The Allure of Fear

The allure of fear is interesting for some people for several reasons. These people have another perspective of how they react when they see something scary or read it. They don’t react the same way as other people that don’t like scary things. Other people like to be scared. Some people motivate others by saying to them they are not so scary and everything that is happening there is not real, since they use fiction elements, like characters, details and scenarios. These scary elements have real details but also have scenarios that are not real, this means it is magical realism. This thought of liking scary things is a physiological problem. Scientist make an article showing proof that there is a big pole of people that like scary scenarios.

Fear is a chemical chain reaction in the brain. It is in the part of the brain that allows us to communicate and to speak with other people ("Layton, Julia"). The idea is an autonomic response in the brain with many parts of the brain involved. Fear starts with a scary stimulus and ends with a fight or flight response telling the human to fight back or run away. It starts with two processes the quick and messy way, and the clear and slow way ("Layton, Julia"). The quick way is when you are panicking and out of breath and the clear way takes a while and is when you calm down and realize it was nothing. Both of the processes happen simultaneously ("Layton, Julia"). The brain uses your blood stream and nervous system to create fear. When your muscles tighten and your heart races, you are probably in a state of fear. Without fear you would walk into traffic or pick up poisonous snakes. Fear saves our lives ("Layton,

Sam Robert in the article “A decade of fear” argues that Mccarthyism turned Americans against each other. Robert supports his claim by illustrating fear, describing betrayal, and comparing it to other US internal conflicts. The author's purpose is to point out a vulnerable point in American history in order to demonstrate how Americans fell prey to Mccarthy’s propaganda. The author writes in a direct and cynical tone for an educated audience. I Strongly agree with Rogers. Mccarthyism caused Americans to turn on each other because it sparked and strengthened the fear of there being communist spies in the government. As well as inciting Americans to hunt and expose communists or anyone they thought to be communist and plunging Americans into a mass hysteria.

In which school the shooting incident happened today? Should I help my child put on a bulletproof vest? Everyday miserable news are reported whenever we turn on TV. The news glue us to the TV screen and give us a sense of uneasiness. We feel living the extremely dangerous era.

“The Gift Of Fear,” a psychology book written by Gavin De Becker, is an extremely useful and informative read. It gives valuable advice about how to act upon human intuition, how to recognize threats, and defines what real fear is and it’s purpose. I found the book to be extremely interesting. This book provided me with a sense of understanding on violence and fear and I feel much better prepared when it comes to recognizing dangerous situations.

To start of the novel Fear, by Gabriel Chevallier, Jean Dartemont is in France observing all the civilians celebrate the start of the new war. He criticizes their behavior and strongly disapproves, however, he admits a curiosity in him that convinces him to volunteer for the war for it will be a ‘remarkable spectacle.” After being approved to go to war, Dartemont heads to a training camp. There he becomes a private after failing to become an officer. Here he commands a group, but realized he finds the maintenance of soldiers to be tedious and useless work. Already he becomes quite eager to arrive at the front lines, which soon happens.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (FDR). President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said this during his inaugural address to the American people. He said this during the Great Depression, which was a dismal time in America’s history. People were poor, hungry, and most of all afraid. During that dark time some people acted on their fears, and these people committed heinous acts they never would commit if they were not afraid.

Fear to me is a fascinating emotion. People take it as a negative, but to me it's there for basic survival. Fear can also make people bond. After 9/11, the whole country was in fear. Yet, for the first time I can remember, the whole country was a united one.

The former causes us to pull away from a harmful condition, protects a damaged part as it heals, reminds us of the damage so that we continue to take care of it, and helps to keep us away from such experiences. Fear on the other hand causes us to look for safety and triggers our brain's hypothalamus that causes adrenaline to get injected into the blood, increasing the heart rate, sending more blood into our muscles and heightening our senses. When confronted with danger, we either stands up to the aggression or run away. This fight-or-flight response mechanism, a term created about a hundred years back by a Harvard University physiologist, is thanks to our earliest ancestors who faced such situations on a near daily

The purpose of the study done by Brunton-Smith (2011) was to find a causal relationship between fear and disorder. The author wanted to test three hypotheses: “there’s a positive correlation between prior perceptions of disorder and current levels of fear, there’s a positive correlation between prior levels of fear and current perceptions of disorder, and fear of crime and perceptions of disorder are co-determined by external influences” (Brunton-Smith, 2011, 889). This study used data from a longitudinal research design. There are three different types of longitudinal research designs, and Brunton-Smith (2011) utilized data from a panel longitudinal research design. A panel longitudinal research design looks at the same group of people over

“Fears are stories we tell ourselves,” ~Unknown. It was a peaceful, sunny afternoon during the weekend, when I was on my way to my friend’s house. During the time there had been a rumor going around that people were dressing up as extremely creepy clowns and petrifying nearby people. When I found out the news I felt a shiver going up my spine and I could see others around me feeling the same way at the thought of clowns coming to Scarborough, Maine and scaring us. I already hadn’t liked clowns one bit and this story only made me more afraid of them. Earlier, people in my school were talking about the clown mishaps and were wondering if they were coming to Scarborough. Soon after some of my teachers were even starting to get anxious. There had been news reports so everyone knew it was true, clowns were popping up everywhere.

Fear is a powerful motivator. Fear has driven nations and men to make destructive decisions. From burning suspected witches during the Salem witch trials, to the fear of slave revolts such as the Nat Turner rebellion and the persecution of Japanese immigrants in the US following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Fear has for many decades been a driving force in American society. Following this trend, there is no surprise that the USA Patriot Act would be passed. Aristotle felt that great men and women are the ones who overcome fear's effects, and not allow themselves to be consumed. After the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, America’s fear of terrorism was at an all-time high. Specifically, radical Islamic terrorist were the primary source

Society reflects who we are as people. It reflects how we feel, act, and deal with our problems as a nation. I believe we have failed in society by spreading the ideas of hate and fear. These ideas have led to police brutality, the Black Lives Matter campaign, and segregation.

Fear, one of the most potent emotions that exists, is seen every where in the world and in history. Even in today's society, fear is pretty much everywhere, it runs through the blood of Americans due to terrorism, leaders use fear to lead, and _________________ .

Fear can create an instinctual response to perceived danger. A good example is of the time my husband and I were alone on a long hike in the jungles of Belize and came upon a fer-de-lance snake that would most likely have killed us with its bite. Without any time passing, my instinct of fight or flight emerged and I pushed my husband out of the way, telling him to run as I did. Also, in an instinctual state of fear, someone can perform tasks they did not think were possible such as being able to lift a