This week we will be starting to read the screenplay, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, by Rod Serling. In the play we will discuss just how powerful fear, prejudice and suspicion can be!
For your blog post this week, I would like you to answer the following question:
Think about what you are afraid of. How does fear affect the decisions you make?
Your response must be at least 8 sentences. PROOFREAD! It is due no later than Friday, January, 11 at 5pm!
One of my fears is speaking in front of people, especially a large amount of people. This affects my life because it could change my career. For example, I could never be a businessman that has to do presentations all the time. Also, another fear is big spiders.I don't mind small spiders, but big spiders are so freaky! If there is one in my room it's really hard for me to sleep because, I always think they might be crawling all over me.
ReplyDeleteOne of my greatest fears is speaking to a large group of people. A similar thing I am afraid of is performing on stage with a great amount of people watching. I am nervous that I would make a mistake. This definitely affects decisions that I make. For example, I could never decide to be a businessman. I would have to speak in front of many people and that is not ideal. I also couldn't be a lawyer because they have to speak in front of people in court all the time. In addition, I definitely could not decide to be a news reporter because the whole world, or community could be watching me! My fear clearly affects my life's decisions.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I'm afraid of is heights. I can't even look down when I'm even sort of high up. This may affect my life in ways like I will never want to climb a Extremely tall mountain. I can If I don't look down. Another fear is being crammed in small spaces. This may affect my decisions by never going in a crowed elevator or climbing in a air vent. Those are my fears and how they affect my life decisions.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was talking to my neighbor on a nice sunny day, a few hours after she came home for college break, I asked her how she liked it so far. “It’s great! But, a huge responsibility is put on you.” she said to me. She also told me how much you would have to do for yourself to keep up to task. For example, “you have to keep up with your laundry, study as hard as you can, wake up on time, be able to be organized and so on.”, She also told me. As you can see, after leaving high school, you take a huge leap of faith to independence. That is one of the reasons I have a fear of growing up. If I still feel this way when I am older, it might affect the way I decide to live my life. This might change my decision on taking risks because I wouldn’t want to lose my house or a lot of money. Growing up is also scary because it just tells you that you have to be responsible and try not to rely on your parents for everything. Clearly, growing up is a pretty scary event for me.
ReplyDeleteA embarrassing fear that shadow's my everyday life is the lurking oceans, with the secrets it holds. I don't understand this fear, perhaps it's the sharks that animate the sea. The navy waters creating an eerie mood making me edgy about going in, even staying in. Imagine this, you are swishing your legs in the water, not bothering a soul and suddenly a large mammal comes out of the never ending oceans, tearing off one of your limbs. I am completely horrified of this happening to me. Even when I am water skiing, the image floods my brains as though toxins secretly entered my mind. I cannot get over the fact that sharks could be beneath me; maybe that is the reason for this fear. Another hypothesis is that I might be afraid of how large the ocean is, the mysterious ribbon like waves surrounding me; making it almost impossible to know what is around me. One of the times I went swimming an unbearable sensation that something was following me appeared. I don't know why, or even how but it certainly happened. There have been many shark attacks in Gloucester, and I am afraid this will take over my life if a mammal of this sort attacked me. Unfortunately this is a fear that I have, and I share it with many others. And maybe one day I will overcome my fear, but for now this fear shadow's me.
ReplyDeleteA fear that I've had my entire life is my fear of heights. I've had a fear of heights ever since I was 5 yrs old when I tried to jump off of a rope swing and I didn't let go. I hit a tree on my way back. My friends are always daring me to jump off of that same swing even after the traumatic experience when I was five.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any fears. I think I'm fear less. I did have a fear of sharks but that was only when I saw the movie Jaws. I did have a fear for Chucky, but again, that was only when I saw the movie Chucky. Other than those two movies, I'm not afraid of anything. I think those are affecting me by not wanting to go and watch any scary movies. I would never see another scary movie in my life.
ReplyDeleteOne of my greatest fears is talking to a huge crowd of people.A similar fear I have is performing in front of a ton of people,because I’m afraid I’ll make a huge mistake.This absolutely affects the decisions I make.For example, I could never be a businessman because I would never be able to do all the huge presentations all of the time.Also,if I mess a presentation I would look really dumb in front of everybody.Furthermore,I could never be a lawyer,because I would have to speak in front of a huge amount of people in the court all the time.Lastly,I would never be able to be a news reporter because potentially the whole world would be watching me,and I definitely would not want to mess up and make a mistake when I’m up there.My fear clearly affects my life decisions.
ReplyDeleteOne time a few years ago when I did gymnastics I was one of the people who got chosen to write a speech about one of my coaches. The people who wrote the speeches were going to read them at our banquet that was about a month away, but I refused to do it. It wasn't because I didn't want to do it, but because of one of my biggest fears. This fear is speaking in front of a large amount of people. It has already held me back and affected my decisions. There's a good chance it will happen again too. One thing my fear might affect is my job choice when I get older. Many jobs require talking in front of groups of people. For example, at my mom's job they have a meeting every Thursday. Every time they have their meetings my mom has to talk in front of all the people who attend the meetings. As of right now I don't think I could ever do that. I trying to conquer my fear of speaking in front of people so it'll stop affecting my decisions in a negative way.
ReplyDeleteOne of my fears is talking in front of people or performing something in front of people. This fear affects my performing arts grade on a daily basis and so I don't get the grade that I would get if I didn't have this fear.
ReplyDelete(Now before you read this post there is one thing you must know. I am not afraid of the dark, just the things in the dark.) Darkness is a fear of mine that effects my everyday decisions. But, mainly the ones at night. For example, sometimes when I am the last person awake in my house I am afraid to go to bed because I have to walk to my bedroom in the dark. This scares me because my upstairs bathroom makes noises sometimes and that freaks me out. Also, when I wake up in the middle of the night and have to go to the bathroom, I will try to ignore for a while but eventually I will go. Again my upstairs bathroom freaks me out. Finally, when I have to take out the trash at night I run to the trash barrel and throw the trash in. Then I run back inside and lock the door. Sometimes the thrown trash doesn't land in the barrel and I get in trouble for it later. So for now I will live on with my fear of the darkness and, hopefully this fear will someday leave me.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest fear is not doing something correctly (sports, dance, oral presentations). For example, this saturday I have two basketball games back to back. I started playing basketball last year so I need to improve on my dribbling, my friend on my team told me to not bounce it so high so I've been working on that everyday after school. I’m afraid that when I have to dribble the basketball down the court I might bounce it too high, or when I try to shoot it I might miss. I’m really nervous I will mess up. Also, whenever I have a dance competition or recital I’m afraid that I will mess up, and disappoint my dance teacher. Lastly, whenever I have to give an oral presentation I'm afraid that I will start to stutter and everyone might laugh at me. Being afraid of not doing something correctly might affect my decisions when I get older. When I grow up I want to become a Veterinarian, but I might change my mind when I get older because I’m scared I might mess up and the owners of the pets are depending on me to fix what’s wrong with their pet. I don't think I can overcome this fear but maybe I will learn to not worry so much about doing something wrong and just do it.
ReplyDeleteSpiders!!!!Spiders are one of my fears.When I see a spider I usually get scared and step away.I dont know why but the tiny creatures just creep me out.It may be that in the future I will have to clean my boss's spider cage.If my boss's cage has a spider and I have to carry it out of the cage I might just kill it and lose my jog.What creeps me out about a spider is the fact that it has eight eyes,is covered in fur,and there are spiders that are poisones.I've heard that they also crawl down your throat when thy is sleeping!!Well it may sound crazy for someone to be scared of something so small, but it's just another fear people,I have.
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One of my biggest fears is Highschol. This is one of my biggest fears because I worry when I get there I will be slacking and end up in bad habbits with bad grades and not do good later in life. Secondly, another reason this is my biggest fear because what if later when I am trying to apply for a college and I did bad in highschool and they don't let me in. What would I do then. I need more eduacation for later in ife. Also, later inlife when I get a job I need to be educated for it. I can't just go to try and apply for a job when i'm not educated because I didn't do good in highschool. Cleary, highschool is my biggest fear.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that I am very frightened of is going pond skating. When I think of all of the different things lurking below the ice gives me the chills. Having not knowing how deep the freaky, green water is or how thick the clear, slippery ice is scares me. Once I was with my friends and we all went pond skating. They all were on the pond having fun gliding right on the ice. I was sitting on a moss covered rock while I was putting on my skates. I was scoping out the pond like I was a watch dog seeing everything. When I saw all the shadowy areas I knew that would be a good spot because the sun didn't hit the ice there. As I looked more and more at it the less I want to go on the pond and I didn't. Not being able to skate with my friends had happened more than once. I always think that one last glide could be the one spot where the ice would crack and then instantly crumble. Hopefully as I get older my fear will subside and I will enjoy putting on my freshly sharpened skates and get on the ice.
ReplyDeleteFear is a horrible thing. Fear can stop you from doing things that let you go forward in life. I’m afraid of monsters under my bed. Every single night I’m afraid that monsters are going to eat me. This stopped me from getting sleep. Therefore, I am tired in Ms. Domohowski. I am constantly afraid every single day of when I have to go to my room.My fear stops me . Does yours stop you?
ReplyDeleteThe thing I fear most happens to everybody, but nobody knows what happens after it. My biggest fear is death.I don't care how it happens you don't get to be with that person anymore and it gets to be sad. Just imagine your uncle dying because he had cancer for his second time and your grandfather dying because of cancer treatments.That is what has happened to me in the past five years. When one of your loved ones dies you feel severly hurt in your heart. You don't get to see or hear that person anymore even though they will always be remembered in your heart. Some people believe they move on to heaven or the underworld in their afterlife. Others don't believe in an afterlife. They believe that death is death. My fear affects me because I just always want to play it safe. Clearly, many people have died in my family and I am scared it will happen to me.
ReplyDeleteA fear that affects the decisions I make is talking in front of people.This fear affects me because if I ever have to present anything it could prevent me from getting a good grade on the presentation. Also, this fear can affect the decisions I make in the future with my job. I have this fear because I am afraid of making mistakes. When I am talking in front of a large group of people I get really nervous. As I get older I want to conquer the fear of talking in front of people. I want to conquer this fear because I want to have a good job. Also, if I conquer this fear I will be able to talk in front of larger groups of people without being nervous. In the remaining years of school I will need to do oral presentations and if I have to do those I will need to be over the fear. Clearly, having this fear affects the decisions I make in my life.
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