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A Christmas Carol is a classic tale of joy, generosity, and finding your holiday spirit. However, the story did not start off with everyone holding hands and peace on Earth. It began with greed, hate, and antagonism. The story continues to progress to the end, and as it does changes in its tone. Both versions of A Christmas Carol end with the heartwarming mood the story is so famous for. The drama and the movie based off of it have many similar qualities, but differ from each other just as much.…

Halloween Town. They celebrate Halloween every year, but Jack has grown tired of the same ceremony every year and decides to switch things up after visiting the world of Christmas. He decides this year he’d like to become Santa Claus and perform Christmas himself. After kidnapping the real Santa Claus, Jack gets all of Halloween Town to work together to make toys and prepare for Jack to go off on Christmas and deliver presents. When Christmas comes, however, things don’t go as Jack had planned.…

This past Sunday I attended the school play, which was a comedy based along the storylines of The Christmas Carol. I noticed many people from the community brought their children along for the comedy. For someone who doesn’t really care for plays, or Christmas it was somewhat interesting to go into the play having doubts beforehand and coming out of it with a different view. The exposition started off the same as The Christmas Carrol. Scrooge was being his typical self, hating everything about…

Century'. Acting was great, I always like to see Toni Collette doing something out of her rhelm as well as Adam Scott. Krista Stadler had me though, I was very much into her character and history in the film. So remember if you never lose your faith in Santa, or KRAMPUS will come to punish you for not…

two music videos to “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey. The first music video has movie style footage. It features Mariah Carey’s family and her dogs. The video has many snow scenes, including Mariah Carey running in the snow with a Santa suit. Her former husband is seen in the music video, baring gifts for Mariah. The second video is filmed in black and white with backup dancers and singers. She was dressed in a 1960s style outfit with white boots. The…

Normally people recognize the smiling faces they see on their neighbors front porches, but one week a year, neighborhoods all over the country are invaded by scary faces peering out at them. Stranger Danger? Don’t call the neighborhood watch quite yet! Those spooky smiles are Jack-O-Lanterns carved by festive neighbors and probably signal they will have some good loot on Halloween. What someone carves on their pumpkin can tell you a lot about them. Some people who are sports fanatics might…

Santa Monica’s politics are largely progressive and they translate to the types of people (such as artists) and businesses who call the city home. One resident says Santa Monica is what happens when “hippies get rich”. Thus, there are many upsides to living and working in this community. Primarily, the various government departments and social agencies, which make up some of the fabric and networks of this community, are plentiful and available. In addition, the city’s economy is strong,…

Andriana Skaperdas Life Rumor has it.. that is it’s the “Holla Days” As soon as people ripped off their halloween costumes, it seemed that they were caught putting up their christmas lights. We should take a moment to pay tribute to the poor forgotten holiday that is caught between these two events; thanksgiving. Good, now let's focus on the presents, oops I mean the present. It really is the most wonderful time of the year. Spirits are lifted and everyone seems to be in a better mood.…

Day of the dead and halloween are very similar but in different countries. They are around the same time of the year but they have two different meanings to be celebrated. The first topic is about how they celebrate day of the dead is a 3 day period and halloween is only one day. During day of the dead they visit cemetery, leave food offerings shaped like skulls at the altar along with candles, incense and a picture of the dead person. During halloween we carve jack`o lanterns out of…

Think back to fond memories as a child. Do visions of running down on Christmas morning to see what Santa brought you come to mind? Or do you remember finding a dollar under your pillow after the tooth fairy came to visit you? Childhood traditional myths should not be abolished. These traditions should not be stopped because they teach good morals to children, they keep families close, and they encourage children to believe. First, these fanatical characters teach good morals to children.…