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    Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” Written by Charles Dickens. Ebenezer Scrooge is a horrible man who is haunted by three spirits overnight in hopes to make a new man out of the old miser. Throughout this story, Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by three spirits ,Christmas present, past, and future, and during this time he learns about his greed, what joy he missed on christmas, and that he had a chance to become better. During the first haunting Scrooge was haunted by The Ghost Of Christmas Past. In this

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    Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge, was disrespectful to everyone around him, is miserable now that Marley, his business partner of many years has died. According to the text, Scrooge hates things like happiness, generosity, and Christmas. Oh! How he hates Christmas! His feelings about Christmas are consistent until three ghosts show him that his way of thinking is wrong. On pages one and two, it says “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather could chill

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    honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” (Scrooge, p.140). A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is an important story as it has a meaningful theme of change, as the quotes states above. But that isn’t the only theme that this beautiful story shows us. Many different spirits encounter him to help him realize why Christmas is important

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    The song, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” is a very happy and cheerful song that is played during the month of December to bring out the Christmas spirit in people. The history behind it is how two men got their big break and made one of the most played Christmas songs of all time. The song was originally written by John Frederick Coots and composed by Haven Gillespie on October 1933. Gillespie was in charge of expressing his gift of writing children's song lyrics while Coots came up with the tune

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    selfish person when he gave Christmas day off to his employee, and thereupon he says it is the only day of the year his employee can rob him. The next anecdote that follows that, it says he wouldn’t even give his clerk a fire to keep warm, so his clerk used a candle hoping to stay warm. Based on what I read he had a pointed nose and frost on his head and was always a grumpy elderly man. Nevertheless, he always had a reason to discourage a human being. When the ghost of Christmas past came it showed him

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    An aspiring New York actress who is considering abandoning her dream and taking a real job in Chicago following years of near-misses and bit parts, lands the role of a lifetime in a new production of A Christmas Carol. However, the play’s director is a successful TV actor, and the one she blames for her biggest professional disappointment. First of all, let me applaud the myriad of people involved behind the scenes because there are several things I noticed that set this movie apart from the typical

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    and German soldiers found peace in the trenches of battle. This moment in time has been dubbed the Christmas Truce and marks a powerful moment in history where the spirit of Christmas overcame 5 months of strife during World War I. Imagine sitting in the trenches of a British bunker on Christmas eve, when across the field from you, the German enemy breaks into song. You hear the faint sound of Christmas joy during a time of war, but cannot believe what your hearing. You feel as if your ears have betrayed

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    2, 2017, I attended A Christmas Carol: The Musical, a production featured in the Amaturo Theater at Broward Center for the Performing Arts. A Christmas Carol is about an elder man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who despises Christmas. Scrooge is a wealthy man infatuated with the idea of money, which makes him a very stingy, greedy, selfish, and egotistic human-being. Working as a banker, Scrooge has an employee named Bob Cratchit, who works long hours, for very little pay. On Christmas eve, Cratchit gives hints

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    Most Christmas stories are all about love, presents or Santa Claus. This story is far from things like that. This story is about twins and how one christmas turned their whole world up upside down. Let me stop talking and get straight to the story. Down in the center of a small town named Hollow was this grand house with lights flashing a variety of colors. The yard was decorated with different but extravagant lawn decor on top of the piles of white puffy snow. From the outside looking in you

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    A Christmas Carol Do you ever feel like people change? In A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, Scrooge is a grouchy, unsocial, miserly, uncharitable old man. He is extremely unsympathetic and bah humbugs everything to do with Christmas. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is magically visited by 3 ghosts. The ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. Scrooge has a rude awakening of haunting memories he holds onto. These memories make him feeling as if he needs a second chance and a fresh start

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