Culture of fear

Real Feelings: A Study of High Steel Ironworkers’ Reactions to Fear and Danger, Jack Haas discusses the different culture that constructions workers who work on the iron beams over twenty stories high seem to have. Haas began his study hoping to learn more about how these construction workers deal with their feelings of fear in such a dangerous situation. However, he quickly learned that these construction workers never speak of fear but quite often reference the danger. Haas did not know if the…

Horror fiction films are designed and created to bring fear and panic to it’s viewers and get a physiological response. These types of movies are created to depict the more darker sides of life in a form that still entertains its viewers. They are meant to be nothing other than scary. Horror films have been typically “off-limits” to children because of the contents within it. Now, horror films from the early twentieth century have adapted to become suitable for younger children. But how has the…

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…

tactics main goal is to implant fear into the hearts of others. With them you rather agree with them or you deserve to be punished, and an overwhelming majority of that punishment ends in the taking of innocent people’s lives. This fear being present in the masses affects the US government greatly. Our government, being a democracy, is heavily influenced by citizens. People are run by their fears and thus our government is run by the fears of its people. This fear has been present…

Fear is described by the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary as "an unpleasant and often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger." Most often, fear has a protective function and is a perfectly healthy and natural response to danger. Many things can cause fear, some of them rational and some irrational. However, as Phil Barker explains in his essay for the website Beyond Intractability, fear can become unhealthy or irrational no matter what the cause. Barker explains that fear…

To many people, spiders are terrifying. In fact, behind death and public speaking, arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, haunts fifty percent of women and sixteen percent of men (The Wall Street Journal). However, these usually small arachnids are highly underestimated in their capabilities. They are clever, industrious, and inventive, giving them the ability to thrive in many environments. Spiders spin their webs with silk, the strongest known natural fiber. They also have eight eyes, eight long…

discover a new category of people to fear.” (1999: 62) In other words what we, as a culture, fear is always changing. In my opinion the reason we come to fear these things is through our perception of events through the media (1999). A few of the “wrong things” Glassner suggests we fear and have feared are; life threatening diseases, “Killer Kids” (1999: 62), government thugs, sadistic cops, and Middle eastern terrorists. All of these thing and many more we come to fear based on a single…

Gardner early emotional childhood stress, such as neglect and abuse can have a negative effect later in life (2011). This early child adversity can be triggered by a future high stress event causing negative emotions (fear), which lead to anxiety and depression. The conditioning of fear is another environmental factor influencing social anxiety, this includes any conditioning or modeled fearful behavior. According to Oltmanns this anxiety can manifest just after one exposure to a learning trial…

compared to the attack on September eleven. The event is being compared to what happened in September eleven because they both reflect how the events of terrorism began in New York. During the attack of September eleven, it put many people into grief and fear In Frankenstein the inhumane events began with the creation of the monster, and in our society they began in New…

heavily by fear. In the movie the father’s suicide compared to the aborigine’s suicide shows the difference in how the two society’s view death. The father’s death was messy and aggressive, as if he viewed death as an escape that he had to forced himself into; the aboriginal boy’s death was peaceful, he considered death as the next step in his life and he willingly accepted it. The taboo surrounding death paired with modern society’s continual attempt to resist it, has created a strong fear of…