Should Clowns Be Allowed To Wear On Halloween

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Clowns are draped all over social media and the news. People are using clown outfits just to get a popular video up on the internet. Clowns showing up by lampposts and chasing people around city streets. They send a mind crippling fear into people when they think of being in a situation with a killer clown. Imagine walking down what could be any street when you look down an old dirt road that you have passed a million times; You see it, it is what looks to be a blood thirsty clown waiting for a victim. Ironically it is most likely a guy who wants a funny video or just trying to get a good Halloween scare. A killer clown who is actually just a regular guy in a clown mask from Target... wait Target has missed out on huge clown mask sales due

Staff writer, Jennings Brown, in his article, “We All Need to Calm Down about the Clowns” claims that these clowns that are “terrorizing” or “injuring” other people are actually completely harmless. He supports his claim by first stating that back in early August in the town of Greenville, South Carolina, children claimed that there had been clowns try to lure them into the woods. These clowns come every year a few months before Halloween, they are only here to give people a scare.

There was a remake of the movie called “IT”, which was released this year. This movie is about a demon, named Pennywise, who is dressed as a clown. Pennywise feasts on children’s fear, meaning that he eats the children that are afraid. When you think of clowns, you

This is addressed in Fearless, specifically through the character of PT and Todd’s characterization of him supports the aforementioned perspective. PT is a newly divorced father of children that have been taken away from him. He states “I spend most of my day sitting in my tiny flat, watching children’s television shows”. This is representative of him not being able to let go of his children, and his attempts to try again and connect with them. His statement that “ I can’t complain. Literally. It’s a court order. I have anger management issues.” implies that he feels physically silenced by the punishment that he has received as a result of his mental illness. Furthermore, when he divulges, “the judge thought that sending me to clown school would be the answer to all my woes”, he is inferring that he sees his punishment as a joke. He symbolically is a “clown”, in his own eyes and in the eyes of society. In a production, the makeup artist and costume designer would demonstrate this by clothing him in a clowns costume and wig, as well as painting his face in tradition clown makeup. In all scenes he would appear this way, in order to show that everyone he interacts with regards him as a joke. The actor would be constantly attempting a skill, such as juggling, and failing horribly at it to accentuate his belief that he is integrally a failure. The “clown” aspect of PT’s personality is extremely important in the composers characterization of him, as it shows not only PT’s opinion on himself, but society’s as a whole. The audience is taken on PT’s specific inner journey due to his characterization and portrayal during a

The appearance of pennywise the clown would induce nightmares in most children. He has pale white skin, a red nose and a receding hairline with the rest of his head covered in curly red clown hair. As for his clothes, Pennywise wears classic circus clown clothes. A one piece that is brightly colored with blue sleeves and a yellow body. The purpose of Pennywise the Clowns actions and appearance are meant to do one thing. To scare children. When pennywise the clown is first seen talking to Georgie, although he is extremely creepy being in a gutter, a place no one would ever want to see a clown he seems friendly in his demeanor. However, when he pulls Georgie into the gutter his face becomes even more demonic and he gives a chilling smile and laugh with fanglike, yellow stained teeth.

It can also be caused by specific phobias such as the fear clowns, spiders, the dark, strangers, open spaces, holes, and dogs. Not only are specific fears known for causing Samhainophobia but the media can play a huge part in causing the fear due to horror movies where a mass murderer is running around killing people on Halloween. The National Mental Health Association believes that genetics can also play a role in

Name’s Tom Foolery. I’m a clown. Or what the normal people had designated ‘Homo fossor’ or human clown. There were many new classes of ‘humans’ in Circus City. From the fire-breathers, acrobats, freaks, contortionists, clowns, and numerous other ‘pseudo’ humans the Big Top had to offer. It had only been about forty years since the rest of the world

This Halloween will not be as exciting as I hoped. Most people say I am bad luck and no one wants to touch me or even look at me. Most black cats are bad luck when you touch them,but I am a nice black cat. I just want someone to pick me up and play with me,but when someone looks at me they run away screaming. I do not understand why people could be so cruel to things like me. I hate Halloween,kids are always trick-or-treating and they are all dressed up as monsters and all kinds of things. Who would want to dress up as something they are not?

“It” in its origins, is Stephen King’s 1100 page literary masterpiece that has bred Coulrophobia within many who dared to sojourn through the novel. Nevertheless, it was the novel’s subject in focus, Pennywise the Clown, embodied in full flesh by Tim Curry that amassed a sadistic following and obsession with the arrival of the 1990 TV miniseries on ABC. Curry’s portrayal of the dancing clown quickly became a hallmark image for the horror canon, if not the face of horror movies altogether. Flash forward 27 years later, the fear of clowns has burgeoned into a commonplace phobia and horror trope. With all this to say, no clown has terrorized us in our nightmares quite like Curry’s Pennywise. Well, that was the case until Bill Skarsgård came along with a darker rendition of the fiendish entity in Andrés Muschietti remake of “It.”

Clowns always frightened me as a child, but one Halloween made it even worse. I was on a haunted house tour with my family when I accidentally was diverted. Not knowing I was alone for a while I wandered into a room full of killer-looking clowns and they all swarmed me at once. The quick outburst of them from every direction was so terrifying that I passed out right where I was standing and awoke in the hospital. I looked over to my mom and she said "They have something to say." I looked to my right side and I saw the clowns once again this time they looked even more evil. Once again I passed out.

After reading the article my perspective on Halloween costumes is, some costumes can cause racist understandings. Some costume can cause others to feel like racism is being shown due to the person wearing it. Yet, they are infants who wear them. How are they supposed to know that it’s about a certain culture, race or even religion? Kids don’t look at costume and point out that it’s from that certain religion or race. Now we do have adults who understand the concept of discrimination, some costumes that adults choose to wear are racist. They know what the meaning of the costume is. Unlike kids, kids choose a costume that looks cool, or even scary looking. For example, the new Donald Trump costume where the person wearing it, has Trump carrying

Popularized in the 1960s, the term lifecourse is adapted from modern sociology and refers to “the study of biography, of history and of the problems of their intersection within social structure” (Mills, 1959, p. 149). The aim of studying the lifecourse is to gain an understanding of how development and ageing within different historical and geographical contexts affects a person’s life (Elder, et al., 2006), focusing on the cultural aspects of an individual’s maturation. This term is different from lifecycle, which emphasises the biological development of an individual, not the social aspects that parallel their physical maturation and are culturally specific. Early examples of the lifecourse approach centred on intergenerational relationships within the family cycle with children maturing, marrying and becoming parents, thus starting the cycle again (Glick, 1947; Hill, 1970).

I am sure most of you have seen videos of these killer clowns around the US hiding in the woods and cornfields or whatever place that seems horrifiying at night. These crep have reasearched this topic to find out about what it truly is all about. The relevance in this to you guys is because it happens near us. The news channel, WDAY broadcasted a story in April 2008 about a kidnapping that happened in Moorhead. Ashley Ware was the victim in that case 8 years ago and you could say she was wondering why kidnapping is a thing in the first place, how this was going to affect her and lastly why this man was doing what he was doing. And that’s what im going to tell you today.

There is nothing more exciting than deciding what to dress up as for Halloween no matter if it is a child, or an adult. The tradition of wearing Halloween costumes dates back centuries. Most Americans are familiar with the customs, and the tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween day. Both children and adults participate in Halloween festivities every year in some way or another. Many picking out extravagant costumes to wear trick-or-treating, or to wear to the Halloween party in the neighborhood, but does anyone really know the meaning behind the tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween day? Halloween costumes used to be worn to hide from spirit that were thought to roam the Earth on Halloween, but the tradition of wearing costumes on