says “If you motivate people by fear‚ they will do just enough to get by and not get fired. This is the saddest of all motivational factors. Fear of rejection‚ fear of loss of respect‚ loss of money and country club status. It’s related to the above motivations‚ but from a different perspective. People who are motivated by fear are motivated from a position of having made it and are afraid of losing it. Its real difference is in its motivational power. Fear can be a strong motivator. . It’s
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Phobia comes from the Greek word ‘phóbos’ meaning morbid fear (wikipedia). But what exactly is a phobia? The direct denotation of a phobia is “a persistent‚ irrational fear of a specific object‚ activity‚ or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it” (dictionary). A phobia falls under the category of an anxiety disorder. An anxiety disorder is often “a harmful chronic condition‚ which can be present from an early age or begin suddenly after a triggering event. They are prone to flare
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Fear Fear is a common human emotion that everybody experiences at least once in their life. Fear works like an instinct and can actually be helpful because it gives signal that you should be careful and alert. However‚ humans respond to fear with different types of physical signs such as sweating‚ shaking‚ and increased heartbeat. I have felt this emotion multiple times when I was in my public speaking class as a sophomore. In the book Native Son fear controls one of the characters and it leads
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Jennifer Haynes Anthony Priest English 210 September 26‚ 2012 Fear is a powerful and psychological entity. Fear can make us rise to an occasion or crumble under its mighty psychosis. Fear can arise anywhere. It can come from the known and unknown. Fear can show the strong they are weak and it can show the weak they are strong. A person can learn from fear‚ as I have learned from being afraid. The first day attending a new school is scary to most young children. They know no one and usually
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you should fear is fear itself.” Well‚ that and many other things. I found myself itinerating around the campus of Niagara County Community College on March 14th‚ 2016 curious how realistic fears play a part in our daily life. Let me make this clear‚ it was very difficult discovering what type of questions to ask and how one would portray them. The questions I asked were: “What comes to your mind when you hear the word fear‚ What’s your most realistic fear‚ One word to describe this fear‚ and how this
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The Construction of Fear Barry Glassner gives several different constructions on how we can transform‚ exaggerate‚ and invent fears. Fear is defined as a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by present or imminent danger. But Barry Glassner defines it as constructed through efforts to protect against it. Society as a whole uses fear to profit financially‚ politically‚ or media driven by journalist. These three profits show how transforming‚ exaggerating‚ and inventing fear has shaped society
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The Epiphany of Fear It is only human nature to succumb to and delve into the knowledge of the unknown or of foreign threats towards ones safety. It is this prime example of mass illusion that overtook the U.S. in the late 1940’s to early 1950’s with the panic induced by the Red Scare just as centuries before innocents were hung upon the gallows of Salem by those who let fear guide their actions. In response to this plague that was overtaking the U.S. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller was
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manifests in two broad topics named mind and reason. Within the mind‚ the mental aspects of the pattern of destruction include fear‚ hatred‚ the belief that one is superior to another‚ lack of control‚ and self-destructive patterns. Within the reason category‚ there are the physical aspects of personal gain‚ and the rise and quest for power. Two great philosophers‚ Machiavelli and Francis Bacon‚ write of the destruction through man. Machiavelli’s writing of “The Qualities of the Prince‚” and Bacon’s
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believe that everyone has common fears‚ such as: spiders‚ snakes‚ water‚ clowns‚ the night‚ dying‚ etcetera. Those are the fears that people openly talk about and share. But then there are deeper fears. The ones that we keep hidden in the deepest crevices of our minds. It’s these same fears that drive us; either to better ourselves or off a cliff. It could go either way. I suffer from the phobia atychiphobia; which according to the medical dictionary‚ it is the fear of failing. When I get overwhelmed
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Introduction Fear of Crime in members of our society today has been widely researched. For the purpose of this essay‚ fear of crime is used in the context of an individual’s perceived risk of becoming a victim of crime. In this essay it is argued that the elderly and the youngest members of our society are the most fearful of crime and that‚ of these age groups the elderly have the lowest risk of becoming victims of crime. Firstly‚ research shows that fear of crime is wide spread and that certain
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