The Christmas Invasion

follows the laughter with a toast to his uncle’s health. This gesture of commendation for someone so unpleasant helped Scrooge realize how forgiving people can be, and to many people, he owes genuine repentance. In the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Scrooge pledges that he sincerely hopes to change his ways. The trembling of the spirit’s hand at the conclusion of Stave Four suggests that there truly is a chance for Scrooge to overthrow the prophecy he was just presented, and…

large, varying assortment of many classic tales that bring wonderful memories to everyone 's minds. Dickens has crafted many amazing stories in his career as an author. One of his most famous stories was A Christmas Carol. This novel can relate to so many different ideological aspects towards Christmas. Dickens is a very influential author who talked a lot about the Christian ideologies through his works of literature. This novel brings to light many Christian beliefs, ways of life, and the…

William Shakespeare’s King Lear, King Lear learns the true nature of those around him when he is forced to endure emotional and physical hardships. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, three spirits expose Ebenezer Scrooge to those who suffer from his actions several times before he redeems himself. In King Lear and A Christmas Carol, both Lear and Scrooge must persevere through life’s trials in order to redeem themselves. First, both Lear and Scrooge’s…

Christmas was arriving much quicker than anticipated and everyone in my family was rushing in order to prepare the house for the annual festivities. Each individual was assigned a certain task to handle, and luckily for me I was designated to finish decorating the house. I was ecstatic, practically doing backflips across a corn field happy. I loved the idea of being creative and getting to watch all of my family’s faces when they saw all the hard work I did. I had brought out all the bins,…

The Evolution of Television and the Vanquishing of Human Value For years now, television has been invading the homes of families and subtly damaging family rituals. From black and white to color and high definition, television has changed. Television has changed in appearance, and has changed in how it plays a role in families’ lives. A few years ago, many families did not own a T.V set and now it is almost as if it’s competition to see who watches more T.V, or who has the most and better T.V…

As I am sitting in the cold, frigid, choir room, I am focused on my choir director, Mr. DeBore, who is wearing khaki dress pants with a light blue dress shirt, and a blue and tan designed tie. Behind him is a bright green wall covered with posters of cheat-sheets with different subject matter we cover in class and see in our sheet music every day. As he begins to start warm ups, like we do every morning, a thought comes to his mind and as usual, he trails off to a totally different topic. It was…

When I first learned about the mid term project I did not think about what relationship I wanted to do the project on until I was talking to my roommate about home. I realized that I wanted to do my project on my mom who reminds me of home all the time. I had a hard time deciding what I wanted to do with this until I saw some of the other presentations on the first day and that is where I discovered my inspiration and that night I worked on my first art piece. This whole process was definitely a…

The tree Arianna Dunphy Narrative summative The wiping cold rushing wind hit me hard as a rock while i leaped impatiently i couldn't wait to get to the top of the pine tree.i hadn't jumped this fast in a while.It Was late fall I was going to the top of the pine tree, there were 4 thick branches crossed over each other there weren't too big of a gap so you couldn't fall through the branches then there was a branch strong enough to hold you up to a tiny clearing to look out on the woods and…

On December the 2nd of 2014 I went to go see Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol A Ghost Story of Christmas at Alley theatre in the University of Houston. This work of art included a bit of many things such as ballet, choral music, musical theatre, and even a violin solo recital. The Composer of A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens had been born Portsmouth, England on February 7th of 1812 and he died on the 9th of June in the year 1870 having lived about 58 years long. Charles…

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