The Common Thread That Weave Violent Political Violence

Fear is a common human emotion, but the way some people react is different than others. Although, it is harder on some humans unlike other people. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,” Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” I think that means that fear harms more people than anything else does in the whole world. Also that people can scare themselves way easier than normal and it’s not healthy.

Fear is a feeling we’ve all felt before and it’s completely humane to feel that way from time to time. Mainly, people have great fears that interfere with their daily life and it becomes a problem. The issue with fears is

What is fear? Fear is a particular state of mind than can be originated from a realistic circumstance or a sense

What is fear? Fear is that pit in the back of your stomach, your anticipation to do something, overwhelming yourself for no reason or a nightmare you might have. Most of the time people blame their fear on other people. This is inaccurate; a person only controls there own fears. A person's brain can

Fear is a powerful human emotion. It can make you do things you wouldn’t normally do, like risk taking and bad choices. Fear can spike your adrenaline. For example if someone was to lift a car off a run over child, that would be caused by adrenaline, which is caused by fear. According to several studies done by physicians

Fear is something that large amounts of people have encountered at least once at some point in their lives. It has been said to have caused a variety of outcomes, many of them being largely negative. Therefore, it is a common human response to react to fear by counteracting it with positivity and/or success. The idea people have of what fear is depends on the person. In the article “How Fear Works”, for example, fear is defined as a “chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals” (Layton 1). The website “Psychology Today” defines fear another way, calling it “a vital response to physical and emotional danger” ("Fear Paranoia”). There are several other definitions people have on the

Fear is both beneficial and dangerous. Fear offers restraints and withholds irrational acts. It hones alertness and survival instincts, such as adrenaline. If one is stuck in an unknown dark alley, fear is the instinct that compels them to run or take action. Fear also causes confessions. Fear of punishment, for example, would make a naughty child confess. However, fear can also induce paranoia. Instead of running, the person becomes paralyzed. Even though fear dispels unreasonable behavior, it also can cloud rational thought if that fear becomes a wild obsession. If someone is always focused on one thing because of fear, they lose sight of reality and their obsession could have harmful consequences. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “the Pit and the

Most scholarly work concerning collective violence focus on three main roles: perpetrators, victims and bystanders (Mandel, 2002). A prominent question ordinarily asked, is what causes ordinary people to commit violence? This is an important question but equally important is how are instigators able to motivate these same people? Instigators are the ones who originate the ideas driving the violence. Put simply instigators are the leaders while perpetrators are the followers. Hitler put forth the idea that the Jews, were at the center of blame for Germany’s problems. Osama bin Laden instigated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks by attaching them to God’s will (Madel, 2002). “Instigators increase the propensity for collective violence and intentionally act to accelerate its pace and direct its focus once it has started” (Mandel,

Political Violence is violence outside of the state’s control. How the violence is created can develop from a variety of reasons. There are three main explanations for political violence. Institutional which is when the existing institutions may encourage violence or constrain human action, creating a violent backlash. Ideational when ideas may justify or promote the use of violence, and Individual when psychological or strategic factors may lead people to carry out violence. Throughout the world there are many examples of these incidents. Whether exhibited through revolution, terrorism, State-sponsored terrorism or guerrilla war, people act to get their goals achieved. In this essay I will explain how effective political violence is throughout

Fear is something every single human being has at some point in their life. When you are in dangerous, threatening, or scary situations, fear is what your body will feel. It is the ability to identify danger and make a choice to either confront that fear or flee from the situation like for example, if you were to break a vase, you would hide from your parents. That choice is completely up to the victim, and depends on the person. Although fear is handled differently by every person, it is a common emotion that everyone feels. Some seek out to overcome their fears, and seek the feeling of adrenaline they get from overcoming. Others flee the situation and don't think twice about trying to overcome their fear. In worst case scenarios people freeze

Fear is a feeling induced by experience, perceived danger, or watching a frightening traumatic accident. The fear responses arise from the perception of danger and ultimately a change in behaviour, such as fleeing, or hiding or from perceived traumatic events. Every person has fears and different fears may be different adaptations that have been useful in our evolutionary past. I have fears too, and sometime, I feel embarrassed to intersperse my fear with others.

State-sponsored violence has led to some of the most horrendous human right crimes such as genocide and torture. These crimes are often under the constant fire of debate as scholars try to reason as to why they occur. However, the debates of genocide and torture are not exclusively attributed to the fact that they occur, but also, as to why people participate in these acts to begin with. Contrary to popular belief the majority of participants in state-sponsored violence are often not radical extremists, but rather, ordinary people. In instances, such as the genocide in Rwanda, participants were average everyday people, often neighbors of the victims, who carried out many of the killings. Also, in

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

The mind is complex and hard to understand. One minute you think you see something across the room then the next it 's gone. Did you see something? It 's a possibility. Did it creep you out a bit? Your mind can play tricks on you into thinking that something might 've been across the hall, across the room, was there a sound you just heard? It might 've been the house or it could 've been something else. When a person hear 's noises they don 't understand it brings up anxiety and with anxiety there is also some fear. Fear isn 't an emotion, it 's like an internal survival kit, it helps by keeping you alive depending on the situation to some extent. When people think of the effects fear have on the human body they think of it in a negative

Communal violence can be defined as a form of conflict between ethnic groups, where solidarity is felt for one’s own group and opposition towards other groups (Myers and Horowitz, 2002). The formation and trajectory of communal violence holds a number of similarities with the way that terrorists are trained. Both incorporate motivations for violence which are provoked by economic and political events. Secondly, motives for violence are often ecsasperated by ideological goals which are often based around distortions of reality. Psychological explanations for intra-group hatred and conflict can to explain how and why humans can act in this way.