A Celebration

“Oh! Jalen Manivanh just broke Jose Ochoa’s ankles. He steps back for a three……… Bang! The squinty-eyed assassin plays basketball like a boss!” Do you play basketball like a boss? I don't think so. You have to play basketball like a boss, so you can be like the squinty-eyed assassin himself. To play basketball like a boss, you have to practice hard, ball up in the game, and last not but not least celebrate. First you are going to have to practice hard every single day. How do you think that…

The Brooklyn Bridge is known to be one of history's grandest engineering feats and also one of the most popular bridges in New York City. Here in the text, “A Bridge for New York” by Patricia Mayberry, and “The Celebration” by The New York Tribune. Both of these texts talk about the Brooklyn Bridge, although two of the texts are different from each other, and provide different information about the Brooklyn Bridge. The first reason why the two texts are both different from each other, and…

what religion they practice / were born into, and the customs of Puerto Ricans which are the things they do in day to day life.Puerto Ricans have Taino, African and Spanish influences on their culture. Taino is explained as native caribbean. One celebration that is unique to Puerto Rico is the birthday of Eugenio María de Hostos. Hostos was a writer who wrote about the need for Puerto Rico to become independent from Spain. He was also a statesman, meaning he was a respected political…

The liturgy is an ancient form of religious celebration of the mystery surrounding Christ (Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, 2005). The celebration with obvious religious connotations does not possess a name with such religious-bound roots. The term liturgy is derived from the ancient Greek word 'letourgia', meaning public work (Senn, 2012). The practise of communal celebration is one which occurs throughout the religions. Despite superficial similarities between the practises, each faith…

Comparison From the introduction above of the two New Year’s Celebration, we see that there are various similarities between the two. The major aspect of the both that is the significance of food. They both place a special emphasis on food or a feast. Families from both hemispheres will go all out trying to cook the perfect meal for that day. It is imperative to point out here, however, that the day of the feast is different. While in Grenada the feast takes place on New Year’s Day, in China is…

passed away. The news report raises the awareness of this contemporary issue by addressing the viewpoints of Lunar New Year celebration from a few Asian Americans, and showing the traditional and modern ways of Lunar New Year celebration in the United States. Nowadays, the younger generations of Asian Americans have developed different viewpoints on the Lunar New Year celebration and they tend to perceive the meaning of it differently. Celebrating Lunar New Year is part of the Asian culture, and…

The 75th anniversary of the ageds 450 farm is a celebration of the past 75 historic years of the farm. This celebration should bring back memories of both good and perhaps some bad memories of things that the farm experienced. Some of objectives and purpose of the 75th anniversary of the farm includes providing a place where past students of the ageds 450 class can look back and reflect on all the memories they experienced while they were at Iowa State University. Another objective of the…

The author, though writing from a time past, has stated a truth that is relevant to modern society. The observances he is mourning the loss of instilled a sense of reverence and wonder to the Christmas celebration of the house, things that are nearly completely gone from modern Christmas celebrations. The men who established them knew that this sense of awe was vital…necessary not only for the spiritual…

A quinceañera is a celebration held in certain Latin American countries to honor a girl's fifteenth birthday. It signifies the transformation of a girl into a woman. This celebration mostly recognizes the girl celebrating the quinceañera but also recognizes her family and her godparents, who are referred to as padrinos. It is celebrated to honor the coming of age, the importance of family, and importance of the people closest to the girl. It is also celebrated to uphold tradition. By many…

themselves was the Dinki Mini. The Dinki Mini is a folk dance that is performed on the eastern end of the Jamaican Island, typically in the parish St. Mary. After a person passes away, there is a celebration of their life called the Nine-Nights celebration. The original purpose of the Nine-Nights celebration was to cheer up the relatives of the deceased and was practiced openly during slavery (Joomla!). The practice of celebrating life, as opposed to mourning death, can be traced back to the…