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    today’s society fear is the cause of most violence. Fear is motivated in a lot of ways from TV to face on face interaction. Society should learn to overcome fear and be moti-vated by desire to be seen as free and equal. In this essay I’m going to give examples of cases where fear played a big role that caused problems. To enlighten the negatives and positives that fear has to show. When there is violence there is always an explanation to what happen. The explanation mostly is fear started from the

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    Fear in Beast of The Southern Wild Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Fear is applied through every film which helps with the conflict. Director Benh Zeitlin, in the film Beast of The Southern Wild, uses narrative, cinematography, and sound to create a visual scary and mythos of the beast so called aurochs as in Hushpuppy fear. Narrative plays a big role in Beast of the Southern Wild. We view the story through

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    Speech Anxiety

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    INTRODUCTION Public speaking is often described as the most common fear in the world. It is also something that many people are required to do. It may be to give a toast at a wedding, to present a seminar at work, to make an argument to a local council, to receive an award or to be interviewed by a board of directors for a job. Public speaking is something few people can avoid and yet it continues to be a major fear. To understand this fear and how it can be managed and prevented, the issue will now

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    gets caught up in a severe tension. Sometimes gaze of oneself is so sharp that he thinks others are avoiding him, and his face is strange and others see him strangely. People with anthropophobia are afraid that others will know that they are feeling fear because they think their symptoms are their own defects. Everyone has a bit form of anthropophobia. In front

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    period, and is still known today for that courage. Her courage up with her being one of the most well known courageous people in history that we still learn about today Having courage is not just fighting for what’s right, it’s also about facing your fears and obstacles in life; knowing that they’re there and deciding to step up and face them. Courage is often confused with heroism. There are similarities between the two.

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    Fear Is a Raging Sea Fear has had a constant presence in the world, and how it is reacted to separates those who will float, and those who will sink. Fear is a negative emotion and only serves as a hinderance in people’s lives; there are no benefits in fear. In addition, fears must be faced and conquered for success to be reached; history serves as proof of this necessity. All fears begin as uncertainty, leading to the contemplation of the possible negative outcomes, and finally end in either action

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    with the different parts of fear. He starts the story by saying, “Many of us spend a lot of our time acting out of fear” (Hahn 91). As a natural instinct for most of us, we frequently react to all situations with fear on our mind. Next, Hahn shares what happens when we react to fear, “The longer you hold onto fear [pain], the more magnified it becomes” (Hahn 93). Lastly, Hahn brings to our attention how to respond to our fearful mindset, “We can only remove violence and fear with compassion and love”

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    Arachnophobia - 1

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    strong, irrational fear and avoidance of objects or situations that are usually considered harmless (Huffman, 485). Phobic disorders can be categorized into three categories: agoraphobia, specific phobias, and social phobias. In this paper I will be talking about a specific phobia called arachnophobia and how it affects my cousin whom is suffering from this phobia. Before I can begin this paper, I must explain arachnophobia. Arachnophobia is described as the abnormal fear of spiders (Arachnophobia)

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    Anxiety in itself is both normal and completely harmless when approached in the right manner. In small amounts, it helps people react to legitimate danger in a way that is advantageous to their own well-being. Anxiety tends to feed off of people’s fear of not knowing what will come next. This uncertainty is what makes anxiety so powerful. When handled poorly, this can become overwhelming and contribute to stress. Some may think of this as being taxing, but in reality, it actually helps prepare the

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    generalized anxiety disorder, they process a fear in their mind on different types of issues that are occurring in their everyday life. This disorder can affect a person for a “period of at least six months” (Carroll 2014). Of the different types of generalized anxiety disorders that people face on a daily basis, mathematics anxiety is a type of generalized anxiety disorder (Carroll 2014). Mathematics anxiety “is the feeling of worry, frustration, agitation, and fear of failure with regard to taking a math

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