...Skin turns ghost pale, sweat beads down your face, the hair on your neck stands up and your heart begins to beat like a drum. Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, scary, or undesirable. It is an unavoidable emotion experienced by all living creatures. What makes a person afraid? What is it that decides what someone does and doesn’t fear? The amount of anxiety a person experiences in a given time depends on several factors such as culture, past experiences, and upbringing. Natural born fears are also present, and very hard to understand. Fear is a diverse emotion that has been a commonality throughout humanity since humans first walked the planet. Personally, two grave fears I have are the fear of heights and the fear of failure. Acrophobia, the fear of heights, is one of the most common fears on the earth. In fact, nearly five percent of the world’s...
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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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...Everyone has fears, whether it’s internal or a physical fear. For example, people could be scared of being alone which is an internal fear. Others are of the dark, spiders, bears, and more which is a physical fear. Some people love the feeling of fear, others hate it. I personally am scared of the dark, spiders, and not having my phone or headphones on me. The last one is a weird fear, but it seriously scares me. The dark is so terrifying, I detest the dark. So many bad things can happen in the dark, you can’t see anything and it’s terrifying. After you watch so many scary movies and everything happens in the dark, you start imagining things in the dark. It’s almost like your hallucinating but it’s really just your head. It makes you feel...
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...Abstract definition of Challenge . Facing the fear within myself. Facing our fears is a challenge in a very complicated way in life. When we face our fears it is more complicated than you would think. It is more than facing the fears of thinks like just spiders or the bogyman in the closet. Instead it is about facing fears internally inside you. In order to deal with the challenge of facing fears inside yourself it takes a enormous amount of persistence and the ability to never give up. It also takes the ability to believe in yourself and to believe that you can truly go as far as you aspire. Challenges lead us as human beings to reach higher lofty places in life and reach the best of our potentials Human beings can rise as far as...
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...Fear ‘’You,gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you think you cannot do’’. This quote was said by Eleanor Roosevelt it is talking about fear and how experience confidence and courage come with practice when we say no to fear and just doing our thing. Dictionary definition of fear says it's an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. I believe this definition is accurate because fear is a feeling that we feel and it's unpleasant because we believe that something or someone is dangerous. In my opinion fear is the consequence of an action. We fear what will happen after a certain...
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...Fear is the main driving force in The Lord of the Flies. How does fear in various forms affect the boy’s attitudes and behavior? Golding's novel in which a lot of prominent theme, the Lord of the Flies, is fear. From the first chapter, until the last, fear plays an important role in this novel. It is the only thing that will stop the boys from acting rationally, from questioning strange circumstances and hindering physically almost all of the boys, so often. The ongoing role of fear in Lord of the Flies, was deliberately used by Goldin, because he knew it would cause any kind of image. Fear is described by Webster's Dictionary of English Mirriam- because ?? to upset or worried. "The feeling was mutual for all the island boys experience many different ways. Originally the boys have obviously fear alone, and then we know the beast, or as littluns mean, as fear ?? Beast "brought. While this fear continued throughout the novel, we have come into contact with the other three events of fear. The first one is the fear of the consequences of civilization, only when the child is regarded as a young boy of civilization, the first chapter is displayed. The last two are different in nature, and these fears losing power, fear of rejection, fear of the minority. All these different fear, then traced back to the characters, such as Goldin was expertly planned, and will affect people's attitudes and behavior....
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...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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...What is this thing that we call fear? The dictionary defines fear as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous or likely to cause pain. However, is there more to fear than what it is just defined as? Although there may be, fear is an inevitable thing that everyone possesses, but why is this so? Might we be able to overcome this? According to the written definition of fear, it is caused by something that is likely to cause pain, but this is not always true. Fear cannot always be a bad thing which is shown by two examples. The first being, the fear of dying most likely keeps you from jumping off of a bridge. A crude example perhaps, but it stands true. The second example being, the high interest that people have in horror movies, haunted houses or anything of the sort that can give them an adrenaline rush also shows that fear might not always be a negative thing. These examples bot show us why fear can better what we do instead of preventing or hindering us from something....
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...How Does Fear Affect the Human Condition? Fear is something that triggers our emotions when close to a certain thing that makes us feel unsafe. Fear gives us anxiety and other mental emotions that affect our senses in every way. There is many things that explain fear, but in this essay I am mostly going to explain the ways it can change our thinking and actions. Fear affects a person’s judgement and actions by something that they react to differently than at other things. With so many terrorist attacks(Kounang,2015), people have been using bad disrespectful stereotypes to muslims, because many of these attacks happened to be by muslims, people assume every muslim is a terrorist. All this is hurtful and closed minded towards...
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...In D5, a traveler states that as soon as one person is known to have the disease they board up the household in fear of the plague spreading. In parallel to D5, is D6 in which a physician states fire is for burning infected things. Instead of trying to treat the plague it is so bad that most would rather stop it from spreading more. Also in D5, Heinrich von Staden says that the country closed all roads and highways. In D14, Daniel Defoe states that France, Holland, Spain, and Italy closed their ports, in order to keep from spreading more. People were even afraid to return to school, in D1. Also like D1, is D12 and D13. D12 claims that all but four men were terrified once they learned Rome was violent with the disease as well. In D13, people were afraid to buy wigs, in fear that anything could carry the plague. Lastly in D8, Nehemiah Wallington fears she will die before her kids. She wants to care for her children before and after they die, if they do...
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...How fear can make you crazy The theme of "The Boogeyman" by Stephen King is fear. In this short story, Stephen King illustrates how fear can drive you crazy. In "The Boogeyman", fear is what drives Lester Billings mad and is the dring force for all decisions. "The Boogeyman" in this short story gives the impression of fear. Lester Billings, a father of three whom were killed by "The Boogeyman". "All I did was kill my kids. One at a time. Killed them all." (King 93) Lester Billings enters the scene as he tells the doctor that he had killed his kids. He continuously tells the doctor he had killed them all and that he wants to be imprisoned. Lester constantly kept looking at the doctors closet and would twitch a bit, giving an impression of scared. Denny, first child of Lester, was killed by "The Boogeyman". He was left alone in a dark room because Lester didn't want his child to be a "sissy", he then finds Denny dead on his back. Since then Lester remembers all the short stories which were told by his mother when he was little and develops fear within himself. When his second child dies that is when he fears the place he lives in and the closet. Lester didn't want another child because he was afraid it can happen to his third child but of course, Lester ended up having another child. When Andy was born, he moved places because there were too many bad memories and he added "And too many closets." (King 101). He acted strange about closets ever since the two events. He would...
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...“Fiction presents more opportunities for creating uncanny sensations than are possible in real life” (Freud, 18). This quote comes from an essay written by Sigmund Freud in 1919 entitled “The ‘Uncanny.’” In this article, Freud discusses the subject of uncanniness and proposes what he thinks deems certain events or things to be labeled as uncanny. Freud states, “the ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar” (1-2). Freud theorizes that one would find something uncanny if he had previous exposure to it, but was now viewing it in a horrifying manner. For example, a doll is not supposed to be terrifying. Dolls are loved by young children and seen as innocent or harmless. However, a fictional story about a doll that becomes possessed and kills people is frightening to people of all ages. This scenario would be considered uncanny because a doll, such a familiar thing, has deviated from the norm and turned horrific. Freud’s essay continues to flourish around the idea that it is most frightening when something so familiar turns into something so terrible. This feeling of mixed emotions can be referred to as “cognitive dissonance.” In the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, cognitive dissonance is defined as, “psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.” While Freud himself never mentioned this psychological term himself in his article, it is very obvious that it has correlation...
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...In Our Warrior Princess by Maureen Dowd, she wrote this essay about her brave niece. Maureen niece Jennifer gave up half her liver for her uncle, Michael (Maureen brother) who contracted hepatitis a few years back from an unsanatized blood transfusion. Maureen wanted her audience not to be frightened about donating organs. Maureen wants to inform the audience about organ donating, even if that person wasn’t related to you and you don’t even know them. You shouldn’t be inconsiderate about donating piece of your liver or any other organ to someone who might need it to live. Maureen is trying to communicate in this essay to the people who are still skeptical at donating. Maureen said her niece is a health fanatic, she is a personal trainer and she’s single, out in this cruel dating world. Plus they live in an “everything must be perfect” culture where the women us Botox, lasers, and liposuction. Just to make their bodies to this “so called perfection”. Maureen want Jennifer to feel good about her scare by using the love scene in Lethal Weapon three for an example when Gibson and Russo were showing off their scares to each other. Plus Maureen stated Jennifer had every quality a woman could want. This section that Maureen used in her essay was effective even though Jennifer had a scare on her stomach she was still joyful, and the scare didn’t even affected her personality. Maureen shifted from telling the story about her niece bravery to explaining more than 80,000 people...
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...My greatest childhood fear Why do people have fears? Why do we let fears control our lives? I never thought I would ever get over my own fears. These fears made my childhood very difficult and hard to deal with. However for me as a young child, I was afraid of dogs, falling, and the darkness. Being afraid of dogs was one of my biggest fears. One day I was walking down the street from school and I felt like I had walked upon one of the biggest dogs I had ever seen. The dog stood behind a gate taller than I. It looked at me standing there nerves and shaking. As I look at his sharp teeth and him foaming at the mouth as if I was a full course meal. As he started to bark I felt something warm run down my leg. Every time a dog would bark at me I get scared. Another big fear of mine was a fear of leaves. There are a lot of things out there to be afraid of, and there seem to be phobia about falling of the of the roof or a bridge. As I got older, my parents told me to look down whenever I was surrounded by leaves and jump up and down and crash them all. And it would be just like killing them. It took me a long time to get over my fear but it worked. I am also afraid of the dark. I could not sleep in my room without leaving the light on. When I went to sleep in the dark, I started to imagine things like monsters and other things that would scare me. To me a monster was something that would eat you alive and not care. I was afraid that it would write my parents...
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...Fear: whether we like it or not everyone has fears. Fear of failure, fear of spiders and sometimes something as harmless as butterflies. Fear can be defined as a negative or adverse feeling, the opposite of being sound and peaceful or even negative believing because when people are believing positive thoughts there is no fear present in those thoughts. The fear of the unknown is a very common one among people, physically and mentally. When swimming in the ocean, not seeing what’s underneath can cause great anxiety that leads to fear. Not knowing what the future holds can also cause fear for individuals. There is a plethora of things that can cause fear and anxiety for people. The fear of the ocean has always been very personal. Not knowing what is around oneself, not knowing what is under the water is a very uneasy feeling, causing great anxiety that eventually builds and grows to be full blown raw fear. In the movie Jaws these fears...
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