Pumpkin

The Great Pumpkin Comes Again! This is not a Linus fantasy sequence or a visit to the Twilight Zone. I?m referring, instead, to the annual eruption of pumpkin recipes that seems to overshadow the coming of fall and the holiday season, beginning with the eve of the Feast of All Hallows, or All Saints Day to Roman Catholics. It seems that every year the uses for this orange colored squash expands and diversifies. This year is no different. Don?t misunderstand me, I look forward to the annual visit

The fall season is fast approaching, its time to whip out your home cooked meals and treats for the kids. You go for the classic pumpkin pie just like grandma’s homemade recipe. However, what happens when this simple recipe take a turn for the worst, instead of grandma you get a wicked witches brew. Creating the best pumpkin pie includes gathering all natural ingredients, using correct mixing techniques, slowly cooking it a heated oven creating an aroma of sweet thrills that passes through the nose

out what a pumpkin pie from the bakery of my street was made of before the bakery never existed. It was a dark, frigid night in November, close to the week of Thanksgiving. Before that night, I loved that pumpkin pie for its flavor, especially its smoothness. This thought completely changed that night. November 15th was the day. My little brother, Jeff, was craving for some pumpkin pie, and as usual, my parents being biased, forced me to go fetch up some of that mouth-watering pumpkin pie. I really

The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most influential bands in the 90’s their timbre often fell under alternative rock. Musical preferences are formed at an early age, unknowingly the people in your environment help develop how partial you are to any genre. Growing up, my mom, and older sister listened to a variety of diverse progressive music. So majority of that exposure helped me at an early age identify what kind of “tone colors” I preferred. It makes it easier to pick the type of music you

the image of pain in her dramatic monologue “Pumpkin Eater” to show how the narrator’s husband drastically pushed the narrator to an extent. She became sick of their relationship, growing numbness to the pain that he makes her face. Sandra Cisneros writes “Pumpkin Eater”, based on a nursery rhyme called “Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater’. The hidden meaning of the nursery rhyme is that there is a cheating wife, who is murdered by her husband, then hid in a pumpkin shell, because he couldn’t hold control of

There are many holidays to celebrate, for example Christmas, Hanukkah, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine's day, Easter,and a few more, but i'm just going to go over a few of them. On Christmas, the most enormous holiday of the year, there are many things to enjoy. Who doesn't like waking up to gifts under the Christmas tree? There is also all of that delicious hot chocolate to drink. And amazing food to eat such as ham, potatoes, and the chocolate bars in your stocking. And who doesn't like to sit

upmost branches of the tree and float their way down to the ground. Kids gather around to collect the fallen leaves and jump into the enormous pile created by doing the chore of raking. Taste buds begin to water as the thought of warm cider and sweet pumpkin pie comes into the picture. The ladies begin to get out their favorite sweater, pair of jeans, and boots to wear out as the cooler nights approach. While every season has its own sense of wonder, autumn is the best one of them all. The paramount of

2014, pg. S30). My group and I recently had the honor of completing two different activities with the life skills students, at the Wyoming Valley West Middle School in Kingston, Pennsylvania. The activities that we completed with the children were pumpkin painting, and completing a Halloween mask. The purpose of these activities were to show how an Occupation Therapy practitioner can work with children who have intellectual and physical disabilities, and understand their emotional and social needs

to realize and understand her cultural identity as an Indian American. Pumpkins, leading up to and on the night of Halloween, are symbolic for cultural identity in this short story. Upon an unspecified day in October, Mr. Pirzada notices pumpkins distributed throughout Lillia’s neighborhood. Asking Lillia about the alien vegetables, Mr. Pirzada has never seen them before. The next day, Lillia’s mother buys a ten-pound pumpkin. When she tells Lillia to decorate it with a marker, the girl refuses—

their traditions are kind of odd but America still has some weird traditions to. In Hong Kong, people would burn fruit and money. Back in older England, children would make make punkies out of large beetroots which they would carve, like we do with pumpkins, and run through the streets singing the “Punkie Night Song” and ask people for