practice of treating adolescents with anxiety disorders. Keywords: anxiety, anxiety disorders, DSM-5, treatment Introduction When we talk about anxiety we have to distinguish between healthy anxiety or normal anxiety and anxiety disorders. It is normal to have a certain amount of anxiety for instance when one is in danger it is normal to become anxious. To have an anxiety disorder your anxiety would have to interfere with your life in a negative way. Anxiety and fear are associate with the disorder and both need to be understood. Anxiety is defined as apprehension over an anticipated problem, fear is defined as a reaction to immediate danger (Kring, p. 173). In the sympathetic nervous system anxiety creates a moderate arousal and fear can create a high arousal. Both there arousals can be moderate to severe where it impacts the quality of live....
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...when faced with a problem at work, before taking a test, or making an important decision. Anxiety disorders, however, are different. They can cause such distress that it interferes with a person's ability to lead a normal life. An anxiety disorder is a serious mental illness. For people with anxiety disorders, worry and fear are constant and overwhelming, and can be crippling. Phobias -- See What Makes Some People Afraid What Are the Types of Anxiety Disorders? There are several recognized types of anxiety disorders, including: • Panic disorder : People with this condition have feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning. Other symptoms of a panic attack include sweating, chest pain, palpitations (irregular heartbeats), and a feeling of choking, which may make the person feel like he or she is having a heart attack or "going crazy." • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) : People with OCD are plagued by constant thoughts or fears that cause them to perform certain rituals or routines. The disturbing thoughts are called obsessions, and the rituals are called compulsions. An example is a person with an unreasonable fear of germs who constantly washes his or her hands. • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) : PTSD is a condition that can develop following a traumatic and/or terrifying event, such as a sexual or physical assault, the unexpected death of a loved one, or a natural disaster. People with PTSD often have lasting and frightening...
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...emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions,” -Paul Ryan. In a society it is essential that we recognize how fear can be used as a tool, as demonstrated in Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. In the book, a group of boys are deserted on an uninhabited island, in which a new society rises and then crumbles through the means of savagery. The Lord of the Flies presents an allegory which warn us that people will use fear as a means to gain power, destroy any attempts of reason, and bring society into a perpetual state of chaos. Throughout history, there are many people who have sought to use fear upon a group of people...
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...Aquaphobia Fear of Water | Isis N’tara Aidid Solomon | A paper looking into the causes, symptoms, and treatment for the fear of water. | | We’re all afraid of something in life whether that is a fear of spiders, fear of the ghosts, and even in some extreme instances a fear of pickles. One of the most common fears is Aquaphobia which is defined as a social phobia that is a persistent, unwarranted, and irrational fear of water. This fear is not to be confused with Hydrophobia which represents the fear of water developed in later stages of Rabies (Olesen, 2015). Nearly 19.2 million Americans suffer from specific phobias such as Aquaphobia. Those who suffer from this phobia see themselves dying in water, drowning, or believe that they will come face to face with something unforeseen in the water that could lead to their demise. The fear of drowning is a common sensible fear; however it becomes something more once the person feels an overwhelming sense of anxiety around all bodies of water like oceans and bathtubs. To better understand this phobia we must look at the causes, symptoms, and treatments. Aquaphobia like many other phobias can be caused by an initial traumatic incident that has happened to a person. This can include a time where someone almost drowned or fallen into a body of water. For example if one were pushed into a body of water when they were not expecting it this could be considered as a traumatic experience for them that could lead to an...
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...Poverty is the Constant Fear of the Future As society moves forward in their pursuit of the American dream, less and less attention is given to the impoverished. The actual definition of a person in poverty is often times debated. Sometimes, there are entire political platforms formed on the basis that the impoverished are not really suffering and that the people have nothing to worry about. In Robert Rector’s article regarding the effectiveness of the poverty safety net, he states that the lower end of society does not need any more help, but their his definition does not include the various problems that poverty entails. He solely focuses on the financial aspect. So, it is important to know the exact definition and parameters of poverty. Poverty is when a person or people live in fear of the inability to provide basic needs for themselves and their loved ones. With the advancements in the modern era, there is a misunderstanding of what actual poverty is. Although many believe that the lowest levels of society, those who have the lowest incomes and/or no income at all, have the ability to get food stamps and other avenues of aid through the government, they fail to see that the aid is either not sufficient nor does it help sustain a family for the future. Rector says “When the aid an impoverished family is given does not give them comfort for the near future, then the family is in poverty. The same applies to those people that do not get aid in 3rd world countries. I also...
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...Effects of Social Anxiety Disorder According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, about fifteen million American adults have social anxiety disorder. Thirty-six percent of people with social anxiety say that they had symptoms for ten years, or more, before looking for help. Everyone knows what it feels like to be anxious before an interview, or giving a presentation. People with social anxiety experience these types of everyday social occurrences different than “normal” people. Sometimes they actually feel sick from fear, even though the situation seems harmless. Being watched and judged negatively by others, thus feeling humiliated and embarrassed are some of their biggest fears, and can disrupt their daily life. They realize...
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