The Best Way to Persuade: Fear “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards, is a speech that attempts to persuade individuals to join the Puritan movement. Edwards aims the speech towards everyone who is a part of the Puritan village and also those who are not. To sway the audience, Edwards uses a wrathful and intimidating tone. Jonathan Edwards believed that if you did not give your life to God then you would face God’s wrath. Edwards uses imagery and metaphors to persuade his
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three that stick out are phasmophobia, claustrophobia, and agoraphobia. While others may lurk in the background, The fears of ghosts, tight spaces, and helplessness steal the spotlight. These three fears are foundations that Stephen King used to turn 1408 a truly scary story. One of the main phobias shown in 1408 is phasmophobia. Phasmophobia is the fear of ghosts or spirits. This fear is one of the most present phobias in the story, as Mike Enslin is constantly catching glimpses of spirits of previous
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and paranoid to the point that when someone jumped out and scared me i physically punched them in the face by pure fear and instinct. Least to say the worker was not happy about it. This event transformed from me walking calmly through a scary area to me feeling threatened, attacked, and on the verge of being killed by someone popping up in my face. Transformations obviously create fear. This can be shown in the following three stories. Joyce Carol Oates “Where is Here”, Julio Cortazar's “House Taken
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In today’s society, we don’t hear cases about monsters scaring children and transforming into heroes. Monsters that turn into heroes come off as rare in the fiction world where most people only see one side of a monster. Two works that suggest monsters becoming heroes are The Cat in the Hat and Monsters Inc. At first, these monsters come about as scary looking but that’s not how these selctions end up; finishing with a twist in the end with monsters showing a care for human children. While written
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I was about to go on an adventure, but little did I know it was going to be dangerous. The trails of Camp Swatara were rocky and rugged. Dangerous and scary. Well, that's what I thought they would be like. I would be the lea--- "So now that you guys are ready. Let's go" Mrs. Bohr cut my daydreaming off. “ You guys can leave your things here and then we can go.” Everyone put their things down and all of our 12 kids went off into the wilderness. We were hiking for about twenty minutes and we came
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“The Monkeys Paw” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” are suspense filled stories, where the characters involved make choices and must live with the consequences. “The Monkeys Paw” is the story of a man being granted three wishes that bring him something he desires, but each comes with a horrible consequence. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is about a man who takes care of an elderly man as he, the caretaker, slowly goes insane. The authors carefully crafted cause-and-effect relationships in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and
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the use of the repetition of the “b” sound in “dark burred faintly belching bogs”. This suggests of bubbling and hissing of the swamp. This emphasizes the real fear that the speaker has for the swamp and its importance to over come this fear of the unpredictable world she lives in. The out come of this is that the speaker overcomes her fears in the second half of the poem. This is emphasized as “such like crossings.. that sink silently into the black, slack, earth soup” In this instance she repeats
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they are more alike than they realize based on how they respond to situations when they are afraid and lonely, when they are at peace, and when they have feelings of anger and vengeance. The very first response Victor has when he sees the monster is fear. Although he has spent years attempting to create new life, he looks at his creation with hatred.“…but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the
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reduce stress can be of help too. Stress can be detrimental because it can improve the connectivity between different parts of the brain and eventually causes the response to fear to be even more dramatic and this can be seen in patients suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Having a greater response to fear would cause a person to have panic disorders and this can be linked to mental illness by the assumptions of natural and harmless stimuli to be a threat by the patients. It can
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Anxiety is a reaction or an emotion identify by feelings of fear, nervousness, or distress that can arise from one's unconscious since a psychoanalyst believes that our unconscious govern our behaviors and feelings, and how emotional response from our past childhood experience affect our behavior. A cause of anxiety would be the response to an environment or situation that resembles one of our past childhood experience, and the childhood experiences could have resulted in being punished for that
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