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    Christmas is certainly a popular celebration in terms of cultural and social significance. For Christian, Christmas is a sacred religious holiday as they celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ. People around the world have been observing the traditions and practices in both religious and secular. Common Christmas customs includes exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas tree, attending mass, sharing meals with family and friends and of course waiting for Santa Claus to give out gifts. How do you…

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    saved for future generations should be Christmas, Rosca de los Reyes, and the day of the dead, because some would teach how to share and others how to give and have fun with the family/ socialize with their future relatives. Christmas would be one because it could teach the kids of the next generation how to give. The children will be taught how to give the people in need, it would also be good to be grateful for what they’ve received, and how to share their gifts with their family and friends…

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    socioeconomic class face on a day-to-day basis. The balancing act between providing a valuable Christmas, while keeping a balanced budget provides a challenge to the Turnbows. Class difference, like in rural Feathertown, Tennessee maintains the commercialist ideals that solidify and exacerbate the never-ending battle of affordability versus value and a changing discussion on the actual true meaning of Christmas. Globalization introduces a cycle into the commercialist sphere that perpetuates…

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    Christmas Day and Three Kings Day have a variety of similarities and differences. Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’s birth in the United States of America, whereas Three Kings Day is not. Los Tres Reyes Magos is the celebration of the three kings coming to give baby jesus gifts. This is celebrated in Spanish Speaking countries, which can include Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica. The custom and traditions of the holidays can have multiple similar or different ideas. The similarities can…

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    Christmas break came right before my eyes. I was excited for it because I was going to my mom’s house for Christmas. I can’t even remember the last time I stayed there for Christmas. I couldn’t wait to go, the day was going by so slow. I needed to figure out what would pass my time. I tried playing on my phone, I went outside, and I even tried watching TV. Nothing was working. After a long day it was finally time to go. When I showed up there and it was a madhouse. My siblings were jumping off…

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    Debasement Essay

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    Corruption is the utilization of endowed power for private edition. Corruption has two sides, the recipient and the provider. “Both parties to corruption engage in the practice to gain from it and, therefore, both should be accounted for the practice” (Myint, 2000). Debasement is an imperative hindrance to the improvement of a nation. The World Bank has distinguished it as the principle hindrance to creating nations to their improvement tries. The societal improved candid in the general…

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    selfless act can positively impact the lives of many.”(Unknown) Today in our world selfless acts are becoming more and more scarce. People in our world are becoming really selfish. In the story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, the characters Della and Jim do some really selfless acts to buy each other gifts they really wanted. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon teaches Greg that treasure isn’t always worth a lot of money, sometimes it just has to have personal…

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    “Camryn,” said my mom “time to get up!” It is two days before Christmas break, and I am really excited to get to school because I heard that our class is getting a new student. All I want is to make seventh grade a blast for her. I hop out of bed and start getting ready. I make my way downstairs to the smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls. I finish my first golden brown cinnamon roll that had just melted away in my mouth from the frosting and go in for seconds. I look at the time on the…

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    Hanukkah Traditions

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    During the holiday season, most what we hear is “Merry Christmas.” The society today is based on the Christmas holiday, but most people tend to forget about other holidays that fall in the same timeline. One of the holidays we know of but don’t understand is Hanukkah. Currently, learning other people’s religion is becoming more and more important. With a world changing day by day, people might start to wonder what the origin of the Hanukkah celebration is. The background of every religious…

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    who brought him gifts. On this day Panamanian families awake to open the gifts left by the Three Kings, and families and friends gather for the celebrations. While the children play with their new toys, the adults busy themselves preparing a grand dinner including a special dessert, known as La Rosca de Reyes or "Three Kings Bread." This crown-shaped, glazed bread is traditionally made with walnuts, grated orange peel, raisins, and candied…

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