English 110 Essay 3 - Mosaic

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Ms. Farina,

This mosaic deals with the subject of fear.  My first essay dealt mainly with fear so I felt it would be a good idea to expand on this subject in this mosaic.  Different fonts and alignment were used to distinguish sections as well as a small text separator.  The picture on the first page was with the article I pulled the quotes from, so I felt it was good to include it in that section.  As far as new material, I couldn’t think of anything to write for this essay so instead I pulled some sections from my first essay to incorporate in this draft.

There are ten sections.  Two are definitions dealing with fear.  The first definition is a basic dictionary definition of the word fear.  The second definition is describing phobias in general, which are basically different types of fears.  Two sections are from my first essay, and they seem to fit in well with the subject of fear.  I found two poems that also fit in well.  Two more sections are lists.  One is an alphabetical list of phobias and the other is a list of words associated with fears.  Finally two sections contain quotes dealing with the phobias or fear in general.  I have never completed an essay like this, but I hope I have followed the directions closely enough to successfully complete this assignment.

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   Powerful Feeling

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A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. (http://www.dictionary.com)

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I placed my arm against the side of the wheelchair.  The cold metal stung my bare skin.  Everything was cold, uninviting and frightening. (Waiting, James Beams)

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 Experts discuss roots of certain phobias, how to cure them

"(I'm an experienced skier, but) I can't ski when it's a sheer drop ... I lose my confidence and don't think rationally," Ellis explained.

"If I go to someone's house and they have a cat, I'll keep my distance. As for roaches, I can't really do anything because they're everywhere," Kumar said.

"Agoraphobics tend to avoid crowded places because they're afraid of anxiety attacks," said David Fogelson, an associate clinical professor in the department of psychiatry.

"I have a friend in the theater department who panics before she goes on stage, but once on stage it goes away," Mode said.

"The golden rule to getting rid of a phobia is to (face it)," Fogelson said.

"I have a friend who has a phobia of heights and is attempting to find out the use of virtual reality to help overcome phobias," Mode said.

(Nothing to fear but fear itself, By Toni Dimayuga)

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Their is a look that humans get,
When they are scared,
Though they don't realize it.
The more scared the are,
The more their face shows it,
But fear is only in the mind,
And can be controlled,
But do we really want to control fear,
Because,
Like life,
Fear is a gift from god.

(Fear, Lisa R. Moore)

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dread

cowardice

fright

funk

terror

shock

panic

horror

hair on end

cold sweat

hopelessness

avoidance

consternation

have the willies

flutter

faint

freak out

uneasiness

anxiety

worry

apprehension

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The word "phobia" is a term that refers to a group of symptoms brought on by feared objects or situations. People can develop phobic reactions to animals, social situations and activities.

Phobias are the most common form of anxiety disorders, which affect people of all ages, at all income levels and in all geographic locations, according to a study by American the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), between 5.1 and 21.5 percent of Americans suffer form Phobias. Broken down by age and gender, the NIMH study found phobias were the most common psychiatric illness among women in all age groups and the second most common illness among men older than 25.

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Arachnophobia: spiders….

Brontophobia: thunder and lightning….

Catoptrophobia:  mirrors….

Dromophobia:  crossing streets….

Entomophobia:  insects….

Frigophobia:  cold, cold things….

Gamophobia:  marriage…

Hoplophobia:  firearms….

Ichthyophobia:  fish….

Judeophobia:  Jews….

Kakorrhaphiophobia:  failure or defeat….

Lygophobia:  darkness….

Mysophobia:  germs or contamination or dirt….

Nyctophobia:  the dark or of night….

Obesophobia:  gaining weight….

Phasmophobia:  ghosts….

Ranidaphobia:  frogs….

Scoleciphobia:  worms….

Tomophobia:  surgical operations….

Uranophobia:  heaven….

Verminophobia:  germs….

Wiccaphobia:  witches and witchcraft….

Xerophobia:  dryness….

Zoophobia:  animals.…

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I again returned to the cold uninviting hallway.  One more peek at the large clock on the wall: 10:55.  It was getting very near now.  I began to shake a little.  Was I shaking because of the cold, or because I was scared?  I couldn’t tell.  (Waiting, James Beams)

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Today the ghetto knows a different fear,
Close in its grip, Death wields an icy scythe.
An evil sickness spreads a terror in its wake,
The victims of its shadow weep and writhe.

Today a father's heartbeat tells his fright
And mothers bend their heads into their hands.
Now children choke and die with typhus here,
A bitter tax is taken from their bands.
(Fear, Eva Pickova)

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 "The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
-FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

“The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.”
-F. H. Bradley

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
-Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)

"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"
-Trevor Kay