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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An interstate bridge in the California desert collapsed recently as heavy rains scoured away the land the depleted bridge was anchored to.The bridge for years has been a major throughway between the cities of Los Angeles and Phoenix as many cars use the bridge to get to there destination.Which caused the collapse was ‚water hurrying through an ordinarily dry desert chasm disintegrating the area around the bridge‚ bringing about one side of the eastward interstate to fall and causing the closure
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The Strawberry Festival has now become an annual tradition at USD where the dining services provide free food for the students and faculty. Throughout the festival I surprised to see the amount of students that attended because they did not advertise as much as I expected them to do so I thought the students were not well informed. However‚ in the Student Life Pavilion (SLP) at tables they did have a small sign that advertised it as well they sent out an email to inform us however in the SLP student
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Short essay on Onam festival of Kerala Onam is one of the most significant harvest festivals of Kerala and is an attraction for thousands of people outside and within the State. All the activities during this season are centered on worship‚ music‚ dance‚ sports‚ boat races and good food. This festival is celebrated in the Malayalam month Chingam (ending of August and beginning of September). Onam is a harvest festival and celebrates the reward of nature after a year of hard work. The merry-making
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Read each introductory paragraph and complete the following exercises. • Put a star (*) next to the hook. • Underline all the sentences that serve to introduce the story. • Highlight the thesis. (Student sample 1) Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a suspenseful book about a group of boys that crashes on a deserted island during a war. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding may or may not be trying to show us a comparison between some of the objects and characters to something
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Dashain is the greatest and propitious festival of Nepalese people. Like other cultural celebration‚ it is also based on the lunar calendar and falls in the months of September and October. Nepalese observed this festival for 10 days from the new moon day to the full moon day and it also celebrated throughout the globe. Dashain is a festival of great delight‚ enthusiasm and happiness. This festival’s value is on family gathering as well as renewal of community truss. Those people who were away from
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“Whatsoever things are true…” The Sonoran Desert is a magical place where springtime flowers bloom and die‚ but desert weeds know no end. It was there‚ in the sweltering heat of southwest Arizona‚ long before I could even comprehend the meaning of the word‚ that I had an epiphany. Eight years-old‚ immersed in the collected works of John Grisham‚ I voraciously consumed tales of common men overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to persevere in spite of tremendous obstacles. Perhaps it was the
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The African street festival is a cultural festival in Nashville that highlights African culture‚ as well as African American culture. The festival provided historical information about the property the festival was hosted on‚ and some of the individuals that were present. It also shared African culture through music and musical demonstrations. There was also a plethora of shops and stands to buy many different types of merchandise‚ much of which having to do with African culture. All in all‚ the
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General information: Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. Lunar because it s based on a lunisolar calendar (moon phase and solar year) and spring because it s the beginning of Spring. You celebrate the first day of the chinese calendar‚ but basically it s a long chinese holiday starting from the first day until the Lantern Festival on the last day. It is the time to honor deities and ancestors. New year´s days are celebrated as a family affair and a time
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Lim Chin Pei Title: Festival Season in Malaysia Malaysia is one of the countries in the world which have multi-racial. Although Malaysia has the most races of citizens in the universe‚ the Malaysia’s residents can live together peacefully. The ethnics of citizens in Malaysia are Malayan (Muslims)‚ Chinese‚ Indian (Hindu)‚ Iban‚ Kadazan and etc. Between‚ the three major ethnics are Malayan‚ Chinese and Indian in Malaysia. Because of the multi-racial of Malaysia‚ there are also many festive season
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