https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga How is fear and loneliness applied to different parts of society. en-us 2017-12-15 01:18:15 UTC 2025-01-12 21:22:38 UTC hello@padlet.com shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216366481 For me fear, like most things, is extremely personal, and it will go as far as to affect everything I do. For example I have a slight fear of bugs, especially bees, so I dont go outside very often. I also have a blaring fear of pain (and anything that can cause pain) which also feeds into my fear of a painful death.  Now, in I am Legend Robert has a fear of dying prematurely, he didn’t want to die when he knew he could do something to bring back society. ]]> 2017-12-15 01:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216366481 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216368912 2017-12-15 01:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216368912 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216368973 For me, loneliness is a very debatable topic, on one hand it puts me into a very gloomy mood, but on the other hand it doesn’t really bother me. Most times when loneliness becomes a reason for me to feel bad, I was already in that type of mood, and things like that only seem to escalate that feeling. Then on the other side of the spectrum I don’t see being lonely as a bad thing, but instead a god send, because I prefer to get lost in my head most times. In the book, Robert deals with the feeling of being lonely and this feeling is often accompanied by depression, which truly shows how badly this affects Robert throughout. However  once his main source of motivation comes around being lonely didn’t seem to affect him as much, although he was still alone. ]]> 2017-12-15 01:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216368973 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216371688 From this we learn that no matter who you are, how you act, or where you come from, we all will at some point have to deal with our fear by ourselves, all alone, ]]> 2017-12-15 02:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216371688 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372037 For a family fear is commonly something we’d share as a common enemy, since we all love each other and choose to make our safety a top priority. For most families when dealing with fear as a group, their last intention would be to split up. As seen in I am legend the movie, Robert did everything in his power to protect his family, and chose to send his daughter and wife away to ensure their safety. In the book, we focus more on the loss of family, and those you care about. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372037 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372077 As a family you go through many events together and live through tough moments that affect the group as a whole. When alone in a family, it may be due to a lack of communication or maybe the loss of a family member.  To feel alone while surrounded by those who care about you is a whole other thing. A great example of this is the movie Cyberbully, which focuses on a girl who gets tormented by people online and attempts to take her own life, but is saved by her mom and best friend whilst trying to overdose. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372077 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372128 With peers, fear is commonly something we use against each other as leverage, but as a group when a common enemy is presented we all tend to gravitate closer together. A good example of this is would be the video game until dawn, in the game the charact]]> 2017-12-15 02:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372128 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372159 When it comes to loneliness and peers, I find it to be much easier to feel alone because in this group of people you don’t know all of them, and it might even become easier for them to make you an outcast because of it. A great example of this is the movie Inside out, because although our main character was surrounded by people her age, she felt unimaginably lonely because she knew no one. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372159 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372199 For most groups of people that may you may or may not know the people in their community, I’ve found that fear commonly reacts the same no matter who your with, if an entire group has something to fear, they’re going to work together. In Stranger Things season 2 at the end when all the demodogs went loose in the lab, all the scientists and our main characters worked together to escape unharmed. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372199 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372225 As a community much like among your peers, you can still feel alone, even if there are people you know, you can still feel alone, when you are going through something unsaid. Yet again, Stranger Things season 2 is a great example, because when will is flashing back and forth from the upside down no one would believe that what he was seeing was real, so he felt even more like an outcast. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372225 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372257 As a country when we fear, it is typically the government that vows to keep us safe from any sort of doom. Most times the people feel safe when the country takes control of a threatening situation. An example of this is how our government is trying to show North Korea that we are not to be messed with. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372257 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372299 As a country we can experience loneliness through the loss of an important person, where as a country we figure out how to morn the loss of someone. Obviously, one universal truth for loneliness in groups is that you don’t know people and feel hopelessly alone, something hard to deal with. An example of this would be any movie that exhibits bullying etcetera. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372299 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372368 As a species as a whole we together fear the unknown, things that we cannot explain or we cannot understand. A perfect example of this is seen in the movie X-men Days of future past, where a scientist created these machines that could track and kill all the mutants. Of course the exact reason for the creation of these robots was because the people feared the mutants would become a threat to mankind, just because they didn’t understand what they were.  So in situations where our existence is threatened, we’d do anything to ensure our survival, including the abandonment of our morals. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372368 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372444 To be alone for a long time, with no one around to keep you and keep your morals in line becomes challenging. You’ll find when there’s nobody there your morals seem to drift away because nobody would be watching you. In a sense every human needs someone to keep them in line, or vise versa. Humans work with each other like yin and yang essentially. For instance look at all the past wars, when there was tyranny there was someone else who intervened and put an end to it, we all put each other in our places. So back to my initial thought, we would loose all sense of our humanity if we didn’t have someone there to keep us in line. ]]> 2017-12-15 02:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216372444 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216830433 2017-12-18 02:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216830433 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216830710 In a way we all help each other keep our morals in tact and conform to the norm of our modern society. ]]> 2017-12-18 02:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216830710 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216838776 2017-12-18 04:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216838776 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216838786 This shows us that you can feel like nobody in the world cares about you, but you still have a loving family to help you. When you are in a point of fear or dispair, there will always be someone who cares.  ]]> 2017-12-18 04:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216838786 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216971703 2017-12-18 15:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216971703 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216971807 That although you’re surrounded by people your age, you can still be outcasted by these people, and even feel alone. ]]> 2017-12-18 15:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216971807 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216980814 2017-12-18 15:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216980814 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216980912 Although you have a community surrounding you, you can still have points in time where you are lonely, and even feel like no one has your back. ]]> 2017-12-18 15:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/216980912 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/217021875 2017-12-18 17:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/217021875 shannonnowlan7 https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/217021983 When we as a country are in trouble the country will do anything in their power to keep us safe, even if we may not agree with it. ]]> 2017-12-18 17:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/shannonnowlan7/hhny7vmbx9ga/wish/217021983