“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 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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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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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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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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Everyone have fears in life. No man in this world can easily just say that they have nothing to be afraid of. Fear is a basic part of human nature‚ of even life itself for all creatures. We are not born with fear‚ though. It is something we learn very quickly. Fear is a safety mechanism to keep us from putting ourselves in danger‚ from causing ourselves pain. And I am sure after you have graduated highschool‚ you are hesitant‚ nervous‚ or you have so many thoughts about the idea of becoming a college
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Fear can occur when a person has a feeling of threat or danger and sometimes harm or anxiety for oneself or another. Fear can often influence a person to take extreme measures and act irrationally. For instance there are a number of parallels between the treatment of of the accused during Salem Witch Trials and the treatment of Muslims after 9/11 ; In both cases people were being belittled and downgrading‚ and society was in a state of grief and shock and it all resulted in discrimination of the
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for the person who dies (and this is so because death deprives that person of the goods of life). However‚ Kagan denies that death is not bad. It is reasonable or appropriate for people to fear death. Kagan claims that only if people have three conditions. The first is the object of fear is bad. People are fear of death because of the badness of death. Death is defined as a bad thing because if people died‚ all things will not exist. If a person does afraid of one thing‚ the thing must be bad. Put
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Fear and Foresight Fear is “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger” (Webster‘s dictionary). Fear is also the best way to disrupt one’s foresight creating corrupted decisions. To achieve this level of understanding‚ so that one’s decisions will be made effectively‚ one must understand him or herself well enough to be able to cut out the emotion and think rationally. Recalling experiences from the holocaust Fear tended to come when there was no hope or faith in the novel Night‚ by award
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In The Crucible‚ the author displays the power that fear and suspicion have over people through the divine will of the main characters as it spreads throughout the community. During act three of The Crucible‚ Mary Warren was taken in front of the court to confess the lies and suspicion that the young girls were spreading throughout the town. While trying to confess‚ Mary was pressured into irrational fear of being convicted of being a witch‚ because of this Mary turned against Mr.Proctor‚ accusing
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