Claustrophobia

Something a Wish Can 't Prevent There she was planted motionless for the end of another day, third day to be exact. Drugged off the massive shot of morphine, it wasn 't even voluntary, but how else do you ease her torment. Cheekbones bulged out of normal due to the hollowness off the side of her face; her lungs were brimming with cancerous liquids, which resulted in tubes running out of her meager nostrils. Her legs were enlarged and their pigment was discolored from the malnourishment of the…

People say that fear is bad and that it just holds us back, but I think fear is what keeps us safe. Imagine there was no consequence, you would probably do whatever you want like jumping off cliffs and break the law just to name a few things. Consequence make us afraid which is good. With fear you would not do any of that because you are afraid of consequence. Some people may say fear is an obstacle And I would have to agree fear can sometimes be like a fallen tree in the road Say someone…

“Where fear and weapons meet--and they often do in urban America--there is always the possibility of death”. "They made me terrifying. Now I'd show them how terrifying I could be." Brent Staples the author of these quotes show a huge transformation from “Black men in public spaces” and “Parallel time”. Brent Staples opens “Black Men in Public Spaces” describing his first encounter and victim as h also does in “Parallel Time” by chance both incidents are, with well-dressed white women. “My first…

Part A Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Premature Burial explores the narrator's fear of being buried alive. The theme is that you can overcome your fears as long as you don't focus on the dark and dreary things in life. Throughout the whole story, the narrator is consumed by his fears. He has catalepsy, which is a physical condition in which the person cannot move or speak. This condition can last from hours to months! The narrator does not want to be alone but he does not want to be around…

Odysseus was scared, longing for his home and feared the future. Odysseus and his men sat on the ship waiting for what would happen next. The men had gotten used to the violent shakes of the ship if there was a large wave, they would simply stop what they were doing and hold on to the nearest ledge. But when Circe hit them with a giant wave, it created chaos among the ship. “Oh my god!” screamed one man holding on for dear life. “Odysseus! What is happening?” shouted another. Odysseus didn’t…

The two TV shows that I decided to compare and contrast were American Horror Story and Supernatural. Both of these TV shows are under the genre of horror and they both like to re-create the things that go bump in the night. Both of these TV shows are geared toward a large target audience of ages 18 through 50, and both have characters that the audience can grow with.Nevertheless, the networks that they are tied to, have a different opinion on how they scare their audiences in their seat.…

What happened? Angela was very nervous because she had to be one of the speakers at her graduation and she was afraid, because she had stage fright. In her younger years when she had to speak in front of people she would throw up and have to run to the bathroom. Life changing event? Angela learned that even if she is afraid or scared to complete a hard task, that if she stays strong and doesn't give up on herself, she can accomplish anything. What was the low point? The low point was Angela had…

Aristotle asserts, in his book Nicomachean Ethics, that courage is a virtue existing somewhere between confidence and fear. Confidence and fear are relativity vague terms in and of them self. Yet, out author cleverly go off path, distracting us away from the primary issue to understand the secondary issues in an effort to engage the reader in a true understanding of what it mean to be courageous. Courage is defined as a mean and to understand that mean we must first understand what two…

How does fear drive action? I think fear drives action by motivating you to get over your fear and do whatever you want. What is fear, I think fear is when you are afraid to do something that you would like to do. When fear comes across someone, they do things to get away from their fear. There are many reasons why people have fear. People do different things to get away from their fear. Maybe sometimes people don’t want to face their fear so they just fear whatever they are afraid of. Than…

Fear is incapacitating. It holds you back and it holds you down. The older you get the more fear you can hold but also the more you see and have to fear. When you come out of childhood you learn that the monsters you feared under the bed may not be there, but you learn that they lurk the streets and the halls of your life. You learn not only to fear monsters but also emotion, failure, change and loss. How does one learn to cope? how, after finding out that the earth is so terrifying,, do people…