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    A Christmas Carol was a very iconic book‚ that inspired many movies‚ including a very popular animated version made by Disney. The book was written in a Victorian era‚ a time period where stories with ghosts existed‚ but were not very popular. This book was by far one of the most successful book that had ghosts as some of the main characters. This is just one of the reason that the ghosts that visited Ebenezer Scrooge are significant. The ghost of Christmas Past was very energetic and optimistic

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    play and the movie A Christmas Carol? There are many similarities between the drama play and the movie. There are also many differences. In the play‚ Scrooge is a greedy‚ self centered man who cares for nothing but money and himself. His old‚ dead friend and partner‚ Marley‚ visits Scrooge in the night to tell him to change. Marley sends three spirits to haunt Scrooge to enforce that change. Scrooge is shown his past by the Spirit of Christmas Past. Past shows Scrooge a Christmas long ago where he is

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    SCIENCE EXHIBIT TITLE: “ CHRISTMAS TREE ORIGAMI ( from materials probably lying around one’s house) Submitted by: [ III-B ] 1) Maria Teresa I. Mellejor 2) Jasmine Ballener 3) Marylou Sendrijas Submitted to: Mrs. Mercy Mae Serate I. RATIONALE OF THE RECYCLED PRODUCT a) INTRODUCTION b) SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EXHIBIT c) AVAILABILITY AND COST OF MATERIALS II. METHODOLOGY a) MATERIALS

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    Is Christmas Too Commercialized?    You finally crash through the doors to Wal-Mart with a large lady stepping on your hand. You look around. In the corner‚ there are two ladies getting in a fist fight to get the last outfit in their size. After an hour of pushing and shoving you finally get what you want: a plasma screen TV on sale‚ but you definitely had to pay the price.  You left the store with a black eye. The madness starts on black Friday and continues through the holiday season. Everyone

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    The novel‚ A Christmas Carol‚ uses the supernatural to change a man’s view over life dramatically. Scrooge seemed to be a pleasant man up until his business partner died. Scrooge and Jacob Marley owned somewhat of a large business that consisted of a counting house. Jacob Marley died on a Christmas eve which reminds Scrooge of his death every Christmas. Although Scrooge’s attitude couldn’t be changed by the average person‚ it would require a few ghosts to “save” him. Charles Dickens shows within

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    At the beginning of a Christmas Carol a greedy old man hated Christmas‚ but at the end he changes ways when he is shown his future. In class we read the play version of a Christmas Carol and listened to the audio version of the book. A Christmas Carol is about a greedy old man named scrooge. He is rude and hate Christmas. He is soon visited by three spirits‚ the ghost of Christmas past‚ present‚ and future. In his future Scrooge’s life is horrible and he dies all alone and nobody cares‚ in fact people

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    entire lives searching for the key to a meaningful life. But the question is which is more valuable - financial success or happiness. In A Christmas Carol‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ a greedy old miser named Scrooge endures such a search for meaning and ultimately finds the treasure of life. He needs the help of three spirits‚ who appear during the night on Christmas Eve‚ to help him see how his inconsiderate and greedy actions affect others and leave him alone. As a result of this experiment he changes

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    Christmas Feast in the Kalahari Richard Borshay Lee’s ethnography tells us about how the !Kung Bushmen react to an anthropologist’s act of kindness by sharing a huge ox for the Christmas feast. The Christmas ox is Lee’s way of saying thank you for the bushmen’s cooperation over the past year. The !Kung Bushmen’s knowledge of Christmas is thirdhand‚ introduced by the London Missionary Society to the southern Tswana tribes in the early nineteenth century‚ and later spread far

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    If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold‚ it would be a merrier world.” (J.R.R. Tolkien‚ The Hobbit) Many people think that if greed was non-existent‚ then the world would be a much better place. Greed is a big piece in “A Christmas Carol”. There are many versions to compare and contrast‚ but the script of the drama and the movie from 1984 were what was chosen. In the drama (the script) by Charles Dickens‚ there are four ghosts that visit Mr. Ebeneezer Scrooge‚ the

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