...Halloween is a fun time that only comes around once a year it's fun because people get to dress up and go out trick or treating or go to parties. In the article in told the readers about how in vacant spots all around the United States there is a thing called a “Halloween Pop Up Shop”. These shops open in vacant spots selling things like costumes, lights, decorations, fog machines and much more. These pop up shops sell everything you would need for Halloween besides candy they are there in October and then on October 31st “like a ghost they disappear”. Party City has sort of adopted these shops and had about 270 Halloween Pop Up Shops running and they plan to open many more. These shops are all over the U.S, Canada and now Amsterdam. These...
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...Halloween Party Has anyone heard of a kid who wants to go to school instead of going to play with their friends? Likewise this story “Halloween Party” is identical to the statement above as these kids are so focused on school and their future, that being a kid is nonexistent. Not to mention this story is from 1980, while the mother who is hosting the party only hears thirteen-year-olds talk about Yale, Harvard, Exeter. The kids in attendance at the party only care to talk about how much money they want to make and the title of the job they want. Lillian Ross’s message in “Halloween Party” is the kids are too focused on the future and not present time. The kids attending the party need to understand that the answers to life do not come this...
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...Nightmare Before Christmas argument essay Have you ever realized that most of the characters in the nightmare before Christmas movie are monsters? Most people think nightmare before Christmas is a Christmas movie, but some think it is Halloween.I think Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie because the presents were spooky it was released around Halloween time and most of the songs were Halloween related. First, I think it is a Halloween movie because when they were making presents for the children they were alarming. My first reason is they used monsters for presents to give to the children for Christmas.The presents they gave to the children were horrifying because they made loud noises and ran after the children.They also made also...
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...recommending to forbid them. Like many Halloween is one of the traditions which is frequently discussed in this category. From outside this tradition looks very simple and fun where all the people enjoy with their families by going trick or treat. But is this tradition really like this or there are some downfalls of it? I will explain this topic in my essay and I will also discuss How did Halloween start and if we really need it anymore? Halloween is an old tradition. The word Halloween derived from the Catholic Church. It's also known as All Hallows Eve, but in the 5th century it was known as nothing more than Samhain. The purpose behind it was to celebrate the upcoming harvest and to pay respect to dead people. So why Halloween should be forbidden? The main reason is, that over the past few years Halloween is losing its actual purpose. Halloween these days is considered as costume parties and going door-to-door for trick or treating. No one actually cares about the spirits or the crops. In other words it is being commercialized and subverted. Big business also turned Halloween into a mere business tool. They brand people with their products and rub more money out of them. Businesses also use Halloween as a tool to introduce more of their junk product and advertise it. This is not related to its original purpose in any way what so ever. Another reason why Halloween should not be permitted is the amount of heart attacks takes place on Halloween are off the chart. Just in order to...
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...recommending to forbid them. Like many Halloween is one of the traditions which is frequently discussed in this category. From outside this tradition looks very simple and fun where all the people enjoy with their families by going trick or treat. But is this tradition really like this or there are some downfalls of it? I will explain this topic in my essay and I will also discuss How did Halloween start and if we really need it anymore? Halloween is an old tradition. The word Halloween derived from the Catholic Church. It's also known as All Hallows Eve, but in the 5th century it was known as nothing more than Samhain. The purpose behind it was to celebrate the upcoming harvest and to pay respect to dead people. So why Halloween should be forbidden? The main reason is, that over the past few years Halloween is losing its actual purpose. Halloween these days is considered as costume parties and going door-to-door for trick or treating. No one actually cares about the spirits or the crops. In other words it is being commercialized and subverted. Big business also turned Halloween into a mere business tool. They brand people with their products and rub more money out of them. Businesses also use Halloween as a tool to introduce more of their junk product and advertise it. This is not related to its original purpose in any way what so ever. Another reason why Halloween should not be permitted is the amount of heart attacks takes place on Halloween are off the chart. Just in order...
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...The opening titles of the film are in black and orange, and they are stereotypically spooky colors. Along with these, there is a pumpkin which has suggestions of being spooky and evil as well as being a key symbol of Halloween which is linked too the film this pumpkin then slowly zooms in to fill the shot. Tense, creepy music plays in the background during the titles, this is a typical convention of Horror films. During the rest of the opening, no other sounds are used, besides footsteps and screams. This builds up uncertainty, and the silence of the scene makes the audience feel the suspension. The establishing shot is a long shot of a house in the dark. Low lighting is used to create lots of shadows. It plays with the viewers mind, and they look around, supposing something to be hiding there and it is built up for something bad to happen. A point of view shot is then used as the camera goes around the side of the house. We have not yet seen this person, but we are seeing from their perspective and they are creeping around in the shadows, it creates an anxious feeling and we feel as though we are intruding. The shot then shows two people through the window of the house, and they are unaware that they are being watched. This is used to create suspense. The point of view shot then changes so that we are seeing the shot through the eyes of the killers mask. And because of this, we can’t really see what is happening, which makes the audience nervous and gives an uncanny feeling...
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...Brindi English 101 10/21/2015 Memoir Essay Do you ever wish you could go back to a moment in your life? I do. Since it’s almost Halloween I have one memory from this holiday from five years ago that I remember the most. My younger cousin Lizz and I decided to go out and trick or treat since its Halloween and we didn’t have anything else to do. It was a last minute thing, so I didn’t dress up as a certain character or anything like that, neither did Lizz. I decided to just throw on some really baggy, boy jeans that I had and a t shirt. Then I found one of my dad’s leather vests. So I threw that on too. When I put it on I looked in the pockets because I felt something in there. What I found was my dad’s cross necklace that he was looking for forever. I also stuffed a pillow under the vest so it looked like I had a big ol belly, kind of like my dad’s. Then I put on one of those clear masks that have different faces on them; they’re out every year for Halloween I swear. I’m pretty sure I wore one of my dad’s hats as well. So basically I dressed up sort of like my dad for a costume that year. My cousin Lizz also just threw a costume together. She wore some camouflage pants and a camouflage sweater. She chose to wear a clown mask with her attire. Like I said, it was a last minute thing for us. Lizz’s dad was being our driver for the night. We really didn’t go knocking from house to house asking for candy. We were smart about and went to all the assisted living places in...
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...Amazing Autumn The most amazing season of the year is autumn, or as most southerners call it fall. Fall is the time of year when football comes on, the leaves change, bonfires are in full swing, and anything pumpkin and apple is selling. The anticipation of all the little trick-or-treaters, and knowing that family will be around in just a few short weeks makes the heart warm from the inside out. Fall brings Thanksgiving, Halloween, and much more, it also starts to bring everyone’s heart out. Everyone has a bigger heart it seems when fall comes and makes it appearance for a few months, after that it leaves one longing for it until it comes back around. Fall is full of wonderful things that make the season what it is. At the beginning of an East Tennessee fall, all which is heard is “Go big orange!’ All people want to see are the mountains’ trees changing from the bright green and dull green colors into reds, oranges, yellows, and some deep purples. The changing of the leaves’ color and the yelling of Tennessee Volunteer fanatics are how one will know the wonderful season fall is upon us. When fall arrives, Starbucks starts to sell pumpkin spice lattes, and Wal-Mart sells pumpkins to carve. Some will start to see women and men drinking the hot and delicious pumpkin spice lattes and children planning what to carve on their pumpkins. With children planning to carve pumpkins, people will start to see the pumpkins with rather menacing, and some humorous, faces carved into them...
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...Organ of Halloween and all saints day Halloween dates back to over 2,000 years ago in what is now United Kingdom, Ireland and Northern France would hold a festival commemorating the end of the year. The festival was call the Samhain, which mint the end of the year signaled the end of summer and the harvest season which would spark the begging of a land and harsh winter to come next year, this harsh winter would cause a number of death to the people and there livestock. They would kill there livestock during the festival because they knew that they would not survive the winter anyway, in these event they thought the night before new years that a wall between the living and spirit world would open allowing spirits good and bad to mingle with the living and they would believe that they would cause trouble, ruin crops, and search for a way back for the after life. The Samhain was considered a magical holiday, no one knows how the Celtics practiced or believed while they held the festival, some say that the spirits who were unleashed are those that had died in that year, food and water was use to aid them or scare them away. Others say that the Celtics would dress in costumes and make noise to scare the spirits away. All saints day saints day is on November 1, it is the day the church remembers the martyrs who gave there life for what they believed in. Back before the date was official, they would tell stories of the heroic men and women of faith for the witnesses to Christ...
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...Sunday morning headlines are filled with news about how favorite celebrities rocked the Halloween costume scene Saturday night. While the awards may not be official, it seems that Heidi Klum is getting a lot of attention for her Jessica Rabbit costume. In fact, US Magazine has dubbed Heidi Klum the "Queen of Halloween." Looking at her costume, we can understand why celeb reporters are impressed. Evidently it took hours to create the sexy Jessica Rabbit look and involved a team of people to do the makeover.Prosthetics were used to create the sexy, fantasy costume. Designer Christian Siriano created her dress for the big Halloween bash that Klum hosted. All in all, it looks like Heidi Klum was a winner for Halloween, even though her costume...
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...tales, were written for children. Uniquely, horror author Stephen King has said that Bambi, a classic Disney children’s story, gave him the creeps in this quote: “When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated,” Since populace grows up with fairy tales and bedtime stories, and they don’t necessarily receive nightmares from these tales. Though petite children may not be listening to the Brothers Grimm every night as a bedtime story, the majority will likely end up hearing the originals in a certain way or another. Are they honestly that frightened? Maybe a little, but that little jolt of fear can help a juvenile not become a total idiot. Next, according to storyteller Jackie Torrence in her essay “Scary Tales,” fear is an emotion that we need to use. She says that “Children need to be frightened. We all do. It’s an emotion that was given to all of us and it should be exercised. When you don’t exercise it, you lose your sense of fear. That’s why my granddaddy told me scary stories. He wanted me to know that only fools rush in where angels fear to tread. You should be a little hesitant occasionally, his stories were saying, you should think twice before going into the woods, there just might be a hairy man, and you need to be cautious.” Jackie feels quite confident in this notion, and it makes sense. Identically, if children are never shown the horror genre, would they even know that dangerous articles exist? The next generation would...
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...“Just a thin veil, between this world and that world of beauty and love, just a thin veil that hides the view of our spirit loved ones above! Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Just a Thin Veil.”” This is a quote given to help represent what Dia de los Muertos is all about. This holiday is near and dear to people in the Spanish speaking country as Halloween is something we do for the fun. Although they both have some similarities, they have several differences. Dia de los Muertos is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd while Halloween is held on October 31st and celebrate different things completely. Halloween is a time for scaring, pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and Trick-or-Treating. While Dia de los Muertos is a time to remember those they have lost,...
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...Mexican Urban Legend: It all started with an innocent sleepover party on October 31st. Isabella didn't know the other girls, but she was invited anyway. That night, that darkest and quietest of Halloween nights, they decided to play truth or dare. When it was Isabella's turn, she picked Dare and one of the girls said, "I dare you to the Donald Trump". Isabella thought about it for a few minutes, and accepted. The other girls gave Isabella a lit candle, pushed her into the bathroom, and closed the door. With the candle being her only source of light, she set it aside and stood in front of the mirror. Looking only at herself, she said his name 3 times, cringing and flinching with every syllable; “Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump”....
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...In mid October, leafs would cover the ground forming what looked to be an orange ocean stretching for miles. Walking down the long, gravel road home after school grew on me nostalgically as I had did it so many times before. The sight of leafs and semi cold weather was a perfect sign that Halloween was right around the corner. As any other kid I was piqued with excitement and wonder to what costume I would wear that Halloween. Less than a week away to Halloween I had gotten severely sick. “But mom i'm fine enough to go walking down the street for peats sake!,” I said trying to hide my fatigue. “You’re too sick to go walking in the cold like this hun,” she replied optimistically. She had seen past my lie, the words echoed in my head, filling...
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...Halloween: The gate between the living and the spirit world opens Holly A. Moran Keuka College COM320.355 Abstract Halloween is a magical and superstitious time of year. It is a time when the spirits, fairies, goblins and witches come out to join the living. Not so long ago people believed that, and some still do, that the spirit world is closer on the night of Halloween. It is a night when you can talk with your deceased loved ones, find out who is going to die before the next Halloween or find your mate. Though we no longer hold sacrifices to the Lord of the Dead, we still celebrate with a lot of the same traditions that took place hundreds of years ago. Of all the festivals and celebrations that we observe today, few have a tale stranger than Halloween, also known as the eve of Allhallows – or Hallowmas or All Saints’ Day. All Saints’ Day is one of the gloomiest festivals of the church, while at the same time it observes the supernatural ceremonies with which the church has always been at war. This, after all, is the night when ghosts walk and fairies and goblins are astray. (Linton, 1950) Druids held the earliest celebrations in honor of Samhain, Lord of the Dead, whose festival actually fell on November 1. November 1 was also the Celtic New Year’s Day, the beginning of winter and the time known as “the light that loses, the night that wins.”(Linton, 1950 pg. 4) Halloween (Hallowe’en) is one of the world’s oldest...
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