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Evolution of Halloween: Modern Interpretation (part 1)

The origin of Halloween began as a day of religious ceremony, deaths and worship well over 2000 years ago. Throughout the passing of time, conquering armies and the rise of Christianity, the original dreary tone of Halloween was dropped and forgotten to be replaced by that of festivities and celebration. As it is with all things, Halloween took another turn yet again in the global, entrepreneurship and profit driven word of the twenty first century.

No longer just a simple festival and celebration, Halloween is one of the most popular holiday in the western world with expect consumer spending of almost eight billion dollars just in the United States alone. Halloween’s popularity grows every year- such growth can be attributed to products of the twentieth century such as mass marketing and increasing social networking. Beneath the growth, Halloween is evolving yet again, if ever noticeably.

To many, the mere thinking of Halloween brings up such thoughts as trick or treating and children in Halloween Costumes. However, there will no doubt be many of you that have spotted the trend of decreasing amount of trick or treaters every year for many years now. As a matter of fact, the Halloween industry today is driven mainly by adult consumers spending on items such as Halloween house decorations and Adult Halloween costumes. Of the nearly three billion annual sales of Halloween costumes, two thirds of which are adult Halloween costumes.

As society evolves and changes, the way of Halloween also changes. Life has never been more demanding and as a result: less time are spent on social gatherings and festivities. Halloween as a result, became almost a “speed networking” event in modern terms. Halloween became a “get away” day for many adults looking to get away from the work life for the night, a night to have fun and enjoy themselves.

As cue taken from the consumers, adult Halloween costumes became flashier, more extravagant, and as a recent trend, more revealing. The more demanding everyday life become, the more attractive the idea of a get away is. The modern Halloween now express this trend as many adults now uses Halloween as the one night to go wild, dress in excess in every way because Halloween allows them to get away with it. Also with the influx of movies and television, the amount of Halloween Costume ideas exploded leading to even more extremes of extravagances and showing off.

However, there is a deeper reasoning behind the growth of Halloween for adults and a decline in the old Halloween traditions- many of which I will try to go over in the next part. The ways of which the modern world has changed affects society on every level more so than just Halloween and the key to understand it lies in the ideas and movement that pushes the change itself.

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The effect of the doppler effect on The Flash?

If The Flash (superhero) was moving at top speed, wouldn't nearby observers perceive his costume as blue rather than red due to the doppler effect?

The Flash would appear bright red if he was running away from you, and would appear more purplish if he was running towards you. From the side, he'd appear mostly red. Because he is not one solid object, like say a ball, but would be moving his arms and legs back and forth, he'd probably be shimmering and constantly changing colors slightly.

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Speed Racer Costume for Kids - Deluxe $22.99 Here he comes! Here comes Speed Racer! He's a demon on wheels! If you're looking for a funky fast costume that will have fans cheering you on through the streets, then you need the Deluxe Speed Racer Costume for Kids! Our Deluxe Speed Racer Costume for Kids comes with a white and blue racing-style jacket; with a zippered-front, buckle on the bottom, and the Speed Racer logo on the chest! This also comes with white pants and a Speed Racer cap, complete with logo! So, order this costume today and make sure you come in first place at your Halloween event!

Sexy Racer Costume - Sexy Speed Race Romper $43.95 One, two, three, GO! You get to race to the finish line this Halloween, in a Sexy Speed Racer Romper. Blow everyone away, when you get out of your race car in the Sexy Racer Costume. The Sexy Racer Costume features a Sexy Speed Racer Romper that comes in black, with a demon checker board trimmed design. The Sexy Racer Costume also features a yellow triangle top that is exposed underneath. Leave your opponents trailing behind in the dust!

Kids Costumes - Speed Racer $12.99 Speed Racer costumes are hot costumes!! Pick this halloween costumes this year and you will be the talk of the party. Includes white jacket with blue sleeves and sides and speed racer logo, white pants and character headpiece. Available in Kids Sizes Small, Medium and Large. This costume is a officially licensed Speed Racer product. Don't want to go solo? Pair up with our kids Costumes.

Boys Top Gun Costume $43.95 If you’ve got the need—the need for speed— or just an intense love of volleyball, then I’ve got the costume for you. The boy’s Top Gun Costume is just what every budding, young fighter jockey and airman needs (or Radio Intercept Officer, I don’t judge). The boy’s Top Gun Costume is for any and all men and women who just want to serve their country, be the best pilot in the Navy. Top Gun rules of engagement are written for your safety and for that of your team. Danger zone. The boy’s Top Gun Costume is for any young man who has the need—the need for speed and wants to be an air force pilot this Halloween.

Child Top Gun Costume $19.99 Do you feel the need? The need for speed! Think you can make a MiG 28 do a 4g negative dive? Are you ready to command one of America's finest planes? Then you are ready for the Child Top Gun Costume! The Child Top Gun Costume is an elite uniform for an elite air force soldier! The costume comes in a military green jumpsuit with an authentic looking Top Gun and Air Force patch on the front. You will also receive a green cap with an American flag! Get ready to man your plane, soldier! If you're feeling the need for speed, you'll be ready when you're wearing the elite Top Gun uniform!

Teen Top Gun Costume $24.99 Do you feel the need? The need for speed! Think you can make a MiG 28 do a 4g negative dive? Want to command one of America's finest planes? Then you are ready for the Teen Top Gun Costume! The Teen Top Gun Costume is an elite uniform for an elite air force soldier! The costume comes in a military green jumpsuit with an authentic looking Air Force patch on the front. You will also receive a green cap with an American flag! Get ready to man your plane, soldier! If you're feeling the need for speed, you'll be ready when you're wearing the elite Top Gun uniform!

Apple Halloween Costume - Red $69.95 Do you like keeping doctors away one day at a time? Perhaps dodging poorly aimed arrows is more your speed? If that's the case, this is the perfect costume for you! The Red Apple Halloween Costume will make you the apple of everyone's eyes! Our Red Apple Halloween Costume comes with a brown hood designed to look like an apple stem! This also comes with a bright red apple bodysuit, and deep green leaves! Combine this with white mitts and red tights for a completely fun fruit look! So for a great costume that's sweet and funny, purchase this piece today!

Womens Cop Corset Costume $49.99 There are many criminal behaviors in the city! It's a tough job keeping all the bad boys locked down! Look sinfully hot this Halloween and take down those bad boys in the Womens Cop Corset Costume! Hearts have been broken. Love has been cheated on. It's time to serve justice! The sexy Womens Cop Corset Costume will put you on everyone's 911 speed dial! The seductive costume comes complete with a black bustier with a police badge, cute black skirt, a sexy police hat, black gloves and cuffs so you can lock up those bad boys!

Top Gun Halloween Costume - Mens $39.95 Do you feel the need for speed! That's right Ice Man, I am dangerous! Now you can say your favorite Top Gun lines when you're wearing the Top Gun Halloween Costume – Mens uniform! The Top Gun Halloween Costume – Mens is the perfect costume for that flyer with the need for speed! The costume comes with a dark green jumpsuit with zipper closure and a foamed cap. The jumpsuit also has air force patches! Make the Ice Man pay this holiday season! Pick up your Top Gun uniform today!

Dog Raptor Costume $25.95 Welcome to Jurassic Bark. The Dog Raptor Combines manÕs best friend with the most clever predator in all of the Jurassic Era. While it might encourage your dog to wise up, move in packs, and eventually escape their confines, itÕs equally as possible that itÕll just make your dog look as funny as it is cute. Just make sure that youÕve got a big game hunter on speed dial in case your dogs do rise up against you and begin playing a game of cat and mouse.The Dog Raptor Costume comes with a foam printed headpiece and a foam padded costume with arms and a tail. ItÕs everything a roaming carnivore needs this Halloween.The Dog Raptor Costume is a perfect dinosaur costume for your dog and itÕs as cute as it is well made.

Adult Inflatable Ostrich Costume $38.95 Let me ask you a question: Ostriches—Rad birds or the raddest birds? I’ll let you think on that one. Alright, so maybe penguins could give them a run for their money and eagles and hawks are probably up there, but as far as giant flightless birds go, the noble ostrich has definitely got them all beat. They’re way better than emus. They’re quick as the wind and they make a great omelet. Let’s see a penguin do that!The Adult Inflatable Ostrich Costume comes with a jumpsuit and a battery-powered fan (to keep the bird at capacity). And, of course, one size fits all. It’s a fun and funny costume and a perfect choice for Halloween. Saddle up and get to celebrating! The Adult Inflatable Ostrich Costume is a funny costume of a dude riding one of the craziest birds that roam this little blue planet of ours. God speed.

Boys Master Ninja Costume $29.95 Ponder this, young student: Could it be that there are no ninjas in the world truly or is it possible that they move at such speed and with such stealth that you would never even know that they are there? The world will never know. . . unless you’re taken out by one of ancient Japan’s shadow warriors. Get your liquid swords out and protect your neck this Halloween because the Boys Master Ninja Costume is on the prowl! This costume comes with an attached hood, pants, a waist sash, and, more importantly than anything else for a ninja, face mask! Whether you’re defending the emperor or battling with Nobunaga, this is the perfect outfit. It just screams “I am the night!” And, actually, now that I meditate upon it, it probably doesn’t scream anything it probably just whispers everything. . . And those whispers are a killing sound. So that’s pretty cool. For fans of samurai, yojimbos, martial arts, Japan, and the stealth application of all of them, the Boys Master Ninja Costume is the perfect Halloween costume!

Boys Airline Pilot Costume $31.95 If you got the need, the need for speed, then look no further than this costume, the Boys Airline Pilot Costume. This costume brings us back to the better, simpler days—at least for airline pilots. You see, there once was a time when our greatest national heroes consisted of astronauts and airline pilots. They were our rock stars (which makes me wonder what rock stars were back then). Pilots flew multimillion dollar pieces of high tech hardware across the world, connecting us all in a way that we never were before. Then the 70’s came along, but enough about that.It’s a pretty cool costume. You don’t need to delve too deeply to get that, because airline pilots are still awesome. Just look at that guy who parked his jet on the Hudson River in 2009. Who wouldn’t want to be that guy. The Boys Airline Pilot Costume comes with a shirt (with tie attached), pants, and, without a doubt the most important part of the costume, the pilot’s hat, which gives him the power of Sky Law.

Child Police Costume - Law Enforce $29.95 Do you feel the need? The need for speed! Think you can make a MiG 28 do a 4g negative dive? Are you ready to command one of America's finest planes? Then you are ready for the Child Top Gun Costume! The Child Top Gun Costume is an elite uniform for an elite air force soldier! The costume comes in a blue jumpsuit with an authentic looking Top Gun and Air Force patch on the front. You will also receive a green cap with an American flag! Get ready to man your plane, soldier! If you're feeling the need for speed, you'll be ready when you're wearing the elite Top Gun uniform!

Boys Turbo Car Racer Costume $32.95 If your kid feels the need, the need for speed, and he lives his life a quarter mile at a time, then look no further than the Boy’s Turbo Car Racer Costume for a costume on this Halloween. Whether it’s Formula One or NASCAR or Rally Cars or cart racing or whatever else, this outfit is the perfect selection for any fan of racing come this Halloween.The Boy’s Turbo Car Racer Costume comes with a jumpsuit with a muscle torso and arms, and a racing helmet. If you remember the days of thunder, then look no further than this outfit. Get out there and get going with the Boy’s Turbo Car Racer Costume.

Womens Buccaneer Beauty Costume $36.95 Cut the jib, cast the anchor, full speed ahead, and batten down the hatches or whatever else you need to do to be worthy of the Women’s Buccaneer Beauty Costume. If none of that sounds appealing, I’m sure you can get some sap to do it for you, because if you look as good as this saucy corsair, people will just listen to you. Some people, anyways.The Women’s Buccaneer Beauty Costume is everything its title says it is and more. The outfit comes with a top, sleeves, a striped skirt, a hip wrap (or sash), and a head tie (to keep the sweat and hair out of your eyes when you’re engaged in a swordfight with some Royal Navy officer). The Women’s Buccaneer Beauty Costume is for any gal that’s wanted to raid the high seas in style.

Racer Girl Plus Size Costume $47.95 Are you a high speed hottie in search of someone who can keep up with you? Don't let those fast moving drivers slip past you this Halloween. Head out in a seductive outfit that is sure to stop them in their tracks – the sexy Racer Girl Plus Size Costumes! Life is like a fast moving highway! Keep up the pace in this alluring Racer Girl Plus Size Costume! You are sure to draw the attention of all those speed demons on the road! The high speed hottie costume comes with a seductive racer dress and a long sleeve jacket. Keep the pace this Halloween. Put yourself in high gear and have fun this holiday!

Sexy Sergeant Costume - Plus Size $39.99 This police will not be bending the rules for anyone! Whether she is on a high speed pursuit, or handling a bank robbery, she will never give up at her job. This Plus Size Sexy Sergeant Costume is perfect for anyone wishing to expose their strong, powerful and confidence sides. The five piece costume comes with a sexy button front cop dress, batons, handcuffs, and vinyl hat. You'll be the lady to take down criminals, and look exquisite in the process. It's a tough job, but someone has to make it look good, and you will in the Plus Size Sexy Sergeant Costume!

Womens Ghost Marie Antoinette Costume $34.95 If you’ve got the need—the need for speed, then the Women’s Sexy Car Racer Costume is the Halloween outfit for you (wait, that’s not the right Tom Cruise movie I’m thinking of at all. Ah, whatever. Point stands). If you live your life a quarter mile at a time and so forth, then look no further than this racing hotty. The Women’s Sexy Car Racer Costume comes with a red dress with checkboard trim and a matching hat.

Sexy Vamp Costume - Womens $49.95 Besides immortality and super strength and speed, one of the powers vampires have is to be pretty freaking hot (oh, and turn into bats. Someone needs to bring that back). When you add a skirt and a corset to the equation, it's Sexy City. It's game over for not being arousing. The Sexy Vamp Costume is where it's at. It's like the vampiric equivalent of catnip (or "vampnip").The countess comes with a long sleeved ruffle hem knit dress and satin waist cincher with contrasting ribbon, a miniature top hat, and a lined cape with a high wing collar. You'll be driving men batty with this salacious skirt and cape. The Sexy Vamp Costume is a hot outfit for fans of vampires and vampirism that want to look good on Halloween night. That blood isn't going to drain itself.

Boys Zombie Ninja Costume $37.95 Zombies AND Ninjas? You better get onboard this trolley before the government outlaws the Zombie Ninja Costume for being too awesome. I feel that if Takashi Miike didn’t already make this movie, he should (wait, did Versus have zombie ninjas or just zombies and ninjas? It’s been a while since high school). Anyways, don’t let this opportunity pass you by.What speed would a zombie ninja move at? Just, like, regular jogging speed? Because one animal moves super-slowly (zombie) and the other moves super-quickly (ninja). I don’t know the exact math on this one. Whoever buys this outfit, let me know. Here’s what I do know, the Zombie Ninja Costume (it just feels good typing that out, you know?) comes with a tabard, shirt with attached hood, pants, a fabric mask with a blood ninja star attached (rad), and a belt tie. It’s the complete package. So, wear this out for Halloween before the internet gets a hold of it and drives it into the ground.

Superhero Costume for Men - Superman Big & Tall $57.95 He's faster than the speed of light and can see through walls! If you've ever fantasized about being the Man of Steel, bring this fantasy to life with the Superman Big & Tall Superhero Costume for Men! Our Superman Big & Tall Superhero Costume for Men comes with muscled red and blue jumpsuit with attached red boot covers! This also comes with a red cape and even a yellow utility belt! There is even a giant Superman S logo on the chest! So avoid running into kryptonite in this awe-inspiring costume!

Womens Astronaut Costume - Space Case $49.95 This Space Case is off on another trip. Hopefully she won't forget where she parked her ship. Lucky for her this Halloween she can choose whether or not she wants the company of one of the spacemen lining up around the block after seeing her in this Womens Astronaut Costume. This three piece Womens Astronaut Costume comes with a stretch knit two-way zip front dress with nice silver foil accents and sexy space patches. Accessories can make or break an outfit so you have some sexy matching boot toppers and a sparkly belt to send your sexy outfit into warp speed.

Boys Nascar Costume - Lil' Motorcross Rider $15.99 Vroom-vroooooom! This Boys NASCAR Costume is made for the little speed demon in your home! The Lil' Motocross Rider is perfect for the two (or three) wheeled terror in your home! Our Lil' Motocross Rider comes with a green, black, and grey jumpsuit with a printed bike emblem over the chest! There is even a green and black face mask that comes with it! So if you little racer isn't scared to get a little mud in his eye, give this great Boys NASCAR Costume a try and order this now!

Plus Size Sexy Vamp Costume $53.95 The Plus Size Sexy Vamp Costume is where it's at. Besides immortality and super strength and speed, one of the powers vampires have is to be pretty freaking hot (oh, and turn into bats. Someone needs to bring that back). When you add a skirt and a corset to the equation, it's Sexy City. Being a blood-sucking undead graverobbing ghoul never looked so good.The countess comes with a long sleeved ruffle hem knit dress and satin waist cincher with contrasting ribbon, a miniature top hat, and a lined cape with a high wing collar. You'll be driving men batty with this salacious skirt and cape. The Plus Size Sexy Vamp Costume is a hot outfit for fans of vampires and vampirism that want to look good on Halloween night. That blood isn't going to drain itself.

Top Gun Costume - Womens Flight Dress $49.95 Take Flight this Halloween and relive the moments from one America's favorite movies of all time with this sexy Top Gun Costume! This saucy little number has the attitude it takes to take any slow night into Mach 3 speed. You can fly solo or spread your wings with Maverick at the next party. This Top Gun Costume comes with a playfully short green women's flight dress with a front zipper and its lady's choice with the interchangeable Maverick and Goose name badges. Also, includes some hot aviator sunglasses to complete the look!

Boys Young Justice Kid Flash Costume $28.95 Blink and you might miss him flying by. The Boys Young Justice Kid Flash Costume is of Young Justice's fifteen-year-old speedster. The Kid Flash is the sidekick of the classic DC Universe hero, the Flash. While he doesn't have all of the elder speedster's ability, he’s got more style and (dare I say) flash as is demonstrably clear on the show and in this costume.The Boys Young Justice Kid Flash Costume comes with a Kid Flash mask, a jumpsuit, and gloves. No word on whether it allows you to move at nearly the speed of light or not. We'll get back to you on that one.

Child 2D Pac-Man Halloween Costume $29.95 If you got the fever—the Pac-Man fever—then there is only one cure—it is the Child 2D Pac-Man Halloween Costume. . . and maybe one of those cool cocktail-style arcade cabinets. Those things are pretty dope, but I wouldn’t want to wear one for Halloween. Forget that. Pac-Man is one of the great icons of 1980’s culture and one of the most recognizable heroes in all of video game history. Whether or not you’ve ever cleared level 256 (or you even know what that is), you know that Pac-Man is perhaps the greatest ghostkiller/speed eater. The costume itself only comes with a suit (sorry, no power pellets here), but what else do you need when it comes to a guy like Pac-Man? He doesn’t even have arms! All he needs is some fruit and somewhere to move to and all you need this Halloween is the Child 2D Pac-Man Halloween Costume. The Child 2D Pac-Man Halloween Costume is the pinnacle of video game costumes. It’s where the 80’s meets the road.