...Thanksgiving is about Pilgrims and Indians having a feast so we do the same now but not exactly like them because I think no one does but. Many things are important about Thanksgiving. My favorite parts of thanksgiving are my family, turkey, and pumpkin pie. The most important thing to me is my family. I don’t always get to see a lot of my family so we get together on Thanksgiving. I like spending time with my family because I love them and because they are my family. Sometimes we go somewhere to spend time. Turkey is also important to me,why you might ask well it's really Good. We don’t always have it so I like it on Thanksgiving. And I think many people enjoy eating turkey.According to the institute, turkey shares similar flavor compounds...
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...Thanksgiving is when the leaves start to fall and it is time for venison? Though Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate the pilgrims and the Indians. Their traditions were very different than it is by today's standards. Would you go out and hunt for your turkey or deer. I know the Thanksgiving tradition for most people is to put a big ole turkey in the oven. A lot of people eat ham with their meal. I figure out that a lot of people eat all the same sort of sides, which usually consist of mashed potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. It was very much the same for the pilgrims too they have many sides with their meals. A lot of people eat with family and some people do it with there friends. That is very similar to the original Thanksgiving,...
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...The meaning of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, The annual national holiday marked by religious observances and a traditional meal including turkey. The holiday commemorates a harvest festival celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621, and is held on the fourth thursday in november. There are many meanings to thanksgiving like a big meal or football but the true meaning is to give thanks to God. This holiday takes place this year on november 23, 2017 Every november there is a celebration throughout the world. This holiday is called Thanksgiving. On this day we celebrate and give thanks to God for all the things he has gifted us with.We have been celebrating this holiday for almost 400 years. During this holiday there are multiple traditions and family...
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...Thanksgiving Dinner Even though it was many years ago, I vividly remember my first Thanksgiving dinner. I was a little kid, no older than the age of seven. I flew in that day from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where we had attended a special ceremony honoring my uncle. As a result of the hectic flight schedule, I did not have the opportunity to eat very much that day, and I was eagerly anticipating the Thanksgiving dinner. We arrived at my grandparent’s house around six thirty in the evening. As soon as I entered the house, the tremendous aroma of all the foods filled the air and my taste buds began salivating in anticipation for the meal. Normally at family meals the food came out in courses, appetizers followed by the entrée. However, this time all the food came out at once. I immediately reached for the turkey and proceeded to take a huge slab of meat for my plate. Coupled with gravy, the turkey seemed irresistible. It was a big piece of dark meat, roasted to perfection. The skin had some sort of spice on it. I don’t recall the name of the spice, but I can tell you that the spice was sharp. Yes sharp, I think that’s the best way to describe it. After my first bite I found myself reaching for the nearest cup of water. However, after I got used to the spice, I began to realize its incredible taste. In less than ten minutes, I proceeded to wolf down this massive chunk of turkey. Feeling the need to fill my now empty plate, I next reached for the Cranberry sauce. I had tasted...
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...Black Friday Madness In the essay “Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization,” the author, Andrew Leonard, makes the argument that, “The out-of-control marketing and consumer insanity” (135) has taken over Thanksgiving and the days following it. Sadly, as consumers, we have forgotten what Thanksgiving is really all about. Marketing businesses have gone overboard brainwashing consumers with advertisements pumping them up to shop on Black Friday and the days that follow. Moreover, marketing businesses have caused the actions we see and hear about on Black Friday such as people being trampled, as consumers rush into stores to shop the sales, and are proof of this insanity. I strongly agree with Leonard’s arguments from “Black Friday: Consumerism Minus Civilization,” that it is time to take back Thanksgiving and end the craziness. First of all, Leonard points out that marketing and consumers have become out of control with all of the Black Friday sales. He gives examples of advertisements that are out of control. For example, “after the perky Stepford-wife shopper sings joyfully about how she’s ‘been in line since yesterday’ and how everybody’s going to Kohl’s at ‘midnight, midnight’ the ad ends with her observing, with a mild air of perturbance, that she ‘can’t get this darn song out of my head.’ Ladies and gentlemen, there’s your winner of the 2011 award for honesty in advertising” (135). This commercial is an attempt to brainwash consumers. He talks about “grown men screaming...
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...Black Friday, the Retail Holiday Black Friday is the biggest shopping day in the United States of America. Forget about Thanksgiving, Black Friday is the truly notable holiday for a lot of shoppers. In this essay, I am going to discuss about how Black Friday began and how it is changing, how business make business on that day, the pricing strategies and competition, and the implications for employees. It is hard to tell when the day after Thanksgiving became a retail behemoth, but it probably started on late 19th century. At that time, department stores such as Macy and Eaton sponsored the holiday parades. These parades gave stores an opportunity to begin advertising holiday sales. This turned into a result in a lot of people going shopping after the parades were over. It wasn’t called Black Friday until 1966. Originally in Philadelphia, on the shopping day after Thanksgiving, it was a massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing. So, Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it "Black Friday". I think Black Friday makes good business sense to major retailers. It brings a good opportunity to retailers to sale their products. It is a good time for major retailers to make profits. But, on the other hand, I think Black Friday could hurt small or local business. It is hard for small or local retailers to compete with major retailers like Walmart or Target. Major retailers have a variety of things on sale on Black...
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...An Attitude of Gratitude The month of November always makes me think of gratitude because of the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many, many moons ago, I was estranged from my family on Thanksgiving. I was invited to share a meal at a women’s halfway house where I had volunteered at. I had a lovely time with these warm ladies and the food was wonderful. What has always stood out for me about that Thanksgiving is the end of the meal. You see, we went around the table, and each of us had to say what we were grateful for. I can’t remember what anyone or myself was grateful for, what I remember is the magical feeling that occurred. An attitude of gratitude can change your life around. So funny, as I typed that I heard a song lyric from one of the Jesus...
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...Black Friday is the annual shopping holiday that occurs on the Friday following Thanksgiving. It is mostly a shopping ritual to those people living in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Black Friday is a significant day to many retail stores because it is referred to as the start of the Christmas or holiday shopping season. The origin of the popular Black Friday dates back to before 1961, in Philadelphia, where it was formally used to describe the heavy vehicle and pedestrian traffic. It was always seen as extremely disruptive to the Philadelphia Police Department and always transpired on the day after Thanksgiving and thus the name Black Friday came about. As the years passed, an alternative reasoning for the title came to be known which denoted that retailers traditionally functioned at a financial loss recognized as, “in the red” from the months January to November. “Black Friday” therefore signifies the point at which retailers finally start to return a profit, “in the black”. Over the years more and more stores have begun opening at extremely early hours to help consumers get a jump-start on the sales. Some retailers have even started the trend of opening up at midnight. The Black Friday craze is tremendously popular, so popular in fact, that many incidents including violence has been seen in some cities in the past. We wanted to research if Black Friday should be considered a ritual. Our research process included secondary and primary sources. Our primary sources were...
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...Profile: An Event to Remember I will set the scene a little for you. Try not to get lost as to the true event that is the main focus. This event took place November 27th 2012. It was a perfect Thanksgiving in the Heiner home. The whole family had made it this year, and joy was evident on the faces of all in attendance. Anticipation was in the air for five o clock to arrive, because this was the set time for the feasting hour! Eventually the old clock chimed and the time came to take their seats around the beautifully arranged, and may I add a surely delicious smelling meal. Each was eager to get their knife into that juicy turkey that was cooked according to a family favorite recipe. Little did they know that this perfect day would come to...
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...ArisAngel Cuello English 101 Essay Assignment # 1 “Thanksgiving Day Miracle” The leaves on the trees seemed to follow a pattern and they changed colors, greens turned to yellows, yellows to oranges, oranges to browns and so on. Diverse and multicolored, the leaves then proceeded to take their journey ending plunge from the tips of the branches to the cold hard ground, which lay motionless underneath them. Hot humid breathes of nature seemed to increase in pace and magnitude but simultaneously decreased in temperature, as the gusts of wind became cooler to the touch, signaling the end of summer and the return of fall. The roads and sidewalks filled with chaos by the thousands of individual-minded leaves, resembling the room of a dirty child. As the presence of the great big star settled in the west and the sky lit with orange and yellow, the scenery was set, it was beautifully and uniquely painted in harmony, like the vivid colors of a Dr. Seuss illustration. It was that time of year again, my mothers’ favorite holiday – last Thanksgiving. As my mothers’ precious holiday arrived, so did the baggage, the stress and chaos of preparing. There was so much to do but so little time. It seemed as if every year there would be a preplanned agenda to conquer the stress of the holidays. However, every year that so called “plan” would fail. Every member of my family knew what to do, just sit there and wait patiently for the inevitable. Sitting there like a...
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...Thanksgiving Differences and Similarities What do you do on Thanksgiving? There are many different things people do. Some people travel to different places, spend time with family, and eat a lot of amazing food. On Thanksgiving, I go to my grandmas and spend time with my family that I don’t see everyday. There are many similarities and differences between people’s Thanksgivings. The majority of people have turkey, or some kind of food that they eat on Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving, I eat turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, casseroles, and tons of amazing desserts that my family members make. When I ask people what food they have on Thanksgiving they say they eat turkey or some kind of meat that usually goes with Thanksgiving. There are also many different foods that people have on Thanksgiving. People could have foods that they eat all the time or they could have foods that they...
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...Nikolaus Elliehausen / Sacraments / Fr. Manahan / Period 8 Thanksgiving began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. The MUHS Thanksgiving Mass incorporated many of those original ideas and added their own. Thanksgiving itself and Thanksgiving Mass are different for everyone. Everybody is giving thanks for different things in their lives, but ultimately the Thanksgiving Mass revolves around the idea of just being thankful and giving back, both of which are expressed regularly in the MUHS community. They lay underneath the various Grad at Grad values that most students will possess when their time comes to graduate from Marquette University High School. As for the difference it makes in the community, besides improving overall spiritual...
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...Thanksgiving Introduction Thanksgiving is a traditional annual celebration and it is celebrated on the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday people gather around a table with family and friends to celebrate this day. Thanksgiving has a different meaning for some people, but for most of them is synonymous of huge meals, parades, football match and spending quality time with the beloved ones. This holiday is not only about cooking delicious dishes and spending time with family but also is a reminder of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. More than half of American families celebrate thanksgiving. History The Thanksgiving Day had its origins in a mixture of European and aboriginal traditions. Both cultures had their own different way of celebrating the harvest day, but when the Europeans came to America for the first time; they brought their own tradition better known as the harvest festival which celebrates the end of their journey as well as the good harvest of the year. Despite the origins of Thanksgiving Day, this holiday is similar in Canada and the United States but everyone celebrates it in their own way. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621; where a group of 102 people (the pilgrims) from England arrived to the new world. They found a village called Plymouth. As the winter came along and diseases...
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...The smell awoke me like a slap to the face. I was on my knees, chasing the aroma like a puppy. I was all over the place that chilly, breezy November morning. Thanksgiving was here. The dinner for that night had started early that morning when the sun decided to smile at us. Generally Thanksgiving is a holiday my family and I celebrate together annually. This holiday was created to sit among loved ones and cherish each other. However, it was also created to be thankful for whatever your most prized possessions may be. “The holiday feast dates back to November 1621, when the newly arrived Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians gathered at Plymouth for an autumn harvest celebration, an event regarded as America’s “First Thanksgiving” (First thanksgiving...
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...Assignment # 4 – Midterm Assignment Due Monday Oct 13 for Class OLC *** Due Wed Oct 15 Classes OLB and OLA Worth 10% of your final grade Requirement: Please read the case on Pages 16 & 17 – GE Innovates from the Base of the Pyramid and answer the questions below. This is individual work. Format of the report: You are to submit your report with a cover sheet and include your names (both English and Chinese), my name, date of assignment, name of assignment and your class section( OLA,OLB,OLC). *****Since Class OLC will not meet on Monday Oct 13 due to the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday, you must email me your report on Oct 13 by midnight AND submit a paper copy on Tuesday Oct 14. If you do not submit BOTH reports you will get an automatic zero. Length of Report: This report must be a minimum of 3 pages including the cover page. This report must be typed. For classes OLB and OLA, it is due the beginning of the class. If you arrive late for class, I will not accept the report. Q1. Describe what is meant by “Base of the Pyramid” in the title of this case. Q2. What are the similarities and differences between GE’s traditional innovation and reverse innovation? Q3. Why is GE so interested in reverse innovation? Q4. What are the main concerns that prevent Western MNEs from aggressively investing in emerging economies? What are the disadvantages if they choose not to focus on emerging economies? Q5. Why is a leading US MNE such as GE afraid of emerging...
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