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Halloween: A Groundbreaking Film Essay Halloween was, and still is, a classic horror movie for three simple reasons: originality, flattery, and durability. Upon its release in 1978, Halloween set a new standard for horror movies, proving that it was possible to create genuine chills without excessive amounts of blood, overpaid actors, or a gigantic budget….

Even though it was many years ago, I vividly remember my first Thanksgiving dinner. I was a little kid, no older than the age of seven. I flew in that day from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where we had attended a special ceremony honoring my uncle. As a result of the hectic flight schedule, I did…

On the eve of All Saints’ Day, a young boy went to a casa de los fantasmas. Outside, there were esqueletos hanging on the walls. He was wearing glow-in-the-dark mascara, carrying a calavera in one hand, and a saco in the other. His disfraz masked his miedo. He only wished he had carried a linterna…

Coming to the United States as an international student from Sweden, Igot introduced to many new traditions and holidays. Some of these holidaysare also celebrated in Sweden, for example Christmas and Easter, even if wemight celebrate them a little differently. But, I also got to experiencenew and different traditions. One of the new traditions I…

The First Thanksgiving Essay On September 6, 1620, 102 men, women and children from England boarded a small cargo boat called the Mayflower and set sail for the New World. The passengers left their homes in England in search of religious freedom from the King of England. Today they are known as pilgrims. After braving…

Halloween is the best holiday of the year, and should be more actively worshipped than all the rest of the holidays. This is because Halloween relieves people form the stress of everyday life, Halloween was originally a Wiccan holiday, and because on Halloween the television stations play all the good horror movies. Halloween is the…

My ghosts of Thanksgiving Past and Present EssayHolidays have always been important in my life. I can remember every Christmas and Thanksgiving since I was real young. Each memory holds a special place in my heart as well as every one in the future also. Thanksgiving has also been my favorite holiday since I love…

The greatness of Lady Chatterley’s Lover lies in a paradox: it is simultaneously progressive and reactionary, modern and Victorian. It looks backwards towards a Victorian stylistic formality, and it seems to anticipate the social morality of the late 20th century in its frank engagement with explicit subject matter and profanity. One might say of the…

In his play The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970s. However, many of these attitudes are still relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990s, although some of course have changed somewhat over the time since the play was written nearly twenty years ago. Tradition plays a very…

REPUBLICAN PARTYThe Republican party is one of the two major POLITICAL PARTIES in the United States, the other being the DEMOCRATIC PARTY party. It is popularly known as the GOP, from its earlier nickname Grand Old Party. From the time it ran its first PRESIDENTIAL candidate, John C. Fremont, in 1856, until the inauguration of…