Five Basic Fears We All Live By Analysis

Fear: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat(Websters Dictionary).Fear is something that our lives have adapted to rarely use as our ancient predecessors have.In our day and age the concept of fear comes through the stress of work. We humans no longer fear a cold nor do we fear storms as our houses protect us and on average our life spans are longer as old in the Paleolithic was 33 while currently it is 71.5(Wikipedia Life Expectancy). Why then is our fear so extensive that it can make us freeze up? “The answer is our legacy of ancient fears, the result of having spent millions of years running from predators. Our fear response is more influenced by the ancient species we struggled to escape than any modern challenges.”(The evolutionary legacy of having been prey.By Rob Dunn) This is one of the statements about human life. If this is so how do we develop from terror to finding fear fun?

Universal human phobia is close interpersonal violence that a person experiences throughout their life. This phobia is not brought upon by mother nature, but by the actions of another human being. In the book, the authors explained how people were not angry if a tornado sent them to the hospital and destroyed their house. Yet when a gang beats them and destroys their house, it’s personal and the victims are angry. The actions of others that causes people to be scared is the concept of universal human phobia.

No one should ever have enough power to cause innocent people distress over how they carry themselves in everyday life. McCarthy a man who gained power by using the vulnerability of American Citizen in 1917 - 1920 influenced them that communism was unacceptable and made it so that anyone who was accused was punished. The New York Times journalist, Sam Roberts, in the article, “A Decade of Fear” published in 2010 addresses the topic of the Red Scare and attributes that McCarthyism used to turn Americans against each other after WWII by stating that America was infiltrated by communists. The text mentioned that, “thousands of alleged Communists in the U.S. were arrested and deported during what became known as the

Which school has been targeted today? Should I help my child put on a bulletproof vest? Almost every day when we turn on the TV, there is a news about shooting. We are glued to the TV screen, feeling like living the extremely dangerous era. However, Barry Glassner, sociologist, claims that our sense of fear has been exaggerated intentionally, and we have remained enormously fearful for questionable dangers. Glassner’s book The Culture of Fear discloses that journalists, politicians and organizations handle our sense of fear to grab our attention and profit from our anxiety, giving actual cases. Glassner showcases crimes in the news that hid facts behind fictional things, that employed temporary crimes to avoid reporting existent crimes, and that were reported in the way

During WWII, McCarthyism turned many Americans against each other by instigating fear and derangement among individuals because they believed that they were Communist or knew about someone who was. In the article, “A Decade of Fear” written by Sam Robert, explains how McCarthyism turned Americans against each other by installing paranoia with Soviet threats and commission. Robert depicts, “As if air raid wasn’t enough to worry about, anybody, it seemed, could be a spy seeking to undermine American Values by infiltrating civic institutions and the government from local school boards to the White House itself.” (paragraph 8) Additionally, Roberts states, “Critics said McCarthy was stoking fear and smearing anyone in his path” In other words,

Sam Roberts article, “A Decade of Fear” explains how McCarthyism turned Americans against each other because thousands of Americans were accused of being communists or supporting communists. Some leading targets that were very suspicious were educators and people working for the government. Individuals lost their jobs and were often sent to imprisonment. Sam Roberts stated, “ ..thousands of alleged Communists in the U.S. were arrested and deported during what became known as the Red Scare.” The Red Scare become the scandal during the first World War but by the end of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled most of Eastern Europe and installed Communist puppet regimes in countries like Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany.

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.

He explores such questions as: Why do we have so many fears these days? Are we living in exceptionally dangerous times? What he uncovers is that it is our perception of danger than has increased, not our actual level of risk. There are people and organizations in America that actually profit from these fears and so they create them, but there are prices we pay for social panics, including money that is wasted on unnecessary programs and products as well as time and energy spent worrying about these

Dr. R.W. Rogers created the Protection Motivation Theory in 1975. He proposed this theory to explain the effects of fear and how they can affect behavior. Rogers explained that fear initiates a cognitive process where the person takes into account a threat appraisal and a response appraisal which results in an adaptive or maladaptive behavior. Much of his work was based on Richard Lazarus and Howard Leventhal’s work on how people cope with fear. Their work focused on fear reaction divided into two processes: danger control (threat appraisal) derived from environmental cues and fear control (coping appraisal) an internal process. Rogers created the first three constructs of PMT based on environmental cues. They are referred to as threat

Barry Glassner in The Culture of Fear describes two societies and explains the key differences between each; the society captured by media coverage, insane statistics, and perpetual horror, and the reality that America would go both deaf and blind to were it not for an occasional voice through the darkness. Glassner maintains that we live in a society where fear mongering is abundant, if not rampant, and the media and government shape the views we have. Dangers are amplified, statistics are told completely out of context, and the audience’s attention is shifted from major issues. If that were not problematic enough itself, through outcry and emotional claims, even pure scientific truth can be quieted through the power of the media. Glassner

Anatidaephobia is the fear of a duck watching you at all times. Yeah it’s a weird one but, it's real, too real for people that suffer from it. It could mess up your life. For example, you could never go to a farm because you will be too scared. Some people can’t even leave their house, because they think a duck is watching them.

The book that inspired this piece focused on worry. One of the worries mentioned in the book is imagined fears, sometimes people worry about things that aren't real threats. It’s all in their head. My project focused on the idea of imagined fears. I made a hollow human head that has a bowl inside of it. One can write down their imagined fears down on paper and put them there so the fears are in someone else's head instead of their own. There is no way to face imagined fears except to realize they are not real, the head can serve as a process for taking those fears out of your head and realizing they are not real. The head can also serve as an altar. Imagined fears are the strongest fears people have because there is no way to face them except

The symptoms of a panic attack are usually so intense they are often described by sufferers as the worst experience of their lives. After having a panic attack, the individual may continue to experience extreme anxiety for several hours. More often than not, the panic episode causes continuous worry about having another attack. It is not unusual to be become so consumed with worry and fear that behavioral changes occur with the hope of avoiding another attack. This may lead to the development of agoraphobia, which complicates recovery and limits one’s ability to function in usual daily activities.

In fact, I found the concept fascinating when taken out of the context in the novel. I found the thought of casual everyday masks that are used every single day. My theater teacher used to say that acting is used everyday of our lives; every little white lie, everytime we try to fit in, every time we act proper in front of the queen. Let's start with the definition of a mask: something that serves to conceal or mask. So, what sorts of mask do poeple hide behind today do free themselves: mentally and physically? Alcohol that is used to inhibit ones self to have a good time, clothing to blend into the crowd to feel accepted, a bullies group of 'friends', the fame of celbrities, even the behavior of lying about how you liked a certain movie all your friends liked but you hated; these are all sorts of masks that people will hide behind in order to feel safe, socially accepted, or powerful. Most of the time people have to take what they are given at face value, but one has to keep their eyes open. There are plenty of terrifying people who would love to hurt you if you gave them the chance that put on masks of their

Charlie Rose’s the “Fear and Anxiety” is yet another interesting video in his brain series. This video aimed to examine emotion especially negative emotion such as fear and anxiety.Some of its objectives were to discuss how the brain’s fear circuitry goes awry in various disorders and discuss several potential therapies that could one day offer hope for anxiety disorders such a potential cure for PTSD.