Kids should believe in santa! Have you ever just stopped and thought how believing in santa affected your life? All those christmas eves spent sitting up waiting to hear the jingle of the bells or the reindeer on your roof. These nights played a big part in how creative or imaginative you were growing up. A big part of a person’s life that can affect them is if they believe in santa or not. Whether they believe or not‚ growing up does a lot in their creativity. When you believe in something it
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Americans did not always celebrate Christmas. In the 1800s the Christmas was not considered a holiday in America. Americans wanted to distance themselves from Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore are considered the founders of the modern American Christmas. Through their literature Washington Irving and Clement Clarke Moore popularized Christmas and shape many of our Christmas traditions today. First‚ Washington Irving brought European Christmas traditions to America and helped shape St. Nicolas
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Katerina Klingensmith Mrs. Drebus Honors English 10: 7 22 August 2014 Outline Thesis: The two Aphorisms here are trying to tell you that your life is short and you need to live it to the fullest before it is too late. I. “ It is better to die on your feet that to live on your knees” A. Euripides 1. Born in Athens‚ Greece‚ around 485 B.C. Married a woman named Meleto and had 3 sons. His family was most likely a prosperous one; his father was named Mnesarchus or Mnesarchide‚ and his
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T was the night before Christmas‚ when all through the house Not a creature was stirring‚ not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care‚ In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds‚ While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her ’kerchief‚ and I in my cap‚ Had just settled down for a long winter’s nap‚ When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter‚ I sprang from the bed to see what was the
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The Nightmare before Christmas The Plot Halloweentown is a fantasy land overflowing with ghosts‚ vampires‚ and witches. Jack is the leader of this town and is known as the “Pumpkin King”. Jack realizes he has grown tired of the same routine‚ and is faced with an identity crisis. As Jack wonders through the forest he stumbles upon a doorway to Christmastown‚ he is impressed by the excitement and feeling of Christmas. Jack shows Halloweentown what he has found and tries to explain Christmas. He
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The Gift of the Magi Valery Taylor ENG 125 Prof. Matthew Norsworthy April 30‚ 2012 The Gift of Magi In this short story‚ The Gift of Magi‚ O.Henry focuses mainly on one most important theme which is selfless love. In this writing‚ whose title is an allusion to the gift of the three wise men to Jesus when he was born‚ the writer clearly shows the value of personal affection and the true meaning of giving gifts. In short‚ the main idea is that the best gift is that which is most sincere and
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Identification Santa has been in business for over 2‚000 years and he has one job- bring children joy on Christmas morning. The task seems easy enough‚ but with a growing population‚ advancing technology‚ and more ‘trend-savvy’ children‚ the big man can hardly keep up! Santa’s main problems lie in market trend analysis‚ meeting production requirements‚ and inefficient planning for the holiday season. The presented case refers to the Timmy the Tinsel Town Train CD-ROM situation where
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Daniella Lobo-Rauch Professor: Jeffrey White English Comp II 11 December 2014 The Gift of Love: the wisest of all. Written in the first decade of the twentieth century‚ “The Gift of the Magi” is one of O. Henry ’s most famous stories. It is included in The Four Million‚ his first collection of short stories‚ published in 1906‚ and has been anthologized many times since then. According to Kathleen Wilson‚ ("The Gift of the Magi." Short Stories for
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English literature test 1/ literary works cannot be successful without stylistic devices. Those are skillfully used by henry in his story ‘ the gift of the magi’ can you prove that? Simile is used to describe Della’s greatest possession her hair: “Della’s beautiful hair fell like a cascade of brown water”. Her hair is a wavy as it is like a cascade‚ its colour is like brown water. Comparison is noticed: “That made her looks like a truant schoolboy.” After having had her hair cut Della can
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In Elf music is used to enhance the mood by slowing down the tempo or speeding up the tempo of the music. When the elves are making toys the music is at a moderate speed because they are functioning at a moderate speed. When Will Ferrell is traveling from the North Pole to New York to find his father‚ Walter‚ the music is actually fast and slow at some points because he slows down and speeds up. The faster the character functions the faster the music and sound effects will be. The slower
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