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    Innate Fear

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    From where do our innate fears come from? EVOLUTION: Innate Fears: Innate fears are fears we have from birth When geese are hatched in a hatchery they are set aside in a cage and have a cardboard cutout of a goose flown over them‚ they then reach out chirping and begging for food but when flown backwards the mother goose now resembles a hungry falcon‚ the geese then try to hide and stop chirping‚ Humans‚ how you scream at a spider did our ancestors run from an arachnid that was twenty times

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    Machiavelli And Fear

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    considered merciful‚ though he should be careful not to mismanage this clemency of his. Machiavelli point out how Cesare Borgia was cruel‚ yet he was able to provide peace and order to the Romagna. Therefore‚ no prince should mind being called cruel for what he does to keep his subjects united and loyal. Machiavelli believes that a prince should make examples of punishing a few‚ by creating some fear to his subject that will prevent disorder‚ which is better than having entire community unrest. And it would

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    Fear In Macbeth

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    concern and fear for the future of Macbeth’s country. Neither of these noble men trust Macbeth after the transgressions

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    The Taurus Myth

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    The Taurus myth is most often interpreted as the story of Zeus and Europa‚ where the Greek god carried the Phoenician princess away to Crete to marry her by disguising himself as a white bull. Then I guess the bull‚ that was really Zeus‚ became the Taurus constellation‚ but not really‚ because now the bull and Zeus are different. The Scriptures of Delphi give us another possible explanation of the Taurus constellation‚ one that I find a bit more satisfying. According to the alternate myth‚ the mythology

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    Live in Myths

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    This essay Live in Myths by Ellen Goodman is about the tendency of people to live in their own myths. Myths in this context symbolize image or illusions. The wife thinks that her husband is not cranky but the fact is her husband really cranky. The wife believes that her husband is very understanding‚ generous‚ and deep downs but the fact her husband not really like that. She built her husbands image by herself‚ she wants her husband to be like this or like that. This essay describe about human nature

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    Urban Legend Essay

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    According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ an urban legend is “an often lurid story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true.” Urban legends tend to have minimal evidence of where the story originally began making them seem more mysterious and eerie. With this being said a legends background can be assumed to be linked with a multitude of instances. This‚ of course‚ what makes it an urban legend. If a urban legend does not contain a some sort of mystery then it would

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    villain from the latest slasher movie? From your ignorance‚ fear is born. The next thing you know‚ you and your friend are sprinting through the crisp grass‚ into the safety of your kitchen‚ and the prior plans of camping out are thwarted. If you had only known there was just a cricket outside your tent‚ or understood the sounds that fill the night‚ your problems would have floated away in the misty night air. It is human nature to fear what one does not understand. When people do not understand

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    How Eden Lost Its Garden Chapter two of Ecology of Fear is titled “How Eden Lost Its Garden”‚ and discusses the various social and political reasons behind drastic changes to the landscape of Los Angeles during the twentieth century. The first section‚ called “The Underproduction of Public Space”‚ begins by discussing the belief in the 1930’s that there was a severe lack of public parks‚ amounts that did not meet tourists’ expectations for when they came to Southern California. Population and

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    Urban ecosystem and Ecopolis Lai Wei March 29‚ 2012 Introduction When people talk about the city‚ the first thing they thought is the building and the traffic. It’s hard to connect city to the ecological and the environment. But as the humanity is rapidly urbanizing‚ by 2010‚ more than 50% of the world population is expected to live in the city. (The World Bank‚ 2010) Cities can be tremendously efficient. It can easier to provide water and sanitation for a large number of people living

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    Fear and Phobias

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    Fear And Phobias What is your greatest fear? Do you know the answer? A lot of people don’t. We just know that we sometimes feel fear and most people don’t like it. Sometimes‚ people like the feeling of fear. Have you ever heard the term "adrenaline junkie"? That’s those people that like fear. In this article‚ I will tell you everything you need to know about fear and phobias. Fear The Origin and Reasons of Fear The sensation of fear is related to 2 parts of the brain‚ the prefrontal cortex

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