Essays Tagged: "bonfires"

A midsummer night's dream.

ight of the summer solstice on June 23, English men and women would spend the night outdoors around bonfires, telling supernatural tales of fairies and witchcraft. The play not only suggests this holi ...

(41 pages) 158 0 3.5 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

History of Halloween

ed that on the night of the October 31st, the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. They built huge bonfires and dressed in costumes to frighten the ghosts. The Celtic also offered the ghosts good thi ...

(1 pages) 1298 0 4.3 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Influence and Controversy of Comics in the 20th Century

pted the youth" and "poisoned the mind". Various churches, particularly the Landover Baptists, held bonfires declaring "The Lord loves the smell of burning books!" Not all people consider comic books ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Tomatina Festival

in is its Christmas Festivals, but one was created long before the Christmas Festivals. Hogureas or bonfires, it is the celebration of winter solstice. People gathered around fires and then jump over ...

(3 pages) 15 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Nazi Book Burnings

ty students and other supporters of the Nazi regime gathered books to be burned in large ceremonial bonfires as the culmination of the National Socialist student campaign against literature regarded a ...

(4 pages) 1436 0 0.0 Dec/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Legend of Halloween

and monsters all come out on Halloween. Known for a time to go trick-or-treating, having festivals, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses", viewing horror films, and going on haunted hay ... stitious beliefs, would take various measures to protect themselves from these disembodied spirits. Bonfires would be set on hilltops in hopes of frightening away evil spirits, and people would dress ...

(6 pages) 25 0 5.0 Dec/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology

The Significance of Setting in “Greasy Lake”

ky, the mud banks glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the charred remains of bonfires" (131). This tells me that Greasy Lake is a place that teens come to party and wreck havoc. ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Greasy Lake Analysis

and murky…glittering with broken glass and strewn with beer cans and the charred remains of bonfires". When they drove up to the lake, on the way they saw a metallic blue '57 Chevy, which they ...

(3 pages) 20 0 2.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A Missed Stitch in Time: an essay on the Kent State Shootings

act cause of this outbreak of violence is still widely debated today, although, there were cases of bonfires being built in the streets, cars being stopped, police cars hit with bottles, and store win ...

(6 pages) 11 0 3.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Informative EssayHistory Of Halloween

ould come back to life and cause mayhem such as damaged crops and sickness. The Gaels built massive bonfires and summoned the help from gods through animal and possibly human sacrifices to ward of the ...

(5 pages) 3 0 0.0 Jan/2013

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays