Halloween Is The Scariest Of All

Skulls, ghost, masks, and skeletons are symbols seen every year during two famous holidays, Dias de los Muertos and Halloween. There are many people who think Dias de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is the same celebration as Halloween, just the Mexican Version. Is it though? By looking at the celebrations of Dias de los Muertos and Halloween, and their background, then comparing and contrasting each one, an obvious difference will be seen.

Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. With Halloween just around the corner, you all are probably wondering where this strange tradition came from. Every year I have experienced this holiday and have done research on this topic. According to a 2014 Smithsonian.com article, stated by Natasha Geiling, in just one year Americans spent over six billion dollars on candy, costumes, and ghoulish decor in anticipation for Halloween. Many people think all Halloween is about dressing up and going trick or treating but there's more to it than that. The roots and variations from all around are what makes Halloween what it is today. In order to understand this holiday, we will go into the history of Halloween, how it's celebrated around the world, and superstitions revolving it.

Hurricane Sandy had major impact to the Jersey Shore; some people had less of an impact than others. I decided to interview a co-worker of mines that had major impact in her home, which was located in Seaside Heights, NJ. A couple days before the storm, she was watching CNN news, where they kept telling people to start evacuating and prepare for the worst to come. At first she thought with just a few piles of woods and sand to protect her home was going to be enough. As she kept watching the CNN news, she knew that what was coming was no joke. Evacuation was already taken place, people were starting to leave there homes, so instead she decided to come down to Elizabeth, NJ where her sister lived. Once she covered her house with wood and sand,

Introduction: Patrons of the season of Halloween spend over $2.5 billion dollars every year on candy, costumes, and decorations. Every year millions of kids get dressed up, knock on doors, and beg for candy. Have you ever wondered where this strange tradition originated? The three most important points of Halloween can be summed up by looking at its origins, how it came to include jack-o-lanterns and bobbing for apples, and how it is celebrated today with trick-or-treating and haunted houses.

Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween, and it affects people of all ages and ethnicities. When a fear, even a fear that starts off as rational, becomes intense and irrational to the point one goes into shock or cannot think it is considered a phobia. This particular phobia is one of the more common phobias, but it can still be fairly hard to diagnose. Samhainophobia is thought to affect eleven percent of people. To truly understand why this fear affects so many different people and age groups, it is imperative that one understands the history behind Halloween as well as the reasons behind fear itself and how it affects people, what treatments are effective and available to the general public.

Halloween and Dia de los Muertos are very interesting holidays in there own different ways. Halloween and Day of the Dead can be similar but on the bottom line they are very different by the way they decorate, what they eat, and how they celebrate the holidays. The two holidays may seem similar at first but after understanding the complexity of the ideas behind both holidays actions, your opinion can change. For example during Halloween some kids might go trick or treating but in Mexico during the Day of the Dead, people would go to grave sites and have picnics with people who have passed on and a famous sauce they would eat is mole sauce which is like a spicy chocolate sauce. There are a lot of differences to explore about the two

People lost their faith after Hurricane Sandy struck. Many went without homes for months or even longer. Most didn’t have food or clothes or have a place to live. Some lost their loved ones and others got severely hurt. They lost their faith in everything because they got everything taken away from them. Superstorm Sandy was a tropical storm that hit the east coast of the United States in the year of 2012.

As a child I wanted every holiday to be like Halloween so I could collect massive amounts of sweet candy. All of the children in the neighborhood would walk house to house in a large group to prevent being kidnapped. After trick-or-treating, my friends and I would trade with each other until we each had all of our favorite candy. But as I grow older I tend to see how much the holiday has changed through the amount of candy, parties, and costumes.

As the Assistant Administrator of National Preparedness with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (F.E.M.A.) when Super Storm Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012, in New Jersey it brought with it storm surges of more than 11 feet, killing more than 100 people (including 43 in New York of which 34 occurred in Queens and Staten Island), destroying or damaging thousands of homes, and leaving more than 8 million people without power.

For the longest time Spike a 6-year-old boy spike was scared of clowns, it started when he walked in on his mom and dad watching a scary clown movie. Ever since then the poor little boy could not get over his fear. Poor little spike could not go to the circus, birthday parties or fairs.

C. Thesis Statement: Going from what the meaning of Halloween is in America today and looking back at it’s roots, it has evolved dramatically. And just recently we have been seeing a comeback from one of those roots, but do we know it’s real cultural significance?

In late October of 2012 Hurricane Sandy hit many New York City boroughs and several parts of New Jersey. My community and many others were greatly affected. Homes around me were destroyed, people in my community were killed, and some families lost everything. My high school was a shelter for those who were severely affected from October 23rd my high school were asking for volunteers and my older brother and I were there amongst hundreds giving out food collecting clothing articles, blankets, toys, anything to help others. The hardest part was seeing my high school teachers crying educators who were emotionally unstable and had no place to go. The town of Tottenville was terribly affected by hurricane sandy, houses on the shore were gone,

Day of the Dead and Halloween are very similar yet mostly different. Both holidays are around the same time each year and both celebrations involve costumes, skeletons and treats. Yet, they are two separate holidays with different origins, beliefs, and meanings. Both holidays are mostly different from each other. Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) are mostly different in my opinion.

No one believed the storm would be as bad as it was, after all, growing up in a beach town when someone says hurricane you think of light rain and maybe some wind. But this time it was different, Sandy was a perfect storm, all arrows pointed to destruction and that is exactly what happened. During this storm many people were critically injured, many lost their homes becoming impoverished, and people even lost their lives.  Among the miles and miles of our country 's eastern coastline, devastation hit. Places like Ortley Beach were often referred to as “ground zero” because after Sandy was done, there was little remnants of it. This third degree category hurricane which later was

Many Americans celebrate a wide variety of holidays that memorializes an event that changed history or feelings of love, gratitude and prosperity. However, on Halloween many dress in haunting costumes, go door to door for an overload of candy, carve silly and scary pictures into pumpkins, and watch horror films to celebrate, with out a clear reason to why. There is no love or gratitude linked to this holiday, only an eerie evil and mischief. All of our most illogical fears come to life in haunted houses, movies, books and cemetery walks. Not only on October 31, we prepare and celebrate the entire month, but it is not common knowledge as to why we do this all.