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    Fear is a chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with a release of chemicals.” (Layton‚ 2010) Fear is a response given out from the brain. The brain is part of the Central Nervous System. It has many different parts that work together to do day to day things‚ even when you sleep. Fear is an emotion that the brain signals out in case of any potential danger. (Serendip‚ 2002) There will be an outside stimulus that we are afraid of. Fear maybe different‚ but the

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    sometimes use this fear to their advantages. They would make us clean our rooms or do our homework‚ but if we did not‚ they tell us that the "boogieman" would come find us at night. The fear of the unknown is an excellent weapon to be used to gain ultimate power over others; many of us have experienced it‚ or even used it. In the Webster’s dictionary‚ it states that xenophobia is the "fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners". This fear and hatred acts as a weapon because people tend to fear what they

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    Discuss the Various Types of Fear present in the crucible In Arthur Miller’s‚ ‘The Crucible‚’ Miller has displayed a society based around fear. Miller has used the symbolic representation of Salem throughout the notorious ‘witchcraft trial’ period to highlight the notion of fear that led to extreme hysteria. Such hysteria engulfed the whole community into a group of individuals whose actions were motivated by fear of condemnation. This representation has allowed miller to express his views on

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    Imagine the most feared leader‚ everyone will be scared. Weather a great or terrible leader‚ it doesn’t matter how loveable a leader can be‚ some will hate them but if a leader is truly feared then everyone will fear them. Not everyone will love the most lovable leader but everyone will fear the most fearful leader. AAAA It is much better to feared rather than loved. This exactly what is too be learned from Source B. “It is much safer to be feared than loved.” Then the passage goes on to explain how

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    Universal Fear of Death

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    and Dying The Universal Fear of Death The Universal Fear of Death expands upon the ideas Elisabeth Kubler Ross and Ernest Becker regarding the psychology surrounding death‚ and the social constructs designed to mitigate its influence on our psyche. These ideas focus on different cultural perspectives surrounding the path to immortality/transcendence‚ how culture assists us to deal with our death angst (anxiety)‚ and in a dialectical way‚ bring about a question; “Is the fear of death universal?”

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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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