In The Spotlight From Stuff That Scare Your Pants Off ! By Glenn Murphy

Public speaking is the number one fear in the world, which shows that the number one fear is really a deep fear of rejection from the connection of others. The narrator in “Typical First Year Professor”, who had a fantastic education and experience, has public speaking issues. She explains how her fear physically affects her in, “Ten minutes before my first class, I run to the bathroom and vomit. I’m afraid of public speaking, which

The quote "Character is what you are in the dark" - Dwight Lyman Moody has a few meanings. Mostly it means that you're different when you're alone. When you're around people they are influences of some sort. If you get into a situation when you're with people you might react differently than if you were alone, resulting in a different outcome. A lot of the time people aren't their true self around friends, or family, or whoever it may be for many reasons. A big reason is they don't want to be judged. Maybe they wanna look "cool" or get popular for something. Maybe they think they'll be looked at differently for being who they truly are. So basically fear of what others think keeps us from being who we really are. Fear can make us act different,

In the poem “Fear and Fame by Philip Levine, readers gain insight into the struggles of a blue collar worker. The intimate description of the worker highlights the dangerous and monotonous work he performed but also accentuates the pride of the blue collar worker. Levine’s use of meter and rhythm, irony, figurative language, and tone provide an understanding of the difficulties faced by blue collar workers.

Even I have a fear to this day, of public speaking. I was so paranoid about it that I was always fixated on when I would have to speak, or how to avoid it. A great example of fears is the short story The Elevator by William Sleator. Sleator’s story is about a scrawny, timid, and anxious twelve year old boy named Martin, and newfound fears of the elevator, the fat lady, and an old fear of his father. Sleator magnificently illustrates Martin’s claustrophobia of the elevator, the intimidation of his father, and his paranoia of the fat lady.

The idea of fear is a fairly simple concept, yet it carries the power to consume and control lives. Fears have stemmed from an inadvertent psychological response to situations deemed threating to one’s personal safety, but have evolved into a complex web of often illogical misconceptions which are able to cloud a person’s judgment and result in situations often worse than originally intended. Fears can be hard to quell, but it has been shown the best way to overcome fears is often to face them, as author James Baldwin asserted when he wrote, “To defend oneself against fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.” Baldwin makes strongly qualified statement, and his idea fears must be faced to

people are willing to embrace the monster or freak label, even in order to humanize

Eleanor Roosevelt explained that we grow as people through experiences where we choose to face our fears. Similar concepts are also shown throughout a 2 stories within the articles "What are you afraid of?" and "Conquering Fear" both by Matthew Hutson. They both tell stories about people who decided that they were no longer going to let their fears prevail, and how they went about overcoming them. There are many articles about people with common fears such as the fear of clowns, or snakes or spiders but Matthew Hutson tells the story about a 12 year old boy named Kyle who suffered from masklophobia, also known as a fear of mascots. Kyle recalls interactions with characters that made sweat poor down his face and his heart rate rapidly increase.

Fast forward to the Colonial Period where blacks are now being treated worst than ever before. The white men completely consider blacks less than them and should not be treated as human beings. In the first paragraph of his appeal, David Walker presents what he has viewed through his travels. He states "Coloured people of these Unites States are the most degraded, wretched, and abject set of beings that ever lives since the world began". The fact that Walker used this words to express the treatment of blacks shows how truly horrible it was. Walker then inputs his personal opinion on whites and states "Whites are unjust, jealous, unmerciful, avaricious, and bloodthirsty". This had a huge effect because it was one of the first times a black person

Susan Jeffers, Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway, Vermilion, 4 Jan. 2007, says that,how to stop being afraid of, well, being afraid. Instead, you can use your fear to your advantage an ability

It goes without saying, that fear is inevitable and holds people back from doing great things in life. Moreover, sometimes people want so much to be successful, but they don't know how to overcome fear and being scared that stops them from achieving greatness. However, while there's no denying the fact that you cannot stop being afraid, you can take a number of measures for properly planning for fear. Besides, in addition to the fact that fear motivates you, it is also common to progress.

While Gleb Tsipursky produces some valuable tips on how one could conquer fear of public speaking, the author does not show full evidence that proves her tips to truly be reliable. A couple times is mentioned the phrase “research shows,” however that exact research is never disclosed to the audience nor cited or mentioned later. The passage certainly gives some sound advice about how to overcome “glossophobia,” as I have used techniques similar to these to overcome my own speech fears, but because the author doesn’t fully support her tips and reasonings behind each one, they lose their credibility. In the passage discussing the benefits of positivity as a way to

Fear, what is fear, fear is the thing that keeps one up at night wondering if the boogeyman is in one’s closet. Fear is what makes one not want to do something, and for me that something is speaking in front of others. I am not sure when my fear of speaking in front of other people started, but I am sure that I know why. I believe fear for me is speaking in front of others because I am afraid of what people might think of my presentation or what they might think of me. This really hit me hard in seventh grade at Central Lutheran School when I did a presentation that went horribly wrong.

Everyone in the world has a fear that they might never go away. These fears can vary from sizes, like afraid of animals, the dark, monsters, and even more. But some people actually conquer their fears, like a man named Mark Twain. In a speech called “Stage Fright” by Mark Twain, Twain is afraid of talking in front of an audience, but that soon vanished, and went away. In this speech, the author explains his fear, and how he felt and experienced it.

I first want to start off by saying thank you for giving this extra credit assignment, not only because it’s going to improve my grade but also because it helped me realize that there is a way that I can conquer my fears especially when it comes to talking to girl I don’t know that I like or think is cute. This podcast also talked about other fear like parents being afraid of leaving their kids by themselves and the great fear of snake that many people have. Fear is commonly know  an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. The main topic of the podcast had to be what would happen if we could make our fear disappear?

I used the search engine Google with the search term “public speaking fear” and it brought up a great deal of interesting websites pertaining to public speaking. The first one I decided to peruse was 5 Tips to Reduce the Fear of Public Speaking on Psychology Today’s website. I learned that public speaking is the number one fear in America, while the fear of death is second in line. This means that we’re more afraid of speaking in public than we are of dying. I also learned five tips on how to reduce public speaking nervousness.