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    The Festival of Colours Holi is a popular‚ religious festival that is celebrated by Hindus. It is often referred to as the ‘festival of colours’ because of the famous ritual that it has bore. It originated in India and is celebrated near the end of the winter season‚ on the last day of the lunar month. This usually falls in late February‚ or early March. Holi is a celebration of various legends‚ such as the legend of Prahlad and Hiranyakshyap. It stated that there was once a demon king named

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    Festivals as a source of life The importance of festivals in India‚ a festival is a celebration of life. Festivals for the general public to bring peace and happiness.They break the monotony of life. Indian festivals are numerous.The three types of national‚ religious and seasonal are one. Write the first festival. Ie national festivals are celebrated with great patriotic festivals favour.These Republic Day‚ Independence Day‚ Gandhi‚ etc. are included Jayanit. The second type of festivals festival

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    Hari Raya Festival

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    Hari Raya Festival     Hari Raya Puasa will be celebrated by the muslims after one month of fasting. Me and family as a muslims‚ Hari Raya Puasa is a special fasting on the month from foods and drinks from Subuh until Maghrib . This festival will be celebrate for month either.        In Malaysia‚ we can see the muslims early prepared for the becoming special day. They decorate their house‚ buying new clothes and making many types of food and cookies for the special day.     The night before

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    Frye Festival Essay

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    The Frye Festival is an event that takes place on a private island known as Frye Cay in the Exumas. This place is about an hour from Miami and is only reachable to visitors by plane. In order to purchase ticket for this festival you must visit the Fyre Fetival’s website. This event is attended by thousands each year during late April and early May for a total of two weeks. It’s been said that this event is mostly attended by an all-star cast of performers‚ models‚ influencers as well as thought leaders

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    The Pahiyas Festival is celebrated every year on May 15 in Lucban‚ Quezon. It is in honor of St. Isidore the Farmer‚ the patron saint of harvest. Lucban is marvelously situated at the foot of Mount Banahaw and the Pahiyas festival showcases a street of houses adorned with fruits‚ vegetables‚ agricultural products‚ handicrafts and kiping‚ a decoration made from rice flour‚ which afterwards can be grilled or fried for eating. The houses compete to be declared the best decorated. Tourists visit Lucban

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    The Mid-Autumn Festival

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    The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Vietnamese festival in which the children carry bright lanterns and play with alacrity until the midnight. There would have been no problem with me‚ an eighteen year-old who just wanted to gather my team to play a zealous soccer match on that day‚ if the principal had not decided to hold the Mid-Autumn Festival at high school. We students felt ridiculous about the idea‚ and the announcement seemed to be a joke rather than a serious idea. When our head teacher came and

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    [Oral Test] FESTIVALS

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    FESTIVALS Good morning everybody. My name is Lavitsef. I’m here today to invite you to go on the most colorful and eventful journey that you’ll ever make in your life. A journey with Slavitsef to Festivals! But first‚ I wanna give you some basic information about festivals. A festival is simply a day or period of the year when people stop working to celebrate a special event. In general‚ there are 3 major types of festivals: national festivals such as Mexican Independence Day Festival‚ religious

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    Glastonbury festival Glastonbury festival (officially The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts) is biggest and one of the most important music festivals in the world‚  best known for its contemporary music‚ but also for dance‚ comedy‚ theatre‚ circus‚ cabaret and other arts. It takes place in south west England.  The festival organiser Michael Eavis‚ a farmer in a Somerset decided to host the first festival‚ )then called Pilton Festival) as he saw open air Led Zeppelin concert

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    define arts and culture all types of creative expression must be considered ranging from individual to collective and also from grassroots to institutional. Auckland Council. (2012). The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute believes that culture as a word has become enormously confused. The denotation of culture includes the following six fields yet many more do exist; Language which is and the most developed channel of expression and yet also the oldest human institution‚ Arts & Sciences which is the

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    Global Peace Festival

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    GLOBAL PEACE FESTIVAL 2013 Nueva Ecija High School Character- Based Education School Narrative Report INTRODUCTION The Global Peace Festival Foundation has been succeeded at the Nueva Ecija High School wherein lots of foreigners and local communities are gathered in such prestigious event. It was made possible by the NEHS Values Education Department last November 18‚ 2013. It was followed by an All Lights Village Project held at Palayan City. The Global Peace Foundation supports projects and

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