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    British author Neil Gaiman was born on November 10th, 1960 in Portchester, United Kingdom is best known as a sci-fi and fantasy writer. His father was a company director and his mother was a pharmacist. Since his mother is Jewish, Mr.Gaiman practices Judaism. When he was a child, Gaiman had read comic books and normal books, at one point he had read through all of the children’s books in his local library. Prior to being 16, Gaiman read comic books, though stopped because he felt that he had…

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    Brazilian Music

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    The Carnival of Brazil is an excellent example of a long-standing tradition that involves Brazilian music. Every year the annual festival begins the Monday before Ash Wednesday, which leaves approximately fifty-one days to Easter. This is a Roman Catholic celebration that takes place prior to Lent. Carnival is an event where the Brazilian people enjoy parades, along with signing and dancing throughout the street. The…

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    Hunger Heroes, and The Mobile Pantry. The Mobile Pantry is an extension of the emergency food box program and gives individuals, who live in rural areas the opportunity to receive food boxes by bringing them to these communities. Once a month on a Wednesday, a St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance truck will be parked outside a selected school, which would be filled with pallets of nutritious food and will be giving them out to deserving families within that community. Even though, this particular…

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    Another thing that the two different denominations do not have in common is practices during lent. In both churches, Lent is the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter, the holiest day of the year, marking the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. During this time, it is expected for Roman Catholics to fast and sacrifice certain things because it is comparing the forty days of lent to the forty days that Jesus…

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    Home Invader Short Story

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    able to sleep again, because of what happened right inside my home. I can remember thinking if I could ever get over this, would home ever feel safe again. It was early April of 2008, just like any other Wednesday for our family. We had a routine day of school, followed by a normal Wednesday night church. The only thing I can remember that was different was my dad (who is the pastor at our church) had a meeting afterwards. Which caused him to get home later than usual. The ride home was…

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    Mardi Gras Research Paper

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    The Most Striking Period of the Year: Mardi Gras Krewe Remember those bright vivid colors that only show up once a year. Those floats decorated with all different types of creative theme, knowing that as they past none were the same. Those eye-catching outfits, “wild and spunky”, as some would say while some just reminded you of a favorite cartoon character growing up. Music from all different times of the musical era from hip hop and r&b, those classic sounds that you could only get from a…

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    Haiti Culture Essay

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    INTRODUCTION Haiti is a nation where the people are resilient, prayers are consistent and work hard with perseverance. Born in Haiti but, raised in Florida, I found myself doing research on the country that has formed a place in my heart. After doing much research at the library and even online, I found that Haiti is a country known as the "Mountainous Land” (Girault). It is usually remembered for its poverty and its recent earthquake back in January 2010 where thousands of people were killed…

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    How different cultures celebrate similar holidays can encourage communication. While every culture celebrates differently, some of the basic holidays celebrated have the same true meaning. While countries are different and our traditions may be different the underlying reason for the celebration is the same. Which is a simple thing to understand even across languages. Such as the true meaning of Christmas or Easter. The U.S. and Spanish speaking countries both celebrate Christmas, Easter, and…

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    Some of the most common and well-known sacred holidays are Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day. Good Friday takes place on the Friday of the week before Easter and commemorates the day that Jesus Christ was crucified. On this day, Christians remember Jesus and his crucifixion by having a late service of…

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    impact our lives all the time. One thing that some Christians do is fast. One example of when they fast is Lent. Before Jesus's death, he went out into the desert and fasted for 40 days. Based on that, Christians do that today. Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until Holy Thursday. Normally in Lent you give something up that you like, (such as candy or chocolate) but on Sunday you are allowed…

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