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    Fear tends to become part of who we are, you can let it bring you down or you can overcome it, but it will always have a significant role that will influence how your life unwraps. According to the dictionary, fear is “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagines” On “The Short Life of Francis Macomber”, Francis Macomber’s decisions of going hunting, running away from the lion and confronting the buffalo are all driven by fear. He is

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    “What is the worst that can happen?” by Bruce Coville Murphy learns that there will always be fears you will have to try to overcome. When Murphy remembers the last time he went on stage and how afraid he was, he realizes one of his biggest fears is stage fright. When he was asked to be in a play by his crush he was surprised, but he did end up saying yes. This is when he flashes back to when his mother said “let’s just say when my mother saw my face, she actually let out a scream” (Coville p.3)

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    Title of My Essay The first time I ever experienced fear was when Ii had my first baseball tryout. making this team would mean the world to me I feared not making the team to where I didn't want to tryout anymore the amount of fear I had got worse the closer it came to tryout day. It had become a week until it was tryout day I couldn't sleep at night and my father was starting to wonder what I was doing. It had became a day closer and the amount of fear that is going through my head is ridiculous it

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    Overcoming fear is one of the greatest challenges that you will face as you learn how to improve your self-esteem and self-confidence. Imagine that you lived in the 17th century when there were no airplanes and parachutes. Imagine that you lived happily with your family at the top of the mountain until you ran out of food and water. You can see all the water and the food that you need to help your family survive from the top of the mountain. However, to reach the water and food you need to overcome

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    Fear Has Been Tricking the Minds of People From the Start of Time     Do you enjoy fear?  Fear has been challenging the minds of humans since the beginning of time.  All people can enjoy fear, and highly despise fear as well.  Fear is the nauseating feeling of caused by the belief that something or something is out to harm you.  Fright actually keeps us alive because it keeps our brain active and alert of our surroundings at all times.  Horror is contagious; most of our fear is not caused by us

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    kinds of phobias are difficult to manage due to the underlying fear of humiliation. Having a phobic reaction can feel humiliating, reinforcing the fear and making the phobia more difficult to manage. • Feeling out of control: Usually, the person experiencing it would be aware of it and that it is an irrational fear but wouldn’t be able to control the actions made. Wonders are thought about how life would be different without those fears. • Helplessness: It may appear when one

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    Duke, that "Fear is a mind-killer". Fear is a unrestricted emotion. It can affect many of our daily decisions. I feel fear can be a big disadvantage for most people. For example, when we watch the news, often times we are misinformed. Social media sometimes sends messages that people should be afraid. Fear spreads faster than facts. What news reporters say first, is really what matters the most. And when you're scared you can't think logically. Also, in our early ancestry, fear was important

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    Obstacles are hard to overcome but the only thing really stopping people is fear. There are two people, Andrew and Katie, who had huge obstacles coming their way. One of them may have a bigger obstacle, but they both overcome it. Andrew had to deal with public speaking, and Katie had to deal with basketball. Either way, they both had to overcome it and succeeded. Introducing Andrew, he had a bigger problem that had to do with public speaking, he hated it. To start his day, Mr. Taylor, his teacher

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    Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat. Most high school students fear plenty of things: presentations, tests, exams, getting called out to answer a question, etc. Though the majority of these students goes on and finishes the scary four years of high school. This shows that fear is all in our minds. Fear only exists in our thoughts of the future; we essentially imagine scenarios that might not even happen. The

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    Fear sometimes goes away over time, like when you were little you were afraid of monsters under your bed. Sometimes they stay with you for a lifetime. One thing is certain; fear is almost inevitable. One of my biggest fears is drowning. When I go swimming I have to be able to touch something or else I get panic attacks. This fear started when I was about seven. My friend and I decided to take the swimming test so we could jump off the diving board. We wanted to be just like our friends who had

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