Easter

Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones, and he was looking not directly at the hidden camera but somewhere off to the left, perhaps at a customer, or perhaps at a counter where a group of kids hovered over the latest electronic games from Asia. Though taken from a distance of forty yards by a man dodging rather heavy mall foot traffic, the photo was clear and revealed a nice face, clean-shaven with strong features and boyish good looks. Easter was…

World War II eliminated the dependence on Japanese-produced bulbs. Easter lily bulbs are usually harvested in the fall. They are placed in pots and forced under controlled conditions to bloom for Easter. In 1996 about 11.5 million Easter lily bulbs were shipped to commercial greenhouses in the United States and Canada. The Easter lily is a holiday tradition. The holiday is marked by cherished traditions that bring joy, comfort, and warmth, and provide…

my yard like lunatics searching for Easter-eggs. Two years ago on Instagram, I posted a picture of myself running around with a basket full of eggs. The funny things about the pictures are my gorilla-like posture and the serious face. The caption said there was "a Bigfoot sighting at a local Easter-egg hunt." The purpose of posting these pictures was definitely to get people to laugh, but I was being completely true to myself. Simply creating a "Bigfoot Easter tradition" is something special to…

Virginia Woolf once said, "As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking." What she meant by this is that women are far too often put down for thinking of anyone but the “man” in her life. Before modern civilization, women were told that they couldn’t think for themselves or get an education, that they needed to stay in the shadows while men take all the glory. Though the standards of women have greatly changed, especially for women who live in the United States, women are…

Think back to fond memories as a child. Do visions of running down on Christmas morning to see what Santa brought you come to mind? Or do you remember finding a dollar under your pillow after the tooth fairy came to visit you? Childhood traditional myths should not be abolished. These traditions should not be stopped because they teach good morals to children, they keep families close, and they encourage children to believe. First, these fanatical characters teach good morals to children.…

Irish Volunteers promoted him to officer within the group. In due time, his acts of bravery during the Easter Rising will go down in history. With de Valera's back against the wall, he continued to fight for freedom and liberty for his country. "In Irish history, a republican insurrection against the British government that began on Easter Monday, April 1916, in Dublin" stated one author (Easter…

William Butler Yeats use of pastoral poetry in his poems Lake Isle of Innisfree and Easter 1916 his use of this type descriptive language evokes the reader to imagine a rural Irish life rich in folklore and fairytales. Yeats’ also urges his reader to envision life in the picturesque world, he used this style of writing to bring about a feeling of nationalism but with the preservation of Irish history. In the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeats uses pastoral imagery to describe the Western…

no absolute verified foundation for their certainty of the truth or realness of something” - Wikipedia. Is there really a god or is it just another fictional character that we are instilled to believe in like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, or the Easter Bunny. Why is it that we are told there is only one god but other countries can believe in more then one? I can say that, I am not a true believer of god but I do believe that there is a higher being. Over the past twenty-seven years, I was…

I believe the Rapanui walked the statues 11 miles across what is now known as Easter Island. The Rapanui are peoples who lived in the island. The only information we know from the Rapanui about the statues walked across the island. The first reason I believe the statues were rolled on wooden sledges is because that is so much easier for a human than to pull them with ropes. "In 1998, a group of scientists put the sledge-and-roller theory to the test, using a 10-ton replica of a statue and 70…

Patrick Pearse 1. Who was this leader (relevant biographical information)? Patrick Pearse was a key leader in the Easter Rising (Irish rebellion against British rule). He was an Irish man living in the late 1800s to early 1900s (1879-1916). (Green, http://www.ireland-information.com/articles/padraigpearse.htm) He was a nationalist and firmly believed that Ireland should be its own country. He was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (a group that wanted to use force to break the link…