...Christmas is supposed to be the time of year when everyone is filled with joy and happiness, but times have seemed to change. For majority of the country christmas is all about spending all your money of gifts for your friends and family and advertising. When christmas is really about cherishing the moments you have with the people around you. My personal views on gift giving and receiving has changed this past year. The “YES!” article by zumski Finke has helped my view as well. T’was a week before christmas, both my mom and I were waiting for my sister, Sherese, to get off the bus. Sherese walks through the door excited that she wrote a paper and received an ‘A’ as a grade. Me being the nosey person i am, asked her what her paper was about. Sure enough her paper was about what she was thankful for around christmas time. I remember her all excited telling me “ I got an ‘A’, because i wrote about how im thankful for getting tons and tons of gifts and new toys for christmas!”. Then i began to ask her “ What about spending...
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...6 letter word that means so many things. These are the people who aren't here for you all of the time, no matter what; the people who are supposed to love&support you throughout your lives. These are the people you have some of the best times with, that will never ever be forgotten. Family is Staring down at this photograph from Christmas 1999 brings back so many memories. My whole family looks so happy. all of us bundled up in our big jackets from the cold weather outside, sitting by the fireplace, all looking like we just love each other, we are so glad to be around each other celebrating with each other, and it is so noticeable we all care for each other. We were so glad to just all be able to spend this day with each other. I remember this day so well. I look forward to this day every year! Christmas night is always celebrated at my Pawpaw’s house. My grandparents were divorced, so we always celebrate our Christmases separately. I love Christmas with my grandma, but I just cannot wait to go to my Pawpaw’s house that night! He always cooks the best meals. For a white man, he can cook a pretty mean Mexican dish of any kind. Mexican food is just part of the tradition! It would not be the same without it! Other than his awesome food, he always gives the best presents, of course. They may not even be the nicest gifts in the world, but they are all sentimental. We always get a box full of chocolate covered cherries and a pack of snickers. Now tell me who would not love...
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...Operation Christmas Child has been a part of more than half of my life. I volunteered when I was eight at a family friend’s church. However, the only reason I volunteered was that I needed community service hours for school. I always wished to be placed in the packing group since it had the least leadership role because I never wanted to be a leader. What I did not realize was those years before high school was preparing me for what God had in store for me. When I started my freshman year in high school, I still had to do community service. This led me to continue doing Operation Christmas Child. I was now volunteering at my school, Trinity Christian High School along with my athletic director, Mr. Fitz, who was in charge of running it. Even...
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...Christmas Time When you look outside and all you see is a blanket of white, it usually means it is Christmas time. The leaves have all been stolen from the trees, the sidewalks are barely visible, the heating bill skyrockets and your frustration levels rise from attempting to untangle seemingly endless strands of Christmas lights. The color of dead pine needles cover the living room carpet, the scent of a freshly baked goodies and pine fills the air as you open your front door. These are all parts of Christmas that make it such a unique and memorable holiday. Family is something that Christmas would not be the same without. Christmas is exponentially fun for me because I get to see all of my family and have a great time with them as well. One of my favorite people to spend Christmas with was my Uncle Ed who unfortunately passed away just before Christmas in 2005. He always made my Christmas seasons extra special. Every year Uncle Ed would purchase an unknown amount of scratch off lottery tickets to give as gifts to me, my family and his friends. He always placed two of them in each envelope and handed them out to my dad, grandmother, aunt, great aunt, and step mom until he passed away. The best year by far for the lottery tickets was in 2004. It was the year that I won big! I had picked the best envelope ever, the Grand Daddy, as I like to call it. When I scratched off those tickets my eyes lit up and all I could do was jump up and down while screaming from the excitement...
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...though the workout is supposed to help me become healthier. Working out sucks but I am told it is good for me so I will continue doing it. Even if it does kill me a little bit each time. William Penn University - Most people have a very difficult time choosing where they want to go for college and how to figure out which college is the one for them but this choice was very easy and that’s William Penn. The William Penn baseball coach called me and wanted to meet me after seeing me play and knowing my...
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...having divorced parents is hard but then Christmas comes around. The best part about having divorced parents as a kid is when you realize that you get two Christmases, which means twice as many presents and twice as many trees to decorate. But, Christmas isn’t about the amount of presents you get or how many tress you get to decorate, it’s about spending time with your family. When you’ve come to that realization then you have started becoming an adult and that’s what happened to me. Almost every year on Christmas morning my siblings and I would wake up earlier than normal, run downstairs to see the presents, then run back upstairs and attempt to wake up our parents. They always told us to give them another hour to sleep which we weren’t happy about. We would then all go back downstairs, sit on the couch, and talk about which boxes we thought were ours. Once our parents came downstairs we started dividing up all the presents and my mom pulled out the camera and started taking pictures....
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...Lewis, Say hello to your lovely family from me, I can’t wait till you get here; we are going to have so much fun! I have planned that we are going to this amusement park called baboon city, it is a fantastic place. My parents are going to drive us out to baboon city and back, so you don’t have to worry about transport. When we get there we are going to try out some of the incredible facilities they have there, they have so many extremely cool things and I nearly can’t wait for you to try them with me. They have this amazing new thing called a caramelized Christmas candy cane, it is some sort of candy and it sounds tasty I mean just try saying the word caramelized Christmas candy cane you can almost taste it. I have chosen baboon city because it is a place where we can get to know each other in a different and amusing way. I think it would be wise to tell you what I like about baboon city so here goes, I like that it have so many fascinating facilities and I like the fact that it have a candy caramelized Christmas candy cane, but to get away from the caramelized Christmas candy cane and back to the facilities they have a karaoke stage, and they have a great amount of bouncy cushions that I practically find interesting. I think it could be interesting for you and your family because as I wrote before it is a great way to get to know each other in a different way, and it is an incredibly fun place, and they have caramelized Christmas candy canes and I don’t think you or your family...
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...A Christmas Carol is a very deep story about a man named Scrooge who redeemed himself from being and mean old man who hates christmas to ok guy who likes christmas just like he did when he was just a boy. This redemption happened because of the three ghost who appear in the story of the christmas carol. The name of the three ghost were past, present and yet to come and they were named because of obvious reasons. The first ghost shows Scrooge the past and its visions of Scrooge loving christmas as a boy and this gets scrooge all teary eyed. The second ghost shows Scrooge how he is living and Scrooge doesn't like what he sees, he sees that he is just a mean old man and no one like him as a person. The last ghost is what really hits Scrooge the hardest....
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...At the beginning of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is mean, ill tempered, truculent. He’s mean because in the story Cratchit burst into applause. Scrooge’s response to this is “Another sound out of you, and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your position.”(4) He’s ill tempered because in the story there are few kids singing God Rest Ye merry gentlemen. Scrooge’s response will seizing a ruler to this is “ get away from here , you! I didn’t ask to be bothered with that.”(6) He’s truculent because Fred his nephew said i fell in love. After that Scrooge repeated said “good afternoon.”(4) Scrooge changes from these traits through experience with the ghosts of the Past, Present, and Future. First the ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge...
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...A long time ago me and my brother Shawn, like every kid in the world, impatiently waited for Christmas. Our mother, who worked mostly nights, warned us that this year would be a little different. As a single mom she worked really hard to provide for her boys. I, being the Eldest, had the job of looking after my brother in the evening. A job that for the most part wasn’t hard , but the pay was lousy. As Christmas quickly approached I noticed that my mother hours doubled as Christmas came closer. Almost every weekend she had to work, and I honestly got tired of staying home babysitting. Realizing that I grew weary of babysitting she told me “It will soon pay off for you Jermaine. I promise!” Not really understanding what she meant, I continued to watch my brother. And now I felt better doing it, because I knew I was help to her. My mom would get home about 7:30 every morning. I would always her come thru the door, but Christmas morning I never heard her come in. “ You guys going to sleep Christmas away!” she said. We jumped up realizing she was right and raced down the steps. Wall to wall gifts, I mean they filled our living room, everywhere you looked gifts. As I stood in amazement, with a smile she whispered “I told you it would pay off.” One of many reasons why I love and respect my mother, not because of gifts or for a great Christmas memory, but for her willingness to work to provide all we every...
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...What I did on Christmas Break This year's Christmas was a little different than all of the other ones. One: I woke up at around 6:00 am because of the excitement of seeing what presents I'll get. But everyone else slept until 9:00 am to open presents. My mother said to my as I was waking her up, mhhm, which means "Go back to sleep!" Two: My grandpa Danny gave me and my brothers a "4K X Ultra camera". Basically a cheaper Go Pro. I really didn't do any thing on my break except play on my brand new Nintendo Switch and played Step Off. Three: I never had a baseball motivational board. I've played baseball for eight years and never got any boards baseball related. Since I didn't go anywhere through my break, I played Step...
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...Prof. Kellenberger Phil 310 Free Will When grumpy old Scrooge of the famous movie A Christmas Carol went home on Christmas eve, he had no idea what awaited him. He experienced a night of anguish and terror after three ghosts visit him. Scrooge was a grumpy mean-spirited man after the death of his sister Fan. Just to prepare him for his “life” in death, his dead partner and friend Marley, who facilitates the entire nightmare, shows him the lost lonely spirits who were mean-spirited in their earthly lives. The first ghost who visited him that night was “the ghost of Christmas past”. This ghost serves to remind him how others had been kind to him during past Christmases in his youth and how people in his past embodied the Christmas spirit. This ghost served to instill guilt and remorse. Next, “the ghost of Christmas present” appears to Scrooge and shows him how everyone is enjoying Christmas and spreading the Christmas spirit around town. It also shows how his servant Bob, despite his meager earnings enjoys Christmas with his family. It also shows Scrooge his nephew Fred enjoying Christmas with his family. The two families only show downcast moods when discussing Scrooge. However, Fred maintains hope that his uncle Scrooge can change. After that, the most dreary “ghost of Christmas yet to come” appears to Scrooge. He shows Scrooge how Bob’s son death saddens everyone and leaves them feeling a sense of loss. He then shows him a rich dead man who nobody misses and some...
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...How The Grinch Stole Christmas: A Film Review by Rebecca Rosendahl How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a movie directed by Ron Howard, released in the year 2000. The film is based on Dr. Suess’ story with the same named which was published in 1957. This movie takes place in the fictional town of Whoville populated by the Whos. Christmas is loved by all of the Whos. On a mountain just outside of Whoville lives a nasty creature called the Grinch, played by Jim Carrey, who is rejected and feared by the town. Unlike the Whos, he absolutely despises Christmas and he plans to steal Christmas away from the Whos whom he equally hates. But things get complicated for him when a little girl called Cindy Lou Who, played by Taylor Momsen, is unusually kind to him. The protagonist of the film is the Grinch who is a misunderstood creature. He came to Whoville by an accident, and he...
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... December 15, 2012 1. What my family is like? A. My Mom B. My dad C. Youngest of three children 2. What things I remember from childhood? A. Summer vacations B. Christmas time C. Pajama days 3. What jobs I had in my life? A. Sales clerk B. Receiving C. Childcare aide 4. What are my personal, professional, and academic goals? A. To become self sufficient B. Becoming a preschool teacher C. Earning my college degree My mom is more like a best friend than my mother. She is an inspiration to me when it comes to going back to school and exceeding my own expectations in life. My mom had gotten married when she was only 18 years old. My mom has a passion teaching children who are autistic and severely disabled. She takes time out of her busy day to spend time with me and take me out to different places to have a good time. She always knows what to say to me when I am not feeling good. My dad means the world to me. I don’t know what I would do without him in my life. My dad is the most generous person that I have ever met in my life. He will help anyone out with whatever they need. My dad is the associate pastor of our church and is a very active member in the community. He is on the board for feeding the poor in Philadelphia and takes time out of his very busy schedule to help someone in need. My dad is always there for me when I am struggling with stuff in my life. I...
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...Community College of Denver Weirding the Normal Julia Sayler Sociology 101006 Professor Megan Cortez 7 March 2016 Weirding the Normal: A Colorado State- Pueblo Football Game The Caplow article is about Rule Enforcement without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown. This article talks about how people in the town of Middletown would give gifts. The town had gift giving for Christmas set up in many different ways. Some ways the town would do it were “Participants in this gift system should give (individually or jointly) at least one Christmas gift every year to their mothers, fathers, sons, daughters; to the current spouses of these persons; and to their own spouses” (Caplow 1315). The article also talks about Christmas lights, decorations, the tree rule, the wrapping rule, the gathering rule, the dinner rule, the gift selection rule, and the scaling rule. Caplows article goes more in-depth about how each family is supposed to honor Christmas. The tree rule, for example, says “of the forty-five married respondents with children under eighteen only two of families did not have trees” (Caplow 1308).The wrapping rule says that “a subsidiary rule requires that the wrapping be appropriate, that is, emblematic and another subsidiary rule says that wrapped gifts are appropriately displayed as a set but that unwrapped gifts should not be so displayed” (Caplow 1310). There were many different rules for many situations. For this paper I decided to write about my experience...
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