Easter

It all started when my dad told the family that he had been let go from his job at the Big Lake school district as a technician because the school did not have enough money to keep all of the techs there. It was an upsetting moment for everyone, but we had to move on and find a new job. After a few weeks, we did. My dad was accepted by a job in New Hampshire, a state that was far from our wonderful Minnesota home. I was super excited about this New Hampshire Job because it was in a new unseen…

During the Easter break, Rina and Emi visited Mark's (assumed name) home and had activities with him in the living room. Mark is a five years old boy who attends kindergarten five days a week. Mark is Emi's nephew, we brought Easter eggs for Mark to motivate his interest toward activities. With the trust relationship between Emi and Mark and the supportive atmosphere in Mark’s home, the activities ran smoothly. Mark engaged in three activities including number sense and addition activity, the…

The Mythology behind Easter Island? There are many Myths and Legends that surround Easter Island. One of those Myths is the legend of Hotu Matua’s. In the legend, it tries to explain how Easter Island became settled. It states in the legend that the king Hotu Matua had a dream, in the dream his continent Hiva sinks. When he awoke he ordered seven of his explorers to go search for more land that would grow their staple food yams. The seven explorers arrived on a small uninhabited island several…

Lottery, there is an aspect of confusion when it comes to Easter. Easter originated as a day to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but today is twisted into a holiday about the Easter bunny, and finding as much candy as you can. “ All major branches of Christianity observe the holiday. Today, other than church attendance, the holiday often involves Easter Eggs for toys and candy as well as the imagery of bunnies and rabbits” (“Easter.” religionfacts.com 17 Nov. 2016.). Today people have…

the start of the First World War a threat of civil war beginning in Ireland between home rule nationalists and protestant unionists in the north began to decline. Two years later, however, a revolt in Dublin performed by nationalist volunteers on Easter Monday 1916 against the British was compressed and the main integrators of the revolt were executed within two weeks of the event. These rebels were seen as heroes of the nationalist people of Ireland and help lead to nation unification against…

This past semester, I worked with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of South Niagara over the Easter weekend for their annual Easter Egg Hunt. This is a charitable event that raises funds for the organization with the help of the City of Welland as well as the Welland firefighters, both volunteer and paid. Also, with the aid of many, many volunteers, the event almost always runs as planned. I have helped at this event for the past two years with friends. Both years, my friends and I have painted faces…

It was Easter break of my junior year in high school. I had just finished recovering from a catastrophic injury that I had received while playing football. I had broken my ankle and needed to have a plate and seven screws put into it. It was difficult mentally and physically to come back from being my whole life basically, revolves around athletics. Having my life being impacted by this incident alone I was having a tough time from getting my mind straight. Only my parents helped me realize what…

The moai statues lie on an island in Chile, commonly known as Easter island or Rapu Nui to its earlier people. The island is 64 square miles, and located 2,500 miles from Tahiti and 2.300 miles from Chile. Each statue ranges from 12 to 14 feet tall, and weighs approximately a ton. Although no written history lies on the land, historians believe the statues represented important people such as ancestors, chiefs or worshipped deity’s. The people of the island were sea farers who most likely…

intensify as mentions of Poplar trees and blooming fields unfold. While being shaped by family, the events that take place around them, and even their communities, Lydia, Anneth, and Easter bring their different perspectives of the world to play. Who are these women and what is their significance to these stories? Anneth and Easter have grown with an ever present burden of death hanging over them. Taken from them first was their father, then their mother Birdie and slowly their two beloved…

The Easter Rising is the defining event of the modern Irish republican tradition. Most Irish nationalists regard the Rising as the most important event in twentieth-century Irish history. Without it, Irish politics would have been shaped by the moderate constitutional nationalism of John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party, and southern Ireland may have remained part of the British Empire for much of the twentieth-century. One of the driving forces behind the rebellion was Patrick Pearse, an…