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The Monsters are due on maple street

The Monsters are due on maple street. Teleplay by Rod Serling. Phobia. Definition: An overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance. (mayoclinic.org). Common Fears.

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The Monsters are due on maple street

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  1. The Monsters are due on maple street Teleplay by Rod Serling

  2. Phobia Definition: An overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance. (mayoclinic.org)

  3. Common Fears • A Gallup Poll conducted in 2005 reveals the most common fears of teenagers in the United States. The top 10 list goes like this: • Terrorist attacks • Spiders • Death • Failure • War • Heights • Crime/Violence • Being alone • The future • Nuclear war

  4. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” FDR’s First Inaugural Address • Franklin D. Roosevelt had campaigned against Herbert Hoover in the 1932 presidential election by saying as little as possible about what he might do if elected. Through even the closest working relationships, none of the president-elect’s most intimate associates felt they knew him well, with the exception perhaps of his wife, Eleanor. The affable, witty Roosevelt used his great personal charm to keep most people at a distance. In campaign speeches, he favored a buoyant, optimistic, gently paternal tone spiced with humor. But his first inaugural address took on an unusually solemn, religious quality. And for good reason—by 1933 the depression had reached its depth. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address outlined in broad terms how he hoped to govern and reminded Americans that the nation’s “common difficulties” concerned “only material things.”

  5. “Mob mentality” • Also known as “herd mentality” • People are influenced by their peers • People follow trends, adopt certain behaviors and even purchase items • Stock Market trends are driven by “herd mentality” • Historically, this may have led, in part, to the stock market crash in 1929. • Other infamous cases of “mob mentality” would be the Salem Witch Trials in the 17th century and the Holocaust during WWII. • Discuss the phrase “safety in numbers.”

  6. Scapegoat a person who is unfairly blamed for something that others have done • :  a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur • 2 • a:  one that bears the blame for others • b:  one that is the object of irrational hostility

  7. Vocabulary • Assent • Optimistic • Antagonism • Revelation • Incriminate • Contorted • Converging

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