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    The Battle between Fear and Hope Fear is a major emotion and plays a crucial role in the decisions we make every day. Without fear‚ we as humans would make rational choices without thinking of the immediate consequences. In this political cartoon‚ Barack Obama is smashing away at the stone words “Fear” and his black colored mallet spells out “Hope”. In the past‚ America has been through many struggles and turmoil dealing with previous presidents and devastations. America was hit with two major

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    Persuasiveness of Fear in Advertising Fear is often used in advertising scare potential customers into buying their product promptly. It’s a good method used to boost sales as well as improve a business’s chance of becoming more popular. Fear advertisements are often the ones that catch the audience’s eye in a memorable fashion. How ethical and effectively persuasive are these advertisements? Do people get turned off by being scared into buying a product? When the media uses fear in their headlines

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    How Fear Plays Its Role… In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee fear plays its own special role in the lives of the people of Maycomb. The role that fear plays ranges from the spooky radley place to being followed late at night after a pageant. Atticus‚ one of the main characters‚ is a lawyer who is asked to defend a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ who is accused of rape. The townspeople of Maycomb are very racist towards the blacks. Given that Atticus is going to defend a black

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    English 99‚ CRN 31495 * Professor Lawrence * 10 April 2012 * Summary for Feel The Fear… And Do It Anyway * Susan Jeffers‚ Ph.D. * Feel The Fear… And Do It Anyway written by Susan Jeffers‚ Ph.D. has a main focus of working through fear‚ becoming more decisive and expanding comfort zones. The topics throughout the reading consists of concepts of increasing self-confidence‚ overcoming fear‚ staying optimistic through any given situation‚ living successfully in life‚ as well as gaining

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    World Fears Typically‚ fictional monsters that are known worldwide are scary because of the metaphors and allegories used behind them. How can a fictional monster be used as an allegory or metaphor? Simple‚ a person’s basic fears are derived from a fictional character from a horror film. For example‚ Leather face‚ from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film‚ is a character that wears a mask of human skin and kills people who have sinned with his chainsaw (Liebesman). He serves as a real world fear because

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    the language of fear in the novels Flowers for Algernon‚ The cage‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and --by Daniel Keyes‚ Ruth Minsky Sender‚ Ruta Sepetys and John Boyne--that conveys a lower place in society‚ it is the language of hope and love‚ that inevitably conveys the movement of the characters to a high place in society. The Holocaust is the setting in the novels Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Cage by John Boyne and Ruth Minsky Sender‚ these authors use the language of fear to show the characters’

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    communicates the contemporary fears of modern society through character groups perspectives and the society’s damaged values and morals present in the novel. An example of fear present throughout the novel is the loss of value and dignity. This is portrayed through the elderly and their part-taking in a "voluntary" mass suicide known as the quietus. Additionally‚ the fear of terrorism is made apparent through the Omegas and their violent behaviours. Alternatively‚ the fear of having purpose is represented

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    Torture and fear in the handmaid’s tale. torture noun 1. 1. the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something‚ or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. The handmaids tale is a novel by Margaret Atwood‚ It describes the life of a woman who is documenting her life as it goes on‚ As the book progresses we are able to see the amount of torture (physical and mental) that the woman of Gilead receive. Offred and other

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    October 5‚ 2012 The Great Fear of France 1989 In 1989‚ a great horror struck France that would come to play a major part in the French Revolution. The peasants in the rural areas in France became very frightened and armed themselves in response to many rumors of plots. Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring‚ and the grain supplies were now guarded by local militias due to rumors that bands of armed men were roaming the countryside. In some areas

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    Topic: I am afraid of Speaking English 1. Why I fear speaking English? I have a fear talk because I find it hard to think of English when communicating an idea. Fear that my pronunciation is not correct and transmit incorrect information or idea and thus cause the receiver to obtain a bad interpretation of the message. 2. As I can achieve any fear of the English? Is that putting the language into practice ‚ whether with exercises or means ‚ such as exposing me to hear or be with people

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