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    Along with Christmas and New Year’s, Halloween is celebrated all around the world, and it just so happens to be the best holiday ever and others agree. According to the Theodysseyonline.com, “Regardless of religion or nationality, Halloween is for everyone. But the greatest thing of all -- if you’re not into it, you do not have to participate!” It’s the perfect excuse to dress up and act like a kid. This holiday has the best events, food, parties, and decorations. Halloween is a great excuse…

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    is the best loved and largest candle company in the world. This famous candle brand earned its reputation in high quality and fine fragrance candles making for over 40 years. It all took place on Christmas in 1969, when sixteen-year-old Mike Kittredge did not have enough money to buy his mom a Christmas present, so used some old red crayons, canning wax, kitchen string, and a milk carton to make his mom a candle (“The Yankee Candle Story”). A neighbor saw it and convinced Mike to sell the candle…

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    Being considerate and helpful to others is what makes you have a humanity. “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is a story about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge who was tremendously greedy and was visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to make him see what his selfishness had caused him.This story has multiples themes, such as social justice, the true meaning of humanity, etc. Greed overtakes the humanity of those who possess it because it pushes away everyone you love and…

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    and the brilliant advert to watch on TV at Christmas time? It is John Lewis: the long wait advert. This Christmas advert clearly gives a great message about Christmas. In this advert, there have shown Christmas in a different perspective. It was a wonderful advert, that make me confused on how to start tell you about the advert. This advert is about a young boy waiting restlessly for Christmas, he tries to do a lot of different tricks to make the Christmas come quickly such as he tries to use…

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    Organising the Ultimate Christmas Dinner Party is far from easy, but it can become a smoother process by following some useful tips. Make a To-do List. Several days before the event kicks off, take some time to think of all the things you need to make, buy, organise and create in order for the party to run smoothly. From comprising the menu to figuring out all the details of the decorations you need to put a lot of thought and much planning into the things that need to be done. Jot them down…

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    At my form’s Christmas party, my secret Santa brought a shimmering star, filled with an expensive perfume that smells of burned sugar, melting caramel and snow. Someone put a thought into this, took my name literal, in a nice way. I look around, check the faces, smooth images with only names attached: I cannot tell. Tessa and I exchange our presents later, while drinking mulled wine and Whams! Last Christmas is playing for the fifths time. The main lecture hall is dipped in red and fairy lights…

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    people know, Hallmark has entered the amazing world of book publishing, and the first books they published were four beloved Christmas novelizations of popular Christmas movies that have previously aired on their network. One of these was A Heavenly Christmas, originally written for the screen by Gregg McBride, but adapted by Rhonda Merwarth as an ebook. Because Christmas was such a busy time, only recently did Rhonda have an opportunity to answer a few questions about herself and her books, and…

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    homes over what the biggest and most in demand Xmas gifts will be. Many years it is the latest games console, with the Wii being extremely popular over the last two years and I remember when I was young (which isn't too long ago I assure you) one Christmas praying for a Tracey Island, from Thunderbirds, as my number one among the Xmas gifts I wished to receive that holiday. I actually got one and was made up for at least a year and it still has pride of place on top of my wardrobe; I should be…

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    “All I Want for Christmas” plays on the radio while you drive through the neighborhood seeing bright lights outlining the roofs of houses and decorations scattered about the yards. This is a typical scene during the Christmas holiday, which begins the day after Thanksgiving and ends well into the new year. It is considered the most wonderful time of the year – a time filled with decorating houses inside and out, rushing around for the “perfect” gifts, attending parties, spending time with your…

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    hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings and they must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string. A part of the traditional games that are played during Halloween are in the forms of divination. In All Hallows' Eve celebrations, these activities were considered to be "deadly serious" practices, and it only occurred in the countryside of medieval Europe and were only done by a "rare few" during the Middle Ages. In the traditional Scottish form, carving an…

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