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    Donner 12-3-12 Fear Ralph Waldo Emerson once said “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” This means that most people don’t conquer their fears‚ but rather let their fears conquer them. It is important for people to accept fate and move on to face and conquer their fears. Fear is a part of everyone’s lives‚ and fear can exist for any totally diverse reasons. Such as‚ the fear of death‚ or something more miniscule such as the fear of heights‚ or the fear of the dark. These

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    Fear As the instructor put me in that choke hold on my second to last day of swim instruction I knew I broke the one rule I tried so hard not to. “Get the hell out of my pool” he yelled. I dangled there in the middle of the pool wondering how this man could hold me in a chokehold while keeping both of us afloat. “You weak bitch‚ get the fuck out of my pool”. As those words echoed through the empty olympic sized pool room I was let go‚ left to reach the side of the deep end under my own power

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    I have never been a fan of the phrase “You couldn’t understand”-especially when it was directed at me. As a young girl‚ I loved asking questions‚ as many kids do‚ until the dreaded words were said to me directly. “What makes someone gay?” I asked my Mom. I had heard the word tossed around before‚ but I wasn’t quite sure what it meant. “Where did you hear that! Don’t ask me that again. You couldn’t understand.” After that‚ I never asked many questions. I had this idea that I would figure most

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    Fear is one of the leading reasons that influence people’s decision making in life. The dictionary defines fear as‚ “A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger”. This feeling‚ present in everyone’s life at some point‚ is more influential than one might think. Everywhere in the world today people live in fear‚ whether it is terrorism‚ robbery or something as simple as criticism‚ this feeling of fear causes people to do unusual things. In Arthur Miller’s play‚

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    messages were copied to tapes‚ each side of the tape was directed towards one specific person in which caused one of the reasons. The tapes went in order‚ from the beginning of Hannah’s problems‚ to the end. Hannah mailed the tapes to the first person the day she ended her life. Afterwards that person was asked to mail the set of tapes to the person mentioned on the second tape (or other side)‚ and so on and so on. Many people have many different outlooks on what this book teaches us‚ or what this book is

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    I fear dying this way.. The metropolitan city Karachi has descended into a state of fear. The unstoppable violence‚ crimes‚ robberies‚ target killings‚ suicide bomb blasts‚ kidnapping for ransom‚ riots‚ sectarian and ethnic killings‚ and abhorrent terrorism have made the city of lights‚ the capital of terror and constant fear. There is hardly any crime that is not prevalent in Karachi. The prospect of dying is frightening the innocent citizens. Threat‚ sacrifices‚ terror‚ agony and frustration

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    Vaughn Eric Treppa What is fear? Heights? Bugs? The dark? Are you fearful of the water? That all may be‚ but I’m talking about the fear that really means something to you‚ that one thing that you couldn’t imagine happening in your life. Many people are fearful of death; but I think that the person is not fearful of death itself. No‚ I believe that people are fearful of dying before they complete something that they have been attempting to complete their whole life. In a sense‚ people are scared

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    Everyone has fears; fears are a natural part of life. My greatest fear is to fail to reach my goals‚ lose hope‚ and finally that everybody might think I am a loser. Sometimes I dream of success. Yet failing in life can’t be replaced with dreams. So if I put a lot of effort and work into something and I fail‚ I’d feel very bad about myself and my lack of ability. This is one of my greatest fears. Being a failure would cause me to lose hope. First of all‚ I would lose my self-confidence and self-respect

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    other things. Every time Halloween came around I get this feeling where people would get killed going to others houses for candy or to the haunted house. Because many have died from these type of situations. That’s what scared me the most I have a fear of dying which a lot of people do. It’s the biggest thing that anyone would want to go through. I’ve had dreams about what might happen if I die like how would it feel or the position I’ll be in. It’s very depressing when you have to sit up and think

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    mentally wrong with the people who did it. You don’t just wake up on a sunny day and say hey let’s go shoot up a school. I would say it takes at least a year of planning to plan something of that size. Many times before the actual day of “judgement day” as they called it dylan and eric would be caught stealing and having dangerous weapons by police‚ teachers‚ and their own parents. I really don’t know how much trouble someone has to get into before they figure out that they are not going to change

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