Claustrophobia

Part one: Why do people always think it's me? Whenever something bad happens, they're like "it must have been Jason!" or whenever something's broken, "Jason must have been here!" Sure, I'm not the most responsible, or reliable person, but seriously people, you just have to assume like that! Well, anyway you probably didn't pick this up to hear me complain about my personal problems (which I do a lot), so let's move on. My story begins in Alcolu, South Carolina. My day started normal enough.…

Sandhya Garimella 04.09.14 Block A Santiago’s Undertakes the Hero’s Journey Theme - Achieving dreams with courage and self-belief In The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho highlights that in order to achieve greater heights, one must face challenges with fortitude and and have faith in oneself. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” (Maya Angelou) At this present time, everyone has larger than life aspirations, in…

Cesar Rico Period 2 12-4-17 Independent Reading Project What is Fear? Fear today is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. In the book “Slaying The Giants In Your Life” there are a few examples of fear that are portrayed. One example that stood out to me is being ashamed of who you are. Many people nowadays have the fear of being who they are. For many reasons of getting made fun of or bullied. For example, a fear…

Courage, courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. Courage is a word commonly confused with fearless. Fearlessness is in ways the same thing as foolishness. If one is fearless, one lacks fear, one lacks the understanding of fear, of what is being put at risk. In today's world people are jumping off roofs to prove how courageous they are. These individuals are, however misguided, they are expressing fearlessness not courage. Courage is so much greater, courage is…

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince” states “ People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.” A person must be held accountable for their own actions. A person’s “rose” or their character is shaped by taking responsibility for their mistakes. While the others in the hotel do contribute to the Swede’s death, it is ultimately the Swede who is the main cause of his demise.…

Fear, it is something nearly everyone have. Fear has it own benefits and disadvantages. It can protect someone from danger or put someone in danger. According to Alix Spiegel, one of the hosts on Invisibilia, on the episode, World With No Fear, “If you have no fear, more terrible things will happen to you, but you don’t personally experience them as terrible. If you have a lot of fear, fewer bad things are likely to happen, but it’s very probable that your life is more painful to you” (Spiegel,…

Flickering beats of your heart sends shivers all down your spine. A mind young as yours doesn’t feel the longing fear of your family or your career, but you do have the basic instincts that have lived with human nature for centuries. Feeling threatened, the ancient instincts run through your child self and make you fear for your life. Your “monster under the bed” has sparked these fears for your life, but that basic natural fear evolves over time with maturity and knowledge of the modern world…

In this paper two topics from the Psychology and Spirituality course will be discussed in regards to spirituality and their influence on my personal life. I will examine how I have grown and what I have learned from the week on Spring Lake ranch and how I wish to continue moving forward in my attempt to be spiritual and build a closer relationship to God. Love and death have played large roles in my life, especially of late and through the course I have been able to better understand my views on…

Fear is incapacitating, it holds you back and holds you down. As you grow older, you see more of the world. You see it thought the news, people and books. As you grow older and see more, the more you know what 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 in the streets and the halls of your life. As time passes you discover not only to fear monsters but also emotion, failure, change and loss. How do…

As ancient Greek culture was afraid of the unknown, of what could happen after death, they feared a monster that could lure you in with promises of hope and then drag you into the great unknown. The idea that something so beautiful could end so horribly could horrify people of any century. I hope that these facts of Sirens throughout history will be both horrifying, as they were interesting as they were for me. In many stories Sirens were once beautiful women, and while their parentage can be…