Halloween is the second most celebrated holiday in America‚ Christmas being the first. We as a country spend over 2.5 billion dollars annually on costumes‚ decorations and candy. Around the world‚ Halloween has evolved into a trick-or-treating tradition celebrated by many. Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival‚ Samhain. The Celtic people lived about 2‚000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland‚ Northern France‚ and the United Kingdom. According to the Irish English Dictionary
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Halloween‚ also known as Allhalloween‚ All Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Eve‚ is a yearly celebration on the 31st of October‚ the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. It starts the three-day worship of Allhallowtide‚ the time in the ritualistic year dedicated to remembering the dead. Many scholars believe it is a Christian holiday‚ however it is widely observed by both Christians and non-Christians. To celebrate‚ children dress up in costumes and ring stranger’s doorbells soliciting
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The days were ticking down. Halloween was now less than a week away and the need for decoration was essential. In a town named Exitium‚ about thirty minutes away from the California-Oregon border‚ Halloween was a huge thing. Every year there was a decorating contest. The winner for five years in a row was a woman named Sarah Smith. This woman had short‚ black‚ bouncy hair. She was a single mother and had a foster child‚ Harris. While Harris was at school‚ Sarah was rushing around stores and malls
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Define Halloween For most people‚ Halloween is another day on the calendar‚ but for others it is a celebration of uniqueness. Halloween is a way to bring communities together and allow everyone to be whomever they want to be for the day. This liberating feeling has drawn the attention of millions of people worldwide. Over $6 billion dollars is spent towards Halloween each season. But what does it all mean? What makes up Halloween? How Do We Define Halloween? If you were to look in the dictionary
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The True Meaning of Halloween - The True Meaning of Halloween Halloween is a holiday which has been around for a lot longer than many may think. Even the traditions which seem so modern and economically rooted are almost as old as the tradition of Halloween itself. There is a lot of confusion as to when the tradition of Halloween began. Many think that Halloween began with the Celts. The Celts celebrated Samhain which was a holiday that symbolized the end of the time of the light and the beginning
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According to October 31st the where millions of people celebrate Halloween is one of the holidays that I think are not reckoned to be celebrated as one because there isn’t a strong meaning for it as other holidays do have the reasons to act thus. Arriving from a different culture‚ believing in strongly to respect and forgive others‚ I am Christian orthodox‚ which believes such as Halloweens are not acceptable to observe as holidays. Yet‚ that’s exactly what I believe and what I had found out‚ but
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What is better than Halloween‚ my birthday‚ and the weather? Every season is awesome‚ but fall is my favorite season! To begin‚ my favorite season is fall because of Halloween. Carving pumpkins when it is Halloween is fun to do with family and friends. Working together to take the seeds out‚ and then we carve the pumpkins‚ and at last we all put our candles in the middle and looking at everyone else’s. I love Trick or Treating. Something to do with family and friends‚ getting candy‚ and
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with the release of his terrifying new film Halloween. The film follows a group of young females as they are stalked‚ tormented and inevitably killed by an escaped lunatic wearing a Halloween mask and wielding a knife. The film was revolutionary for the many themes and concepts it introduced‚ (including the concept of the final girl) things that have been so often repeated they have become tropes of the genre. However the initial praise heaped upon Halloween for it ’s portrayal of a previously unheard
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I saw this post on and it was about how Halloween decorations in Ohio were to scary. Like really? I could put up Halloween decorations and have people complain they are to scary? People need to realize it is Halloween is a scary holiday that is the point to scare you. If I put those decorations up I wouldn’t take them down until after Halloween was over. I don’t know the full story but I know people in the community were complaining about this Halloween decorations of these people now I don’t get
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In its modernity‚ Halloween is the only day out of the entire year where a person is encouraged to be someone wildly different from themselves‚ with (almost) no negative repercussions. Thus‚ people tend to outdo themselves when it comes to crafting their "persona" for the night‚ taking much of their inspiration from movies‚ video games‚ the news‚ and even Internet memes to build the greatest costumes. In retrospect‚ there is a lot of taking during the biggest let-loose-before-the-season-of-giving
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