Halloween

It was halloween night, and I was on my phone with nothing to do, but gloomily looked at the news . I could go trick or treating, but that’s for little kids, and have you heard the news about people putting things in the candy? I wanted nothing of that. Besides I don’t like candy that much. Then my best friend Maria was calling me on my phone. I picked up my phone and answered the call. “Hey have you been in the haunted house on Skeleton Drive, the ending was the best part” Maria said. I told…

Halloween is slowly approaching, and you know what that means: time to scope out the spookiest places you can find. Outside of the more traditional haunted houses, there are plenty of other buildings and well-known landmarks that hold a certain degree of creepiness all around the country. Here are the top seven spookiest places across America. While California may not seem like an unsettling place, it is home to one true ghost town. Bodie, California was originally a mining town in the late…

Grace never liked Halloween, not since the dark thing knocked on her door five years ago. Most people only worried about their house being egged or TP'ed, but Grace had more to worry about than a prankster’s mess. Her father's laugh echoed throughout the house. Her daughter Shelley giggled. The man possessed an impressive repertoire of jokes, both good and bad. Shelley had dressed as a clown this year. Last year it was a princess. Shelley liked the dress-up, but not Halloween itself. Grace was…

Their are a few things worse than Shawn and Saidee's life. This is how it goes, he likes her, she likes his bestfriend. Shes popular and hes a nerd, but one day he decides to ask her out and she said yes. Shawn asked Saidee" At halloween we could dress as something matching for our one month anniversary. that sound cool?'' "sure!" Saidee said happily. It was their one month anniversary, and they decided to dress up as superman and superwoman. It was a late night on October 31 Shawn was…

Not A Mexican Halloween Halloween is a tradition everyone knows about, whether they celebrate it or not. Another celebration that people seem to know about is Dia de los Muertos, but about a majority of those people consider this holiday a “Mexican Halloween” when in reality it is anything but Halloween. Dia de los Muertos is a special occasion that celebrates death through many traditions and is significant since it also remembers the death of loved ones. Dia de los Muertos’ history originates…

This Halloween I observed costumes worn by students on campus and costumes worn by audience members at a showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show I attended that day. I assessed that the individuals I saw on campus held the status of a college student because they were from the ages of 18 to 21 and spent the holiday with peers at the IUB college campus. I also determined that they were from low-to-upper middle class families because they had some form of expendable income to spend on Halloween…

in “Strawberry Spring,” despite all the women being murdered in the story, the experience is a “peculiar sort of fun” (King, “Why We Crave” 2. Humans achieve this “peculiar sort of fun” in many different ways. Such as, TP’ing someone's house on Halloween, and scaring children. Although that would be considered bad from the perspective of an adult, in the eyes of a teenager if was thrilling and exciting. There are more peculiar activities that are known as “fun” in the eyes of some people, it is…

The fall of the studio film system gave rise to independent films. This rise showed America that you did not need a big budget and famous actors to draw in a large audience at the box office. One genre that really took off was the horror genre. This genre plays on the fear of human kind whether it be demons, ghosts, or monsters which are supernatural beings which one does not have a defense for. One may also have the fear of death or pain which could be caused by another human being; this fear…

Halloween is just around the corner, many believe that Halloween is not the same without carving pumpkins. By ones self or participating with others, pumpkin carving is an activity associated with Halloween. With all the tools readily available, a pumpkin can be made into a beautiful masterpiece. Carving a pumpkin can be a difficult task; however, with the proper tools it can be made an enjoyable endeavor. To begin this process one must prepare for carving. Picking a pumpkin is essential.…

For example, in Halloween, Bob 's circumstances of death wouldn 't be that he just happened to walk downstairs. Rather, what I recorded was that he was drinking a beer after having sex with Lynda, because these main events were the connectors of the story which put him in…