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    Fear Induced Emotion

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    Fear Induced Emotion on Motivation University of Texas at Arlington Anxiety is a psychological‚ physiological‚ and behavior state in humans and animals by a threat to well-being or survival‚ either potential or actual. Each of us has felt afraid‚ and we can all recognize fear in many animal species. The function state of fear is defined in terms of being caused by a particular pattern of adaptive behavior to avoid or cope with that threat. We have all been in a situation where we are in fear

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    sometimes use this fear to their advantages. They would make us clean our rooms or do our homework‚ but if we did not‚ they tell us that the "boogieman" would come find us at night. The fear of the unknown is an excellent weapon to be used to gain ultimate power over others; many of us have experienced it‚ or even used it. In the Webster’s dictionary‚ it states that xenophobia is the "fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners". This fear and hatred acts as a weapon because people tend to fear what they

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    Discuss the Various Types of Fear present in the crucible In Arthur Miller’s‚ ‘The Crucible‚’ Miller has displayed a society based around fear. Miller has used the symbolic representation of Salem throughout the notorious ‘witchcraft trial’ period to highlight the notion of fear that led to extreme hysteria. Such hysteria engulfed the whole community into a group of individuals whose actions were motivated by fear of condemnation. This representation has allowed miller to express his views on

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    My Biggest Fear

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    Fear is a form of a phobia and is something that lives within us no matter how big or small. Everyone has fear but some people try to hide it more than others do. Fear usually develops during ones childhood. Fear also comes in a variety of common things such as Snakephobia (fear of snakes) or Hypsiphobia (fear of heights) but there are uncommon fears as well such as Hadephobia (fear of hell) or Heliophobia (fear of the sun). My biggest fear is actually very common called Coulrophobia (fear of clowns)

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    Imagine the most feared leader‚ everyone will be scared. Weather a great or terrible leader‚ it doesn’t matter how loveable a leader can be‚ some will hate them but if a leader is truly feared then everyone will fear them. Not everyone will love the most lovable leader but everyone will fear the most fearful leader. AAAA It is much better to feared rather than loved. This exactly what is too be learned from Source B. “It is much safer to be feared than loved.” Then the passage goes on to explain how

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    My Greatest Fear

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    My biggest fear is something that keeps me up many a night. I have a fear of heights‚ of drowning and of several other tangible things. However‚ I believe that when confronted with those‚ I will probably be able to deal with them in some form or another (don’t ask me how you deal with a fear of heights‚ but I will). This one that I consider to be my biggest is like a disease‚ something I haven’t figured out how to deal with. The worst part is that I am not sure there even exists a solution to it

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    Overcoming Fear Analysis

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    read was Overcoming Fear of Failure by Zorka Hereford. In her article‚ Hereford describes the importance of failure and how many mistakes and failures formed great achievements. Hereford also explains that people have a fear of failure due to not knowing what it will take to succeed‚ by having unrealistic expectations and by expressing traits of perfectionism. In addition to her explanation of these reasons‚ the author discusses the methods that can help people overcome their fear of failure. I believe

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    traditional fairy tale and its first version of this fairy tale was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve who was a French author. She wrote the first version of Beauty and the Beast and her title of this book was La Belle et la Bete. This version was published by La jeune ameriquaine‚ et les contes marins‚ and it was over one hundred pages long containing many subplots and involving a Beast. The main elements of Villeneuve’s version were almost the same as the second version of Jeanne-Marie

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    Nadine Gordimer's Fear

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    Fear often becomes our worst enemy when it makes you become irrational and stops you from thinking clearly. First of all‚ fear can make us become overly cautious‚ to the point where it causes harm. In Nadine Gordimer’s novel “Once Upon a Time” a family builds a barbed wire wall because they are so afraid of the robberies and the boy decides to explore the fence and dies from being shredded by the wire “(the boy) dragged a ladder to the wall‚ the shining coiled tunnel...with the first fixing of its

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    Lorraine Peters American Literature Ms. Jelen September 29 The Crucible and The Dynamics of Fear The worst thing one has to fear is fear itself. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ fear infiltrates the everyday lives of the people of Salem by disturbing many citizens and causing some of them to resort to lies and dishonesty to deflect criticism of their character. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ fear changes a girl’s true nature and power thirsty men begin to crumble at the thought of losing their

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