Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is celebrated throughout China and is also known as The Spring Festival. It goes for fifteen days and the preparations start even before the old year has come to an end. The people prepare by cleaning up‚ buying gifts and cooking festival food. Chinese New Year according to an ancient legend was started like this: People were once tormented by a beast called a Nian - a ferocious creature with an extremely large mouth‚ capable of swallowing several people in a
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Vietnamese New Year Traditions New Year in Vietnam is not only a holiday but also the biggest event of the year. It is tradition of thousand years of history. In Vietnamese‚ New Year means Nam Moi or Tet Nguyen Dan‚ which also means “the very first morning”. Nevertheless‚ people commonly call it Tet as its short form. As traditionally‚ the holiday lasts three days‚ starting from January first on lunar calendar. However‚ the spirit of Tet starts on December twenty third‚ seven days before Tet’s
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In harmony with the rebirth of nature‚ the Iranian New Year Celebration‚ or NORUZ (norooz)‚ always begins on the first day of spring. norooz ceremonies are symbolic representations of two ancient concepts - the End and the Rebirth; or Good and Evil. A few weeks before the New Year‚ Iranians clean and rearrange their homes. They make new clothes‚ bake pastries and germinate seeds as sign of renewal. The ceremonial cloth is set up in each household. hagi firooz‚ is someone who disguises themselves
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New Year Resolution The New Year is right around the corner and as you gear up to bid farewell to 2012‚ you’re ready to pop champagne‚ countdown with friends and you’ve even got a special someone lined up who you plan on sharing a kiss with at the stroke of midnight but wait do you know what your New Year’s resolutions are for 2013? I’m sure to set mini-goals along the road and set an end goal with a deadline. I will find that resolutions can be more real than just a wish. Look for classes in
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28 NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS FOR 2018 New Year is around the corner‚ and everyone is gearing up to making fitting New Year resolutions trying to follow the annual self-improvement tradition. Everyone around us is setting goals but only a few are able to achieve it by the end of the year and all of us know why. If you plan to set unrealistic and unapproachable goals‚ then you are bound to fail. But then again‚ we are entrepreneurs and we win where ordinary people fail! Your New Year Resolutions can help
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I am very exciting to tell you about the Chinese New Year Concert that held on Feb 2‚ 2013 in San Francisco Symphony Hall. This is a program concert that conducted by Mei-Ann Chen. I picked this concert because the program contains traditional Chinese Lion Dance‚ Spring Festival melody with children’s dance‚ Geoge Gao’s erhu solo‚ The Butterfly Lovers. Tyzen Hsiao’s The Angel from Formosa and my favorite music piece with singing Ali Mountain Evergreen. Geoge Gao’s erhu solo‚ The Butterfly
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and the literate class for the technological development of Bangladesh. Digitalization has become a buzzword in the new era of information technology. We can now learn in an instant what is happening in the furthest corner of the world. The electronic transfer of information via the internet has created an interconnected world of information. Bangladesh is going to observe digital year in 2011 to mark the journey to digital Bangladesh. The government has taken up an initiative for setting up Union
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able to gain a voice her self. “Your Mouth is Lovely” was based on the Russian Revolution in the 1900’s‚ a time period where women had limited rights and essentially no voice in society. The narrator in the story was moving in with her new mother‚ Tsila‚ who deemed “all mothers [to be] unfaithful to their daughters” (Richler 263). Tsila tells the narrator that Lipsa‚ her former caregiver‚ was unfaithful to her‚ but wants to teach her truth. The lies the mothers tell their daughters
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