9/6/2010 Assignment: Ms.Tacke Chinese Moon Festival Oh my gosh! The Chinese Moon Festival is coming up and I totally cannot wait! Just think of the moon cakes‚ chestnuts‚ sweet potatoes‚ rice balls and the big feast (with lobster‚ shrimp and ect.) when our relatives come over makes me drool. Oh‚ and walking with the toy lanterns at night (I guess I’m too old for that) I’m sorry‚ and I think I’m just too excited because the Chinese Moon Festival is my 2nd favorite holiday in Chinese custom
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plasticity of mind‚ made life vibrant; whereas‚ the Indus life looks more like stylized puppet show. The plasticity of the Aryan mind was shown in the language as well as the way in which they adapted agricultural and settled life. The seals of the Indus Valley show that the pictographs remained statis‚ whereas‚ the Aryan language in the Rig Veda at places rises to musical levels. The success with which the Aryan writings were composed reveals the ability of the Aryan mind to grasp the mulitiple dimensions
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Silicon Valley - The heartland of the microelectronics industry and a modern civilization community. It plays the most important role in the development such as of Hp‚ Intel‚ Google‚ Apple products and many more. A place where overnight millionaires could be found. Given the status and reputation of this city‚ people expect lives to be easier‚ highly technological and well-advanced. People living here are well equipped to technology and their lives revolve around the modernization of the facilities
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The Dragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival‚ also called the Duanwu Festival‚ is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years‚ the festival has been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves) and racing dragon boats. The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races‚ especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes. This regatta commemorates the death
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Topic: My Favourite Festival Good morning to my English teacher‚ Miss Zarina and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to share with you about my favourite festival‚ which is Chinese New Year. Of all festivals in Malaysia‚ I like Chinese New Year the most. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month. Each year coincides with an animal sign‚ of which there are twelve in the sequence of the rat‚ ox‚ tiger‚ rabbit‚ dragon‚ snake‚ horse‚ goat‚ monkey‚ dog and
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Ancient Roman holidays & Festivals by emily deal Ancient roman calendars were a little different than ours for‚ example their weeks were eight days long. The eight days didn’t even have names‚ they were just letters. A‚B‚C‚D‚E‚F‚G‚H. On the eighth day of the week‚ H‚ a regular school holiday‚ kind of like our weekends. It was called Market Day‚ the meant for washing your whole body and going to market to get the food
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Introduction: Do you know the most famous Festival of China? Have you ever heard about that Korea has conflict with China in the traditional cultural field? In order to call on people to realize the importance of Chinese own traditional culture and Cultural Identity‚ the research paper writes about Chinese Traditional culture‚ and make a questionnaire about ten questions to investigate people. By introducing the festivals and asking the questions‚ it tends to accomplish the goal that
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Holidays‚ traditions and festivals in Creat Britain ( SPRING) Public holidays March 1st – St David’s Day (Wales). St David is the patron saint of Wales‚ and March 1 is a celebration of Welsh culture. People in Wales might wear a daffodil and eat cawl‚ a soup of seasonal vegetables and lamb or bacon. Events are held across Wales‚ including a large parade in Cardiff. 6th – Holi Day. The ’festival of colours’‚ the end of the winter season in the Hindu calendar‚ falls on this day in 2015. In several
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Diwali: Festival Of Lights (Extra Credit) The event I attended was the celebration of Diwali Festival sponsored by the Indian Student Association of Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. This event was held on Thursday‚ November 15 from 2:30-5:30 P.M. First the event started off with a speech by Divya Pidaparti talking about what Diwali is. Diwali is much more than sweets‚ lights and fireworks. It’s good over evil and light over darkness. Diwali is one of the most significant festivals in India
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Unforgettable Spring Festival The Spring Festival‚ which is commonly known in the west as Chinese New Year‚ is the most important festival for the Chinese people and the moment that all family members get together just like Christmas. People who live or work away from home will go home before the Spring Festival. Therefore‚ it is the busiest time for the transportation systems. Spring festival is my favorite festival because all my family members can get together and that family plays an important
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