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    Fear is a thing that is caused by many things and can have many consequences. Fear is defined as a displeasing feeling that is caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous and is likely going to cause pain. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys are presented with multiple aspects of fear, such as darkness, the Beast, and the evil of mankind. Fear can result in savagery, hysteria, or insight. One of the aspects of fear is darkness. There is plenty of darkness…

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    Have you ever wondered if Rattlesnakes can sense fear?They can by using their hyper-active adrenaline glands.Rattlesnakes are very weird a behave differently from other snakes.They also live in many different places.Rattlesnake’s bodies are very complex,and involve many things.Rattlesnakes can lead very interesting lives, live in very strange places,and their bodies can be very complex pieces of living tissue. A rattler’s behavior depends on the situation the rattler is in. When threatened,the…

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    The Power of Fear Fear is something everyone has and despises. Fear is our weak points our insecurities. Fear is the quickest way to access someone’s feelings. Fear brings about an emotional reaction that can overwhelm a person and take full control over their bodies. Fear is able to captivate and control audiences. Fear is a way to control and that is exactly how Taylor Edward uses fear in his now infamous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The Sermon was given to a large…

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    Fear is a basic human instinct. Fear is supposed to keep a person alive, to keep a person from dan-gerous situations that could injure him or her. However, there are times when fear is holding a per-son back, and that could be when a person lets his fear control his decisions, which could lead to missing out on wonderful opportunities. There are times when a person must face their fears, in or-der to experience something wonderful, or exhilarating. The short story “The Swimmer” written by S.J.…

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    Fear is what motivates people's actions. No matter what your social status you are in you fear something. The feeling of fear can lead to the feeling of hysteria. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Around the late 1690’s, A little town in Salem, Massachusetts started to fear everything that was going on with witchcraft, hanging, and losing power especially Mary Warren, Thomas Danforth, Samuel Paris, and the low class women . This fear caused hysteria in Salem which led to the deaths of 20…

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    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…

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    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…

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    How Does Fear Affect Us

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    Jarod Johnson Katie Tiller College Prep English 09 November 2017 How does fear affect us? Fear is defined as “an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous,” and is usually associated with negative impacts on oneself or others. Fear has many different impacts on people and everyone handles them differently, according to what they see fit. So while fear does have some bad impacts, it also has good impacts on people. So with that being said, fear causes people…

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    Palms sweating, knees trembling, senses numbing, heart racing almost as fast as your legs, and what else to call this chain of synchronized bodily responses other than fear. Fear, stereotypically, is simply a feeling, a reaction in which takes place in the brain when one is frightened. But what is it that causes this sensation called fear? Why does the brain react to certain circumstances in such a way? Fear is the brain's reaction to abnormality, not recognizing what it is seeing. Fear is…

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    Amygdala

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    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,…

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