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    Halloween Halloween is a time where people can dress up. They can be whatever they want scary or cute. However where does halloween originate from? Halloween originates far back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. They celebrated their new year on November 1. Which marked the end of summer and harvest and the beginning of the dark, and cold winter, a time where death tolls would rise. The Celts believed the night before the new year, a boundary “portal” between the dead and the living…

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    back in time to a forgotten moment in your memories. A treasured remembrance of a feeling that you can barely recall, yet you can't ever forget. My favorite particular moment involved a teary eyed fight, a dramatic get away, a cold rainy day, and a bonfire. The day started out to be like every other Sunday, calm and relaxed. I woke up that day tired, which is not an uncommon occurrence. Although my sleep deprived eyes and unoperational brain were lacking I could hear the fight down stairs…

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    What is the festival of Holi and how does it represent the significance of colors in India? The Hindu festival, observed primarily in India, is an annual celebration commemorating the beginning of spring. The two-day celebration constitutes of a bonfire the evening of the first day and dinner parties and dancing on the second day. However, the most momentous event of this celebratory occasion is the color festival. The color festival transpires on the second day, preceding the dancing and dinner…

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    is symbolism. Symbolism is a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, most often something concrete or tangible that represents an abstract idea (“A glossary of Literary Terms”2). One symbol in Desiree’s Baby is the bonfire. The bonfire symbolizes both Armand’s anger and desire to rid himself of Desiree, as well as his passion…

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    that they thought went against their beliefs, or the beliefs of HItler, and burned them. "These acts symbolize the moral and intellectual character of the Nazi regime... For these bonfires are not the work of schoolboys or mobs but of the present German Government ... The ominous symbolism of [this act and] these bonfires is that there is a government in Germany which means to teach its people that their salvation lies in violence." ( New York Herald Tribune columnist Walter Lippman). This quote…

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    In Dante’s The Divine Comedy, he describes the very center of Hell as an icy, frozen place. This is a direct contrast to what people normally believe Hell to be like, as expressed in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in which it is rather described as a place full of fire, a literal furnace. Our minds are immediately drawn to a fiery Hell, as that is what is traditionally pictured in modern-day pop culture and the like. However, I believe Dante was right in his description, that ice is a metaphor…

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    big group, including Madeline and her friends, at the lake. I had tried to be friends with that group long ago; however, I always felt invisible as they and my friends would turn their cold backs on me. I filled with worry when Lauren mentioned a bonfire that we could go to afterwards at the house of a girl whom I only knew the name of. Bryn just nodded in silence, and I went along with it before I could spit out the words “No, I wasn’t invited”.…

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    Lyman Character Analysis

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    In the 1974 year, Lyman tells about the Red convertible. Lyman and Henry buy a red convertible Olds-mobile when they were in Winnipeg. They took their car on a road trip and travel around Montana. In Montana, Susy named girl asked for a ride to Alaska then they drove to Alaska where Susy's family welcome them and they stay rest of their summers. They enjoy and have a lot of fun there. Before winters they return to their homes and Henry was marine so military send him to Vietnam in 1970 for a war…

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    Halloween is at the end of this month and with homecoming just around the corner. I would like to include the pros and cons of having a fall dance versus a Halloween dance. I will give some information on how Halloween started, how, when and where it changed, and how people celebrate it now. I will also say how fall is celebrated in other countries. Halloween and fall have different events and styles for different cultures. This may help one out if they are trying to pick between a Halloween…

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    And Jack advocated the most direct pleasure and desire---hunting and eating meat, rather than watching a bunch of bonfires themselves are vegetarian. Jack mastered the privilege of eating meat and gradually gained great prestige, while Ralph, who advocated peace and order, could not contend with him. Jack began to be assigned to hunting, and forced to follow his other…

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