Essays on Fear

Genocides start because of the conflict between people of same race or religion attempting to displace the different race or religion. Conflicting interests between individuals from different race or religion can result to genocides. In the 20th century, over 250 million people have lost their lives due to genocides. Millions of people are left at risk of the exposure due to increased incidences of mass violence. Data and knowledge that indicates the long-term mental health effects that come with the exposure to the genocide remains scattered. Genocides have led to mass violence and displacement of people since it stirs Continue reading...

Rhetorical propaganda can almost hypnotize listeners; the danger is that the techniques convince people to agree with very shaky theories. The essay Passmore uses many of the tricky devices to hook white listeners to believing she is speaking the truth. This essay discusses these devices by giving examples and showing how to recognize them.
In the very first two sentences the author uses a strategy that has been working very well in the United States for years. She tells her white listeners that they are a group that faces a frightening future because they are afraid. Fear is a Continue reading...

Article Assignment

The problem that the police of the United States is more and more militarized arouse anxiety in the American society. The matter is discussed in the article “Cops or soldiers”, published on March 22, 2014 in The Economist. The author describes a raid of a group of heavy armed policemen into a house of ordinary American family supporting their action with “ battering ram” and looking for $1000worth of electronic devices and clothes bought with stolen credit cards. They found nothing of the sort and arrested two persons for unrelated charges. All that cost stress and fear among the members Continue reading...

- Rationalization refers to the act of providing a seemingly logical (rational) explanation to a certain behavior that otherwise may seem weird or not adaptive. As a defense mechanism, it is an individual's way of finding a middle ground between the Id and the Superego. The Id is in charge or urges and emotions, and the Superego reflects our perception of what society expects and what is considered acceptable. When a certain desire or emotion does not coincide with societal expectations, even in terms of not being within the acceptable norms, it creates tension between the Id and the Continue reading...

English

Imagine cruising downtown in a brand new Bugatti car in full speed. It was my dream, which I hoped to achieve. The possibility of driving a Bugatti was not an issue. I had an enormous challenge to conquer ahead of me. I adopted all forms of phobias since my childhood. The phobia of driving in a car was more pronounced and demanding. Every time we stepped out for a ride I will vehemently propose other means of transport. My family members were aware of my fears, but did nothing to help. Instead, my older brother found it amusing whenever Continue reading...

English

Introduction
A new student who has to study in a foreign land is expected to hurdle several challenges before finishing the course. Due to the difference in language and culture, there are cases where foreign students have difficulty in adapting to a new environment. In many cases, there are students who decide to drop a subject or the entire course due to personal reasons. However, being determined and maintaining one’s focus are the factors which will motivate a student to strive harder.

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Definition

Panic disorder refers to a disorder whereby an individual experiences sudden and spontaneous attacks of anxiety and fear. The panic attacks lead to agoraphobia, which is the feeling of anxiety that one gets for the fear of being in situations where one cannot get help in case of a panic attack. These situations include, but not limited to, being in crowds, being left alone or being near bridges.

Clark’s theory of catastrophic interpretations

According to Clark’s theory, panic attacks are caused by faulty and maladaptive interpretations of the sensations within the body. For example, sensations that are normal to healthy individuals can be Continue reading...

Sigmund Freud uses the societal function of shaping the behaviors of individuals in the society to conform to the codes of conduct and behavior. He indicates that the society in which we live seeks to restrain our aggressive impulses. While confirming that the society installs a self-control mechanism in the individuals, which he calls the superego, Freud indicate that this internal watchdog masters the desire for aggression. Sigmund Freud also indicates that individuals in the society subdue and redirect their aggression towards their own ego once they are forbidden from expressing their desire for aggression externally. In the theory Continue reading...

Many philosophers have come up with different definitions of tragedy. However, the definition by Aristotle remains the most comprehensive definition of the term. In his definition, Aristotle lays major emphasis on the terms pity and fear. According to him, these are the two main elements of tragedy. Absence of them means there is no tragedy. In plain words, Aristotle’s definition of tragedy was: “Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of Continue reading...

Helping others is the greatest thing in the world. Helping others means you need not be helped. Most people would rather help others than be helped by others. Some people know that there are a lot of people who are in need, but they do not want to help those people. In the book
Hope’s Boy, Andrew Bridge describes Andy’s inner issues that are unnoticed by others. No one understands Andy. Andy does not want to help someone whom he does not like by his attitude towards Louis. At the same time, a lot of people do Continue reading...

Introduction

Monsters, myths and magic have been the greatest fears of the human population in for centuries now. The thought of having spiritual and hypothetical forces with unimaginable effects to mankind makes people leave in fear and anxiety. In most occasions, discussions of the existence of such beings have been backed with very little evidence and baseless assertions. However, people have never stopped worrying about their fate especially while considering the much talked abilities of such beings. This paper focuses on aliens, also called extraterrestrial beings, and the effects their purported existence or invasion of earth have had on the Continue reading...

Idea # 1: Narrative addressing barriers to colorectal screening

This narrative has been used to intervene in the process of promoting the colorectal screening of cancer disease. Recruitment of participants, whose age ranges between 49 to 60 years has been done to investigate the claims made by renowned researchers, that there is an overestimate of barriers towards cancer screening but the results are not universally satisfactory . I propose that there be a categorical and random allocation of one-half of the recruits to encode the message, the results will be conclude that barriers to screening be predicted to have a minimal barrier in the near future.

Idea # 2: Examining HPV Threat-to-Efficacy Ratios in the Extended Parallel Process Model

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A phobia is an extreme fear that will not go away. People may develop a phobia after having a bad encounter with a certain situation, object or activity. Therefore, trypanophobia is an extreme fear of needles. The number of people suffering from trypanophobia is increasing significantly since the people with this condition refuse to seek help from a doctor. People with needle phobias constantly experience panic attacks, lightheadedness, or fainting when they come across two needles. This fear prevents many people from obtaining required vaccinations, blood tests and other medical care, which make it a serious issue. Therefore, the Continue reading...

Neocolonialism is a major them in Emma Larkin’s travel chronicles in Burma. Larkin’s observations reveal similarities between the current military control and the former imperial control. The first similarity is that just like the British colonialists, the military have a virtual monopoly of power. The opposition has been suppressed by all means including criminalization of parties and protracted imprisonment of the leaders such as Aung San Syu Kyi. Secondly, there are gross human rights violations because there are no institutions to check the government. The military regime has been ruthless in suppressing and eliminating perceived enemies of Continue reading...

The common meaning of the word “courage” is bravery, however, its actual meaning is a lot deeper and more significant than just that. Courage is a whole philosophy for people, who overcame their fears and did what they thought, is impossible. Courage is an attitude towards the unknown, scary and frightening. Courage is something you need to develop in yourself; it is a skill, and you don’t get it easily. It is what you get for overcoming your fears. It is what you get for standing your ground and standing up for what is right. It is a Continue reading...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND CRIME

Introduction
- Background
Decades of research have always discussed the link between socioeconomic status and crime. It has also been established by studies that crime caused by poverty is one of the oldest theories of crime causation (Aaltonen, Kivivuori, & Martikainen, 2011).
- The social problem
Some neighborhoods can be good places to live in. However, there are also places that are not. For example, Karriker-Jaffe (2011) mentioned that areas with no socioeconomic status (SES) have very low development in its social structures such as education, housing, employment, and social behavior. These inequalities in social socio-economic environment has been known Continue reading...

Liberty University

Abstract
Intimacy issues in marriages have been in the forefront of many psycho-social-spiritual circles recently. In addition, intimacy issues and barriers have just started to be analyzed psychologically, sociologically, physically, and spiritually in the psychoanalytic literature. Qualitative and longitudinal studies are giving way to new theories and thoughts on why the 21st century marriage has so many barriers to intimacy and how these barriers become ingrained in an individual’s psyche. These studies show that from birth to death, the human capacity to remember definitive moments that will forever change the outcome of an individual’s life, whether consciously Continue reading...

Analysis of Lyrics

Viva la Vida is a song by Coldplay which is about a king who rejoiced in life being in power; it is actually about the life of a deposed king who has lost power after a revolution. This song particularly refers to the French revolution or the Roman Empire, after which the king is reflecting his life back then. He has been pondering about how the world was in his hands, that, in just a single command the sea would rise, how his people praised him and sang in his name, how his prosecutors dreaded his presence. Yet, everything Continue reading...

Disney’s “The Lion King” exemplifies the many struggles and triumphs of leadership in several ways. It can be surprising to the untrained eye than an animated children’s movie could hold the valuable lessons by such a complex concept but it is true. Even Kouzes Posner’s framework for Leadership is exemplified throughout the movie. There are multiple characters that take on leadership roles at different times throughout the movie, but the primary leaders are Mufasa, the initial King we meet, his son, Simba, and Mufasa’s evil brother, Scar. Each exemplifies leadership in their own ways, showing Continue reading...

In the society today, especially in the African scenario, power is well defined according to the cultural setting of the people. For a long time now, society has granted more power to the male fraternity and indeed very little to the women. Such has been the case for the better part of history, allowing the men to dominate with massive power. In the African society, questioning the traditionally set power structure was taken to be devious and rebellious. Therefore, this led to man exercising superiority over woman for a very long time. Well, until the late 20th century and Continue reading...

Current research on bystander intervention has produced many outcomes indicating that the presence of other people in a critical situation, especially bullying, reduces the probability that an individual will help. Diffusion of responsibility contributes to the bystander effect. This implies that a person does not feel the need to help someone in need if several people are also present since the responsibility is among those present. Most people believe that there exist safety in numbers, but there are times when a large crowd does not support a victim. According to Barlińska, Szuzter & Winiewski (2013), “Bystanders are the social Continue reading...

English

Thesis and Introduction
Life can be quite monotonous and meaningless if one chooses not to take risks. Failures and Imagination can make us better persons, only if one knows how to use them positively. Everybody goes through a time in life when they face difficulties and failures and end up cursing their bad luck. However, if instead, they chose to examine the reason for their failure and used it as a yardstick to stop such mistakes from happening again, they will succeed. According to Seligman (2006, p.25-26), “those who display ‘learned optimism,’ were most likely to see failure as Continue reading...

Analysis of White Noise by Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo’s White Noise is a post-modern American novel that revolves around Jack Gladney; the professor and founder of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college called the College-at-the-Hill. The novel has been credited as an accurate portrayal of the American way of life. Leonard Orr (2007 7) in Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A Reader’s Guide observed that White Noise is “realistic in its portrayal of American life than his other works.” Similarly, Jayne Anne Phillips (1985 n.p) in White Noise by Don DeLillo expressed a similar sentiment when she noted that the novel was timely, “precisely Continue reading...

Why was there an absence of major slave rebellion in America?

Slavery in America was a legal institution that existed in the 18th and 19th century. It is great that in the 21st century, humanity can squarely face 19th century slavery. Nonetheless, it is also upon everybody to acknowledge the contemporary versions of slavery in the world beginning from our homestead. The current form of slavery is not as defined as it was in the olden days. During those days slaves were characterized by a number of cultures. The slave culture embodied elements of African and Christian cultures or values. Slavery also largely dependent on the systematic dehumanization and the Continue reading...

As a big fan of Science Fiction Horror movies, I like the types of aliens that are strong looking, love to exterminate anything, and take over the land to spread out their horrendous empire. To me aliens are pretty cool creatures to explore and learn about. Aliens have been known as strangers or outsiders who are not in the same category as human. Therefore, we believe if they really exist and the way they came on earth is because they want to suck the potential source that we have and start their invasion.
When I was in Vietnam, television Continue reading...

Everyone one of us will one day die, and even without us, the world will still go on. Samuel Scheffler in his greatly original book “Death and Afterlife” tackles the various ways the values in our lives are obliviously but powerfully affected by these facts, as well as the motives that define them. The afterlife he discusses is not the personal afterlife in which an individual continues to exist in some form after dying. According to Scheffler, a personal afterlife does not exist, and he poses a question regarding how we should perceive our individual mortality, in case our Continue reading...

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Ever since 1776, our founding fathers have been eager to warn us about the power the United States government has over the country. Individuals like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson warned us about tyranny over the mind of man. They wrote the constitution to put fear into the American people about central and mass government. They gave states all the power during the early years of the United States, and as time as passed on, the Federal government now holds most power as of 2014. It’s ironic to, because the same fears our founding fathers had, Continue reading...

STEP 1: Create variables

Run frequency tables for the new variables to check that they are accurate
Run a frequency table of your dummy variable to check that it is accurate
Run a reliability analysis using the following 10 variables:
COMPUTE FEAR=q25afearmurder + q25bfearrape + q25cfearweapon + q25dfearhome + q25efearcar + q25ffearmugged + q25gvandal + q25hconned + q25ibeggar + q25jbeaten. EXECUTE.
measures of central tendency and dispersion for this new variable
o Dependent variable:

Punitive attitudes additive scale

 Run a reliability analysis for the following 8 variables
The alpha coefficient for the eight items is .832, suggesting that the items have relatively high internal consistency. Cronbach's alpha is a measure of internal consistency, that is, how Continue reading...

Step 1 - Creating variables

Frequencies
Frequencies
Frequencies
Frequencies

FEAR OF CRIME RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Reliability
Scale: ALL VARIABLES
MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY & DISPERSION – FEAR
EXPLORE
QUESTION 1: What is the alpha level for the FEAR additive scale? 
.95

QUESTION 2: Does your analysis indicate that the FEAR additive scale is a reliable measure? How did you determine this?

Yes.
.95 is larger than .6

PUNITIVE ATTITUDES RELIABILITY ANALYSIS

Reliability
Scale: ALL VARIABLES

QUESTION 3: What is the alpha level for the PUNITVE additive scale?

.835

CHECKING NORMALITY STATISTICS

Frequencies

QUESTION 4: List the variables that have skewness values that indicate non-normality, including those with both moderate and severe problems.

Find variables with skewness which exceeds ± .50.

Agree that "The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally."

Likelihood of being victim of violent crime in next year
Likelihood of being victim of property crime in next year
Concern about crime
Employment dummy
QUESTION 5: List the variables that have kurtosis values that indicate non-normality.
Find variables with kurtosis which exceeds ± 1.01 .

Agree that "The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally."

Employment dummy
Fear of crime additive scale
Criminology Continue reading...

In a crisis leaders be it managers or commanders need to be able to make the best decision. For the sea case, the commanding officer in the ship is expected to make decisions to save the life of the corpsman. as he has the last word, they need to be able to take responsibility and also able to make ethical decision. in this regard the co is responsible for weighing all the options there is and also be fast. this is because according to the case, the night was approaching fast and it would be difficult to fly the Continue reading...

Death is the most powerful uniting factor of all living creatures. We cannot escape the perpetual presence of death, but we are also always free to access its transformational power. While Western society tends to ignore death and keep it shielded from most peoples’ consciousness, developing awareness of our own mortality lends to a liberating experience that results in immensely fulfilling rewards. This newfound awakening of our physical mortality paradoxically serves to accentuate the precious quality of life and encourages the execution of authentic, purposeful living. Furthermore, the profound realization that our souls merely inhabit the physical body is Continue reading...

Every individual fears something that has or has not been experienced depending on his or her views, perceptions, beliefs, and information shared by others. Before going to the school, there were certain fears that I had regarding my life away from home and being part of a group unknown to me. In the current reflective paper, I would present three different fears that I had about my life at school and shared my experiences that actually either helped me to overcome these fears or strengthened them further.
My first and foremost fear of selecting a school was related to Continue reading...

Introduction

Discrimination of Islam women in both Muslim and non-Muslim societal contexts remains a pertinent concern across various settings all around the globe. The fear of Hijab in the American society occurs as one of the most comprehensive means through which Islamic women are stereotyped. The stereotyping of the Islamic Hijab in the American society can be traced may be traced to various events that have taken place in the United States contexts. More importantly, the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre is perhaps the most comprehensive reason as to why Americans have and continue to harbour intolerance for Continue reading...

This article is based on the research done by Joseph Wolpe attempting to understand the root of a type of Neuroses in the form of an intense Phobia. The article states that phobia’s were original thought to be the result of an individual experiencing an extreme childhood trauma that linked intense irrational fear to an object or act. They were treated by a process known as psychoanalysis, in which the patient worked through the source of the fear with a therapist. A phobia goes far beyond the rational fear of being afraid for your safety due to, for Continue reading...

Fear can be defined as a critical reaction to emotional and physical menace. It is a series of reaction especially in the brain that begins with a traumatic stimulus which ends with the discharge of chemicals that result to fast heartbeats, quick breathing as well as thrilled muscles, just a few but to mention. The stimulus ranges from a spider to a dagger at your neck, an audience eagerly waiting for you to give a speech or even the sudden sound of gun shots across the street. Situations that human beings regularly fear are those that are away from Continue reading...

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Don Delillo’s White Noise not only compels the readers’ brain to think, but also leaves room for discussion of the author's definition of reality. The story constantly challenges each character’s mind with the uncertainty of reality due to fears that each of them have; the fear of death is a persistent idea through out the novel. Each character has internal conflicts that cause life's uncertainty, mostly with simulacra and the idea that the reality they are experiencing is just a figment that their mind has created in order to cope with the fact that they will eventually Continue reading...

Reflective Journal IV

Chapter XIV Controlling Your Own Emotional Destiny Although it took me over 50 years, I have finally realized that the only thoughts and actions I really have control over are my own. To this day I still take other peoples criticism and rejections too seriously. Publically I claimed that I don’t care what others think but deep down I always think that there is still something wrong with me. An example of this would be when I helped a young woman get set up her business. I poured my finances, time, Wisdom, heart, and soul into helping her. Continue reading...

Probably one of the strongest and most effective horror films, if not the strongest and most effective, ever produced since the start of the century is the Babadook. It centers on the development of both the issues of the mother-son relationship, and the introduction of a new kind of fear designed with a looming and formidable presence of a mysterious figure. However, this horror film does not rely on jump scares to introduce fear to the audience, but it develops a strong storyline that is presented with both psychological and physical fear. Overall, this film is an incredible masterpiece Continue reading...

STEP 1: Identify a Project With Internal Motivation

- What does the project entail? Describe the steps, needed materials, who is involved, etc.
The project that I am embarking is to master the skill of public speaking. Public speaking always enamored me since I was a child but had a terrible fright of speaking in front of a group of people. I almost faint when I need to get on to a stage even when there are no people in the audience! I am aware that I have intense stage fear and words fail me when I need to speak in front of a group of people. Continue reading...

- At the age of 10 Edward Bloom met an old lady who was believed to be a witch. It is said that if you look into her glass eye, you would probably see your death. Edward was given a choice: either to see how he will die or not. “On one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive.” Edward has chosen the latter – he decided to know his ending. And this knowledge Continue reading...