Fear Factor

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the many conditions inflicted upon our population that affects about 1 in 68 Americans in the United Sates. This developmental disability appears within the first three years of life and can progress in a variety of ways, ranging from low functioning to high functioning with the common symptoms pertaining to behavioral, developmental, cognitive, and psychological issues. Most conferences regarding autism have been based autism awareness, but this…

Can boredom be destructive? In some cases, it could lead to bad decisions. Also, if you're bored, you could be doing something productive. And the worst case is it could lead to extreme anxiety and could cause a panic attack. Even though it could also relieve stress and be used as a “brain break.” While it could be good for our brains and help sort out our feelings, it could also lead to worse. First, you're being bored instead of contributing. You could be helping a homeless shelter or walking…

describing is an anxiety related to the thoughts and visual triggers surrounding tight and suffocating places. People who constantly face these apprehensions suffer from claustrophobia or the fear of enclosed spaces. Ranging from elevators to being buried alive in coffins, people like myself have the constant fear of being in an inescapable situation. But claustrophobia isn’t just about boxes and window-less rooms, it’s about human emotion and the need for options. Claustrophobia represents a…

Flaws: Nervous We all have flaws in our life. They can be a wide range of things, from emotions like judgemental, or a physical trait, like being weak. Today I will talk about one of my biggest flaws that I have, being nervous. Nervous is the act of high-strung or jumpy, being worried about something almost all the time. Every since I could remember, I have always been nervous. Nervous from physical things like work to just silly mental things like how someone thinks about me. There are many…

Chandra’s, is the straightforward composure she held. She understood more than anyone else what the cost of fame truly meant. With her brutal honesty and opinions— she held nothing back. Zack had many weaknesses, like many young adults, which was his fear of controversy. We see at the beginning of the story that one of the show’s assistants advises Zack into mocking a move called “Tebowing” and Zack willingly agrees. Zack knew it wasn’t right, but he had just won his way to the next round and he…

to the listeners about his fears and anxieties is prevalent. During the chorus, the main focus that the speaker refers to is “a monster, a beast inside my brain.” Obviously the speaker does not have a literal monster or beast living in his head, so using the fact that this statement is a metaphor allows for the inference that this beast is actually a representation of the speaker’s fears and problems that cause them complications. The beast personifies the potential fear that internally…

“The Last Night of the World” by Ray Bradbury explains a terrifying scenario, the world ending. The theme Ray Bradbury is attempting to convey throughout the story is the life draining nature of too much routine. To do so, Bradbury uses a calming mood and decides to make the characters express their predictions. Commonly, individuals facing the end of the world would be frightened. However the two main characters in this story are not. While having a calm conversation about the ending that is…

It shows the outcome of people when they have no memory as so many important and special events had passed without her knowing. Her emotions include shock and fear due to the fact that nothing is clear to…

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV). Not only are insecurities and doubts a waste of precious time and energy, but a person can miss out…

Throughout his poems, Wilfred Owen draws attention to the fears of the soldiers. Anthem for Doomed Youth highlights the fears in which the militants face due to the loss and suffering of many comrades. Owen writes, “Only the monstrous anger of the guns” (Owen, 2). In this text, Owen mentions the soldiers’ anxieties with the usage of a metaphor…