...18, 2012 Social Significance Argument: Fear Fear and anxiety, two words similar but distinctly different from each other. One is more of a perception of thought while the other is more of lingering apprehensions in which the sources of may totally be unclear. Many times daily people everyday distinguish the two in many forms. Most people are aware that the science behind fear is a bit different than the science of anxiety. An example would be the sudden reimagining’s of imagery and scenarios when someone threatens to kill you with a gun, knife, or any other object (fear) is much different from the nausea, dizziness, and “butterflies” in your stomach when wondering if you passed a some kind of test or not. Many people today go through this and are alive but aren’t living to the fullest all due to inhibitions and limiters we consciously or even subconsciously put on ourselves because traumatic events that have had. It’s truly no way to live. All of us (Mankind and others) in general need to realize if we keep holding ourselves back for reasons of anxiety and fear than we’ll always be asking ourselves and even say “What if”? It does go without saying I am no exception to this fact of life. There was definitely a time in my life where I was dealt with these problems. It was in the summer of 2003. It was a pretty cool year. I made lots of friends and many things went without a hitch too. But there was that one moment in my life that made it a great year for me. During...
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...it difficult for me to get my message across in a presentation. This class has shown me several techniques to recognize my fear and work towards my goal of becoming an effective speaker. Working towards that goal of becoming an effective speaker will provide an enormous advantage in my goal of becoming an entrepreneur. Through the many exercises in critical thinking, debates, and PowerPoint presentations, you realize how communication is crucial in achieving success. Analyzing the communication process and focusing on the skills required to become an attentive listener has changed my viewpoint in daily interactions. Understanding non-descriptive communication has proven to be vital in improving my interpersonal skills and given me an insight to the receiver’s reaction to my message. “Nonverbal cues can be just as powerful when it comes to sending and receiving information” (Cheesebro, O’Connor, Francisco, 20 p. 10). Knowing the audience allows me to arrange my message for maximum comprehension. This course has also given me an insight into my strengths and weaknesses leading to an improvement in my critical thinking process. “People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically” (Elder, 2007). Developing proper communication has proven to be the most valuable lesson in this course. Without the knowledge and understanding of the communication process and submitting to my fears of public speaking, my career plans fall to mediocre...
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...My Fear by Lawrence Raab struck me as a simplistic poem when first read. Upon the first reading I understood that Raab was talking about the emotion of fear, but once I read it again you couldn’t help but pick up on the obvious personification that Raab uses. I believe that to be the overall literary device that he uses in this poem. He refers to fear, an emotion, as “he” and “mister” giving it a much more personal backbone. “Mr. Fear” shows how Raab has respect for him and what he does. He doesn’t want fear to not exist, but instead he acknowledges fear’s existence. Raab gives fear its own emotions by saying, “Maybe he smiles when he finds the right one. Maybe he’s sorry.” I also feel like in this poem, Raab is talking about a nightmare. Nightmares always induce fear into our peaceful rest. The poem talks about dreams and what fear has in store for them. He also asks fear to make his burden he takes from him to be small and easy to get rid of. I tried to find some underlying meaning to the part of the poem where it says, “Fear, let me have a small brown bat and a purse of crickets...,” but I still wasn’t sure. A brown bat might represent a boy because boys play baseball and the purse would represent a girl. But I was still unaware how it tied into the fear notion. The overall theme that Raab is trying to get across with this poem is that fear is alive. It’s an emotion everyone feels, but it is also something that lives inside each person. It feeds off our deepest thoughts...
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...thought of having to step in front of my peers and give a speech. Speaking in front of a crowd is my fear. I can just imagine it standing there, jabbering. Thinking about it makes me sweat and afraid. When my teacher announced that we have to present our essays, I was consumed with worry and dread ever since that day. I feel a nervous excitement at the thought; I won’t have to deal with it after today. Seating at my desk, I fantasize about elaborate ways of escaping. Build a time machine and travel past the day of January 28th, second period or hypnotize Mrs. Smith my English teacher to forget me. Some of my anxiety is calmed as I fantasize, until I awake. Flung back into cold hard reality. I see David my class mate heading back to his seat. Oh how I envy him, I want to be him. Born and raised with his native tongue of English he has no problem speaking fluently, even in front of the class. Here I am the foreigner sitting in my first ever English class ready to explode. Mrs. Smith congratulates him on his paper. She then starts to look around. At this moment, I try to make myself look as small as mouse, avoid eye contact at all cost and imagine myself invisible. I’m busted. “Key RO Bell” Mrs. Stanly murders my beautiful name and I hate her for it. Not that I ever cared if people mispronounced my name but now it’s different. My heart is beating fast, as I nod in response. I can hear it loud in my ear. I looked to see if anyone else heard it. My neighbor, nope he looked to have worries...
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...Fear, an affliction that plagues all animal species. Just as an ant will fear a boot, the wolf will fear the fire, and a cat will fear water. Evolution creates a wariness of dangers that members of the species died of; falling from high places, burning to death, poisonous snakes, and beasts we couldn’t see in the dark. Our own minds have even evolved fear from our own experiences and for some, it can be a crippling that prevents one from being able to move. And yet, all my life people have told me to conquer my fears despite the rationality of what is said to fear. Regardless of this advice, I believe that being afraid is okay and that you are allowed to be afraid. Conquering my fears never made it onto my bucket list, it was never something I strived to do. I was afraid of heights before but it was something that could be ignored. I,for example, leaned off the top of the ladder to hammer a nail in for my Auntie. I was afraid, but it never seemed like it was this great obstacle to be overcome. However that was before we went on our trip to Banff....
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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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...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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...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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...Each and every person is unique and has their own experiences, but if there’s anything that we all have in common is having fear. Fear is a feeling that everyone has felt at one point in their life; whether it’s fear of spiders, public speaking or heights everyone has felt it and has possibly tried to overcome it. In my case my fear was roller coasters back in eighth grade and just like many people I was determined to overcome my fear. There are three things to look forward to in eighth grade; being the oldest and feeling a sense or leadership, being the last year of your middle school experience, and the end of year field trip to Six Flags. Of course I was excited for all these things except for one, the Six Flags field trip. However, fourteen...
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...Name : Nitu Poudel FEAR Fear is something that is born in every personalities and it is universal emotion. Some people have lots of fear and some have less but it's not something that can be ignored. Even God has fear. Fear is a that emotion, which can lead you to either become a great person or a broke one. If you take fear in a positive way then it can improve and direct you to obtain your goals. For example, "Fear of failure, Fear of death and Fear of other". If you follow these fear in a positive manner then you can be a successful person and you should always have fear. In the same way, if you do not have fear of anything then you would obviously continue to do whatever you like that you make you the worthless human or we can say thing in the world. Same ways, if you have lots and lots of fear within yourself and tend to do nothing but just stay wherever you are, then you will be the biggest looser anyone will ever see. Accordingly, fear is such a thing that can be explained in different ways. In my life, fear plays an important role. In each and every step, first I feel the fear whether I can succeed this task or not then I move on taking it positive in a safe way as much as possible. For example, I do not know how to drive a vehicle and I am learning this task. But I have a deep fear of the thought of having an accident. Because of the fear of having an accident, I will not stop learning how to drive but I will learn to...
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...that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story." Story Of A Wallflower All through my life, I was characterized as the shy girl who blended into the background like a wallflower. I never did the talking and let the others talk. It was not that I did not have anything to say, but I found it difficult on every level to vocalize my thoughts. I always feared what others would say, think or what if I failed etc. It was a never-ending list of 'what-ifs'. It grew to such an extent that I would avoid instances where I had to face people like competitions, student council interviews, elections etc. What I did not realize was that over time, the fear had become a bubble in which I was trapped and could not get out. Teachers and friends had started assuming that I had nothing to say. I realized that the only way to get my place in the society's pyramid was by doing the work assigned to me to the best of my capabilities and having excellent manners. I inculcated both in myself that I became someone whom all teachers and students depended on to get the work done. The turning point of my life came, when I decided that it was time for me to burst the bubble and face my fear of facing people. In Grade 10, I decided to join the student council of the school. It was a long process that included an interview by the coordinator and other teachers. The day they called us for interview...
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...The definition of fear is from Dictionary.com is “an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous” so why are people drawn to fear? Fear can be like addiction some people love how it makes them fell and other try to stay as far away as possible. The allure of fear can cause us much pain and agony but can also bring us much joy and comfort. So why are we drawn to fear maybe it is the fact that we are unsure of what may happen? In the story fall of a house of usher the narrator is drawn to the house of roderick usher by letter. The narrator arrives at rodricks house on horseback. Usher describes the house as “quote”. Even though the house was scary and dark the narrator still proceeds to go into the...
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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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...awoken me. Then through the nooks and crannies the sun peeked through and I was showered with warmth and energy. Then I remembered today was the day. We were going to Great America, and I said I was going to overcome my fear of the Demon. Or was I? But that was for later. I sprinted through the hallway. Got my clothes from the dryer, brushed my teeth, grabbed a cup of good ol’ OJ and a slightly, frozen waffle. I changed clothes, ate, brushed at the same time. I got ready so fast that even my sister was still asleep. Only me and my parents were awake. Then I sat, wondered how many and what rides I should entertain myself with, oh what wonders await!...
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...individual. Nonetheless, some teach lessons, while others are memories of happiness and love. Above all, the most memorable events are those that are life changing. This essay focuses on a major memorable event that happened to me at a quite tender age, and which taught me an important lesson, which I still find of use and influence up to this stage of my life. If I close my eyes and think about my life since my childhood period to the present stage of my life, I recount many things and major events that I have experienced. However, it is possible that these are not all the experiences I have had in my life, as I did not master the less important events. There are those events that I treasure, and find hard to forget, while others are mere memories of the past, with no major influence. Nonetheless, some of these events are small and meaningless, while others are enormous and unforgettable. Some of the memories associated with these events bring feelings of pain, foolishness, or better others are plain lessons in life. These events in life have shaped the person I am today. I remember vividly on that cold chilly morning on my way to take a bus to...
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