Christmas music

The Yule Log This is a holiday cake called the Yule Log also known as the Christmas Log or Buche de Noel. This cake that is made at Christmastime dates back to the 19th century. At this time rolled sponge cakes filled with jam or cream and covered with butter cream icing began to be mentioned in European cookbooks. They were usually decorated with marzipan or meringue. The rolled shape of the cake was to remind one of a log and was typically covered with chocolate butter cream to look like the…

The lights dimmed, the spotlight shown, and the preformance began. The music was playing, people were swinging from side to side, jugglers were juggling, animals were running, its was amazing. Then out of the darkness, Daniel and Sam rode out onto the platform as the preformers danced around them. They danced, and spun, and…

In England, there is a vintage fair that occurs every year where people of all ages and from all different walks of life come together to celebrate vintage styles. This is how the festival creator Wayne Hemingway describes the new retro craze : “Young girls taking an old piece of cloth and doing something creative with it. It's not about hugging the past – it's about mixing old and new. You see that dress over there? With the bag and shoes? They'll look good in 100 years' time. That's the whole…

Performance Analysis: A Christmas Carol As society develops and people get busier, the meaning of Christmas is shifted to the point that it becomes just a holiday, a day to have fun, losing its original meaning. Not only on Christmas day, have the perspectives of some people become negative that they lost the passion of life. Instead of enjoying life, people tend to pursue materialistic or work achievements as their lifetime goal to fulfil self-value. The Belvoir production, A Christmas Carol,…

Unwarranted guilt is one of Dunstan’s biggest personality flaws in Fifth Business, unlike the character Percy-Boyd Staunton the thrower of the snowball, who seems to feel the least amount of guilt. Percy never owns up to throwing the snowball, nor does he take interest in the decline of Mary Dempster and the destruction of her family. His life becomes one glorious success after another, from successfully navigating his way through the great depression, to becoming wealthy through his…

My Thanksgiving Experience Thanksgiving is a holiday of turkey and thanks that we celebrate every year in November, a month before Christmas. Besides being thankful and eating a lot of delicious food that makes you resemble the stuffed turkey on the table, it is about spending time with loved ones and enjoying the irreplaceable moments we have at hand. Now, with every Thanksgiving, there is always a story to tell; some more interesting than others, but all a part of whom we are. This year, my…

companies succeed and why Black Friday continues to flourish. The term Black Friday refers to retail companies go "into the black," which means make a profit. In our excitement to be with our families, we are already thinking about what to buy for Christmas: the biggest holiday for my family. Thanksgiving puts us in a happy mood because most of us have not seen each other in months. Black Friday is basically a holiday that takes advantage of our happiness getting people to spend a boat load of…

Crystal Cove, New Hampshire, a quiet and quaint town nestled on sandy beaches with astonishing views everywhere you turn. Small in size but large in personality, drama, and uniqueness. You can walk on the beach, the boardwalk, the pier and yet a few miles down the road ride through the old covered bridges. The winters are brisk and freezing and you can count on having a good time if you enjoy snow. During the winter, everything is draped in a white blanket for weeks. The trees look like…

“ABIGAIL: Gah! I'd almost forgot how strong you are, John Proctor! PROCTOR, looking at Abigail now, the faintest suggestion of a knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here? ABIGAIL, with a nervous laugh: Oh, she's only gone silly somehow. PROCTOR: The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning. The town's mumbling witchcraft. ABIGAIL: Oh, posh! Winningly she comes a little closer, with a confidential, wicked air. We were dancin' in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped…

more common for women to marry in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties rather than marry at the young age of fifteen. Another difference between the folk and popular customs shown in the film is the difference in traditions. While in popular culture, Christmas is celebrated by the…