...Pumpkins are the most popular decoration during Halloween. Not only do they provide a whimsical and spooky feel, they also provide light for trick-or-treaters on Halloween night. Every year, millions of Americans break out their knives and transform their pumpkins into glowing jack-o'-lanterns. The good thing about pumpkins is that they are essentially blank canvases. This allows buyers to create a variety of different looks, be it frightening or charming. Getting Started Before getting started, buyers will need to ensure they have all the proper materials on-hand. Although materials may vary, there is a basic set of tools for carving basic jack-o'-lanterns. Selecting the Pumpkin When selecting a pumpkin, buyers should look for one that is large, but not too large. The pumpkin itself should be large enough to carve eyes, a nose, and a mouth. It should also be quite firm to the touch and solid. The shape of the pumpkin does not...
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...Peter's Pumpkin In the spring Peter made a plan. He wanted a pumpkin for Halloween. Halloween is in the autumn. 'I will plant a pumpkin in my garden,' he said. Widgit symbol copyright Widgit Software 2010 www.widgit.com HALLOWEEN STORY AND ACTIVITY In the summer Peter watered his plants. He saw all the plants growing. 'The sun and the water help them grow,' he said. Widgit symbol copyright Widgit Software 2010 www.widgit.com HALLOWEEN STORY AND ACTIVITY In September Peter looked at his pumpkin. It was huge. 'Good!' he said. 'Next month is Halloween.' Widgit symbol copyright Widgit Software 2010 www.widgit.com HALLOWEEN STORY AND ACTIVITY 1 2 3 4 In October the autumn leaves were falling. Peter made a plan for his party. His mum invited Peter's friends from school. She helped Peter cut the pumpkin. Widgit symbol copyright Widgit Software 2010 www.widgit.com HALLOWEEN STORY AND ACTIVITY It was 31st October. Peter and his family got the garden ready. Everyone arrived. They had lots of fun. 'Thanks, Peter,' they said when they left. Widgit symbol copyright Widgit Software 2010 www.widgit.com HALLOWEEN STORY AND ACTIVITY Peter planted some seeds. Peter watered his plants. His pumpkin grew and grew. He cut the stalk. He cut off the top. He cut out some triangles for eyes. He cut out a nose and a mouth. Widgit symbol copyright Widgit Software 2010 www.widgit.com HALLOWEEN STORY AND ACTIVITY Possible vocabulary to...
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...Pumpkins Pumpkins are a fruit that belong in the same family as squash and cucumbers. They are grown in six of the seven continents. In the United States the pumpkin is a common symbol in many fall activities and holidays, the most popular of them being Halloween and thanksgiving. October is the month in which the majority of pumpkins are sold. On October 31 children and adults alike use pumpkins to make jack lanterns. These decorations are most commonly in the form of a face represented by the eyes, nose, and mouth. A candle is typically placed inside allowing light to shine through providing the “lantern “effect. Pumpkins are also edible and are used in many recipes. In the colonial times they were used to make pie crusts, but now it is much more common to be used as a filling instead. They were also used by the Indians for medicinal purposes as a first aid for snake bites. Trees Trees are a very symbolic plant. Used as an outline to map ones family history, to being a self sustained ecosystem of its own, the tree has represented many things throughout history. With its roots reaching deep into the ground to provide nutrients for the trunk, branches, and leaves, they are a perfect example of the circle of life. As the leaves wither and die they fall to the ground and begin to decay providing food to be used again by the tree from which they came. This self perpetuating cycle has been around for billions of years and continues today. This phenomenon has...
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...aptly-named yellow summer squash. Winter squash are hardier than their summer cousins and are available from August to March, but they’re at their best from October to November, and they can be stored for extended periods ranging from 1-6 months. Winter squash include varieties such as pumpkins, acorn, butternut and spaghetti squash. Most of us are familiar with pumpkins as they are carved into scary looking jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween. The type of pumpkins used for the lanterns are less edible and it’s typically the smaller, sugar pumpkins that are used in cooking. The dried seeds are also a favourite in many dishes. Squash history Squashes are originally native to Central and South America and pumpkins in particular were one of the staples in the Central American diet. The name pumpkin is derived from the old French word ‘pompion’ meaning ripe or cooked by the sun. Over time, squash cultivation spread across North America, the Native Americans called them ‘askutasquash’ which is where the modern name ‘squash’ originates. Squash was once such an important part of their diet that they buried them along with the dead to provide nourishment on their final journey. The US tradition of eating pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving originates from the kindness shown by Squanto, a native American who taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate squash, saving them from almost certain starvation following their first harsh winter in the...
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...2015 How to Carve a Pumpkin! Ah, Halloween…it is that wonderful time of year when everyone in the neighborhood comes together to adopt new identities, gorge on free candy, and frighten small children. Littering their yards with cheap Styrofoam gravestones. There is nothing more representative of that crisp autumn night than the sight of a plump Pumpkin grinning merrily on one’s front stoop? People get very creative when carving pumpkins some people choose not to carve them but paint them. No one is born wise in the ways of goo and knives. These are learned skills. With this handy guide, a person should gain the ability to carve a wonderful looking pumpkin. To carve a pumpkin a person needs to pick out the one he or she chooses, clean all the goop and seeds out of it, and then carve and display it. First of all, the size, and shape of the pumpkin are very important. Be sure to choose the right size pumpkin to go along with whatever design they wish to create. People will be going to the grocery store or the pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin suitable for a Jack-O-Lantern makeover. One of my favorite memories as a child was going to the pumpkin patch and I would run through the fields looking for the perfect one along with my siblings. Keep in mind that the bigger the pumpkin, the longer it will take to clean it out. So choose a pumpkin that is between 12 and 20 inches in diameter, with a strong, intact stem would be...
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...the town’s festivities and avoids socializing with the community. While the lighthouse keeper is working on paperwork, the light stops working and the lighthouse goes dark. The importance of the lighthouse is to avoid incoming ships hitting the shore rocks, causing possible loss of the ship, its cargo, and even the passengers on board. As the lighthouse keeper is attempting to fix the light, he further breaks the glass shell of the light beyond repair. A panic comes across the lighthouse keepers eyes as he sees an incoming ship headed straight towards the shore rocks. During this time, the town folk noticed the lighthouse stopped working. They all decided to stop partying and grab a lantern to head to the lighthouse. As the entire town quickly makes their way to the lighthouse with lanterns in hands, they make their way to the top of the lighthouse to provide enough light for the ship to see the rocks and steer clear of danger. Although, the film I chose isn’t a typical corporate organization, I believe it relays an important message. As it may be one person’s responsibility for a specific job duty, it is our social responsibility to help our friends and coworkers in getting the job done if it is needed. Without the assistance of the town, the lighthouse keeper would have not been able to fix the light and steer the ship from danger. This could have caused major damage to the people on board the ship, as well as the possible cargo and the ship it’s self. Teamwork is...
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...Mary Martin Coleman Camping Products MKTG305-1103B-06 Marketing Management Project Type: Unit 3 Discussion Board September 6, 2011 Coleman Camping Products In a down economy, people are staying close to home instead of taking extravagant vacations. This has made local camping and fishing more desirable. Coleman has a variety of camping products (Lanterns, stoves, tents, flashlights, canoes, etc.) to make camping more enjoyable. Coleman has teamed up with the Pringle’s Corporation in the grillin’ summer sweepstakes where one Coleman RoadTrip LXE grill will be given away every day from Memorial Day to Labor Day to somebody that registered at pringles.com. Consumers registered will also be entered to win a Coleman’s backyard party packages. One of the slogans for the Coleman Corporation is “being in the outdoor has so much to offer and Coleman has everything to help you get out there”. Coleman products are offered in many retail stores, sporting goods stores, and online. Coleman offers special package deals, such as the camping package(tent, sleeping bag, lantern, heater, stove, etc.), backyard party package (Canopy, chairs, grill, etc.), and backyard grilling’ packages. They also offer many promotional coupons and free shipping on products over $60 (Coleman, 2011). Coleman could offer a gift card with purchase of a package special to help promote the new gift card program. Natural Pleasures was one of Coleman Corporations marketing campaigns. Camping and using Coleman products...
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...Thanksgiving Introduction Thanksgiving is a traditional annual celebration and it is celebrated on the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday people gather around a table with family and friends to celebrate this day. Thanksgiving has a different meaning for some people, but for most of them is synonymous of huge meals, parades, football match and spending quality time with the beloved ones. This holiday is not only about cooking delicious dishes and spending time with family but also is a reminder of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. More than half of American families celebrate thanksgiving. History The Thanksgiving Day had its origins in a mixture of European and aboriginal traditions. Both cultures had their own different way of celebrating the harvest day, but when the Europeans came to America for the first time; they brought their own tradition better known as the harvest festival which celebrates the end of their journey as well as the good harvest of the year. Despite the origins of Thanksgiving Day, this holiday is similar in Canada and the United States but everyone celebrates it in their own way. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621; where a group of 102 people (the pilgrims) from England arrived to the new world. They found a village called Plymouth. As the winter came along and diseases...
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...from the precipitation and you can feel the cool air gently fan across your whole entire body. Not only that, but later in September, the leaves start to turn into the beautiful array of sunburst orange, medallion yellow and cherry red, and when the leaves start to fall onto the cold hard ground, you can feel and hear the crunch of the leaves beneath your feet. The cool air is so crisp and refreshing; you can feel the slight wind of the cool air tingle your cheeks lightly. The weather is not to cold and not too warm, it is just the perfect measure of both. It is lovely. Not only is the sight of fall beautiful, the different aromas in the air are just as pleasing. Fall has such a unique smell in the air. It is a wonderful mixture of sweet pumpkin pie, burning firewood from the tall chimneys and pickling spices, When you take a deep breath in, it feels so refreshing like chewing on a piece of mint bubblegum. The air is a big part of fall. It creates a comforting...
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...What is my favorite thing about fall? My absolute favorite thing about fall is The Ohio State University football games. When football season starts, I know it's fall. I also like the other parts of fall like fall food, autumn decorations and shopping for fall clothes. In the fall, I like to go to an OSU football game. There's something about watching a football game in the stadium that makes everything better. When The Ohio State team wins, you can hear the victory bell ring for what seems like forever. I like seeing the whole game in person. Sometimes you miss things watching it on tv. At half time, you can see the band and see OSU honor people like those in the army for their service. You can also see Urban Meyer get angry or happy when...
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...didn’t think I would make it this far, I went to the help of my youth group and community for assistance. The end goal for this project was to create a lasting relationship between the the elderly and youth through fun activities that people of all ages could enjoy. Some of them included karaoke, trivia, and pumpkin carving, which happened to be my favorite, because it reached out to the elderly in the community that couldn’t get out on their own, but still got to be apart of everything that we did. From my silver award I had grown a relationship with my local nursing home, and I got to see that they don’t receive many visitors on a daily basis so I wanted to do something special for them that would get them in the holiday spirit. After the pumpkin carving and decorating activity was over, instead of throwing away all of our hard work we decided to deliver the pumpkins to the seaview nursing home where we set all of the carved pumpkins outside on a ledge that could be viewed from a large window in the social room. We also put the decorated ones inside so that the residents could get a better look at some the creativity and effort that had been put in from inside. After the pumpkins had all been lit outside, the nurses turned down the lights, and you could see their faces light up. It was one of the best feelings I have ever had in the world. This idea was something that I was very passionate about because I am super close to my grandmother, and I feel that sometimes people get scared...
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...Pumpkin Genocide Every year around Halloween the act of carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns always seems like a perfect idea, doesn’t it? For you, maybe, but for a pumpkin like me it hits close to home. If you could put yourself into my shoes, (if I could wear shoes) Halloween would be a dreaded time for you and your family. Humans snatching the innocent neighbors, siblings, cousins, or even parents and children of pumpkins from their home to poke holes in them? Horrible. Carving pumpkins is not right; children are taking the lives of pumpkins all over the world for one night of pleasure and most them don’t even know why. Do you know what the Holocaust is? It was a mass killing of all the Jewish people by the Germans in the late 1930’s and it went on for almost a decade. It sounds terrible and horrific, right? Think about all the pumpkins being cut open and placed on front porches for Halloween every year. You’re resembling a nazi murderer every Halloween and do you really want that on your conscience? Pumpkins are being killed for Halloween just because they’re pumpkins; it’s not our fault. It seems like children these days obtain pleasure from poking holes in pumpkins and spilling out our guts just to fill us with a candle. These children are psychotic, arsonistic, crazy, and just disgusting. My family’s guts stuck in your fingers, and you’re laughing? It makes me sick. Kids say, “pumpkins are going to rot and die anyway!” but so are they so why not cut up children...
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...6 Weird Habits Of Successful People December 18, 2012 We call people weird because they do things differently than we would. Seth Godin wears those brightly colored but mismatched socks. Steve Jobs’ work uniform was a black turtleneck and jeans. Look around and you can see the obvious differences in a lot of successful people. What most business owners don’t see when they look at successful people are the habits they’ve developed. Leonard DaVinci slept two hours at a time in four-hour intervals. Charles Dickens would only write and sleep facing north. Some of their weirdness was superstition, but a lot of it wasn’t. Here are six weird habits of successful people. 1.They think backward. Successful people start at the finish. Most of us have been taught to take one step, then the next, and the next until we arrive at our destination or goal. But successful people, like rocket scientists, actually clearly define the outcome they want first, and then reverse engineer the steps they need to take to get there. 2. They like to repeat themselves, a lot. They repeat themselves a lot. If you’re pre-vinyl and never heard a broken record, think “repeat” or “loop.” Successful people don’t stop when they have a success. When they succeed, they try to figure out ways to repeat that success. 3. They cut corners. Once successful people figure out how to repeat success, then they figure out how to get the same result faster, easier and cheaper. There’s a fine line between cutting corners...
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...Ms.Kogut THE UGLY PUMPKIN All the puppets are sitting around with their arms wrapped around their knees (acting like a PUMPKIN) In front of a sign that says "PUMPKIN PATCH" Pumpkin 1: Man I HATE Halloween! Pumpkin 2: Ya, me too. Pumpkin 1 Why - what's the matter with halloween? Pumpkin 2: Don't you know? Pumpkin 1: First, they cut off your vine! (PUMPKIN 2 looks worried) Pumpkin 1: then they cut your head open! (PUMPKIN 2 GRABS HIS HEAD) Pumpkin 1: and pull out your guts! (PUMPKIN 2 GRABS HIS TUMMY) Pumpkin 1: then they cut you up with a saw! Pumpkin 1: or a knife! Pumpkin 1: or a drill! Pumpkin 1: THEN they put a candle in you to light you up! Pumpkin 1: and leave you on the porch to rot for months!! Pumpkin 2 (looking scared to death): NO WAY! How do we get out of it? Pumpkin 3: QUIET EVERYONE - I know a way - just be as UGLY as possible, then they won't pick you! ALL Pumpkins: OK - ya, let's do that! The pumpkins all say : shhhhh - here come some people everyone - BE UGLY! (The two people walk around the pumpkin patch shopping for a pumpkin) Shopper 1: man, all of these pumpkins are TOO ugly for halloween! Shopper 2: Ya, These pumpkins are REALLY ugly! Shopper 1: Even too ugly for a jack-o-lantern! Shopper 2: Ya, let's go look somewhere else! (all the pumpkins are giving each other the thumbs up and a WHEW!) Then Shopper 1 turns around and says: WAIT! They will be perfect for PUMPKIN PIE! All the pumpkins scream in pain!...
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...Thanksgiving Dinner 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 not have the opportunity to eat very much that day, and I was eagerly anticipating the Thanksgiving dinner. We arrived at my grandparent’s house around six thirty in the evening. As soon as I entered the house, the tremendous aroma of all the foods filled the air and my taste buds began salivating in anticipation for the meal. Normally at family meals the food came out in courses, appetizers followed by the entrée. However, this time all the food came out at once. I immediately reached for the turkey and proceeded to take a huge slab of meat for my plate. Coupled with gravy, the turkey seemed irresistible. It was a big piece of dark meat, roasted to perfection. The skin had some sort of spice on it. I don’t recall the name of the spice, but I can tell you that the spice was sharp. Yes sharp, I think that’s the best way to describe it. After my first bite I found myself reaching for the nearest cup of water. However, after I got used to the spice, I began to realize its incredible taste. In less than ten minutes, I proceeded to wolf down this massive chunk of turkey. Feeling the need to fill my now empty plate, I next reached for the Cranberry sauce. I had tasted...
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