...giants in our lives have different names of fear, loneliness, doubt, discouragement, failure, jealousy, worry, anger, guilt, and procrastination. Just like the biblical ancients overcame their giants, we too must overcome our giants. In doing so we must allow God to help us in the process in knowing that He is with us and will empower us in overcoming. Fear Fear is a major problem in the land of the giants. This giant comes in so many forms. Fear has gripped us all at some point in our lives. Thousands are affected daily in some type of fear or another. But fear is a common part of the fabric of living. Fear gives us burst of strength and speed when we need and is a good thing in a survival instinct situation. When fear becomes negative it then becomes a phobia. This is when fear and reason does match up. When fear becomes ill rational, it becomes a shackle that bind us and put us into bondage. This bondage will keep us from the routine things in life of working, playing, living and serving God. There are so many varieties of fears. This is a listing of six general categories that we face in fear: poverty, criticism, loss of love, illness, old age and death. When we read the bible we can see that those living in biblical times often were tormented by the same fears that we face today. It would seem that Christians would not have the same challenges with fear as the unbeliever instead the fears are the same. Fear does five major things in God’s will for...
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...action the animal will take, the rodent sits completely still, fear seeping into its veins as it watches the adversary assess its prey. Like the apprehensive squirrel, humans often become anxious when they have insufficient information about the obstacles they must deal with; such is the case with Odysseus, the main character in Homer’s epic, The Odyssey. Odysseus is inhibited from returning to his homeland, Ithaca, throughout his ten-year long journey after the Trojan War. Once he arrives home, men trying to woo his wife prevent him from being reunited with his family. The challenges that Odysseus faces implies that a lack of knowledge and understanding creates fear. Odysseus’ adventures throughout his journey home displays that dread can be a result of insufficient information and wisdom. Trapped in the cave of Polyphemos, Odysseus and his men attempt to escape the Cyclops by stabbing his eye with a sharpened stave. Although the monster is much stronger than the men, his blindness prevents him from seeking revenge. With this disability, Polyphemos does not know who or where the men are in his cave, so, due to his ignorance, his attempts to punish them are unsuccessful. The sightlessness of his single eye also symbolizes the blinding of one’s mind. Because Odysseus used an alias, “Noman,” instead of revealing his true name, it shrouded the truth from, or blinded the eye of, Polyphemos, thus establishing a sense of fear in him. Like the Cyclops’ loss of vision, people without knowledge...
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...want to do it. He doubts his own thoughts but he is also confused as it is as if the witches can read his mind, he has fear of his own thoughts and how he could think of such things. Macbeth becomes exited by the witches words, and know he knows he is Thane of Cawdor he knows the witches tell the truth and can be confident in the fact that he will be king, but that means he has to kill the king and he will, but he doesn’t want to. Macbeth is a vulnerable person and the witches got to him at the right time, he is full of glory from the battle. This also shows that he is brave and confident, as he was very good at killing and he didn’t care about it, he just did it without thinking, it was his job. The excuses show that he does still really want to be king, he is happy with being famous but know he wants the crown; he is jealous and is confident that he can kill the king because he needs the crown and he will please his wife. He submits to Lady Macbeth showing how even though he had some doubts about it, the want and need outweighed the doubt and he in fact would get the crown and could kill the king he just needed the persuasion and for his wife to tell him that it is the right thing to do. He then takes over the planning himself and he loses his fear and doubt for a while. He shows fear and shock after the murder he is edgy and tense, he is fearful of what he has done and shocked by it too, he can’t believe that he has killed the king, he also shows fear for if he is caught...
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...“The Obliteration Room” is an interactive art project by Japanese avant-garde artist, Yayoi Kusama. At the start of this installation, Kusama sets up a gallery space filled with typical furniture and ornamentation all painted white. Over several days, people were invited to place multi-colored polka dot stickers of different sizes in any way they want around the room. Perhaps the deepest need we have as humans is to exert control. Look around and we will see that a substantial amount of our everyday activity is related to attaining a much-needed power over our life. We grow up thinking that if we follow a specific formula - getting a good education, choosing the right career, and getting a fixed mortgage - we will live a fulfilled life. However, when life does not go according to our perfectly laid out plans, self-doubt arises in all of us. We experience a strong and uneasy frustration from a lack of control. We live in a mistake phobic society and no matter how often we are told that flaws are okay and “life” just happens ...we still fall in a deep hole of doubt and fear. We fear the unknown, the unpredictable and, most of all, we fear failure: a dead end job, poor health or the inability to support a family. What we do not realize and refuse to accept is that we have a lot less control than we may think. We believe we can control the future but we can barely predict a day in our lives much less control the constant chaos around us. Yayoi Kusama's interactive art project...
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...deaths throughout the United States during the purge. In the other had the Minister does not believe the purge is doing any harm but bring a form of liberation from the anger the people have accumulated inside them. He argues the purge has decreased the crime rates and has improved the economy. Those opposing of the continuation of the purge will be on the Senator’s side. Therefore, the group of people that are for the purge will support the Minister’s side. In the movie, both candidates have different perspectives and ideas of how they would want to better and improve the country. The Same way our presidential candidates state their views and ideas of how to better the country. This is only bringing the people uneasiness because we have our doubts on how might this person actually lead and if we are in good hands with them in the presidential...
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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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...BOOK REVIEW Title of the Film : Doubt Subject : Curriculum Development in Basic and Hgher Education Professor : Dr. Erico M. Habijan Submitted by : Juan C. Obierna Date Submitted : March 16, 2013 I. Introduction: The film Doubt was written and directed by John Patrick Shanley. It is based on his Pulitzer-winning play which has been performed all over the world. This film was produced in the USA in 2008. The cast of characters are Amy Adams, Joseph Foster II, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis. II. Objectives: This review seeks to determine the kind of instruction at Saint Nicholas Parish School and relate it with the instruction we have in our schools. III. Synopsis: The setting of the Film Doubt is St Nicholas's Church in the Bronx, a largely Irish-American parish, where the priest is Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and the principal of the attached grade school is Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep). The time is the autumn of 1964, a year after the assassination of the country's first Catholic president and shortly after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. The opening scene is set at when cheerful, fair-haired Father Flynn preaches a sermon about sharing doubts with others in the community and facing them in one's own life, beginning with the words: "What do you do when you are not sure?" As he preaches with compelling informality, Sister Aloysius stalks the aisles, reprimanding inattentive children...
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...traditional funeral. This happened because of everything that was happening during that time. Also nobody wanted to touch the infected bodies for the possibility of getting infected as well. This many deaths caused a decrease in Europe’s population. “So many people had died that there were serious labor shortage all over Europe.” states (The Black Death: Bubonic Plague). This led people to demand higher working wages in Europe. During this time may serfs took advantage of the situation to grow in the social pyramid, and many poor had the chance to grow. Although the price of good went up, the price of food did not go up due to loss of population. Millions of deaths led to devastation throughout Europe. An eyewitness from (The Middle Ages.net) states that, “ Fathers abandoned their sick sons. Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the dying. Friars and nuns were left to care for the sick, and monasteries and convents were soon deserted, as they were stricken, too. Bodies were left in empty houses, and there was no one to give them a Christian burial." having this been said, a picture can be draw to show the devastation of everyone surrounded by this plague. The fear of the Bubonic plague brought people together. For instance, “Many churches raised black flags to warn of the impending disaster, and panic set in as more people fell ill.” This is what the book (The Black Death by Streissguth, Thomas Pg.15) states. The churches helped warned the civilians and many people were able...
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...divine power of reason, transcending the realm of passions and anxieties” (Tillich 13). It may be interpreted that the anxiety and fear of the unknown may surpass the actual fear in and of itself. Fear has no object, but the object of fear produces anxiety. Nonetheless, one of the fundamental anxieties is ontological in which the concept of being and non-being come hand in hand. As discussed in lecture, existential anxiety is comprised of the ontic anxiety of [death and] not being, the moral anxiety of guilt, and the spiritual anxiety of meaning[less], all of which may lead to the bottom of the abyss to despair (Cerequas). Doubt and despair leads to the power of God beyond all which sustains absolute faith. To prevailingly doubt what yearns to be seen [in existence] implies that one doubts the honesty and integrity by which one lays his or her firm foundation upon, thus potentially being a threat of nonbeing leading up to existential anxiety which must ultimately be overcome. Doubt or disbelief can be related to faith in the sense of which they are coexistent in the concept of the courage to accept connection to being, moreover by eternally prevailing over nonbeing. The illusion of one’s self holds an immense power upon acceptance, moreover affirming one’s existence by both individualization and participation for a profound sense of balance and control over interdependent self-affirmation. On the whole, such existential anxiety is the basic condition of universal human way of life...
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...inventions, and capabilities. Individuals certain in their beliefs such as Copernicus, Christopher Columbus, and the Wright brothers show the importance of certainty and the insignificance of doubt. Agreed by most of the scientist at the time, the Solar system was once thought to be Geocentric, where Earth is the center of the Universe and the Sun and stars orbit it. Yet Copernicus believed differently, Certain in his own beliefs he defied the World of Science by stating the true orientation of the Solar system is Earth orbiting the Sun. Copernicus’s ideas were Doubted and refuted by all, even the Catholic Church, yet he stood certain and unchanged in his beliefs. Copernicus’s discovery led to the change in the beliefs of many, and accomplished the identification of how the Earth moves. Copernicus shows that Just while...
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...each man’s loyalty, is tested when a charge of plagiarism is leveled against Jamal by autocratic Professor Crawford. Jamal’s academic and athletic future is jeopardized when he is left alone to defend himself against the powers- that be at the school.” (Movielocity.com, Pg.1) This is an example of how Jamal is accused of plagiarism because of the doubt his teachers have for him. He has to confront Forrester for help even though he broke one of his rules. When Jamal tells Forrester what he did and what happened, it creates a conflict between them because now Forrester does not feel he can trust Jamal as much. Another incident where doubt crushes trust is when Professor Crawford and the other faculty do not believe Jamal is writing his own work. By doing this, they create a conflict. They break the mutual trust the faculty, Professor Crawford and Jamal have when he first starts going to school there. James Berardine writes, “Finding Forrester’s villain- Robert Crawford, an arrogant literature professor who believes that Jamal's writings are too good to be his own work.” (Berardinelli, 2000, Pg.1) This shows when Professor Crawford doubts Jamal’s writing abilities. It forces him to break the trust he and Forrester have by wanting to prove him wrong. So he takes a piece of writing from the apartment, going against the deal Jamal and Forrester have, creating a conflict between them. When people do not trust or break the trust they have, trouble can...
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...I have doubts. Doubts because I am a young, where mankind sees me as reckless, and confidence in the young is foolish. Mankind makes many mistakes, some that are helpful and others that are disastrous. Man continues to destroy the earth and yet at the same time, he prospers. I believe that we can not look back. Generations ahead of me can look and see themselves in the past, a very calm and relaxed place. But I can only see where I am now. A world of brilliance, of speed, of change, and yet even though humans have come so far, we are weak. We are vulnerable to violence and cruelty. Elements of our weakness, that if placed in the wrong hands, can cause the downfall of man. I believe in peace, in stability, and yet I fear we approach darkness and war. I fear few of us will be able to remember such times of peace and happiness. Man is capable of overcoming any challenge. He moves with slowness and has infinite mistakes, but he is also capable of great heights. Man has made critical errors which have turned the world over, but he continues to adjust. We work toward darkness just as we can work toward light. I believe in history. I believe it is a mistake to take ourselves too seriously. Man thinks he is developed, but he is not. I think we are savage, reveling in greed and power only to further ourselves. I believe in time, where man can fail and succeed only to have to start over again, because time is infinite. I think I use time unwisely, that man uses time unwisely, because...
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...of suicide in recent years. The American Foundation states that,” Over 50 percent of all people who die by suicide suffer from major depression. If one includes alcoholics who are depressed, this figure rises to over 75 percent.” (Overnight) It is beyond me as to why others simply overlook this very real issue we have at hand. These outcomes could have easily been prevented and or reduced if we all acknowledge Mental Illnesses for what they are, a disease. Furthermore, not only are the effects that come from having a mental illness so hyrtful, it does not help whatsoever the “stigma” that comes with being labeled “mental”. This so called “stigma” that comes with being labeled “mental” or “mentally ill”, sadly is common and effects the children with mental illnesses whole family. Firstly it is stated that, “Children with mental illness… when they are hospitalized, families are frightened that others may find out” (Source ?) This is where the effects of having a child with a mental illness begin to show on the family. These effects then continue at school. Common effects shown on the parents when their school. Even though school is supposed to be a safe haven for all diverse children. Parents still can not help the thought of how other parents will respond to having knowledge of their child being “mentally ill”. Like David Rosenburg, a psychiatry Professor states,” They (parents of child with illness) often fear that other parents will not want to let their children spend too much...
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...2nd hour. 1/23/11 Honors 9 Taking over, one step at a time. The brainwashed society that Equality spent his life in, headed down hill, in one simple action, with a strong result of an outcome. Equality had been taught to ask no questions about anything that took place and everything happened for a reason. They feared their brothers would not feel the same way and automatically became dissatisfactory. No one person could talk to their brothers on how they were currently feeling about the present conversation, because it categorize as something out of the ordinary. The novella, Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, discussed all of those issues and more. All of the people get specifically told they think the exact same way because they equally symbolize the same person. To brainwash someone completely, you eliminate all conversations between people. You tell them repeatedly the scholars know every wonder of the world. But most importantly you have to take control of their mind, the correct way, with all of the exact on techniques. In order to control a man, you have to brainwash them through methods of manipulation. In the blank minded humans of the society presented in this novella, a casual conversation, never took place. The incorrect thing to do was tell someone how you felt. According to the rules, everyone felt the same. So Equality never told anyone how he felt about a situation. In his writing, he wrote, “it is a sin to think words no others think and put them...
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...Statement of Intent: Independent Study Project: Fahrenheit 451 My tentative topic for this ISP will be Ray Bradbury’s use delusion of truth, the desire of ignorance and the fear of freeing oneself from propaganda to express society’s desire for perfect happiness- no matter the cost- in Fahrenheit 451. In this dystopian novel, Bradbury uses Clarisse and her odd family to foreshadow some of Guy Montag’s doubt in himself, his family and his daily life. Clarisse’s role in the novel is made clearer as Montag begins searching for the truth as she is seen as a guiding light to give Guy hope for a better future where he is happy. Given the government dictated culture they live in, the danger and fear of finding the knowledge that Montag is paid to destroy, there is no doubt that Bradbury is using the dystopian society’s unconscious desire to live a lie, the yearn to not know more and the consequences of finding out the truth in order to highlight society’s solution for happiness: delusion. In this Independent Study Project I will attempt to showcase that seeking out the truth in a government enforced web of lies is unwanted, fear inducing and dangerous. To prove this, I will connect the laws, crimes, those who commit and their consequences with those who ignore the truth and act content with their deluded lives. In doing so, I hope to demonstrate that as Guy Montag figures out the truth, he realizes how much the government dictates the culture he lives in In the paper, I will consider...
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