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    Fear Based Leaders

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    Love>Fear Leaders are one of the most important parts of a team. They keep everyone organized‚ and tell who what to do and when to do it. But‚ what sets a good leader apart from a bad one? The answer would be in how these leaders conduct their work‚ how they get respect from their workers or team members. Love‚ or respect based leaders‚ and fear based leaders are the main two. Love or respect is a better aspect for a leader than fear because of the short and long term effects‚ and has many positives

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    My Greatest Fear

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    My biggest fear is something that keeps me up many a night. I have a fear of heights‚ of drowning and of several other tangible things. However‚ I believe that when confronted with those‚ I will probably be able to deal with them in some form or another (don’t ask me how you deal with a fear of heights‚ but I will). This one that I consider to be my biggest is like a disease‚ something I haven’t figured out how to deal with. The worst part is that I am not sure there even exists a solution to it

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    “Arachnophobia – Fear of Spiders” Michelle Swearingen MOD A June 23‚ 2011 Everest Institute San Antonio‚ TX Arachnophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of spiders. From the Greek word “arachne” meaning "spider" and “phobos” meaning "fear". There are historical and cultural reasons for arachnophobia. In the Dark Ages spiders were commonly considered to be a source of contamination of food and water. They were believed to be the cause of the Bubonic Plague (though in

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    Fear of Roller Coasters

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    Fear When I think back to a time that I let fear prevent me from doing something‚ I thought of the moment I went to an amusement park. My friends asked me to ride a roller coaster with them and I did not because of fear. I know fear held me back at that time‚ since I did not enjoy spending time with my friends‚ I had to be the one holding everyone’s bag‚ as well as wasting my money on a place that had nothing else to offer but roller coasters. Sometimes as a child‚ people can have sad or frightful

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    Nadine Gordimer's Fear

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    Fear often becomes our worst enemy when it makes you become irrational and stops you from thinking clearly. First of all‚ fear can make us become overly cautious‚ to the point where it causes harm. In Nadine Gordimer’s novel “Once Upon a Time” a family builds a barbed wire wall because they are so afraid of the robberies and the boy decides to explore the fence and dies from being shredded by the wire “(the boy) dragged a ladder to the wall‚ the shining coiled tunnel...with the first fixing of its

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    Lorraine Peters American Literature Ms. Jelen September 29 The Crucible and The Dynamics of Fear The worst thing one has to fear is fear itself. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ fear infiltrates the everyday lives of the people of Salem by disturbing many citizens and causing some of them to resort to lies and dishonesty to deflect criticism of their character. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ fear changes a girl’s true nature and power thirsty men begin to crumble at the thought of losing their

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    Dangerous Situations And Fear Fear is an emotion aroused by danger. It is an important protective instinct. At any hint of danger‚ a substance called noradrenalin is released into the blood. This prepares the body for action. When we are scared‚ our skin is pale‚ as blood is diverted to the muscles. Our body is sweating more‚ to cool the muscles; our breathing is faster‚ and provides so more oxygen for the muscles; our heart beats faster to push more blood to the muscles. Also the gut and

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    Miller implies how fear was used to silence the people of Salem and how it was used to persuade people into false testimony. Throughout the play in Salem witch trials‚ fear was the major source of power to control the enemy. In Salem there were only a couple of things one had to worry about such as punishment from the ruling authoritative‚ supernatural forces‚ and shame brought onto their names. In the play there are girls who use fear as their source of weapon to avoid their own fear of being punished

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    How does Dickens build a sense of fear throughout The Signalman? The Signalman by Charles Dickens is a ghost story written in 1886. It is about a signalman who constantly sees a ghost that forewarns him about deaths. Dickens wrote this piece after he was involved in a train crash. He wrote it because he knew the Victorians were afraid of this new idea of trains and they were scared because they saw the dangers of them. Dickens develops fear in the story using a description of the surroundings

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    Fear In Lord Of The Flies

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    factors leading to the boys’ decline in civilization were fear‚ which they had to deal with constantly‚ and their demand for dominance among one another. Fear led the boys to irrational decisions while the thirst for power led the boys to disagree upon one another’s choices‚ which consequently led to the separation between the

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