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    misery pushes the victims to physical measures such as suicide and harm to the body. Its all in the outcome of the emotional depth into wretchedness that embraces every part of its sufferer. Whereas anxiety is seen, as mental as well, it is instead fear of the future or situations surrounding the individual. The core of this disorder is the worry of having to prepare and make perfect and precise moves towards the circumstance laying in front of them. Taking an overwhelming approach to terror in…

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    Test Anxiety Analysis

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    of tests, the CTAS (Children’s Test Anxiety Scale) and the BASC-2-TA (Behavior Assessment Scale for Children, Second Edition). The CTAS measured the students physiological reactions to test-taking while the BASC-2-TA measured the student’s worry and fear in regards to the test. The results of the CTAS came out as the young children having significantly high levels of test anxiety both for high-stake tests as well as regular classroom…

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    dressed. She was orientated times three as she spoke about her parents and how they dyied in a boat crash. She also discussed how she hurt her sister when she was younger. She claimed to be isolated since roughly age eight when she hurt her sister in fear that she may hurt someone else. The client seems to have been able to cope with the crisis until recently when she had to accept the crown as Queen of Arendelle. The client’s only support system was…

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    We all have fears, but are they necessarily strong enough to cause us problems? You may not like spiders or snakes and may go out of your way to avoid them, but this is quite different to having a phobia about something. For example, it is natural to be afraid of a snarling Rottweiler, but not to be terrified of a friendly poodle on a leash. Although a phobia is similar to a fear, there is one key difference: the anxiety experienced by the person is so strong that it interferes with their life…

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    In Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ essay, “On the Fear of Death,” she claims that the more science advances, the more people fear and deny death, and she includes various kinds of evidence to enhance her opinions on death. She describes the changes made in society and how they affect people. She starts with how science has changed the time of death for most people, then moves on to how our unconscious mind deals with death and how types of people deal with death. She finally compares a death in an older…

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    American movies and television shows are making either an implicit or explicit argument about American identity, this is what attracts Americans to watch the movie or show. Since Americans are a combination of many different cultures and a combination of living, or growing up in different parts of the United States that have different ways of living and interacting, everyone has a different opinion on American Identity. Television writers and producers use all these different opinions and…

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    Anxiety Factor Anxiety is considered to be as one of the most important affective factors, which affect the learner's emotional and behavioral components. These components gathered to create an unpleasant feeling, fear or worry (Seligman et al, 2001). According to Arnold (2000, P.59), language anxiety "ranks high among factors influencing language learning, regardless of whether the setting is informal or formal. Anxiety is the feeling of tension, worry, nervousness and apprehension associated…

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    experience irrational fears. Whether the fear is of the boogieman, monsters, aliens, vampires, or being sucked down the drain, most every child, across the globe, has experienced some type of fear at one point or another. For me, as a child, my fears seemed to come to me at night in the form of nightmares. It could be said that I was a paranoid child. For majority of my childhood, I was convinced that every person outside of my family was trying to kidnap me. Where the fear came from, I am not…

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    long path from knowing “some fifty stray words in English” to being the “scholarship boy” at Stanford University. In his Banquet Speech, William Faulkner discusses the “duty of a writer”. He mentions that the writer should conquer and move past their fears, they should teach himself universal truths, and help by reminding other of courage compassion, and other positive qualities a person could have. In Hunger…

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    Fear Tactics

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    Fear can drive people to their extremes. Many people live in fear of their government and/ or other personal controlling in their society. Some people believe that the government is always right and that they do not lie. The government can cause “accidents” to happen and frame it on other ethnic cultures which cause a society to rely on the government. Fear causes suspicion, terror, and a government that is controlling popular belief. For a safe and civilized society fear tactics are necessary…

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