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...History Father's Day is a celebration of fathers inaugurated in the United States in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting. After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day in the US, some[who?] wanted to create similar holidays for other family members, and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There were other persons in the US who independently thought of "Father's Day",[1][2] but the credit for the modern holiday is often given to Sonora Dodd,[2] who was the driving force behind its establishment.[3] Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas.[3] Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.[3][4] Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.[3] After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them.[3] Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.[1][2] It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane.[5] In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane...
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...Samhain, pronounced (sow-in) the traditional Celtic holiday, literally means summer's end. The origin of Halloween dates back 2000 years ago to the Celtic celebration of the dead. The Celtic festival was held on November 1st, the first day of the Celtic New Year, honoring the Samhain, the Lord of the Dead. Celtic ritual believed that the souls of the dead returned on the evening before November 1st. This particular time of year signified the final harvest, a time of gathering and preparing for winter. Winter was a time of famine and some would not survive through the long months ahead. Samhain was a way of honoring those who had died, a celebration of the spirit remembered. The celebration included burning sacrifices and costumes. It was a common belief that the "veil" between the world of the living and the world of the dead was thinnest on the eve of Samhain. In Modern times, many have twisted this thought to evil intent, though its origin is much more honorable. The dead could return on this one night to the places where they had lived, and food and entertainment were provided in their honor. This symbolized a village existing in harmony with its past, present, and future....
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...Across all seven continents, Christmas is a festive and enjoyable holiday celebrated among all age groups. The different traditions and customs…? All throughout Europe, the celebration of Saint Nicholas Feast Day begins on the morning of December 6. Children open the gifts Santa Claus has left them, Christmas carols are sung at their neighbor’s doors, ancients stories are passed down to the children, and a huge Christmas dinner with potatoes, roast goose, and vegetables are served. Spending time with family members plays a major role on Christmas. In Australia, children celebrate Christmas during their summer break from school. It is therefore common for people to spend their holiday away from home on parks, camp sites, or relative’s homes…. African traditions range from roasting goats with family members to celebrating Christmas on the...
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...Valentine's Day customs developed in early modern England and spread throughout the Anglosphere in the 19th century. In the later 20th and early 21st centuries, these customs have also spread to other countries along with other aspects of American pop culture, but its impact so far has been rather more limited than that of Halloween, or that of US pop-culture inspired aspects of Christmas (such as Santa Claus). Due to a concentrated marketing effort, Valentine's Day is celebrated in some East Asian countries with Chinese and South Koreans spending the most money on Valentine's gifts. China In China, the common situation is the man gives chocolate, flowers or both to the woman that he loves. In Chinese, Valentine's Day is called lovers' festival (simplified Chinese: 情人节; traditional Chinese: 情人節; pinyin: qíng rén jié). The so-called "Chinese Valentine's Day" is the Qixi Festival, celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It commemorates a day on which a legendary cow herder and weaving maid are allowed to be together. Valentine's Day on February 14 is not celebrated because it is often too close to the Chinese New Year, which usually falls on either January or February. In Chinese culture, there is an older observance related to lovers, called "The Night of Sevens" (Chinese: 七夕; pinyin: Qi Xi). According to the legend, the Cowherd star and the Weaver Maid star are normally separated by the Milky Way (silvery river) but are allowed to meet by...
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...Jewish Holy Days Paper REL/134 June 12, 2013 Hanukkah Hanukkah is an eight day and night celebration. That begins in the Jewish month called Kislev, occurring in November or December of a secular calendar. The word Hanukkah means dedication. The holiday is rededication of the holy temple in Jerusalem (165 B.C). The event was established when Jewish victory over the Syrian Greeks. Hanukkah is a holiday that has significance like Christmas. The celebration has a meaningful history, traditions practices, and cultural differences in the various branches of Judaism. The story is in 168 B.C. the Jewish temple was seized by the Syrian Greek soldiers. The Jewish people were afraid to fight back. After the Syrian Greek Emperor ordered all Jews to worship Greek gods. The Jews began to resistance and join together to retake their land from the Greeks. The rebels were called Maccabees. Maccabees got control of their land and returned to the temple of Jerusalem. The Jews were forced to eat swine and worship ideal gods. So to cleanse their selves they burned ritual oils in the temple of Jerusalem for eight days. The significant thing was there was only enough oil for one day but, the oil surprised the Jews and lasted eight days. That was the miracle of Hanukkah. There are many traditions when it comes to celebrating Hanukkah. The celebration involves games, the songs, and foods. One of the games is called dreidel. It’s the spinning of the four side toy. The songs are like...
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...Halloween: Then and Now This paper will cover the origins, religious influence, the changes in Halloween, as well as the traditions and superstitions associated with Halloween. It will show how Halloween started as a dark festival full of traditions and superstitions, and how it has now turned into a happy celebration for the young and old alike. Halloween is on October 31, the last day of the Celtic calendar. It was originally a pagan holiday, honoring the dead. According to The History Channel on Halloween (2012), Halloween was referred to as All Hallows Eve and dates back to over 2000 years ago. Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition, it is thought to have its origin with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts (para 1). According to the Encyclopædia Britannica on Halloween (2012), over time, Halloween evolved into a secular, community-based event characterized by child-friendly activities. It's one of the most popular holidays, second only to Christmas. While millions of people celebrate Halloween without knowing its origins and myths, the history and facts make the holiday more fascinating. During the ancient festival of Samhain among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland, November 1 was considered the end of the summer period, the date on which the livestock were brought in from pasture and land tenures were renewed (para 1). It was also a time when the souls of those who...
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...Christmas or Christmas Day is a holiday[4][5][6] generally observed on December 25 (with alternative days of January 7 for many Orthodox churches, January 6 for the Armenian Apostolic Church and January 19 for the Armenians of Jerusalem and the Holy Land[7]) to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.[8][9] The date the actual birthday of Jesus is not known, and the events of Christ's birth are only recorded in two of the Canonical gospels. Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with either the day exactly nine months after Christians believe Jesus to have been conceived,[10] the date of the Roman winter solstice,[11] or one of various ancient winter festivals.[10][12] Christmas is central to the Christmas and holiday season, and in Christianity marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days.[13] Although nominally a Christian holiday, Christmas is also celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians worldwide,[1][14][15] and many of its popular celebratory customs have pre-Christian or secular themes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holiday include gift-giving, music, an exchange of Christmas cards, church celebrations, a special meal, and the display of various decorations; including Christmas trees, lights, garlands, mistletoe, nativity scenes, and holly. In addition, in Western Christianity several figures, known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, and Santa Claus, among other...
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...Hanukkah Hanukkah Hanukkah an eight-day celebration by the Jew's. This Jewish holiday is a rededication of the second temple in Jerusalem. Hanukkah means dedication is Hebrew language and begins on the 25th of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. This holiday normally falls in between November and December on the American calendar. People celebrate Hanukkah with lighting of the menorah, traditional foods, games, and gifts. Story behind the meaning Hanukkah was inspired by a terrible event that took place around 200 B.C. Judea, the land of Israel, had became controlled by Antiochus III. Antiochus III was the king of Syria. He let the Jew's keep practicing their religion but his son, Antiochus IV, on the other hand was more evil and diminishing. Antiochus IV outlawed the Jew's and made them worship the Greek God's. In 168 B.C., Antiochus IV, sent his soldiers to kill the Jew's and tear up their city's holy Second Temple and sacrificing pigs within its sacred walls. The Jewish community was led by the priest, Mattathias and his five sons, to fight back for the Jewish land and Second Temple. When Mattathias died in 166 B.C., Mattathias son, Judah Maccabee, stepped up to the plate and gain control back of their land. Judah took back control of the land after two years, finally pushing Antiochus out of Jerusalem. Judah relied on different tactics, such as guerilla warfare. He gathers followers to help clean and restore the alter of the Second Temple and light the menorah...
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...Would you believe that the tiny island of Malta was recently voted by CNN's travel editors to be the one of the best places in the world to celebrate Christmas? Malta consists of 3 islands; Malta, the biggest, (11 by 12 miles), Gozo (5 by 6 miles), and Comino (1 by 1 mile). Malta is located in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and the African Coast. Besides Christmas, Malta also has amazing celebrations of other holidays throughout the year, including Easter and religious feast days. Malta’s population is currently a little over 425,000 people and it is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe with 1,320 people per .4 square miles. But for this relatively small country, the holidays are very unique. Easter is an important...
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...Indian Culture Abstract India is located in continent Asia. It is Federal republic government. Its official language is Hindi and there are 14 other languages e.g. Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi. The major religion that is follow by majority of people is Hinduism. In India people speaks different languages, dress differently, follow different religions, eat different food but they all have the same nature. Whether it is a happy occasion or a moment of sadness people participate in it with feeling of happiness or pain. A festival or a celebration is never constrained to a family or home. They whole community or neighborhood is involved in bringing a joy to an occasion. In India people consider guests as a gift from god. They give much respect to guest and welcome them with open heart. Indian people look afterward for each other in every occasion. They live with love and peace. Religion There are three main religions in India; Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Buddhism is follow by 307 million people. Buddhists believe in Buddha as a spiritual being. According to the teachings of Buddha, we learn that there is nothing in self and that we only suffer and gain agony by going towards something that is not permanent. A Buddha is free from greed, hatred and ignorance, and characterized by wisdom, compassion and freedom. Hinduism...
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...religions practice their beliefs different that my religion which is Christianity. The have different holidays than we do and some don’t even celebrate the same way we do when it comes to holidays .I am going to explain what about the Jewish holidays ,the rituals and elements which they use to celebrate their holy day and explain the similarities between holy days and celebrations if there is any difference between them. I would also want to find out if I would want to celebrate a holy day .I would also like to find out the history of the holy day and how it is celebrated today compared to years ago. I hope you get the same feeling about Judaism as I do, because what I read will stick with me the rest of my life. I didn’t know how long Judaism has been in practice more than they say it has been around for over six thousand years. There are five books of Moses and they read, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The chapter I was reading said God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: This day stated is the Sabbath; people worked six days, and took Sunday off. But with society today and the economy people have to work, I am sure most Jewish people that believe in the Sabbath take the seventh day off to practice the word of god. Jewish people observe the Sabbath because that’s when god rested from creation. The Jewish people celebrate three major holidays and they are found on a Jewish calendar....
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...Hanukkah Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that celebrates for eight days and nights. Jewish holy day Hanukkah is the holy celebration for Jewish people, which starts on 25th of the Jewish month. The Jewish month of Kislev, the Kislev is the month that starts from late November to late December on Jewish calendar. The story of Hanukkah begins in the time in power of Alexander the Great. Alexander overpowers the Syria, Egypt, and Palestine, which he permits the lands under his control to continue own religions, tradition, and keep hold of a certain degree of self-government. The word “Hanukkah” owns it meaning from Hebrew language as “Dedication.” The dedication is best reminder of holiday re-dedication of the holy temple in Jerusalem, when Jewish won the victory over the Syrian-Greeks in 165 BCE. After making Hanukkah as the holiday for eight days and night, many Jewish people did not give more important to Hanukkah as the Jewish holiday. However, in modern days, Hanukkah has become popular and modern practice as same as Christmas. Hanukkah starts on the twenty-fifth day of the Kislev (Jewish month). Hanukkah holiday do compare to Christmas holiday because Hanukkah usually falls between late November and late December and mostly celebrates in Christian societies. Hanukkah has some similarity to Christmas because during the Hanukkah festive, all the Jewish children receive gifts on every day of the festive. The Hanukkah holiday has its own traditions and most of traditions...
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...Festivals were important to people in the Middle Ages because it balanced out from all of their work and stress. It gave them a time to have fun and enjoy life. Many of the festivals related to religion and nature to reminded everyone to be thankful. There were festivals celebrated for every month of the year because of religious purposes. Everyone of all social classes were involved in the celebrations. At these functions they would socialize, sell their goods, and eat foods made by traveling cooks. What individuals did at these gatherings was based on their social class. In medieval times, the main source of entertainment for the people of a variety of festivals, they will attend. In these functions, they will socialize, sell their products, and most importantly, by eating foods made traveling chef. Good food and drink is the key to successful festival. There is always a variety of food and drinks, but sometimes it depends on a person status in the social hierarchy, they are allowed to consume. Medieval castle society like a trapezoid, the most important position in the top rung of the ladder, and in the bottom of the least important. It is important to know what foods to eat different categories are allowed, because it also affects what is available so that they have at the festival. Each festival is different, what categories of individuals belonging to what happened there is really dependent. For those living...
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...plan for a culturally diverse classroom Current teaching strategies must be designed to account for the multicultural classrooms of today. If not teaching is doomed to fail. I am studying to be a teacher. As such I understand that I too must plan for the multicultural classroom. As a result I will discuss the varied elements of my plan. Doing so will help me to refine my plan. My plan would have to incorporate patience and regard for all of the cultures present in the classroom. Plans have to be tailored to the specific area of the country where one lives so I will focus on my home town area. An important aspect of my plan is that the classroom should have an activity board. Important events, e.g. holiday celebrations, should be posted to this board. Holidays in particular should be events that all students participate in. Therefore they should be celebrated in the context of all relevant cultural viewpoints. Today the diversity of students in the classroom is higher than it has ever been. Old teaching strategies, which were designed for less diverse class types, must make way for new in order for students to be properly educated. This proper education must contain elements of all of the cultures present in the classroom. According to Johnson, et al “Provision of social justice and equality is a moral and ethical responsibility of educators; the goal is to help all students learn and reach their potential, regardless of their socioeconomic status, ethnicity...
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