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practiced for Halloween, is the jack-o’-lantern. The jack-o’-lantern is made by hollowing the inside of a pumpkin and then carving a spooky face into the outer shell. Once the face is carved into the pumpkin and the inside of the shell is dry, a candle is placed inside the shell to illuminate the face with a flickering flame. Like many of America’s modern day traditions, the origin of the jack-o’-lantern is found in the lore of a specific subculture. During the 17th century, the term…

Readers’ Delight Students’ Reading Material 1. Fuel • Introduction to Fuel A fuel is a substance that has energy stored inside it. So, a substance that produces useful energy when it undergoes a chemical reaction is called as a fuel. Upon burning a fuel, a large amount of energy is released as heat. Fuels are used for various purposes such as cooking food, running vehicles, generating electricity etc. Coal, wood, petrol, diesel etc. are some common fuels. Thus, a fuel can be defined as a…

old. We all have probably felt or thought about this subject at one point. In the “Birthday Cake” by Goodman, it is a story of being old and wishing to be young again such that a man seeing his birthday cake and notices that his cake has a bunch of candles stuck on top of it, which makes him realize how he should just give up living and not have any more birthdays while wishing that he could get the chance to be young again. The…

The Arnolifini Wedding Portrait (1434, oil on wood, 82.2 cm x 60 cm, National Gallery, London) by Jan Van Eyck is one of the most extraordinary and mysterious paintings in art history. The complexity and rich detail makes it perplexing to art historians who have never been able to establish the true meaning behind the portrait. The most notable opinion is that of Erwin Panofsky, who argues that the Arnolfini was a marriage ceremony and was witnessed by the painter, shown with his reflection in…

is a starting point to continued advocacy. (Anonymous) The remainder of the ceremony was beautiful, each reader held a slim tapered white candle; one by one a single candle was lit as each of the twenty-seven names were read aloud. After the reading of the names each person who held a candle walked to the table and lit one of the twenty-seven larger candles. When that was completed a pastor spoke about supporting trans* people and asked us to pick a stone, place it in the container and…

It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Ringwald was noticed by a new director named John Hughes. John Hughes wanted Ringwald to play Samantha in 16 Candles. It was Hughes’s first movie. Ringwald got the part and they started working together. It was also Ringwald's first movie with Anthony Michael Hall. In 1985, Ringwald won the awards best actress and best young artist. In the same year, Ringwald was…

When Pip is jealous and comments about her encouraging other young men, she is dismissive in her response. With a glance towards Pip, she says, “Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?” “”Check quotes. She acts as if she has no control over any of the young men who find her attractive, and yet, is constantly controlling Pip. She uses him by ordering him to go back with her to Kent, asking him take her around London…

You think, therefore, you are a criminal Equality smashed a window with one bare hand, grabbed his invention with the other, and leapt out of the broken window to save himself and his invention from the angry mob of so-called intellectuals who could not understand him or his genius gadget. From there he runs straight into the uncharted forest. The protagonist is trying to escape from the dystopian society imagined by Ayn Rand, in her novella Anthem. Equality, the central character of the story,…

with the families. For 24 hours on November 2 the spirits of the adults get to enjoy the parties that was prepared for. In most parts of Mexico they make altars. They are made in each home of the villages in parts of Mexico. They are decorated with candles and buckets of flowers and lots of fruits. The food there is peanuts, turkey, tortillas and a big day of the dead bread called pan de Muertos. The altars need to have a lot of water,…

children that it reminded him of jesus and we still put lights on our trees today. Two more things the decorations of a tree were usually edible because of the little supply they used to have on everything. Last with the lights they used to use real candles but then there were so many fires and now we use light bulbs.…