Father's Day

the movie, but he couldn't. Memories of Lucinda slithered into his mind, blocking out all the noise from the movie and the laughter from the impersonations being done among the students. Daniel's mind swept over to their memory of their Valentine's Day…

holiday. The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the pre-Christian festival of the dead, also known as Samhain. This ties to the theme of Religion since it was the Celtic’s largest and most important holiday. They believed that Samhain was the day where the ghosts of the deceased where able to communicate with the living. It was later “adopted” by the Christians; they tried to convert the Celtics into their…

Celebrating Columbus Day: Should We? The issue of whether the United States should continue to celebrate Columbus Day or not has been a topic of interest for quite some time. To some people Columbus Day is a ridiculous day on which we glorify genocide of the Arawak Indians while to others it is considered a day of great importance and a celebration of an honorable man in history. Columbus Day is actually the latter description, but to prove this an agreeable definition is needed. What exactly is…

Every year the 1st and 2nd of November in Mexico is celebrated Dia de Muertos, a tradition that honors the life and memory of the those who had died and a great experience for those who wish to know more and involve themselves in a traditional Mexican celebration. In a touristic place as it is Mexico City there are many things a tourist can see and experience if he or she is in there at the time. People can go to the city’s downtown where many altars filled with food, cigars, alcohol, candies,…

Christmas Day and Three Kings Day have a variety of similarities and differences. Christmas is the celebration of Jesus’s birth in the United States of America, whereas Three Kings Day is not. Los Tres Reyes Magos is the celebration of the three kings coming to give baby jesus gifts. This is celebrated in Spanish Speaking countries, which can include Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica. The custom and traditions of the holidays can have multiple similar or different ideas. The similarities can…

Celtic tribe. The Celts believed that the god of death overpowered the sun god and summoned spirits of the dead to visit the living. They also wore costumes to scare off the evil spirits. Those costumes caught on to today’s Halloween celebration. The Day of the Dead started off as an Aztec festival dedicated to…

Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, Iwo Jima, The Vietnam Memorial, and the drawn out list continues of the many remarkable people and events that over the years artist have created memorials of/for. People create statues, plaques, mausoleums, etc., all for someone who has done something so phenomenal for this nation, as well of astonishing and even devastating events that have forever left an imprint on America and the rest of the world. Designing and having the task of dedicating a…

A contractor was hired by the city to trim some pine trees outside city council to touch up the area. However there were bald eagle nests up in the tree and when he trimmed it those nests they fell to the ground and the chicks died upon hitting the ground. In the nests there were a number of feathers and those were suppose to be taken by the government to be given to native americans for their headpieces. The problem was that some bystanders knew that bald eagle feathers are worth a pretty penny…

Every year we celebrate Veterans Day on November 11th. Veterans Day is a day where we honor the men and women, dead or alive who served in the military. There are four different branches of the military; Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines, and each branch plays a unique role in our country. When I discovered the benefits of the military, like free college after 36 months, or amazing Medicare, I thought, “I should join the military!” When I hear the word military, the first thing that…

To immortalize a human might be impossible but as long as one person knows your name, you are never truly dead. Throughout history, many groups and agencies have memorialized an event or created a memorial but there are more steps and factors in completing this action than most people believe. Memorials and events need to represent something and portray its background properly. When a group or agency memorializes an event or person and when they create a monument, they should include the factor…