Father Christmas

Across the world, Jews will celebrate the holiday of Purim this year from the eve of March 11 through March 12 with much fanfare and excitement. Families will go from door to door sporting costumes while delivering candy and other foods, and sit down to a lavish meal with friends and relatives later in the day to celebrate the holiday. But far beyond the food and costumes, Purim has a much deeper purpose to it, a lesson applicable to each and every one of our lives. Purim, one of the most…

The Gift of the Magi is about two people who sacrifice some thing that they love to be able to afford something for some one else. This story is ironic because the animated object that they got for one another could only be used with the exacted thing that they sold to afford one another gift. To understand the two stores "Gift of the Magi" and "Sesame Street" it is necessary to take a closer look at the setting, irony, both characters, and also figurative language. In both stores the ironic…

I always enjoyed singing. I sang along to the songs in Disney movies, to the radio in the car, or just at home in my room. I was in choir all year during seventh grade. We sang many songs that year, even one in an African language, but only one song had any solo tryouts. Mrs. Smith picked “Wide Awake” by Katy Perry for us to sing, so we could have at least one modern song. There were three solos in it, I tried out for the first one. The tryouts weren’t in front of the class, but I still had to…

2nd Quarter Book Analysis Character Sketch A Christmas Carol In the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, is about how one night changed the life of Ebenezer Scrooge. The story begins in December, 1843 in London, England, when Scrooge is a middle-aged gentleman, who is a bad man at the start and becomes a good man by the end. In the beginning story Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy man and a mean person who does not care to if, what he does with his money hurts other people. In between the…

Charles Dickens in his work, "A Christmas Carol" discusses about the true meaning of giving, receiving and sharing. The reason is that the narrator seems to be interested in telling the story since rich people did not appreciate poor people especially during the industrial Revolution whereby the gap was widened for both rich and poor people in which poor people were totally forgotten. After watching the Christmas Carol I understand that it is an allegory which delivers messages concerning the…

__This movie begins when Mr. Light brings in a silver cup for Johnny and his grandpa to possibly fix. They eventually don’t have the materials for the job so Johnny Tremain has to take it to Revere’s place which then he gives Johnny some tips. Johnny ends up burning his hand which is a crucial thing tied in with his work at the shop. Now that he cannot get anything done he leaves the shop. Now he is searching for a job to have, but he struggles to find one with one hand at the moment. Johnny…

Similarities and Differences A cold Christmas, 1843, Ebenezer Scrooge never saw what being a roadkill had in store for his lifetime. A Merry Christmas can have its pros and cons in a story. Reading two different things, a script and a play can mean many different things. They can have similarities and differences. They can be completely different, and they can still have a great turnout. The good point in having similarities and differences is the outcome. The knowledge of learning something…

by Walmart’s choice to play Christmas carols as muzak. Second, the range of the prices of the confections is significant because it lends insight into the economic variance of consumers at Walmart. To the average, middle-class consumer, 4$ wouldn’t mean much. However, to the consumer earning a minimum wage of 12$ an hour in Maine, 4$ is a sizeable amount of their income to pay for cookies. Hence, by labelling both 0.50$ and 4$ as steeply discounted prices for Christmas confections, Walmart hails…

during his Christmas gathering despite that Scrooge treats him in such a rude manner. Scrooge’s employer, Fezziwig, displays a prime example of how happiness is more important than currency. He closes work early on Christmas day to gather everyone together and have a party, just for the opportunity for everyone to enjoy themselves. The example that surprises Scrooge most of all is the Cratchit family’s…

start of the Christmas season and the town and market areas were beautiful. As it turned out, my trip that year was a wonderful experience because of the food, culture as well as the shopping experience. As I walked around the beautiful Christmas market area or the Christkindlmarkt, I realized that despite cultural differences, there were also many similarities in the way we celebrate Christmas in the US vs Germany. Because of this, I thought it would be a good idea to choose Christmas as my…