31 to November 2. The origins are a combination of inherited beliefs and Catholic teachings. The days are a lasting and enduring ritual when the living converse with the dead. The roots of this tradition go back to pre-Hispanic cultures of Meso-Americans. When the Spaniards invaded the country this celebration was rooted so deeply that even after 5 centuries it is still celebrated like its first days. When the Aztecs arrived in Mexico they were wearing long shawl like things that were brightly colored
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Republic Day Awards‚ 2012 A total of 109 persons‚ including 19 women‚ have been selected for the Padma awards. Five personalities have been given Padma Vibhushan‚ 27 Padma Bhushan and 77 Padma Shree awards. PADMA VIBHUSHAN: K.G. Subramanyan (painting and sculpture)‚ Late Mario De Miranda (cartoonist)‚ Late (Dr) Bhupen Hazarika (vocal music)‚ Dr Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti (orthopaedics)‚ T.V. Rajeswar (civil service)‚ Delhi. PADMA BHUSHAN: Prominent among winners were Shabana Azmi (cinema)‚ Khaled
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overcome and deal with was having an ovarian tumor. In May 2005 I started feeling sharp pains in my stomach and heavy bleeding had started happening. I just decided to take some medicine and went to bed. The pains still continue to happen the next day. So I went to the emergency room. I told the doctor my situation. I had taken some x-rays. About thirty minutes later the results were back. The doctor had discovered a large mass in my stomach and wasn’t for certain. So I was recommended to the Brody
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1-23-12 Autobiographical Essay A Day I’ll Never Forget Every person should have a Grandma like mine. She was the definition of love. She never got mad‚ she never yelled‚ she was never too busy for me‚ she never turned me away and she never grew tired of listening to me. She was beautiful‚ polite‚ graceful‚ confident‚ quiet and peaceful. Her manners were flawless and her home was always spotless. She has been deeply missed since the day she died in 2010. I remember the day it happened like it was yesterday
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Dear Veteran’s Distinguished‚ Dramatic‚ Dream‚ Duffel‚ Duty You protect our country every day ‚ risk your lives everyday‚ so everyone else has their freedom. You show pride ‚bravery‚ heroism ‚ and devotion. You go out away from a regular life‚ away from your family‚ away from the outside world‚ to fight for everyone else’s freedom. While we live our normal lives everyday forgetting that so many people are ready for battle right when we need it.Ours Veteran’s are brave and strong‚ they help know
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Unexpected Day What would be your feeling if you plan something and all what you planned for turns into something unexpected? Of course you will feel disappointed and you might regret it as well. This is what happened to me exactly. It was a perfect plan! I rushed into my room after the good news I heard of going to spend a day on the beach with my family. Wow! “How marvelous this day will be”‚ I told myself. I lay on the bed imagining the cold breeze of the fresh salt water
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over the US would be a great experience that I couldn’t imagine doing and also meeting new people sounds fun as well as seeing new places. So 30 minutes later I called back and sure enough I got the job. Shellie sent me a bus ticket for the next day I got on the Greyhound bus and was on my way to Mesa‚ Arizona to meet up with the crew. When I finally arrived in Arizona after a long bus ride I went to the Ramada Inn where the crew was staying. It was around noon so of course the crew was out working
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children. The holiday and tradition of Halloween is full of history‚ ancient religious beliefs‚ and stories. Although today‚ Halloween seems like a day to dress up and party‚ Halloween wasn’t always celebrated like that. The holiday began with group of Celtic farmers in Ireland over 2‚000 years ago. The Celts referred to the day as Samhain‚ the Celtic word for
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Winter Neither Autumn nor Spring. We have instead the days When the gold sun shines on the lush green canefields- Magnificently. The days when the rain beats like bullet on the roofs And there is no sound but thee swish of water in the gullies And trees struggling in the high Jamaica winds. Also there are the days when leaves fade from off guango trees’ And the reaped canefields lie bare and fallow to the sun. But best of all there are the days when the mango and the logwood blossom When bushes
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“Graduation Day” As the beautiful sky happily accompany sunrays‚ that shined down on the entrance of the field house where the ceremony of my graduation took place. Someone above must have known it was my graduation day and blessed me with a beautiful day. I was so excited‚ that the night before the graduation I couldn’t sleep at all. I tossed and turned all night‚ thinking about the graduation and if he’d even show up. I waited for this moment for four long years and I will make the best of it
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