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.