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Introduction Last week, the Supreme Court decided to not make a decision. Essentially, the Supreme Court lets state rulings allowing same-sex marriage to stand. Therefore, this decision strikes down bans of same-sex marriage in other states. (Read more here.) Robert Barns explains, “The decision is likely to expand …
I love all the excitement that surrounds the Halloween season, but now that I’ve gotten older and left the world of trick-or-treating behind, I sometimes have trouble thinking of ways to celebrate this fun holiday. It is never too late to start a family tradition or try something new, and Halloween does not have to be all about trick-or-treating. Here are some ways you can celebrate with your family and friends:
1. Make Halloween-themed food. This could be anything from ghost-shaped pancakes with chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth to cupcakes decorated with spider-web sprinkles.
2. Watch a spooky movie. “Hocus Pocus,” “Casper,” and “Ghostbusters” are some great ones that my family always enjoys watching.
3. Tell spooky stories around a fire or using a flashlight. You can find some great spooky stories at your local library or you can come up with your own.
4. Play night-games. “Capture the Flag,” “House Tag,” and “Dot” are all great options.
5. Go shopping at a clothing store. Pick outfits or “costumes” out for each other and have a small fashion show in the dressing rooms. The more ridiculous the costume, the better!
6. Carve a pumpkin.
7. Invite the neighbors over for a Halloween potluck dinner.
8. Visit a corn maze.
9. Boo your neighbor. Put together a Halloween treat and leave it on a neighbor’s doorstep for them to find along with a “Boo” flyer, which you can find for free on Google images. Following the directions on the flyer, your neighbor will then do the same to other neighbors. Feel free to “Boo” more than one person.
10. Trick-or-treat at a retirement home.
By Ashley Smith, Junior Editor
Ingredients: 2 ½ C. flour 1 C. shortening ¼ tsp. salt 1 beaten egg ¼ C. warm water 1 Tbsp. vinegar Instructions: Crumble together flour, shortening, and salt (preferably with a pastry cutter). Add egg, water, and vinegar and combine. DO NOT OVER HANDLE. Combine …
My name is Bryn Adams. I am currently a junior at BYU, and…I just got ENGAGED! While being engaged has probably been one of the most exciting times in my life, it has also been the most stressful. Being a full-time student and planning …
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This semester, the staff of Stance wants to provide helpful, uplifting, and interesting posts for our readers regularly. Thus, we have the post schedule. It is as follows: Monday: Freestyle post. That is, our staff submits a post on a topic of their choosing. Wednesday (every …
A sweltering hot summer’s day Clouds gather like a funeral procession And let down their tears Earth is cleansed as pelting sheets of drops flood empty streets Empty but for one bare-footed stranger Soaked to the bone Dancing with delight in the drenching downpour The …
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a classic children’s story that has sparked the imagination of children for over 100 years.
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“The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children’s book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.”
“The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Beatrix Potter’s former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers’ rejections but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time.“
“The story focuses on a family of anthropomorphic rabbits, the widowed mother rabbit cautioning her young against entering a vegetable garden grown by a man named Mr. McGregor, telling them: “your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor”. Whereas her three daughters obediently refrain from entering the garden, going down the lane to pick blackberries, her rebellious son Peter enters the garden to snack on some vegetables. Peter ends up eating more than is good for him and goes looking for parsley to cure his stomach ache. However, Peter is spotted by Mr. McGregor and loses his jacket and shoes while trying to escape. He hides in a watering can in a shed, but then has to run away again when Mr. McGregor finds him, and ends up completely lost. After sneaking past a cat, Peter sees the gate where he entered the garden from a distance and heads for it, despite being spotted and chased by Mr. McGregor again. He finds difficulties in wriggling beneath the gate, but manages to escape the garden, only to spot his abandoned clothing articles being used to dress Mr. McGregor’s scarecrow. After returning home, a sickened Peter is bedridden by his mother whereas his well-behaved sisters receive a sumptuous dinner of milk and berries as opposed to Peter’s supper of chamomile tea.”
“The book has generated considerable merchandise over the decades since its release for both children and adults with toys, dishes, foods, clothing, videos and other products made available. Potter was one of the first to be responsible for such merchandise when she patented a Peter Rabbit doll in 1903 and followed it almost immediately with a Peter Rabbit board game.”
“Carole Scott writes in Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit that the reader cannot help but identify with rebellious little Peter and his plight as all the illustrations are presented from his low-to-the-ground view, most feature Peter in close-up and within touching distance, and Mr. McGregor is distanced from the reader by always being depicted on the far side of Peter. . . .
“In the verbal narrative and the illustration for the moment when Mr. McGregor attempts to trap Peter under a garden sieve, for example, the verbal narrative presents the murderous intent of Mr. McGregor as a matter-of-fact, everyday occurrence while the illustration presents the desperate moment from the terrified view of a small animal in fear of his life—a view that is reinforced by the birds that take flight to the left and the right.”
Listen to audio book here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l391Mb6DYw
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