Wesak Day / Vesak Day 2013 Year | Date | Day | State | 2013 | 24 May | Friday | National | Wesak‚ also spelt Vesak‚ is a day celebrated by Buddhists around the world. The termVesak came from the name of a month in the Indian calendar. This is one of the most important festivals in the Buddhist calendar as it commemorates three significant events in Gautama Buddha’s life namely his birthday‚ enlightenment and his passing away. During this festival‚ devotees will bring offerings of flowers‚
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Christmas day I like the Christmas day because it is the only holiday where all my family is together. Usually the party is in my aunt Rosa´s house‚ my grandparents‚ my dad and I arrive the day twenty-four at morning to help make the food and go buy things‚ but I don´t know cook but I help chopping or peeling vegetables also prepared water and anything else needed. In the afternoon when everything is cooking and we don´t have any things to do‚ I go to my cousin´s room and while we watching TV or
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free. It was a night of celebration all over the country. It is a red-lettered day‚ on which the schools and govern ment and private offices remain closed. Early in the morning‚ the young students sing in chorus the national anthem in accompaniment of flute and drum marching together in processions in the streets. National flags are hoisted in the houses‚ schools‚ colleges‚ and offices. It is a great day for India. In Delhi Red Fort Parade Ground‚ millions of Indians from different parts
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School Days Vanessa Howard Ashford University PSY202 09/08/14 School Days When looking over my life as a child‚ I wanted to reflect on my childhood and teenage years. I grew up without both of my parents‚ therefore this was the most important part of my life. The reason these two experiences meant so much to me‚ because my sister made the decision to raise me. I can reflect back on these two situations that made me the woman I am today. I didn’t allow my life to stop
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eachers Day Speech - Teachers Day is a dedication to Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan‚ who was a staunch believer of education and was one of the most well known diplomat‚ scholar‚ president of India and above all a teacher. As a tribute to this great teacher‚ his birthday has been observed as teachers’ day and this led to its origin. A day that is dedicated to the hard work that is input by the teacher all year long‚ a day that is a complete tribute to the teachers all around India. In India teacher
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element of present-day education. Formerly teaching consisted of merely imparting the basic skills of 3R’s (Reading‚ Writing and Arithmetic). But true learning is much more than that. Today education is an all-round development of the child. In this respect games and sports play a significant role. It is in this backdrop that most schools organise their Annual Sports Day. Last year‚ my school’s Annual Sports Day was held on 20th Oct. Generally a month of preparation precedes the day. A month prior
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Everyone’s school days have the memories we can cherish and treasure for life. School days are the most joyful and fun filled with many mysteries to solve and many fights to resolve. School is the nursery of life. What one learns in school remains with us for the rest of our life. It provides opportunity for study and discipline. Besides these‚ the school life is a preparatory stage for entering public life. Young‚ impressionable minds are moulded into responsible human beings here; it indicates
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the case happened. This is evident throughout the entire article‚ as it is written over a very touchy subject. Some words that we see repeated throughout the article are “privacy” and “choice”. These relate to pathos because they make you see just what was at jeopardy for not only Roe‚ but women all across the United States. When the word privacy is continually used‚ it evokes the emotion that women were being violated in the means of privacy. This is also used to evoke an emotion that in no way
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gray rain wall dropped out of the sky. Lightning. Then thunder. We‚ the already-tired crew on the feature film Yellow Day‚ were stuck. We quickly covered the large cameras in heavy plastic and donned rain gear while Bob‚ our Dutch production manager‚ called it for the day. Not good. Forty employees sitting idle is not cheap. And I’m the executive producer/writer of Yellow Day. I’m looking at every rain drop and thinking each one costs us a dollar. I look out onto the set‚ which is anything but
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Constituent Assembly of India took two years eleven months and eighteen days to make a Constitution for India. The consideration of the Draft Constitution took 114 days. The Constituent Assembly finished it on the 26th November 1949. This new Constitution of India came into force on the 26th January 1950. According to it India became a Sovereign Democratic Republic. Since then the 26th January in every year is observed as our Republic day. Republic means a state having a Government of the people‚ by the
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