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    Christmas in Spain History of Tradition The history of Christmas starts over 4000 years ago. This christmas traditions were celebrated many time before Jesus was born. The 12 days of Christmas‚ the giving of gifts‚ singing songs while going from house to house‚ the parties‚ and going to the church. Since old times‚ the Spanish people have celebrated the coming of winter with a very special tradition called Hogueras. With influence of the Roman holiday of Saturnalia and the Northern European

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    My Christmas and New Year It’s the day before Christmas! I woke up full with Christmas Spirit. My family and me gather around and decorate our house with Christmas wreath‚ mistletoe‚ Christmas stockings‚ and especially the Christmas tree‚ which is decorated again with beautiful Christmas tree ornaments‚ Christmas light and the star on top. We stayed at home all day until the evening because it took us a quite long time to decorate the whole house. Then we prepare to go to the Church for the Midnight

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    of Christmas Future was the most influence.I believe that because Scrooge changed when he saw that he was the dead man and no one cared because he was so mean and he changed his ways and everything he did wrong.Scrooge is like this because his partner died on Christmas eve and he had to run there business by himself. In the movie that we watched called Christmas Carol I seen how Scrooge was seen by 3 ghost.Ghost of Christmas Past‚Present and Future.The first ghost was ghost from Christmas past

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    A Christmas Carol is a play that takes place of a man who has lost the true meaning of Christmas. He calls Christmas a Bah-Humbug and says it is a waste of money. This man lives a lonely life with greediness. This man is called Scrooge. There are few differences between the play and the movie‚ but many similarities. Some people lose the true meaning of Christmas. After Scrooge loses the Christmas spirit‚ a ghost appears to Scrooge. The spirit was known a Jacob Marley. The spirit said that there

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    Moon also conjunct Pluto‚ two minutes into the 2nd House. I wanted you to know this before I begin my story. When I was five I was just beginning to learn the importance of Christmas and Santa Clause. I understood the possibility of actually getting what I wanted for Christmas if I wrote to Santa and sent him my Christmas list. I remember laying on my living room floor and asking my mom how to spell just about every word I printed. I’m not sure if I’m right about the number‚ but from what I can

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    The Christmas truce which was a not official truce. The truce occurred along the Western Front. The truce occurred during the Christmas of 1914. World War 1 had been going on for many months but the soldiers on both sides stepped out of their trenches. They walked across no mans land which is where they shook hands and agreed to have a truce so that any of the dead from either side could be buried. As well some of the soldiers also used the truce as a way to chat with each other. Some of them even

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    said the ghost of Jacob Marley. Error and redemption was a main theme expressed by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol. Through Scrooge‚ Charles Dickens portrayed the redemption of a miserly moneylender in an attempt to revive the Christmas Spirit. Through the Christmas Carol‚ Dickens clearly expressed the idea that humankind should be everyone’s business‚ and that those without the Christmas Spirit should recognize their errors and achieve redemption. In the Story‚ Ebenezer Scrooge transformed

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    “I will honor Christmas in my heart. I will have the past‚ the present‚ and the future. This is a famous saying from the Christmas Carol. This is a famous novel from Charles Dickens. This story is about an old man named Scrooge who hated Christmas. Scrooge in the movie is a very old guy who needs a Cane to walk but in the movie it just says he is an old man. It also says that when the bells rang he jumped up but in the movie is is just sitting in his chair staring and waiting for whatever is coming

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    The Spirit of Christmas ----A simple analysis of A Christmas Carol Christmas is a symbol of the God’s love to mortals. On this day‚ God gave his only son to the Mortal World‚ which brought gaudete and peace. For the Christian‚ the significance of Christmas is sharing the love and peace with each other selflessly. At the mention of literature about Christmas‚ Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the most famous one. It is a story about how the selfish businessman Mr. Scrooge changed into a

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    The DVD version of A Christmas Carol is better than the novel. The DVD shows more detail and effects. The story does not add effects or music and just does not have the effect the movie does. People get to see what the characters actually look like in person instead of having to imagine them. This is why the DVD is better. The movie and the novel are alike in some ways. They both start out saying the same thing. The first two spirits come at the same time in the movie as in the story. All the spirits

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