Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Santa Claus: The Man of Many Stories Santa Claus has been a hero to kids in many countries and civilizations for centuries. Many children have had the wonderful fantasies of meeting or being Santa Claus and have thought of Christmas as the most wonderful time of the year. Santa is always thought of by his giving gifts and eating cookies, but sometimes people forget that Santa is based off a catholic saint, Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was elected to act as Bishop of Myra, now present day…

creation and flood stories, one can grasp a deeper understanding of the people the story was written for including their beliefs, traditions, values, and culture. One of the direct correlations between Popol Vuh and Genesis is the story of Adam and Eve. In Genesis, God creates the world and everything in existence in six…

Un-man tempted the Green Lady just like Satan tempted Eve. However, in Perelandra, Ransom stopped the Green Lady from Un-man’s temptations (123), unlike Eve who was not stopped from temptation. The Green Lady’s real name was Tenedril, but the name that Ransom gave her before he knew her real name, was the Green Lady. The name “Green Lady” was an accurate…

Christmas! Page 4 The next morning, Christmas Eve, Izabella was more excited than ever to have a sleepover with Mairead. “Good morning mom, greeted Izabella to her parents, good morning dad.” “Good morning princess, are you ready for the big sleepover?” Izabella’s dad wondered. Izabella giggled and said, “More ready than ever pop!”…

Salute Your Shorts: Tim Sullivan's A Christmas Treat (1985) It's Christmas Eve, and as Jason is being tucked into bed, his parents warn him that if he doesn't get to sleep soon, Santa will not be bringing him any gifts. It isn’t long before Jason does finally fall asleep, however, only to excitedly wake up in the middle of the night and rush downstairs to see if Santa has brought him all he wished for. Much to his surprise, Jason finds Santa himself, as he's leaving behind a plethora of joy…

Christmas is a time full of beautiful decorations that cover houses with lights, wreaths, and tacky Santa Clauses. It seems nowadays everyone decorates for the holiday season, even universities Greek life. One night last year during holiday season, a member of Alpha Delta Pi decided to play a practical joke on the fraternity boys who were trying to be festive. A group of girls decided to sneak out late, and steal a Christmas reef. A harmless prank that was supposed to be nothing more than funny.…

A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how the people first came to inhabit it. For example, two of them are the Genesis story and the Chinese story. Although the two stories have a great deal of dissimilarities they also have a number of indistinguishable elements. Both creation stories have some things in common. First, in both stories humans were made from the earth. The Chinese story states that Nu Wa sculpted humans from the mud. “From the edge of the pond she…

I miss them already. Despite the freezing cold snow and the nipping air, we had a lovely Christmas break. As I inspect my child, now grown with children of her own, holding tickets back to their home, longing envelopes me. Hoards of people push past, unaware of my pain, on their own schedules and heading toward different trains, talking and texting on their cell phones. My family boards, time as if in slow-motion, and waves goodbye until I see them again. I can't do anything but wave, a…

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The Land of Believe “The snow was high, the sky was blue, the Christmas decorations were set, and I was ready too.” They applauded for ‘Joyful Jamie,’ a second grader with a big heart and imagination. It was Christmas Eve and they were all at the fire sharing poems, stories, and -- only Grandpa -- Greek myths. All unaware that something, sooner or later, was going to come out of the chimney with a cacophonous sound. “Ok,” Grandpa says. “It is time for a holiday tradition,” he says, resting…