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    Halloween arrived and our Huskies did all kinds of different things on the spooky holiday. Many high school kids were discouraged to go out and have fun with crazy costumes since lately it is commonly mention that there is an age limit for trick or treating. Many people argue that high school students shouldn’t go trick or treating anymore since candy is mainly bought for little and young kids. Many students also believe that we are too old for it as well‚ but is this true? Well‚ true or not many

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    This essay will look at three films- Halloween‚ 300‚ and Frozen and the different critique styles under which they are viewed. Gender roles have been a theme for many films throughout time. One movie that particularly challenges the idea of gender roles in the horror genre is that of Halloween (1978). In many horror films‚ women are depicted as weak and rather ignorant victims of the killer that is coming to attack. That is very different from how Halloween depicts the heroine of the story. She

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    One Halloween night in Salt Lake City‚ Utah‚ a group of fifteen-year-olds were discussing their plans for their mischievious and haunted Halloween night. Five miles away from the Dillon household‚ there is an abandoned‚ wore-down‚ and supposedly possessed hospital. The town mayor‚ Mayor Jessica Laughlin‚ has forbid any town citizen to set foot in in the Salt Lake City Memorial Hospital. Why is it forbidden? Well‚ five years ago on Halloween night‚ at exactly midnight‚ everyone in the hospital disappeared

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    However‚ I have a grandmother who would always try to scare us around Halloween. She would perform all sorts of tricks in order to scare us. One time she dressed up in a black cloak with a horrifying skull mask and waited in the musty smelling basement for an hour and a half just to jump out at one of us when we walked down the creaking old stairs. She not only scared us physically‚ but she would tell us scary stories every Halloween night as well. There was just something about this story she told us

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    Halloween Pranks In the 1930s‚ two churches in Bradley with bells in relatively short steeples and standing in close proximity to each other became the setting for a Halloween prank enacted by a group of mischievous and ingenious boys. At each church‚ as groundwork for their shenanigans‚ they secured one end of a sufficiently long rope to the bell clapper and tossed the other end out of the steeple to the ground. The boys launched their stunt by ringing one of the bells from a hidden vantage point

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    grin forms across her face‚ instantly I know she wants something. Giving her a blank stare‚ I sit noticing her hair is all over the place‚ like bad sex hair. “What do you want?” I ask in a stern voice “Well I was wondering if you wanted to go to Halloween Horror Nights with me and the girls tonight?” “Ugh Amanda‚ first off I don’t have the money. Secondly I have class tomorrow‚” I say utterly annoyed. “I mean you’re

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    about the History of Halloween and why it ’s a contradiction. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter - "A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Introduce Topic - To simply do something because it ’s what everyone else is doing without knowing the reasons why they ’re doing it‚ is conformity. You might understand the term conformity when used as "sheeple" in the political world. Those who go with the growd‚ just because. Halloween and Religion

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    getting ready for Halloween. The final touches are being made to costumes and they are making sure the candy bowls are filled to the brim with candy for the trick or treaters. This year alone it is expected that consumers are going to spend about 9.1 billion dollars on Halloween alone. Halloween is one of the oldest holidays that are still celebrated today but many people do not know why we put on costumes and walk the streets to collect candy. The reason why we celebrate Halloween is important to

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    1888 PressRelease - Book and Website announcement. Cleo Hudson has written his first book and will be getting some great support from the owners of The Original Hip Hop Shop- Gig Lamarr‚ Keith Hudson‚ and 1st Born. Detroit Number’s Gangster Style! Bang for Pleasure! Bang for Love! Bang for Money! Bang! Bang! Bang! can be purchased @ www.detroitnumbersgangsterstyle.com. http://www.detroitnumbersgangsterstyle.com is the landing website to go to for the treat of Cleo Hudson’s gangster romance novel-

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    My spook tacular Halloween consists of three things‚ which are getting dressed up in my extravagant costume‚ eating superb candy‚ and watching “ Charlie Brown and the Pumpkin Patch” with my family. This may sound really fun right‚ well before I can enjoy my fun Halloween evening‚ I have a lot to accomplish before I am allowed to enjoy my evening. Normally the first thing I do in the morning is I bring the decorations up from the basement and hang them up. The next thing I have to do is absolutely

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