...Holiday Celebrations Around the World/Family Traditions By Cathy Abraham/2003 HOLIDAYS CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD Curriculum Goal – Children will explore different ways in which people celebrate holidays, and foster respect for other cultures and traditions. Vocabulary: - Chanukah - Kwanzaa - Dreidel - Christmas - Ramadan Letter of the Week: C Colors of the Week: Red and Green Concepts: - Families celebrate holidays in different ways – and that’s okay - People celebrate holidays based on what they believe and where they are from - Customs and traditions are things that families do every year - People eat different kinds of food when they celebrate - A family tradition is a way of celebrating Sensory Table Ideas: Curling ribbon and blunt, round-end scissors. Teach children how to curl ribbon. Art Activities: - Children cut out a pine tree (Christmas Tree) pattern. Decorate. - Make a collage from old Christmas cards, wrapping paper scraps, etc - Christmas/holiday cookie cutter prints - Make Holiday gift wrapping paper (sponge painting, etc.) - Passover candle menorah (made out of handprint) - Kwanzaa placemat (weave even-sized red and green strips of paper) - Snoglobe (babyfood jar, silver glitter, small winter or holiday theme décor minature figure glued to the bottom. Add water. Glue babyfood jar shut) - Star of David Ornament (Children make 2 triangles out of 6 craft sticks. Glue. Place one triangle over the other at an angle, going the other way) - Pipecleaner candycanes...
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...Nativity scenes are an integral part of Christmas for many families, helping set the mood for the annual celebration. Christian stores and other retailers can offer a wide range of choices to meet consumers' tastes. Jared Monds, business development manager for Blessings, said the store is selling a new line this year made of olive wood from the Holy Land. "They look gorgeous." The olive wood scenes are one of many nativity choices available at Blessings, which has locations in Edmonton and Calgary. Other stores, such as Wisemen's Way Bookstore in Camrose and Scott's Parable in Red Deer, also stock a good selection of nativity scenes. Jim Pearson, president of Scott's Parable, said the Fisher Price Little People nativity scenes are popular. These scenes feature figurines that children can pick up and move around. Wisemen's Way Bookstore in Camrose stocks a good selection of nativity scenes.View Larger Image View Larger Image Wisemen's Way Bookstore in Camrose stocks a good selection of nativity scenes. Dave Halliday Email to a friendEmail to a friendPrinter friendlyPrinter friendly Font: AddThis Social Bookmark Button "Nativities continue to be a big seller every year," he said, adding that high-end decorative versions can cost up to $1,000. Books are a mainstay at the Alberta stores. "Books make great gifts," said Pam Reber, owner of Wisemen's Way. "Bibles are our No. 1 seller." When a bible is chosen as gift, a natural accompaniment...
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...Emmanuel L. McCall, Jr. Ms. Woods GE-117 4 MAR 2014 Advertising and Consumerism Over the years, advertising has been an effective means of selling products and promoting new services. Advertising for various products help consumers save money. It also puts money into companies bank accounts. Advertising new store openings provide employment opportunities for consumers out of work. Advertising also helps the environmental conservation. Advertisement is information. It relays opinion, and it inspires a reaction and it influences emotion. Advertising reaches the consumer in various ways through T.V., radio, newspaper, billboards, mobile advertising, magazines, and on the internet. However, many people argue that its successes have brainwashed consumers into spending money on items that they do not need. Many people also believe that advertising does not effectively sell products, it simply persuades the population to buy, buy, buy. I will discuss three areas of advertising to show advertising and consumerism is good and bad. The world of advertising shows many products that are displayed by companies to try and get consumers to purchase it. Lutz, William. “The World of Advertising” Dialogues. Ed Gary Goshgarian. Boston: Massachusetts, 2003. 319. Print. When sales or coupons are advertised, it helps consumers save money. Advertising has no boundaries. It ranges from clothing,...
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...Family and Social Norms Role in Moral Development In today’s generation, cultural legacies and family traditions are the footprints to a person's identity and history. These footprints give us insight into not only our past but a glimpse of our futures. Traditions are a great contribution to an individual’s identity and help to define what generation they come from and who they are. One importance of a tradition is that an individual can take their experiences and memoirs with them throughout their lifetime and pass them along for future generations to share. In my generation, there are two traditions that are the most memorable times. Diwali and Christmas. In Trinidad Tobago, the Christmas traditions in particular go outside the traditional Christmas celebration. Every Trinidadian and Tobagonian passes these traditions down to every generation of all cultures. Family tradition and be interpreted as an idea or custom that a person inherits from their ancestors. Family traditions are normally an occasion or an event that is passed down through the generations. Traditions can help to shape and mold an individual's identity by teaching them about their ancestral roots. Family traditions are considered to be one of the best ways to bring various generations closer together in times of celebration. In most families, traditions are normally targeted with today's youths. Youth’s are the key to family traditions. It gives youths a sense of security in an uncertain world. Family traditions...
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...Arnaldo Garriga Professor Elosegui Humanities Adoration of the Magi The “Adoration of the Magi”, is a masterpiece attributed to Peter Paul Rubens, created in the year 1618 through 1619. In the piece we can observe from left to right the three magi represented as kings looking at baby Jesus. As we continue from left to right we can see Virgin Mary holding Jesus with her hands while he touches one of the kings. And in the back, and all around the kings and Virgin Mary, there is a group of people looking what is happening in the room. The baroque piece shows extravagance and exaggeration on the people’s cloth and body type, I can say that because the three kings are very tall, big in body size, and highly strong; they are shown wearing fancy and extravagant cloth, with gold, blue, and red colors. The baby looks very big as well, a little fat ,and with a strong body for being just a baby. Another detail that we can observe in the painting is the contrast of light and darkness. Rubens focused the light on Jesus, Virgin Mary, and the three kings to make them the focal point in the painting and to create some type of link between them, to show a mutual composition, and he left in the dark the insignificant details. This painting is a religious piece of art that describes a passage from the bible. The purpose of this piece of art is to show the viewers the birth of Jesus and how the three kings show respect to him. The “Adoration of the Magi” relative size is 246 cm height...
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...The new girl: “The New Girl” is a story about a narrator and his friend Allison. They are best friends and both live on Prospect Street. Prospect Street was a white, lower-middle-class neighbourhood. One day a new black family moves into Prospect Street and the story describes the meeting between the narrator, Allison and a new black girl. The story takes place in the USA, on a hot, bright summer day. The narrator is eight years old and Allison is ten years old. They are the only children in the neighbourhood. In their first meeting with the black girl the narrator and Allison are quite different. The friends are riding their bikes, when the narrator sees the new girl in the middle of the road. The new girl is laughing and the narrator is the first one to see her. The narrator smiles at the girl and the girl smiles back. When Allison sees the black girl, she says: “Get out of here, nigger”. The narrator is quite positive in his attitude, and Allison is quite negative. When the narrator sees the way Allison is reacting against the black girl, he is changing his attitude too and says: “Niggers are stupid”. The narrator is happy when he first sees the new girl in Prospect Street, because he then can get a new friend. There are not so many children in the neighbourhood to hang out with. The narrator smiles at the new girl, because children do not naturally have anything against other human beings. Children do not have prejudice against other children. The negative way Allison...
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...other people that lived in that apartment and she remembers her first spanking, her playing tunes on the pipes in her room to see if there would be an answer. Her father had a strict order, for them to keep their doors locked, the noise down, and themselves to themselves. Judith’s father’s obsession was to get them out of the barrio but living in El Building was a comfort to her mother, who never got over yearning for la isla. Inspite of her father’s order, her mother would take them to La Bodega, a grocery store across the street from El Building. She buys all her Goya beans, soups and other condiments there and she gets to talk to the other ladies that lives in El Building which she likes. They would put up a christmas tree and get presents both Christmas day and dia de Reyes. Judith and her brother love to watch the television. She remember watching all series showing families. Her father’s navy check provided them with financial security but only thing his money could not buy them was a place to live away from the barrio—his greatest wish, and her Mothers greatest fear. One New Year’s Eve they all dressed up. Judith in a frilly dress, her brother in a miniature man’s suit and bow tie, her mother wore a bright red dress, her hair to her waist and her father put on a dark civilian suit. They had been invited to her father’s uncle’s house for a big celebration. There...
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...O come all ye faithful O come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant Oh come ye O come ye to Bethlehem; come and behold him born the King of angels O come let us adore him Christ the Lord. We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas We wish you a Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year. Jingle Bell Rock Lyrics Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock, Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time Snowing and blowing in bushels of fun Now the jingle hop has just begun Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock, Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square In the frosty air What a bright time it's the right time To rock the night away Jingle bell time is a swell time To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh Giddy-up jingle horse pick up your feet Jingle around the clock Mix and a-mingle in the jingling beat That’s a jingle bell rock! Joy to the world Joy to the world! The Lord is come Let earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare Him room And heaven and nature sing And heaven and nature sing And heaven, and heaven and nature sing Joy to the world! the Savior reigns Let men their songs employ While fields and floods Rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy Repeat the sounding joy Repeat, repeat the sounding joy Silent Night Silent night, Holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin, mother and child Holy infant, tender...
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...1. Complex question but simple understanding. My daughter has a way of coming up with awkward question and at times you are baffled with their unexpected questions. One such thing happens to me sometimes back. The T.V was on but I wasn’t really watching, my mind was plastered on the meeting that I was going to be held tomorrow, but my daughter’s curiosity had the better of me. It was 19:30 and during the news report it was inevitable that the PM had to be mentioned. My daughter precipitously looked at me with a puzzle face and asked “Dad, what is a Prime Minister.” It took me sometimes before I could response; my daughter was only nine years old. I tried to explain that a Prime Minister is a leader of a group of individuals who takes decision for all people in a country and ensure people live in peace, harmony and gets all the need we require. My daughter looked at me and said “So you are the Prime Minister” Great thinking. Yes as a matter of fact I am the Prime Minister of my house; I ensure peace, harmony and get all the needs for my family. From there on it was much easier to carry on the explanation. I am the Prime Minster of my house and there is another Prime Minster of the country in which there are many, many houses. Simple understanding for a complex question. Progressively when we grow up we are surrounded with sophisticated and contemporary thinking. With the passage of time unknowingly we lose our creativity and simplicity. In our complicated...
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...“A Doll’s House” is a play where nothing is as it seems; the play written by Henrik Ibsen was an extremely controversial play in that time. Many thought that Ibsen wrote as part of a feminist movement but when asked about this, Ibsen said that this wasn’t so he meant it to be about humanism. He saw it as, every person has the right to be who they wanted to be no matter what their gender was. In “A Doll’s House” everyone is keeping some kind of secret from some other character, that is till the very end where everything comes out and it causes hard feelings between some characters and some to come together. “A Doll’s House” is set during the holiday season. The Helmer is in the midst of getting ready for the Christmas season, buying presents and Christmas trees. Christmas and New Year’s celebrate the birth of Jesus and the renewal of the New Year. This is symbolic of the rebirth that the characters go through during the course of the play. Nora is awakened and brought to a realization that her marriage is in some ways, what one might call a sham. She realizes that to her husband she is not another person, not really. She is seen as most women at that time were as a second rate human being, somebody to satisfy man and take care of his needs, as well as help him in reproducing more human beings. She is unable to be her own person as long as she is still bound to her husband because of this she leaves her family. This is Nora’s rebirth. Nora is not the only one that goes through...
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...TAPULADO, Jera A. My PE 14 Experience Activity #1: CHRISTMAS DECOR MAKING We were asked to make any Christmas decoration with the use of recyclable materials. In commemoration for the season, I made flowers of green, red, white and brown colors made out of toilet rolls and construction papers. Activity #2: CHRISTMAS OUTREACH PROGRAM To give and to share is a Carolinians vision. We had a Christmas outreach program in Tisa Elementary School, where we played and ate with the children. We also gave out toys as prizes and as gifts. I personally, enjoyed playing with the children. Activity #3: BOWLING For the 2nd time in my whole life, I got to play bowling. Although the bowling ball was too heavy for me, I still managed to strike once. Playing with my friends made it even more fun. Activity #4: DANCE PRESENTATION Through this activity, I was able to become closer with my group-mates. I got a chance to know them and bond with them. I didn’t hesitate to contribute any steps I know. Our dance may be simple but the bond I had with my group made it even more fun. Activity #5: WALL CLIMBING I may be afraid of heights but I conquered my fears. I managed to finish 2 phases of the wall. And I didn’t stop in trying the other walls. I had fun and it was very memorable for me since it is my first time to try wall climbing. Activity #6: CHOREOGRAPH SINGING It was nerve wrecking at first since I don’t sing that much. But our group tried our best to entertain our classmates...
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...Centuries of Song and Dance Festivals Everyone in their lives should be witness to the amazing scene of tens of thousands of people who belong to various choirs standing and singing together or dancing folk dances during a song and dance festival in Riga, Latvia. The participants are a mix of small children, teenagers, young adults, middle aged adults and even senior citizens. They continue even today and are held every four years. Song festivals usually begin with a grandiose parade where people are dressed in their Latvian national costumes which differ from region to region. The site is wonderful and colorful. People are carrying bunches of flowers and waving them to the people who are watching and the many choirs who are participating carry Latvian flags. After the choirs come the Latvian dance groups who perform many different Latvian national dances twirling in their colorful national costumes and then there are the musicians either smaller bands or larger orchestras who play while people sing or dance. The parade progresses through the streets of Riga and winds up in a large recreation park called Mezaparks where the performances are held in an area with a large bandstand and many, many benches for the audience. The roots of these festivals go way back as over the years and centuries a large amount of Latvian folk songs were written, composed and saved. These songs just asked to be sung. The very first time in Riga that a number of choirs came together to sing against...
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...TRACT 2 CHRISTMAS A lie of the Roman Catholic Church How did the festival (Christmas) in honour of the birth of Christ become connected with the 25th of December? There is not a word in the Scriptures about the precise day of his birth, or the time of the year when he was born. What is recorded there implies that whatever time his birth took place; it could not have been on the 25th of December. At the time the angel announced his birth to the shepherds of Bethlehem, they were feeding their flocks at night in the open fields. It was not the custom for the shepherds of Judea to watch their flocks in the open fields later than about the end of October as it was becoming too cold. Also, at the birth of Christ, every woman and child was to go to...
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...Top 5 Christmas Gift Ideas for Him You Should Not Miss What’s a great gift to give your man this Christmas? Finding the right gift for your husband or boyfriend doesn’t have to be a struggle. So, before you start stressing out, check out our top 5 Christmas gift ideas for him you should not miss. 1. Chefast Tea Infuser Set Does your man drink tea regularly? If not, get him this tea infuser set by Chefast, so he can start on this healthy habit. Studies show teas support weight loss and help fight diabetes, cancer, and heart ailments. This unique tea infuser set is made of 304-grade stainless steel that’s resistant to rusting. It includes the following items: 1 multi-cup infuser 2 single cup infusers 1 scoop with bag clip Exclusive...
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...Thanksgiving, such a great holiday. You get loads of food, how could'nt you love it! It's one of my favorites, I really love food. I would like to share some of my favorite recipes of course. My favorite dishes I would have to say, is deviled eggs, pickle wraps, jello cubes, mashed potatoes, and apple pie. So let's start with deviled eggs, of course you can make as many deviled eggs as needed but for each 6 hard boiled eggs, peeled cut in half with the yolk out, you will need 1/4 cup Light Mayonnaise or Salad Dressing, 1/2 teaspoon dry ground mustard, 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar, 1/8 teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper, mix it all together fill up the half cut egg, and then add as much Paprika as you would like but i would prefer not too much. Now pickle wraps happen to be like my top favorite, they’re soo delicious. You simply buy ham or turkey, cream cheese, and baby dill pickles. You spread the cream cheese on the ham and then take one of the baby dill pickles and wrap it up! Make sure to buy enough they go quick! They may take a long time and be frustrating to make, but its simple and they taste great, but they go by sooooo fast. Which is why you have to make enough, everyone seems to love them. Jello cubes are great and tasty and cute! You can make them into different shapes not just cubes if you have the right dishes. But you just heat up the amount of boiling water it says on how many ever packages you have then add the cold water and then add the powder and mix...
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