Lyanne Rosado Rodríguez Prof. Jeannette Lugo Ingl 3102-030 January 16‚ 2010 The importance of Christmas Celebration Among all the festivals‚ holidays and traditions all people celebrated during the year‚ Christmas remains the most observed and most popular. It is purely a global celebration. This season is the most joyous time of the year. The traditions surrounding the celebration of this season are almost as numerous as the people who celebrate it and may change from place to place
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Is the two-week Christmas vacation is a boon to Filipinos? By: rey malero 01/16/11 Christmas!! It is pleasing to hear when we know that it’s near. Specially to those students like me because we knew that it’s going be a long time of rest in our studies and we can do other things that we can’t during school days and also to the kids and small children because the first thing that comes to their mind when they hear Christmas are gifts and new toys. It is not new to us Filipinos already the yearly
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A Christmas Carole‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ is a timeless classic. In the play‚ Ebenezer Scrooge is an angry old man that hoards his money and rejects anything to do with the Christmas season. His negativity about Christmas isolates him from everyone. Ghosts of Christmas past‚ present‚ and future visit Scrooge to try to remind him that he used to be a normal person that did not only care about money. They explain that if he keeps this up‚ he will die alone with no one to mourn him. After the
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In most cultures‚ being a housewife is the most important role a woman can have. If a woman does not the needed skills they need to perform their duty‚ then they are not seen as real woman. Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl” describes a young girl reciting the advice her mother gives her advice to be a respectable woman in society‚ take care of herself‚ and how to keep up her household once she is married. In the implied patriarchal society that they are in‚ the importance of feminine roles become the
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In the novel Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid‚ I identified concepts that are still being used in modern society. For instance‚ when she is discussing about her father’s death and the roles her mother would take on around the house to help. It is interesting that today we still follow the ideals of women and their role in a marriage as if it was the 1990’s‚ although we have slowly been trying to break the chain there has not been progress. However‚ I found the way she handled the death of her father and the
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Summary of the book "Annie John" By: Jamaica Kinkaid. This book is a book of reality‚ a book of self-discovery. This is a book that you read and as you are reading it you can identify with the character‚ what he/she does and how she/he reacts to happenings around her/him. The story is set in and around the Dominican Republic‚ around the 1950-60’s. The main character in this book is Annie John‚ she is a black girl in a English ruled and own colony. She is a smart tall girl of an
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The Atlantic Slave Trade lasted some 300 years and with it brought about 12.5 million slaves out of Africa. Out of that 12.5 million‚ about 10.7 million were shipped to the Americas. Although there were only about 6 percent of African captives who were sent directly to British North America‚ by 1825‚ the United States already had a quarter of blacks in the New World (Gilder Lehrman Institute). Revolts almost always ended in casualties or torture carried out by the ship crew. (Marcum and Skarbek
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William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol parallel each other on many levels. Macbeth is a play that describes the rise and fall of a ruler who believes nothing can harm him‚ so the lead character‚ cleverly called Macbeth‚ attains power whenever possible‚ not caring who he hurts or what he destroys in the process. A Christmas Carol is also about the rise and fall of a town leader‚ the richest man in town‚ Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge’s hunger for wealth and power is illustrated
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Christmas in my family When it comes to Christmas‚ what more can we say…Of course if it is the most be loved holiday of the year‚ a celebration of hope‚ understanding‚ sharing and the list remains open. Let’s forget about the “materialist” face of Christmas‚ about worries concerning the presents and think only of the pure joy of spending the short time with the dearest one. In my family‚ the Christmas “fever” starts a week before. The first days are reserved for buying the gifts‚ carefully
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Christmas with My Family Since I can remember‚ my family has had a traditional way of celebrating Christmas which gives us our own identity as a family‚ and I would not change it for anything. Every Christmas morning‚ our catholic faith makes us wake up with great enthusiasm to go to the church. As usual‚ my parents wake up early and go to my sisters’ rooms and to mine screaming “Today is the birth of Jesus‚ wake up‚ wake up!". When we hear their voices‚ we wake up with energy and good humor
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