Halloween

History of Halloween

What is Halloween?

Halloween (contraction of All Hallows' Eve, 'All Saints Eve'), also known as Halloween or Night of the Dead, is a celebration of Celtic origin celebrated primarily in the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and in Anglo-Saxon countries such as Mexico and Colombia on the night of October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day. In large part, is a secular celebration but some believe it has a religious background.Irish immigrants passed versions of the tradition to North Americaduring the Great Irish Famine of 1840.1
The day is often associated with the colors orange, black and purpleand is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern.Typical activities include the famous Halloween trick or treating andcostume parties, plus bonfires, visiting haunted houses, jokes, reading scary stories and watching horror movies.

Name origin

The word "Halloween" is used as such for the first time in the sixteenth century, and comes from a Scottish variation of the phrase "All Hallows 'Even" (also used "All Hallows' Eve") meaning "Halloween Santos'. 

Now im going to talk about carnivals

here i show you a part of what we did this term on english class.

World Carnival's

Río de Janeiro's Carnival

Carnival is an annual celebration that takes place forty days beforeEaster (marking the beginning of Lent). It has several variations withits European counterpart and it also within the Brazilian territory.

Although Catholic inspiration, is celebrated more as a secular holiday than a religious event. Their European origins date back toa kind of carnival called "Introit" ("entry" in Latin) and "Entrudo" (in Portuguese).

The "Entrudo" was characterized by the interplay of water thrownamong people in order to purify the body, and was banned without much success in the mid-nineteenth century, to be consideredviolent by the upper classes.

In the late nineteenth century were introduced in Rio de Janeirocalled "cordões" which consisted of groups of people walkingthrough the streets playing music and dancing. These werepractically the immediate predecessors of modern samba.

The "blocos", are some of the popular carnival current representations are formed by people who dress or thematicallycelebrate carnival specifically. The samba schools, blocks andbands occupy entire neighborhoods of Rio.

The carnival held in Rio de Janeiro is famous for the samba schoolsparading in front of spectators at the famed Sambadrome also.

The whole town is upset the second week of February for the mere fact of its conclusion, and require reservations well in advance so as not to be left out of both color, fun, dancing and debauchery.

Colombian Carnivals

Black's and White carnival
This carnival is the most importat on Colombia's south it is done in the city of "Pasto" it celebrates from 2 untill 7 of january each year.

2 of January: colonies parade, in this parade all the mucicipalities of nariño show the cultural abundance on their places.
3 of january:  The carnavalito, in this day there is a parade made by childre showing their imagination and their love with their territory.
4 of january: Family Catañeda, on this day the Catañeda family arrive and represents all the communities that came to colombia and help to change the aspects of life in here.
5 of january: Day of blacks, on this  day the people use black paint and others materials to paint themselves of black.
6 of january: Day of whites, on this day the people us powder to paint themselves of white.


Barranquilla's Carnival
The Carnivla of Barranquilla has it's remte origin on a carnival that came to America from Spain. From there it comes the desire of renovating and changing similar to trhe one that inspired this holiday on Europe.The first Carnival celebrated in the city lost in history more tha one century ago When Barranquilla was a small town.The people celebrated The Barranquilla Carnival, its always so naive, funny, playful and above all healthy, have allowed the retention of a tradition that goes back three centuries.

The Carnival festivities, of European origin, were introduced to America by the Spanish and Portuguese people. The history of Barranquilla are coming in the celebration that took place in Cartagena de Indias, in colonial times, as party slaves appeared around that time blacks in the streets with typical instruments and special costumes, dancing and singing.

The traditional novena of La Candelaria, in Cartagena de Indias, framed in sumptuous dances in the eighteenth century a holiday granted to blacks brought from Africa muzzles. These parties are the main source of Barranquilla Carnival dances.

About me

Hey people, im Juan Andres Caycedo and this is my blog. I create this blog because in the year 2012-2013 in my school on english class im working on a porject that consist in teh creation of my school. I think this activity is funny, because we mix the technoly with the imagination.

Mision and Vision

Mision: our mission is to eduacte in a comrpomised way and to give the best educationon a ludic form. Vision: un the year 2050 we want to expand all over the galaxy and that the students that graduate will be the best on wath they do.

Valeus

The valeus we will promote are:
-Respect
-Honesty
-Fairness
-Solidarity
-Responsability
-Pacience

Location

we will be located at:
The middle of the Indic ocean, and on Rusia

Shield

Pet

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Slogan

Our slogan is:

Gathering valeus for a better world.

Some Question I Want to Answer

why is your school the best option to study in?

It is the best option because the kids will like our instalation and also we have the best teachers in all.

which aspects are similar and different froms Abraham LIncoln School?

Similar                                               Different

The teachers (are the best)               The uniform.                                                         Some rules                                         The instalations