trend; the celebration of holidays. In most recent days‚ holidays have been condensed to a festival of bargains‚ retail finds and materialistic trinkets. We have reduced some of our most sacred holidays into giving and receiving gifts. Christmas‚ Valentine’s Day‚ Halloween‚ and Thanksgiving are just a few examples of how today’s society has skewed the true religious‚ diverse meaning of the holiday. The prime example would be Christmas. Christmas is supposed to be a holy day of celebration; the symbolic
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Review: Roman Holiday By Fizza Aslam (SMC) Roman Holiday is a famous and important film for many reasons‚ probably most for introducing the world to the incomparable Audrey‚ here in her first major starring role‚ and one which won her an Academy Award. With lots chemistry‚ inspired direction by William Wyler‚ and impressive locale work‚ shot completely on location in Rome‚ this ranks as one of the best romantic comedies ever made. It’s a modern-day twist on a fairy tale‚ where the princess
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This summer I went to camp with my friends. It was one day and night trip. There were about 12 children. We put up our tent near the river to hear river flows and swim. To me beginning was extremely nice. But suddenly it rained so heavily. Because of the rain we all got wet and cold. Although we knew there were no branches that didn’t wet‚ we decided to collect branches to make a fire. Also it was getting darker. So I climbed the forest with my 5 male friends. The one of them was climbing more higher
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The Tet Holiday- What did you do? [pic] According to our traditional custom‚ the Tet holiday is the Lunar New Year Holiday – the most important holiday in Vietnam. It is around late January or early February‚ depends on each year. We celebrate three days beginning of the new year‚ the first day of new year marks the beginning of Tet . This year‚ the New Year Day is in January 26th. People will have about two weeks off. Although there are three days which are the main days of Tet but we
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Distinctive Voice and Character Analysis Claudia Valentine‚ being the protagonist of The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender‚ has been successfully developed in the text to both support and subvert the stereotype of a male hard-boiled detective‚ where she is portrayed as a female private detective who inheres the traditional characteristics of a tough talking male detective but also presenting feminist points of view. Thus the author‚ Marele Day has created this powerful distinctive voice of Claudia’s
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My Favorite Room Walking through the front door of my apartment‚ I enter my favorite and most relaxing place to be: the living room. Sitting in my living room I feel relaxed and stress free. The first thing I see when I walk in is my wife’s shoe rack. To the left is her creepy monkey picture. When I look to the right I can see the whole room. I try to keep it nice and clean‚ but with school work‚ it doesn’t always stay that way. As I sit down on my big comfortable couch‚ I look up at my huge three
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“My Favorite Gadget” “I guess the reality is‚ everybody today has so many gadgets.”(Barbara Brocolli) I have appreciated many gadgets but the closest to my heart is my one and only cellphone. It may not be one of the latest editions of phones nowadays‚ but I do love two of its several features – messaging and calendar. These two are the attributes that I usually utilize every day. Using its messaging feature‚ I can communicate with my parents‚ relatives‚ and friends through sending and receiving
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cool breeze swept through my hair‚ making me shiver with excitement. I arched my neck to take full view of the breathtaking beauty of Eiffel Tower‚ which towered above me like some iron giant. It was such a lovely day. The melodious chime of the twittering birds filled me with glee. The sun too‚ it seemed‚ was in a playful mood‚ playing hide and seek behind the fluffy clouds. “Trrring trrring!” The telephone rang all of a sudden; bringing me out of the scenic beauties my mind was roaming in.
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Morgan Walters 9-15-14 outline I. INTRODUCTION: • Thesis: Fall is the best season of them all. There may be only four seasons but this one definitely dominates them all. There are a lot of reasons why fall is amazing and I am going to go over some of these reasons with you in this essay. II. BODY PARAGRAPH 1: • Opening Sentence: Some of the best things about fall are the sights • Detail 1: leaves on the trees • Detail 2: the cute clothes • Detail 3: array of pumpkins III. BODY PARAGRAPH II:
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Every country has big holidays and they are being celebrated differently from one country to another. In the United Stated‚ Christmas seems to be a biggest holiday where family gathers around homes and churches to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Whereas in Vietnam‚ Tet Nguyen-Dan‚ or the arrival of the Lunar New Year‚ is the most joyful and ceremonious of all Vietnamese Holidays. Tet‚ as it is generally called‚ is normally celebrated for three days‚ beginning on the first day of the first month
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