Personal Narrative Essay: The Pulse Night Club

Everybody has a different perspective on fear and everybody is affected differently. The Mental Health Foundation stated that, “Fear can last for a short time and then pass but it can also last much longer and stay with us. In some cases it can take over our lives, affecting appetite, sleep, and concentration for long periods of time. Fear stops us from travelling, going to work or school, or even leaving the house.” This quote shows that fear does not affect people as much as it does to others. Although, fear can affect people for a long time which can cause them to stay isolated from others. There are many types of fears and some examples of fears include: the fear of the number 13, the fear of spiders, the fear of heights, and many others. There are hundreds of fears and many people have these fears and everybody is affected differently.

Fear is one of the oldest,strongest, most uncontrollable and an unavoidable feelings. It can: make you sweat, make you cry, shake or even lose your appetite for food. It can also cause people to do stupid things that they never would do in ordinary circumstances. This can be seen in many different aspects of life. One place it can be seen is literature. It can also be seen in movies and t.v. The last place fear is shown is real life.

Everybody has fears; whether they'd like to admit to them or not. To each is own on why they won't admit to them but to me everybody in their right mind as at least one fear. Fear is such an unpleasant emotion that is all caused by something or someone that can be some type of danger to you or if you nothing about it’s capability. People can be afraid of anything, the most common fears are Death, for the unknown of what comes after you die or the unknown of how you're going to die and Heights because

Fear is a worldwide, fundamental problem. Everyone has it, just maybe different levels than others. There are some people who can repress it more than others, or can be more afraid of different things. Fear is what drives us to do certain things. For example failure, we’re afraid to fail. We have an instinct because we are afraid to die, or afraid to get hurt, or afraid someone we love might get hurt. So fear can drive us to save the people we love, if they are close to dying, even if saving them could kill us as well. We can be afraid of failure in life so we keep going and keep pushing through the work. But there is the down side to fear, just as everything else. Fear can make us back down from a situation that could be good for us because we could be afraid of the unknown, which, in that situation, we would not want the fear with us. In Cry, the Beloved Country there’s this quote, “and now the fear is back again, the fear of the unknown,” (pg.44) and the first thing that popped into my head when I read that quote was, “when did the fear ever leave?” Because the thing is there is always fear no matter how hard you try to push it to the back of your

Jody Dobrowski aged 24, was brutally murdered in South London in 2005 by two men who believed him to be homosexual. After such a severe, barbaric, inhumane act of homophobic violence, his own mother could not identify him, and his fingerprints had to be used. The judge described this as ‘homophobic thuggery’. Ian Baynham aged 62.Viciously assaulted by a young girl and boy; he punched him, whilst she repeatedly stamped and kicked him screaming ‘faggot’. His injuries were later fatal and he tragically died in hospital 18 days later. Christopher Schliach, Henry Bright, Jaap Bornkamp, Geoffrey Windsor, Daniel Jenkinson and a shocking many more, are all clear examples of hate crimes being metered out on gay men. Homophobia does kill, and isn’t reducing in frequency.

As I buried my husband and looked down my street I saw people grieving, coughing, sores all over there bodies and purple-blue spots covering their arms. Mothers crying for help with their dead children hanging out of their arms, fathers dying off to quickly, and the worst part was knowing all your loved ones would drop eventually to the dancing death. I promised my self I will be strong enough and made a choice to stay inside my home to survive. I used to walk down to people laughing and kids playing. I would have conversations with my friends that I have known my whole life. Now I 'm scared to walk down the road, in fact I 'm scared to walk outside of my home.

Ever since i was a kid, my parents always told me to never steal anything and never do any piracy. That is one thing that I still and always will follow my entire life. When I was a kid, I stole a candy bar and my parents caught me. I got in big trouble. I had to My day was as normal as ever, after work I came home around 7 p.m. and i'm going to the bar now. I went to “Kevin’s Bar’ and bought myself a $20 drink. I had only $30 left before i was out of money. All the girls saw me buy that expensive drink for myself, seeing that I was at self-pity and they all repelled away from me. Those $30 extra dollars that I had was gone in 10 minutes of self-pity. I was starting to get really drowsy here and there being at the bar for hours and hours. I eventually approached the girls at the V.I.P. area, but they all ignored me and was being dragged away.I got drowsy again. The last thing I heard was screaming and arguing from the girls before the door closed . Something came into my hands before I was dragged away, but i don’t know what it is, anyway I didn't care as long as i got home. I called my wife to bring me home who was later that

I woke up feeling like someone had put weights on my eyelids, because I could barely keep them open. Last night I had stayed up late to plan every detail of what I am going to wear to the Rave, what I am going to do at the Rave at every second of the night long festival that is this weekend. Also every other thing that can be planned. I don’t even know who is going to be playing there. The only thing I know is that I am going to be the coolest person with the coolest group of people there.

I am sitting on the first booth table against the wall by the main entrance at Stella’s in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The smell of alcohol and sweat filled my nostrils as I breathe in the stuffy air. All around me are young people who are laughing a little too loudly, flirting with strangers, talking with friends, and playing video games while watching cartoons that are being played all around the bar. There are many people in this bar on a Saturday night at 11:35 pm. There are very little sitting and people coming in and out of various groups of people. Some of the people are losing their balance and attach to a friend or stranger to help them walk in a straight line. The women’s bathroom is packed with women and it is very little to none in

Many people do community service, in and out of school. However, many haven't had the event opportunities I've had in the past. For this reason I am grateful for being a member of Key Club. Through my Key Club experience I have been able to assist families who have had to dealt with cancer and abuse. In the month of October alone, I have been able to to attend two walks for cancer. The first walk I attended was the Annual Believe Walk, hosted at Redlands. Waking up at 4:30am and volunteering with such an amazing organization might have been one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had the pleasure to experience. The second was the Light the Night Leukemia and Lymphoma Walk, hosted at Fontana. Attending this walk was a different experience

The events that have participated in Key Club are the Socal Corgi Beach Day and the Clinton Corner Parent meeting for this month. I enjoy these two events because I learn how to become more outgoing and being collaborated with other people not only from my school but those that came to the same event. The Socal Corgi Beach Day was taken n Huntington beach, we had to set up the event, help out at other station. My job was to take of Mr. Pickles, a corgi dog, it was an easy job I asked people if they wanted a picture with him. Another event with the Clinton Corner parent meeting, I was only 5 minutes late because I have a college class. I asked permission to finish my work early and I had to do the quiz before I had to leave for the event.

My sexuality has never been a struggle for me. My sexuality however was not a minority. In fact I did not experience a classmate being openly Bi-Sexual until my Freshman year. I grew up in a private christian church and school. Homosexuality was just not something anyone had ever brought up to me. I was treated the same way from my teachers as the next student was. Yes I had my fair share of bullying but that was not due to the sexual orientation I identified

Many homophobes can trace their fear of homosexuality to their defensiveness about their own homosexual tendencies. This theory is one that has been around for some time, since Freud's time actually. Freud believed that heterosexual men who fear homosexual men do so because they defend against their own feelings for men( Goleman 3). Though old, this theory is still the diagnosis of many present homophobes. Many men are frightened by the thought that they mat have a gay neighbor, and this fear is shared by the children.

The definition of fear according to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary is “an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something will cause a threat or pain”. I grew up in a community riddled with gun violence. I had the choice to believe that I would not amount to anything. However, despite the fear of knowing that I may being killed by a criminal or law enforcement officer, I still took the chance to attend school. At one point, I was couch surfing with relatives in order to complete external exams. Now, with that experience and the fact that I am standing here is a testament

As a teenager and college student, I have to admit that I felt somewhat suspicious of people with a different lifestyles than myself. I think I felt threatened by people who identified themselves as gay or transgender. I was probably just afraid of difference that was unknown to me at the time. As I got older I came to realize that whatever people do in the privacy in