Gift to audience: "One starry night just before Christmas‚ a gift wrapper‚ ribbon‚ card and box were sitting beside the fireplace and a gift joined them.” Said Gift Gift sits beside other characters. Ribbon suddenly stands up. Ribbon to characters: "Christmas is only a few hours away from now‚ no one will notice us and as usual‚ we will end in the dumps." Ribbon to audience: Ribbon blurted out. Gift wrapper stands up beside Ribbon. Gift wrapper to characters: “I know right?” Gift
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My Christmas holiday fairy tale Once upon a time there was a very handsome boy. He was going on vacation with his family. The boy was called Sebastian. He was going to celebrate Christmas in Austria with his mom and dad‚ his grandmother‚ and his older brother and his older brothers wife and two kids. They were all very exited about it. They had been renting a big cabin 800m up‚ on a mountain. It was a skiing vacation‚ so the villa was in the middle of a big slope. The whole family was having
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Ashley Hawk Ms. Keene ENC 1101 29 January 2014 My Christmas Nightmare We never really think about death until tragedy happens and we’re forced to face the inevitable. We make plans for our future not realizing at any moment life can be taken away. I never really thought much about it myself‚ I mean who wants to think about something so saddening? That all changed when I was faced with the irrefutable veracity
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Greediness vs. Gratefulness Christmas is one of the most incredible times of the year; snow on the ground‚ a warm fire in the living room‚ and twinkly lights around every turn. When I was young‚ I loved Christmas. Toys and treats had me in a daze for almost a week straight. I was a typical kid‚ and my focus during any holiday was‚ “What do I get? Who brought me presents?”. I never realized the true meaning of why we have holidays‚ other than presents‚ until I was seventeen years old. As I’ve
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roof made with tree branches and is a temporary open building. Christmas is another time of celebration. For Chileans‚ Christmas time is in the summer‚ but they still do some of the things people do here in America. One of these things is their Santa – Viejito Pascuero or Old man Christmas. Viejito Pascuero delivers the gifts in a sleigh and either enters the house through the chimney or a window. Most of them also remember that Christmas is to celebrate Christ. Carols will be sung and the Bible story
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‘Generosity is not just about the giving of money’. How is this idea explored in a Christmas carol? Charles Dickens’ allegorical tale ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ explores ideas about generosity‚ and explains the idea that generosity can be understood in ways that do not involve the giving of money. The stories used by Dickens to exemplify this idea are mostly about the generosity of spirit shown by people who are unable to give money; the poor‚ the burdened and the children. Dicken’s position seems to
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Jesus our King is our reason for Christmas‚ but merchants and television have torn us away from this idea. To keep Christ in Christmas things must be done‚ for instance quickly scrawling Merry X-mas on a card is totally against the idea‚ although more convenient then writing Christmas it suggests that Christmas is not a Christen holiday. Christmas is a time for presents and T.V. specials to little kids‚ it could be taught to them that it’s not what you get‚ but what you give in the first place. I
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Dickens’s famous drama‚ The Christmas Carol‚ was not an exception. There have been many versions of the movie‚ but the one that will be discussed today is the 1984 take‚ on Dickens’s original script. As mentioned before‚ there are many similarities and a few differences between the two renditions‚ none of which are plot changing‚ or quite so dramatic. Some such similarities are the characters. That includes old Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge himself‚ who is‚ the enemy of Christmas‚ and the main character of
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late‚ and he arrived home to his wife as soon as possible. The allusions to the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon is used to emphasize the value and beauty of Jim’s watch and Della’s hair by
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English Comp 1 20 September 2013 Christmas Decorating A tradition is like playing the lottery. When you do it once‚ you will do it over and over again. Christmas is always a big deal in my family! We all throw a little extra hustle and bustle into the holiday season. Every Christmas season starts with me getting down the decorations from the attic. There are so many boxes to take down and it seems like the number of boxes grows every year. After taking down the multiple boxes of decorations
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