Halloween is celebrated on October 31st

Halloween

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What is Halloween?

Halloween but also known as Summer’s End and Witches Night Snap-Apple), is a holiday that is celebrated annually on the night of October 31. It originated in Ireland, and is celebrated in quite a few countries including Ireland itself, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden among others.

 What do we do on Halloween?

Halloween, is celebrated in a variety of ways and activities including trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, "haunted house" tours, carving pumpkins (Jack-o'-lanterns) and reading / watching scary stories / movies. So that’s why we enjoy this event.

Trick or treating:

Trick or treating is a Halloween custom for children in many countries. Children in costumes travel from house to house asking for treats such as candy…

 

Halloween costumes:

Halloween costumes are costumes worn on or around Halloween. An early reference to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585. Halloween costumes have tended to be worn mainly by young people, but since the mid-20^th century they have been increasingly worn by adults also.

History of Halloween Costumes:

The wearing of costumes at Halloween may come from the belief that supernatural beings, or the souls of the dead, roamed the earth at this time.

 

Halloween costume parties:

Halloween costume parties generally take place on or around October 31, often on the Friday or Saturday prior to the holiday.

Meena Badran
3eme1

 

Apple IPhone sales set to pass 1B milestone

Apple IPhone sales set to pass 1B milestone

In a rare achievement for any consumer electronics company, Apple is about to sell its billionth IPhone. According to Benedict Evans, partner at venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, half of the IPhone’s total has been sold in the past two years. Mr. Evans added that Apple had sold a total of 397m IPods when it stopped reporting sales in 2014, while the IPhone is close to the 1.1bn unit output of the entire Japanese digital camera industry from 1999 to 2015. “The cumulative number of PC sold since 1981 was to pass 5bn this year, while Nokia at its speak in 2010 sold 454m mobile phones in a single years,” Mr. Evens continued.

Always according to Evens, Microsoft wanted to put a computer on every desk, the vision of the smart phone is now a computer in every pocket. Nonetheless, the Apple landmark comes at a time when the drive is flagging for the nine-year-old smartphone. This is said because Analysts expect IPhone unit sales to be about 15 to 18 percent lower than the same time last year. Apple chief executive Tim Cook explained this by saying that by the “strong macroeconomic headwinds, which is causing some customers to hold on to older devices for longer, as well as low-cost competition in Asia and a resurgent Samsung, whose Galaxy S7 is out selling the IPhone 6s in the US.”

Source: THE DAILY STAR, Lebanon

Original article by Tim Bradshaw

Meena Badran, 3eme1

Halloween nazar Darwish 3eme1

On 31st October, the night before All Saints' Day, Americans, Scots and Irish people celebrate Halloween : they dress up as witches and ghosts, have parties, tell ghost stories and play games. Halloween is the second biggest celebration in America after Christmas.

 

Every year Americans spend more than $2.5 billion on sweets, cards, costumes and decorations. More than 66 per cent of houses are decorated.

Halloween was originally a Celtic festival called Samhain celebrating the New Year. Celts believed that the dead could come back to the world on that day. So people wore costumes like witches and ghosts.

Today, Irish and Scottish kids dress up for Halloween, and they visit houses and sing a song or tell a joke. If they don't get sweets, they play a trick.

News by Nazar Darwish 3eme 1

My sister's friend had a terrible accident  :  he was with his friends, playing at the beach. And suddenly, his neck hit a rock. He is now completely paralyzed, the only part of his body he can move is his head. My sister told me he was an hyperactive man, spending his days between his work at the Bank, his work as a teacher, and his two NGOs.  My sister is chocked and spend all her days at the hospital.