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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Fear

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on fear. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task B · ReflectivePrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on fear.

  • The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

    Nelson Mandela

  • Fear is the path to the dark side.

    Anonymous

  • Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Write a reflective piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your thinking and the way you express it.

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