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house to open gifts and eat a hearty Christmas feast, that I was assured would be out of this world. Abby’s mom, was to meet me at in Concord, so I could take her with me on our trip. We loaded up the truck and were on our way, listening to Christmas carols on the radio, trying to out sing each other. The weather channel, made an emergency interruption announcement, that a huge snow storm was headed our…

Depression runs as deep as an ocean that man has yet to reach. Depression is an ice cold friend that wraps his arms around you and never lets go. It is also like being bolted to concrete ground on a snowy day. The decline of emotions is rapid like the sting of a bee. Life with depression is like being put in a casket and thrown in the ocean and trying to escape. It all begins when someone you love and trust decides to leave you. Nobody seems to understand that the smile that lays on my face is…

them. These works can act as either a distraction from our problems or create parallels to them allowing us to view them from a new light. In her essay “Because she’s a woman”: Myth and Metafiction in Carol Shields’ Unless, Nora Stovel, a renowned professor at the University of Alberta, argues that Carol Shields uses (particularly in her final book, Unless) metafiction to illustrate how fiction can be an escapist method to step…

Upon seeing A Christmas Carol on the night of Friday, November 18th, I had what I thought to be a firm understanding of the Charles Dicken’s classic. It was until the show was over that I realized my previous interpretation was completely senseless, with little to no opinion deriving beyond the script. As I dove into the performance in the Joan C, Edwards playhouse, I made personal connections that I had never made before when watching other adaptions of A Christmas Carol, in particular Scrooge…

Marley and Scrooge - the firm, known as Scrooge and Marley - although the sign hasn't changed since Marley’s death, the one thing that had worsened is the personality of Scrooge, the tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! On page two, I noticed the author states that Scrooge has an insufficient fire for keeping himself warm, but the clerk’s fire (Bob Cratchit) was so indubitably small that it looked like one coal, which…

Name Professor’s name Course Date Pinocchio the Shepherd Pinocchio the Shepherd is a monodrama written by Abdel Momen Ahmed. The play represents a monologue of a puppet master who prepares to the visit of the local ruler. The man speaks with his dolls, the audience and has a “dialogue” with the Sultan in the final scene. The monodrama starts with the conversation between the puppet master and his doll. The man complains about the “behavior” of his main actress and calls her grievances unfounded.…

How can two films both be considered classic holiday movies, yet be so different? Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life shows the life of George Bailey and his impact on the people around him. In contrast, George Seaton’s Miracle on 34th Street is a story about one man who believes he is the real Santa Claus. Both films exemplify all of the qualities of a classic film. However, these films focus on different ideas about life as well as life’s meaning. Viewers of both of these films will…

The most important character among three Christmas ghosts in A Christmas Carol Christmas Carol was an influent novel which was written by Charles Dickens throughout one and half century about a life of Ebenezer Scrooge as a negative, penny-pinching and distasteful man in London. No one had ever wished to work as an employee in his office after his best business partner Jacob Marley died except Bob Cratchit. Nothing in the world would scare Scrooge if it wasn’t about the gold…

CULTURAL RITUALS DURING CHRISTMAS Many people think Christmas is only celebrated on the 25th of December, but that’s not entirely true (Cooper, 2016). It depends in which country you in and your Christian traditions. In South Africa we celebrate Christmas on the 25th of December, with Christmas Eve the night before and Boxing Day the day after. Although Christmas celebrations start way before that for some Christians who believe in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. For these Christians,…

Fun and Excitement at the West Chester's Old Fashion Christmas Parade As the lyrics of the song goes, “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”, and everyone shares the exact sentiment about the holiday seasons, especially because it gives everyone an excuse to indulge, share love, and go crazy with gift shopping. It is also the time of the year for West Chester's Old Fashion Christmas Parade. For residents of apartments West Chester, PA, it is also a time for a double celebration. For this…