Understanding The Fear of Success http://www.black-collegian.com/news/student_correspondents/fearofsuccess501.shtml by TaKeshia Brooks Success means different things to different people. It is something to which we all aspire. Or is it? Do some of us intentionally ruin opportunities to reach our goals? Do we find ways to fall just short of obtaining short-term or even long-term goals? Believe it or not‚ some people may just do so. Such actions may actually be a part of a fear of success
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Quote 1: "Abby‚ I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched‚ Abby." Act 1‚ page 23 Context: Abby was talking to Proctor about their love for each other and how she loves him and how she knows he loves her. Proctor tells her he loves her‚ but he feels bad about what he did and told her he wouldn’t do it again. This shows he is aware of his own flaws and he is taking control of the situation
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Crucible conflicted In the play The Crucible Arthur Miller creates a play in which there’s a town with many persons of high stature. This makes a scene that is ready for an explosion with several different beliefs and when one woman confesses to the crime of witch craft it leads to several more confessions. One those who is convicted of witch craft‚ whose name is john proctor‚ cause a stir because the people that names carry weight in the town are convicted‚ but will not confess it raise some doubt
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Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible in the time of the Red Scare‚ the hysteria over the threat of communist spies in America‚ provoked by Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy accused numerous people of being communist‚ which would cost them their jobs and reputation. Joseph McCarthy‚ because of the power he had‚ made people bend to his will under the disguise of helping others‚ just like Abigail Williams did throughout the Crucible. Three girls‚ Betty Parris‚ Mary Warren‚ and Mercy Lewis‚ were the ones who she
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Essay on the Crucible American author Arthur Miller wrote a play in 1953 named the Crucible. The Crucible was portrayed as the Salem witch trials that took place in 1692 and 1693 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The play was written as a milked version of McCarthyism. McCarthyism was when the Government put people who had been accused of being communist on the Blacklist. Miller was accused himself in 1956 as being a communist and refused to name names from who he had seen in the few
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Fear and Phobias I’m sure that at least one of you is afraid of snakes or spiders. Maybe you have a fear of blood or injections‚ but the fact is all people have fears or situations they would rather avoid. It is part of everyday life. However‚ what is fear? The dictionary explains fear as a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger‚ evil‚ pain etc. whether the threat is real or imagined. Biologically fear is necessary‚ because it warns the organism of life-threatening dangers and with that
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The Little Albert Experiment was one of the most well known fear conditioning experiments. John B Watson showed that not only can humans be classically conditioned‚ but also furthered Pavlov’s research by show that emotions can be classically conditioned. Watson exposed a nine-month-old baby to various white stimuli such as: rats‚ rabbits‚ monkeys‚ etc. He observed that the child showed no fear towards the stimuli‚ but then whenever the child was exposed to the white stimuli followed by a loud noise
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The Holocaust and The Crucible Imagine someone’s parents accusing them of eating their left overs. They know they were not around‚ so they could not have eaten them. But their siblings happen to blame them for it‚ and their parents believe their siblings over them. Since they “took” their parent’s left overs they are now on punishment. That person had to deal with a very similar‚ but nowhere near as severe punishment that the victims of the Salem Witch Trials and the Jews during the Holocaust
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Culture of Fear Culture in fear is a powerful factor in social and political discourse. Much of the time‚ such fear is being blown out of proportion by the media‚ the state‚ or some other body with an interest in seeing people afraid. Along with any motion‚ fear can easily be used inappropriately in arguments. The essays “The Market in Fear” by Frank Furedi‚ “A World Becoming More Peaceful?” by Paul Rogers‚ and “Do We Fear the Right Things?” by David G. Myers consider the role that fear has come to
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When you’re scared‚ sometimes it’s hard to go with your gut feeling‚ right? It may be hard to stick up for yourself‚ or stand up for what is right. This is the feeling most of The Crucible characters probably felt. Reverend Parris‚ Abigail Williams‚ and John Proctor are good examples of how fear and hysteria can destroy good judgment. Reverend Parris had one of the most difficult times with keeping his good judgment‚ especially since he was supposed to be leading the church in Salem. Since nobody
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