Sam Robert’s article, “A Decade of Fear,” discusses the various ways McCarthyism' turned American against American in the decade after World War II.the U.S believed that McCarthyism was only proof of a question as if the government and citizens were loyal to america during war.for example during world war 2 many japanese americans were put in internment camps believing they would support Japan in the war. The US put people in camps cause they feared people would trade them and be used as spyce. The fear of communism started in 1949 when communist mao zedong took over china and the soviet union that created fear on the us cause they thought the soviet union had stolen technology files.…
Thurman asks: “The crucial question: Is there any help to be found in the religion of Jesus that can be of value here?… Did Jesus deal with this kind of fear? If so, how did he do it? What did he say?” First of all, Jesus came into a fear-filled world of oppressed and captive peoples. He quoted from the book of Isaiah, and implied that the Spirit of the Lord was upon him and had anointed him to do such things. Thurman looks at Jesus ' humanism very concretely. He is a man in this world, and must suffer some…
People have fears for many things from spiders to clowns. Due to the attacks on September 11, 2001, many Americans can now add another fear to that list. Something that was considered to be a convenience since it’s invention is now something people are replacing with long drives in their personal vehicles, buses and train rides for long distances. In some of these cases, one also goes…
Facing fear, danger, or adversity in the physical or moral realm shapes a person’s identity and core values and often influences the psychological effects of a person. Courage, bravery, and responsibility often define the results of fear relative to the situation a person has overcome or failed. Military personnel experience a substantial amount of diverse situations which forces dynamic impacts of emotions with fear and courage the prime focus on the spectrum. To include war in the lives of military society adds an intense stress to address courage and fear in order for self-preservation of mind in those affected. In Tim Obrien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone, fear and courage are often relayed as a constant struggle frequently pushing the soldier’s…
One of the biggest problems in our life is fear. Fear is a problem because it affects everything; we think and say and do, all the decisions and the choices we make. For example human fear many things like fear of flying, heights, death and etc.. In his book the things they carried Tim O'Brien writes but the theme of fear because the soldiers in the Vietnam War were afraid of making the right decisions. Tim O'Brien and his platoon carry the fear of death and the fear of shame.fear is show in this is characters of Jimmy Cross, Norman Barker, and Time himself.…
Fear is an emotion experienced when a person senses danger and feels the need to deal with it inside his or her mind. Sal’s fear is always about what is going to happen next. She was afraid of a lot of things such as accidents, pregnant women, and cancer. First, she was afraid of accidents because her uncle died when a tractor flipped over on him. From the book “I prayed that we would not be in an accident (I was terrified of cars and buses)”(Creech 7). In this sentence Sal is describes that her fear is from accidents. Sal was afraid of pregnant women because they remind her of the incident that happened to her mother. When her mother was eight months pregnant, Sal fell from the branches of a tree. She broke her leg, and fell unconscious. Sal's mother found her, carried her home, and rushed her to the hospital to be fitted in a cast.…
The saying “be the bigger man” can be applied to many scenarios. It often refers to being the person who takes charge or to being the person who ends an argument. But why do people associate size with taking charge? This is a question that arises in Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The story is told from the perspective of patient in a mental ward, nicknamed Chief by patients and nurses, who has been in an asylum for fifteen years of his life. When Chief is describing his or other people’s size, he is portraying their confidence and their power within the ward. That is why at first, he sees himself as small, McMurphy as huge, and Nurse Ratched as the "Big Nurse”; ultimately, as he himself regains his self-confidence, he…
He who fears something, gives it power over him. When fear grows and begins to control all your thoughts and feelings, it can cause physical and emotional changes in a person. This could alter the kindest people, which can result in horrible situations to occur. Forced to rely on each other, fear alters the boys in Lord of the Flies normal attitude of civilization. Savagery caused by loss of civilization, and false maturity amongst the boys, is blamed by their fears of the unknown.…
"Religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing – fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death.” asserted British philosopher, Bertrand Russell, in his 1927 lecture, ‘Why I Am Not A Christian’. Essentially, Russell suggests that fear is the origin of religion. The same theory of fear-based religion is evident in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. In the classic novel, a group of British boys finds themselves on an exotic island without resources or adults; forcing them to organize civilization with only their brains and senses. On…
It is only human nature to succumb to and delve into the knowledge of the unknown or of…
In Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, A young indian boy is stuck on a small lifeboat with a 450-pound bengal tiger. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean along with one of the top hunters in the animal kingdom, fear often lingers in Pi’s mind. Pi reflects how fear affects the mind and body. He says, “Fear which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end” (204). Pi explains how fear, which is not a real, tangible item, just an emotion induced by perceived danger, can shake one mentally and because the mind is the foundation of a person, fear affects the entire individual. The…
The book teaches the reader about how racial discrimination and segregation led to unjust treatment to the black society as a whole. All men are born equal, but society divides everyone into categories based on false pretenses. Harper Lee shows this through Tom Robinson’s court case. She also shows the good in people through Atticus’ character and his teachings, and the worse in people through the death of Bob…
Honestly, I truly did not understand “The Disuniting of America”. I could not fully grasp the political terms or half of the historic events mentioned in the book. But I do agree with the author when he said “How does it happen that in the United States, where the inhabitants have immigrated to the land which they now occupy, and brought neither customs nor traditions with no previous acquaintance; where, in short, the instinctive love of country can scarcely exist; how does it happen that everyone takes as zealous an interest in the affairs of his township, his country, and the whole state as if they were his own? It is because everyone, in his sphere, takes an active part in the government of society.” To me this means that the people around us shape our views, which is true.…
A lack of fear is usually thought of as a way to see the good and the bad of things. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, characters are manipulating each other by using each other’s faith against themselves. Characters start to accuse each other as being a witch, which was at that time was a horrible actuation to make against someone. There are characters who buckle under the pressure of the accusations and let their fear of death cloud their decisions. In the story The Crucible, characters start to question their faith thanks to their lack of fear of what could happen to them as shown through the actions of Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor, and Reverend John Hale.…
In the play, The Crucible, one of the major themes shows that fear and suspicion are infectious and can produce a state of general hysteria that results in the destruction of public order and rationality. Miller conveys this theme through the characters' actions. He uses numerous situations as a metaphor of the pressure on society to conform. This play also showed that one's actions, no matter how innocent his intent, can have negative consequences on those around him.…