...When the there is a major problem, the world loses its ability to judge if it's right or wrong. There is panic and fear among the people. Fear is a strong emotion and can lead people to do things that’s not right. Just like in the Salem trials there were many innocent that died. During this time everyone was afraid. This led people to falsely accuse someone else to save their own lives. This same fear grows and grows throughout the people. Just like during the Salem trials, today there is fear of many things. One of them is fear of illegal immigrants. Why so many people afraid of this is because there is a group that feeds the fear for their own benefit. Both in Salem and today fear has led to many wrong doings. Most people hear what they want...
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...Travels, author Jonathan Swift utilizes literary examples and the emotions of the characters to develop a theme of overcoming fear. When creating this theme, Swift creates two examples of overcoming fear with the characters’ emotions. Firstly, he uses the idea of the fear of the unknown, with the interactions between Gulliver and the giants that he meets, as well as the giants’ reaction to Gulliver himself. Secondly, he uses the idea of the fear of the other, in Gulliver’s responses to the behavior of the giants and the altercation with the wasps. Both of these examples lay singularly but also intertwine to create the prevalent theme within the passage of overcoming fear. The fear of the unknown is demonstrated...
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...and Roger’s violence becomes the general fear. The main characters also have their own fears. Ralph and Piggy are afraid of the loss of civilisation, the collapse of law and order. Piggy is also afraid of the loss of democracy and not being able to see clear. Jack is afraid of being overpowered by the power of civilisation. Simon is afraid of savagery. For Golding, he is afraid of the evil human nature and people’s misunderstanding that evil is from elsewhere instead of within ourselves. He is also afraid that savagery would defeat civilisation as well as evil defeating goodness and dictatorship defeating democracy. In general, the boys’ fears can be divided into 2 parts, one is when they first get onto the island and the other one is after Jack has formed his tribe. The boys are afraid of the unknown. The boy with a mulberry birthmark on his face claims that there is a ‘snake’, or a ‘beastie’ as he later calls it, as early as in Chapter 2. When they first arrived at the island, everything is unclear and unsafe, and even overwhelming. The unstable situation arouses fear. It is the human instinct to be afraid of something that we do not know. The boy with a birthmark gives the fear of the unknown a more concrete image as a beast. The fear of the unknown is then turned into the fear of the beast. The boys are still rational when they first hear the boy with a birthmark talks about the beastie, but as they get more and more savage, the fear increases. In Chapter 5, Jack says, ‘You...
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...What I look for to as I begin this educational experience is to finish as planned and pass in flying color. My greatest fear is that I might not be able to adapt to American school system being that am from Nigeria and this is going to be my first educational experience. I plan to overcome it by asking questions especially the class instructor as well as my Nigerian friends who have gone through the program, in addition to watching the tutorial videos. Another thing I will also do is to develop a positive attitude towards my study, and I believe with determination and self discipline, I will overcome my fear. My past experience that I would like to share was in my high school days, I lost interest in geography because I didn't think its a requirement for nursing. When I discovered that I needed either geography or literature to pass the WASSCE(high school diploma), in other words I cannot graduate without geography since I have never attended any literature class. I realised that I had no option than to readjust myself .I had to set my mind on graduating from high school with my peers. I stopped skipping classes, I was able to attend extra classes after school hours. I participated in actively in geography excursions and presentation, my topic was on volcanic eruption. At the end, I graduated with Distinction in geography. I succeeded because, I had a set goal which to graduate with my mate and was motivated and determined by developing positive...
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...opportunities it will bring me. I’m eager to enter “the next stage of professional and personal development.” (Catalano, 2003) The thought of going back to school always scared me overall. Writing has never come easy for me. I feared that my writing assignments might not be college level material since it has been so long. Formatting papers in APA frightened me even more. Knowing that I had to take Statistics was an issue for me because I prefer learning math in a classroom with an instructor present. All these things haunted me but my greatest fear would be of failing. The way I can overcome these fears is to face the fear head on. I will address these as just fears and refocus on the positive aspects like how much better as a person this will make me. I will continue to think positively and filter out these thoughts. That is how I always approach obstacles in my life. A perfect example would be how I recently completed the Periop 101 course. My fear was being able to learn my new position. Learning about all the procedures and the different services (i.e. neuro, ortho, vascular, etc.) was overwhelming. So I applied myself and did the research. I made notecards with pictures (of proper set up for different...
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...“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe offers several ideas as to what motivates people to do the things they do. Greed, anger, and love are just a few of the driving forces which people experience. One motivation, which will be examined in this paper, is that of fear. Fear is a powerful motivator that can either help or hinder. Fear inspires several of the characters in the book to take action in regard to their own particular situations and experiences. Either they conquer their fears and move on, use that fear to overcome a particular situation, or they continue to live in fear allowing it to control them. Nwoye has a fear of his father, Ekwefi has a fear of losing her daughter, and finally Okonkwo has a fear of becoming like his father. Each of these characters experiences some sort of fear and allows it to drive their actions. Nwoye is the oldest son of Okonkwo, who sees him as lazy and weak. At the beginning of the book, Nwoye is 12 years old and is harshly judged by Okonkwo because he cannot work as long or as hard. This results in nagging and beatings by his father to in an attempt to correct what Onkonkwo feels are negative personality traits. Then Ikemefuna joins the household. Ikemefuna is a boy given to Onkonkwo by a neighboring village. Ikemefuna becomes popular among all of Okonkwos children, but becomes especially close to Nwoye. Ikemefuna acts as an older brother to Nwoye, who seems to mature under the tutelage of Ikenefuna. This relationship gives Nwoye confidence...
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...ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of the habit of courage. Franklin D. Roosevelt once said , "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was saying that the emotion of fear, rather than the reality of what we fear, is the cause of the associated anxiety, stress, and unhappiness. When we develop the habit of courage and unshakable self-confidence, a whole new world of possibilities opens up to us. Just think: What would you dare to dream, be, or do if you were not afraid of anything in the whole world? Fortunately, the habit of courage can be learned, just as any other skill is learned. To do so, we need to go to work systematically to diminish and eradicate our fears, while simultaneously building the kind of courage that will enable us to deal fearlessly with the inevitable ups and downs of life. Syndicated columnist Ann Landers wrote, "If I were asked to give what I considered the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' " This is the kind of attitude that leads to victory. The starting point in overcoming fear and developing courage is to look at the factors that predispose us toward fear. The root source of fear is childhood conditioning that caused us to experience two types of fear: the fear of failure, which causes us to think...
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...of the main themes is fear. The boys are always filled with fear and think that something bad is going to happen to them or others and when they feared things many things followed that taught the readers about fear. One of the messages that the author sends about fear is that it can be purely imagination. In Lord of The Flies the boys fear a beastie which in reality does not exist. Believe it or not, fear can actually make some people motivated. It causes people to start to do whatever it takes to stop the fear from becoming a reality. In the novel the boys start to build spears and become stronger in order to be able to fight the beast and this is because fear made...
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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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...some sort of fear. Have you ever wondered when they start, where they go, what is normal, and when you should seek help. In this article we will explore the stages of childhood fear and what side affects are considered normal or not. Children go through a lot of stress and fear even if it is as small as an imaginary monster in their closet. Since you were born you were afraid of something. You may not remember it because you were so young. Infants usually do not have a lot of fears because they don't know what anything is. Most infants go through a physiological response fears, they are mostly afraid of being dropped and falling. So if they feel threatened (like falling) they will be afraid. They also are afraid of loud noises thinking something is going to get to them...
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...promotes the belief that fear is a person’s worst enemy and can be used as a weapon by the proponents of both good and evil to achieve their means. This belief in turn is supported by the visual culture of Batman Begins. Drawing on concepts about religious creative expression from Ken Derry’s “Indigenous Traditions,” I will analyze the ways in which masks in the film function as devices for externalizing and exploiting people’s fear, as well as the role that the Batcave plays in helping Bruce Wayne use his childhood phobia of bats to his combative advantage. Additionally, I will draw on both Foucault’s concept of the panopticon, as well as Derry’s notion that with religious objects what you see is not what you get, to show how both bats and the blue flower function as weapons of fear. The belief of Batman Begins is two pronged: on the one hand it hints at the disastrous effects fear can have on people’s lives and on the other it shows how this vulnerability to fear can be exploited. The first fifteen minutes of the movie establish the paralyzing effects fear has on the protagonist, Bruce’s, life. After falling down a well and being attacked by a hoard of bats, 10 year old Bruce acquires a fear of those creatures in spite of being assured by his father that the bats attacked him simply because they themselves were afraid. Not much later, Bruce accompanies his parents to the opera where the actors dressed as bats invoke his deep set fear prompting him to...
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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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...FEAR AND CONFIDENCE Examples of fear and confidence History Written By: Brandy Garner Emergence of the Modern Era Written for: Professor Alison Rose We live in a mixed world. We all have different backgrounds, interests, hopes, motivations and fears. Within nations and civilizations, there is a need for stability and a sense of safety. The idea that a social contract should operate in a society so that people could pursue their self-interests in safety and orderly community proceeds through the readings of Rousseau and across the Atlantic to become a foundational concept in the American republic. Within a society, the energies of people were freed up to develop the ideas, inventions, means of production, and civil engineering projects people can develop a sense of freedom. Collective freedom is not the same as individual freedom, and individuality can be sacrificed to the system. A contrary idea arose in Europe for the concern that rational thought could accommodate individual freedom and deliver objective truth; the idea that truth could be identified objectively and universally. Once individuals look for their own truth and discover it, their place in social systems becomes compromised. The resulting discovery was that self-reliance is so very frightening that the only appropriate human emotional response was overwhelming anxiety or angst. Individuals process fears and confidences differently. There have been times throughout history where physical and social...
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...“AAA! A spider!” This is heard a lot about. But there are more fears than just spiders. There are actually ways to overcome these fears. Most humans have fears, little don’t though. This writing is about people’s fears, and shows you not-so-scary stuff. What is fear anyways? Fear is when our survival instincts react to something your brain feels it is dangerous. Fear is what tries to react to something your brain feels it is dangerous. Fear is what tries to keep you safe, and alerts you from danger. In “Fears and Phobias” it says “Fear helps protect us. It makes us alert to danger prepares us to deal with it.” Fear just protects us. The fear is our survival instincts, just trying to keep us safe from what we are afraid of. Being afraid of something is okay, so you shouldn’t be embarrassed about it, because everyone has something to be afraid of, or something that keeps you cautious or safe. Overall, fear is something you should have, or else you won’t feel unsafe, so you will hurt yourself....
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...What is the fear of an objector situation? - Specific Phobia In a person with a specific phobia, does this phobia usually have any real danger? - No What is the fear of social situations. - Social anxiety disorder With social anxiety disorder, how long does this fear last persistently? - 6 months or more Could an phobia be hereditary? - memories can be passed down through generations in turn the chemical thought from early on can cause an phobia Is there a limit to how many phobias you can have? And why? - there is only a limit considering how many phobias are known to man Could you be diagnosed with a specific phobia if you have a disorder such as schizophrenia? Please explain. Not really. Schizophrenia could make you paranoid and could make...
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