The House of the Spirits

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    different, they resembled each other in their religions, homes, and their food. Many tribes showed a likeness in what they believed. Many of them believed that everything has a spirit. From people to inanimate objects, all things in the world have some kind of spirit. Some of them believed that there were different spirits. For example, the Cree tribe thought…

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    Abigail Williams Jealousy

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    saw the spirits of the accused witches. When Danforth asked Abigail about whether or not Elizabeth kept poppets, Abigail lied and said “Goody Proctor always kept…

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    within Hill House on people for a summer. Although Eleanor’s feeling is conflicted by the death of her mother, she is extremely contented with the fact that she is freed from her imprisoned life. It is time for self-discovery. As she approaches Hill House, she excitedly imagines a different her with a different family, in which she would meet many great people and would be enjoying her simple life. Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House incorporates the idea of family into a haunted house.…

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    were asking scrooge if he would like to give money to charity and scrooge responded with the quote. Scrooge who is the main character works at a counting house and he is an older man. Scrooge has a clerk named Bob Cratchit who is a poor family man. Scrooge gets visited by three different ghosts or spirits during the story. The three spirits include the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas future, also known as the Ghost of Christmas yet to come.…

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    Mystery on the beach I just moved into my new beach front house. I was bored of unpacking, so I decided to get a snack at the shop next to the beach. I yelled to my mum “I am going to the corner store near the beach.” My mum has blond hair is 36, she is the coolest mum ever. My mum loves to go surfing with me. I was at the store and I thought that I will go build a sandcastle and I saw something when I was digging a hole to make a sandcastle ,it was white with red patches it smell really bad…

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    The Amityville Horror

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    family goes looking for a house and finds an insanely cheap house that looks amazing. They later find out that it's so cheap because there was a mass murder that happened there. The family that used to live there was all murdered in their beds by a family member who lived in their basement. Killing the couple and their two sons and two daughters. After they move in they go to a priest and have him bless their house, but the priest says it's very haunted and the evil spirit makes him blind and…

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    Ju-On The Grudge Analysis

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    identity of Japanese horror film with the hybridization of western slasher film. The chosen scene in Ju-on: The Grudge is at the ending of the film between Kayako, the vengeful spirit that kill everyone who’ve entered the house; and Rika, the main character of Ju-on. In that scene, Rika being antagonised by Kayako’s spirit where Rika tripped on the ground as frightened by Kayako crawling towards her. Rika finds Kayako gone as she covers and opened her eyes. However, Takeo, the deranged…

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    There is an abandoned house on Main Street. Chipping white paint covers some of its’ surface as well as overgrown ivy and moss. The foundation is stained brown from dirt and water. Old, yellowing curtains still hang in the windows with black shutters. Something is odd about this this house, though, because rotting tombstones remain standing in a cemetery behind it. Nobody can explain why it is there, because the only churches in town are Saint Ann’s on East Grand Street and Musconetcong Valley,…

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    speaks English because it was colonized by Great Britain. Like many countries Guyana has many customs and traditions that are followed by the citizens such as “nine nights”. Nine nights is defined as the ninth night following a burial, after which the spirit of the dead person is believed finally to rest; the culmination or main focus of the nine night celebration. When it comes to death…

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    Acts 5:3 “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?” The Holy Spirit must have revealed to Peter that Ananias was lying, therefore he asked him why he lied. I have heard it said that Ananias would not have been asked this question if he was a lost sinner, as Peter would have known that it is the way of the ungodly to not tell the truth. I find it at least reasonable to believe he was saved but Satan…

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