Essays on Fear

Fear is an unpleasant emotion and it is an emotional response induced by a perceived threat, which causes change in human’s brain and as well as in behavior. Fear can lead to a danger zone were people commits suicide in order to avoid fear. Fear...

Fears can be one’s worst enemy, and it hinders you from progressing. But for those who are willing to fight it, it can serve as a gateway to greatness. If you are able to overcome your fears, it will not only help you to grow...

Sitting rather uncomfortably in my seat while facing the painfully bright light piercing from the window, I fidgeted nervously, desperately trying to ignore the gloominess of the situation. I attempted to focus on staying warm in the bitterly frigid row, but as thoughts of certain...

Fear is a constant reminder that we are human although it can make us believe we’re not. Both Geraldine Brooks the author of ‘Year of Wonders’ and Arthur Miller author of ‘The Crucible’, explore the effect of fear on the seventeenth century communities. While both...

Day by day, organisations or institutions are trying to grab our attention through Shockvertising. Also, it is observed and proven through research, people quickly and easily respond to Shockvertising, a kind of emotional appeal and pro-social advertising which is used in the commercial market. What...

Fear is a powerful motivator. A naïve, young man named Henry Fleming decides to join the Union army simply for the glory of becoming a Civil War hero. He quickly realizes that war is terrible and struggles with his conscious as to whether-or-not he can...

I will never forget that moment in time. It had occurred on a Sunday like any other. The birds had been chirping, the sky was a luminous blue. I had been up on my roof cleaning the gutter. Scrape, brush I did in a regular...

“All external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure- these things just fall away in the face of death.” This quote by Steve Jobs parallels the ideas depicted by Tim O’Brien about embarrassment in his novel. Not only do most literary characters struggle...

This term project aimed to rationale how science fiction content describe and illustrate human fear through zombies, and its equivalency as part of the epidemiology interpretation. There was no formal concept of probability in Europe prior to the mid-17th century, despite the idea of randomized...

Fear is a real emotion and everyone has something they fear. In many cases this fear is logical and one can process through it on their own. However, there are cases, that fear is illogical and hinders one from living a full life. An approach...