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 …show more content…
Actually, the media is the main controller of fear. The fears they present will be the ones people fear most. In the American’s case, the media just happens to show more foreign terrorism instead of local, because people do not want to understand how corrupt their own country is. The media, after all, is a business and by presenting interesting stories, they gain a larger audience and therefore more money. But deeper than a business, media must tell the truth. When caution of a nearby attack is necessary, they must inflict the appropriate amount of fear (Source F). The media has one of the most difficult jobs in the fear balance because they’re the ones that spark it in the first place. Our job is to pick from the news our own balance of fear as it is applicable in our own