What do you think motivates fear? Do each one of us have a unique set of triggers that cause fear within us; it’s as if it has its own set of finger prints on our lives. One of the biggest things that trigger fear is fear itself. We are so afraid of what people will say and do to us that we are unable to function without the positive approval of friends, family, colleagues, teachers... the list is in actual fact endless.…
Another person from Ted-Talk gave us a more creative point of view. In this small video Karen Thompson Walker has basically summarized what is in everybody’s fears. She said that fear is basically what our mind is going through during tough situation. She starts from childhood, and moved all the way up to adulthood in the quote “As we grow up, we're often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates”. Fear is a weakness that can be overcome by people who persevere hard enough.…
Fear is an extremely powerful emotion. It has the potential to entirely consume minds and control bodies, as well as completely dictate an individual’s life. In the 17th century, a countless number of people belonging to various religions feared the supernatural. Specifically, the Puritans firmly believed in and feared God’s wrath, the presence of evil entities and the existence of the Devil. This terror was reflected in the laws and daily life of the Puritan community.…
scared. That much is easy to say. I've been scared most of my life if many different things and many different reasons. It's what I'm afraid of and why that's hard to explain. There's so much on my mind at this very moment, so many different topics, situations, and scenarios.…
My main fear is losing someone I love. One of the reasons I relate to "No Fear" is through the lines "Even though I live my life on the road, doesn't mean I have time for you. " Most of the time I'm not home or when we have breaks from school, I frequently travel out of state but that doesn't mean I am too busy and forget about the person I love. When I love someone, I make time…
I know my answer as soon as I hear that question and that’s why it would be easy to write an essay on. My number one fear is failure. Everywhere and everything I do, I always have a fear that I will fail of some sort in the back of my mind. Failure as in being unsuccessful and failure as in falling down. I can combine this with with pop culture tv series America’s Got Talent.…
A personal experience of fear that I have been through was on a spooky Halloween night. It was a cold and rainy October day when I arrived at my friend’s house for an annual Halloween party. Every year I was hesitant to go because I get scared every single time I go. I even tried to get out of it by faking sick but somehow, after persuasive talks by my friends and the weird allure of fear, I still managed to go every year.…
Rodney Sachs My greatest fear is death or my old man dying because my daddy is my role model. He is a leader to me because he makes my family happy and he loves us all so much. He also helps me make good decisions in and out of school. Sometimes after I watch war movies it gets me assuming about if this happened to him. I have a friend and his pa is overseas…
Out of all the fears in the world, the fear of growing up, living in the real world and experiencing mass amounts of failure has definitely taken the cake in my book. So many things come with growing up and becoming an adult, that it's just overwhelming to think about. For most younger kids this thought is more of a dream do to the fact that they don't know a life with responsibilities and adversity that constantly attempts at taking you down but your suppose to not let that happen, but will I be able to get back up when I am shot down, will I be able to make a family and find a job that is well and stable to support a family and most of all will the world that's already out there accept what I have to offer? These things are what scare me about, going to college, figuring out what I plan to do with my life, thinking about how am I gonna pay this bill, that bill, my car payments, mortgage, all problems that come with growing up, that I know I am not ready for now and don't know if I will be.…
The fear of heights, the fear of blood dripping from a paper cut, what would you describe this sensation? The feeling of fear to a particular thing is known as a phobia. Like many other organisms, we can develop fears or phobias from past experiences dealing with that particular situation. You may wonder what causes these emotions and how it is interpreted. Research shows that the brain or parts of the brain have different functions and one part of the brain is proven to regulate fear and your emotions which are then stored.…
Although, sometimes the ugly things you see in life are just ugly. Fear is an emotion that can make you feel apprehensive, and scared for the future. However, it is imperative that you have moments in your lifetime that scare you, so that you know how to overcome the obstacles that present themselves. Having the ability to calmly move on from these situations will help tremendously throughout the entirety of your…
Beowulf is a fairytale about a young heroic figure named Beowulf and a monster that ravages Denmark for twelve years. Grendel, the monster, kills many of Hrothgar’s men. The men of Denmark are afraid of Grendel and his terrors. Then one day, an unfamiliar boat comes across the ocean from the land of the Geats. Beowulf brings across fourteen of his strongest men, and defeats the monster.…
Do you have a fear? Well it is natural to have a fears so now let’s learn what fears do people have, what are fears, and ways to overcome them. Some people have the same and/or different fears and what are fears. According to “Fears and Phobias” it states “ Fear is one of the most basic human emotions.…
Fear can have many effects on people it can make people emotional, it can make them irrational, and it can make them primitive. Fear goes back to the dawn of time when man first showed fear of God, fear was also present during the salem witch trials where people felt fear over their neighboring being witches. Fear can also be a positive thing giving people in times of great need to overcome that fear and be a leader in that moment. Fear can be a great motivator or it can make you weak.…
Everyone, absolutely everyone in this entire world has some type of fear on something such as fear of heights, snakes, spiders, darkness, and the list goes on. Some studies have shown that the causes of fear of a certain place, thing or emotion are by experience. A person has to interact with the subject in order to have a positive or negative stimulus in its experience and that would be recorded in his mind, in order to know how to interact with it in the future. By the experimenting how fear has an impact on humans, scientists and psychologists can understand how the experience and fear related to each other.…