Nightmare Before Christmas

Within his text, Campbell writes about the hero crossing the first threshold and entering a Special World. Taking this action signifies the beginning of the journey and the hero’s commitment to it. When related to Jack, the Special World he crosses over to is Christmas Town, where he begins his journey toward making people happy rather than scaring them. After being celebrated by the town for the best Halloween yet, Jack sneaks off by himself toward the outskirts of the town into a twisted hill above a pumpkin patch and graveyard, it is there he sits and ponders what he is feeling, and thus he begins singing "Jack’s Lament". Within the song he sings about how others view him as terrifying and displays a few the scare tactics he has, but the chorus of the song is what reveals the crux of his dilemma, "oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones, an emptiness began to grow, there’s something out there, far from my home, a longing that I’ve never known" . Jack is unhappy with the life he is leading and as a result has become massively depressed. Zero, his ghost dog, even tries to cheer him up to no avail. This leads to Jack wandering the forest until dawn when he stumbles upon a place he has never been to before.

The Night Mare Before Christmas or Halloween movie. I think that it is a Christmas movie

This show can be seen on TV every Christmas season. Then Ron Howard takes this short film and draws it out to be a two and a half-hour long movie. The worst aspect of the movie is that it makes a mockery of Seuss's main message: “Christmas doesn't come from a store.” This movie is all about selling, from those furry talking Grinch dolls to endless fast-food tie-ins.

Elf (2003) is a Christmas movie and with saying that, people expect to see Christmas decorations, lights, music, and costumes to make the audience feel like it really is Christmas. In this scene of the film, you notice that it takes place in the mall and is completely decorated with Christmas decorations everywhere. Buddy has on his signature elf costume and the fake Santa has on a traditional Santa outfit. The scene itself screams Christmas and no one can argue that.

The Nightmare before Christmas had a couple of issues that needed to be address before improving the takeover of Christmas. There are four serious issues that occurred in order of importance. Firstly, Jack had no clear vision. What vision he did have, he was incapable of communicating it clearly. When Jack tried to explain ``Jolly`` his team was unsure of the definition and they went back to their original core values by creating ghoulish toys for Christmas.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!!In the movie by Dr. Seuss, the Grinch is portrayed as the villain. Why? Because he's a nasty, coldhearted creature that hates Christmas. But there is a reason for loathing the Christmas season. The Grinch plots to steal the joy and cheer of Christmas time away from the Whos in Who-ville.

The story The Most Dangerous Game is a short story that portrays terror and fear, a sense of danger, and also the hatred that animals feel for their killer at the same time as making a contemporary correlation to real life. The short story was written during the era when animal hunting was common with the rich folks. The Most Dangerous Game as the name implies, is indeed a dangerous game.

The Nightmare Before Christmas, is considered to fall under the film genre of children’s movies. This genre in particular is an excessively broad genre as children’s movies have numerous topics and styles. Another children’s movie

In its infant stages, Halloween was simply a concept - and that concept was about a babysitter who is stalked by the boogeyman. John Carpenter made the comment “We are all afraid of the same things… so that makes a movie that deals in our fears, universal.” Irwin Yablans (executive producer to Halloween) came up with the title for the film and set the stage for the babysitter, the boogeyman, and the darkest holiday of the year. John Carpenter (director / co-writer / music composer) and Debra Hill (script supervisor) went to Moustapha Akkad and requested the funds to create this film. Moustapha had not previously entered into the horror genre prior to this venture. When John pitched the idea to him, he was intrigued and pulled in with the mention of the “babysitter” so he agreed to finance

I believe that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie because the main events occur in Halloween town. For example, when the kids steal Santa, they take him to Halloween town to show Jack how clever they are to capture him. Santa stays in Halloween town so he can not continue Christmas. When the kids send Santa down the chute, he meets the Oogie Boogie man. He starts singing a song, which are important in this movie because they can give information about a character.

The Nightmare Before Christmas starts off in a town that the movie revolves around the whole movie, which is Halloweentown. In this town, they have a “Pumpkin King,” who is the ruler of the town, and his name is Jack Skellington. Jack begins to feel bored of the same old holiday they have every year, Halloween, and he soon stumbles upon trees that are decorated with symbols for each holiday. Jack is intrigued by the door that has a bright green christmas tree on it decorated with little painted-on ornaments. He opens the door and falls into the tree and gets transported into Christmasland. He explores the small land that he was pulled into, and then he returns home to tell his town about the place that he has just discovered. He tells them that they are going to make their own Christmas. The town teamed up and worked on making terrifying toys to bring “joy” to the children and to give Santa a year off. Jack sent 3 kids, Shock, Lock, and Barrel, to kidnap Santa and keep him safe while they were delivering presents to the kids of the world. Sally, who has always secretly admired Jack, told him she had a bad vision that stealing Christmas was a terrible idea, but Jack didn't listen. Jack finally got on his sleigh with his skeletal reindeer and rode off into the night delivering presents. Every house he went to called the police because the toys were trying to kill them and eventually the military was trying to shoot him out of the sky. When he was shot down, he realized Sally

Labor unions have been instrumental in the lives of workers throughout American history, and have led to important advances in the American workforce. Throughout history there have been patterns of exploitation of immigrant workers by businesses in order to increase profits; the Mexican migrant workers of southern California are the most recent historical group to fall into this pattern of exploitation mostly from their lack of organization. Cesar Chavez, a great organizer, and leader in fighting for farm workers’ rights was head of the United Farm Workers Union. As a Mexican-American, he would become a noticeable union leader and labor organizer who was toughened by his early years as a migrant worker who founded the National Farm Workers

Expect that this is going to be an interesting movie for Tom Fletcher's novel, the Christmasaurus. Most of you can't wait for Christmas to come, and it's just more than a couple of months

The movie Krampus was a big hit however, they did many things opposite of the origin. The story starts in Germany on December 5th, the holiday of Krampus. The holiday celebrates Krampus, who kidnaps miss behaving children instead of giving them coal. People often dress up in costumes representing the ghoulish figure. While Santa Claus delivers gifts to good children, Krampus kidnaps or tortures bad children until he has taught them a lesson. Krampus has devilish features, horns protrude outwards being complementary demon's horns but pitch black along his fur, long curved, pointing upwards. His feet are miss matched one bear claw the other one being a hoof.

Emily Giarrizzo Ms. McGinnity Honors English II 8 February 2016 The Downfall of Power Power is the capacity, ability or willingness to act; however, power is neither a good nor an evil act. What makes the act of power good or evil is the motivations and intentions of those who exercise that power. As seen throughout history and novelist George Orwell’s allegory Animal Farm, every powerful leader is corrupted at some point along their journey to attain power.