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Rob: Thank you Don for joining us today to celebrate the Lunar New Year. I’m Rob Mailloux, the executive sponsor for the ASIAN ERG. I’d like to wish you all a happy new year. Maybe have Rob say “Happy New Year” in a few different languages. For example: Vietnamese: “Chuc Mung Nam Moi” Chinese (Cantonese): “Gong Hai Fat Choy” Bangladesh: “Shuvo noboborsho” For those of you that aren’t familiar with the Chinese Zodiac, the Monkey is actually the 9th animal in 12 Zodiac signs. Each sign in…

November 1-2 (originally being in the summer), because it is on All Saints' Day and All Souls Day. On these days some believe that the spirits of the loved ones come to visit. Day of the Dead is important to Mexicans because it is a time to honor, and celebrate their deceased loved ones, instead of mourning over them. Day of the Dead first started with Aztecs ancient traditions that begin in august, and run throughout the month, at this time, the holiday was about festivities that were in…

through February 2nd. You might be thinking mexican are crazy for celebrating this season in so many days. But today you will know all about the important events and the food we have also the amazing decorations we use in the season. Us mexican celebrate christmas not just by one day but in many days which you already heard that it starts on december 16th to February 2nd. And the most amazing cool thing i love about this is that we receive gifts and give gifts away till january 6th which of…

The first Thanksgiving was in 1621. It all started when Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast with Pilgrims from Plymouth. That feast is now known as Thanksgiving. Most people now celebrate a more modern Thanksgiving. Everyone celebrates Thanksgiving differently. We still celebrate what we are thankful for but we do that in different ways. One thing modern Thanksgivings have in common is we eat similar food. The food we eat that is similar is turkey and Pumpkin pie.…

him making this speech, he thought maybe this is all a joke or this can be an eye opener to White Americans on what Negros think or feel about the Fourth of July. White people think that everybody celebrates the fourth of July, but they were wrong. Frederick Douglass states that to him he doesn’t celebrate it or there’s no reason on…

Halloween!! Introduction (attention grabber, a basic introduction to topic, thesis statement) Halloween has a very unique history going back thousands of years. Back then there was a group called the Celts. The Celts used Halloween as the day to remember the end of the fall and the beginning of winter, which evolved from the old Celtic holiday of Samhain. Where they would wear costumes to scare off roaming ghosts and would also light bonfires. Then they took these traditions to America in…

My Culture Identity Everyone has a culture that identifies their identity. As in who they are or where they come from. They 're many different cultures in the world. A culture is a tradition past on to a family generation. Every culture has different holidays, traditon but more importantly style. It represents what type of music you listen to or what type of clothing you wear. Most people find their culture by their family. For example; gandparents, mother, father. This essay is about how…

In Belize, November 19th is a national holiday whereby we celebrate Garifuna Settlement Day. This day represents the landing of the people who were African descendants that migrated from the Caribbean islands. It was then that their ancestors, who had been forced out of Honduras, touched base in the territory to join the little band that had effectively settled in the town of Stann Creek. In the town of Dangriga, the center of Belize's Garifuna community, there is a service held on Settlement…

ent was not in my vocabulary. Why the church I went to did not celebrate Lent is still unknown but as I talk to other Baptist friends, the common reasons I hear for why they do not celebrate Lent include: 1.) What is Lent? 2.) Isn't Lent Catholic? 3.) We celebrate Easter. What is Lent? Lent is the Christian season of preparation for Easter that begins on Ash Wednesday, 40 days before Easter, not including Sundays. Lent is a time when many Christians "fast" from something…

to white people. An author that puts a twist behind this idea is Zora Neale Hurston, and she shows this in the essay “How It Feels to be Colored Me.” The single characteristic of race should not define a person, but Hurston rather accepts it and celebrates her race. Typically, colored people are looked at as inferior to white people. Many colored people choose to hide and drown in this sorrow, but certainly not Hurston. In the essay Hurston states, “But I am not tragically colored. There…