Christmas controversy

Thanksgiving weekend is here; and with it the start of all those holiday sales you’ve been waiting for. You still have a few days to plan how you’re going to monopolise on Christmas ___ and get your piece of the way. We put together this quick checklist to ensure you have have everything you need to supercharge your Christmas sales these coming weeks. 1. Focus on the Right Shoppers Self-gifting is a growing trend, in fact in in a National National Retail Federation study 70% of their…

Have you ever wondered what Christmas would be like from the tree’s perspective. Well, suspicions can now be put to rest because this is the tale of a tree’s life at Christmas. This is the story about the most memorable time of my life. In this story you will learn of how I was cut down, watched a family’s Christmas, and when the time came, had to say goodbye. It was in the midst of a frostbitten November afternoon, when I heard a rustling in the nearby bushes. I figured it was a deer or…

Throughout the world, many families get together and create traditions for Christmas. Each family I know goes about the same traditions, but they add their own spin to them to make it their own. As the year progress and gets closer to Christmas, my family gets anxious waiting for the perfect time to begin our annual traditions. When the time finally arrives, my family and I do the same thing every year. For our family traditions, we decorate the tree together, we make holiday cookies, and we…

It was December 18th, seven days until Christmas, and an ordinary day so far in New York City. Amber was on her way to work, shoving her way through the busy streets. Christmas cheer filled the air, lights hung on the rooftops of buildings, stores blasted Christmas songs, and snowflakes danced down from the grey cloudy sky. Amber swung the office door behind her and was greeted by her cheerful employees. The office was decorated with lights and garland hanging around the cubicles, paper…

Christmas: Mulled Wine, Cranberry Sauce, Glistening Fields of Snow and … Last-minute Shopping. There are Canadians who have long completed their Christmas shopping, who have neat stacks of beautifully wrapped gifts tucked under a decorated tree as I type this sentence, on December 16th. And there are others who are in a state of disbelief, wondering how November zoomed by at such a speed and why, why, why they did not start shopping earlier. If you are in the second group, fear not. These 5…

With Christmas around the corner, most of us are planning on what to present our near and dear ones this Christmas. This tradition of giving gifts has been followed for several generations. Irrespective of the religion we belong to, all of us love celebrating the season of Christmas and indulge in the spirit of Christmas by exchanging gifts with our loved ones. This tradition of gifting during Christmas time has made it one of the most profitable seasons of the year. Fancy stores, supermarkets,…

To understand why the conflict between the church and state aroused, we need to go back to the origins of this union. Otto I, son of the Henry I, Duke of Saxony was able to seize a large amount of land from the east of Elbe River, comprising Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, all the way to North Italy and parts of southern France. Thus due to his aid to the Church, Pope John XII crowned Otto I as an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (406 Bentley, Ziegler). This alliance helped to gain control…

My artifact is a small Christmas tree my mother and father bought when they were first married. This tree is something I have always cherished because it reminds me of joyful times spent with my family when I was a child. Although the Christmas tree has become a symbol for the Christian celebration of Christ’s birth, for this essay the Christmas tree represents family and childhood memories. One of my earliest childhood memories was of laying on my living room floor with only the light of the…

encroachment of truth. The tree also shows that Nora has accepted her role in the home and that she is only valued for her beauty. However, the Christmas tree also parallels Nora’s own personal journey in the play. In the play, Ibsen soon reveals that images of perfection cannot endure. As Nora slowly recognizes Torvald’s impending discovery of the loan, the Christmas tree is described in the stage directions as “stripped of ornament, [with] burned-down candle stubs on its ragged branches”…

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” (Moore, 1). It was on the 24th of December my mom had been going into labor a little baby girl would be arriving: my sister. She had been due on the 25th the day after Christmas Eve: Christmas day. If she had came tomorrow, she would have been a Christmas miracle! Anyhow, we all got into the minivan with my grandpa driving us to the…