Gift

“ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give ” by Winston Churchill. Giving is what will make you happy. I would like to give three gifts for Christmas. To begin with, I would like to give my Great Grandpa Grogg back to my mom’s side of the family for a month. I would like to get answers to the questions I have and learn more about him. We can talk about his stories as a team physician on the Mahomet Seymour football team. There was the one time when one of the players…

Richard Lee was an anthropologist studying the !Kung Bushmen. The !Kung Bushmen celebrates their version Christmas differently by having activities that include December Congregation at the cattle post for trading, marriage brokering, and several days of trance dance feasting at which the local Tswana headman is host (Lee 1). Instead of the essential Christmas story of “praise the birth of white man’s god-chief” (Lee 1). The !King Bushmen rarely had days supply of food on hand, (Lee 2) so Lee…

Essay #1 For centuries, children in Sunday school have been confused over the lesson “it is better to give than to receive.” Everyone agrees that it sounds really nice, but to be honest, hardly any of them are convinced. Receiving an ice cream cone, a new toy, or an extra $10 certainly seems a lot better than giving those things away! That lesson is hard to learn for one simple reason. When we give to others, we lose things that are easy to understand: money, stuff, free time. But we also lose…

Hello, this is my project on the country of the Dominican Republic. During December, they celebrate Christmas, like we do, but Christmas doesn’t end until January 6th, with the arrival of the three kings. A tradition in the Republic, is an Aguinaldos; an informal party at home. The people at the party sing traditional Christmas songs and eat Christmas foods, such as Puerco asado. People also carol there, and sometimes, families give the carolers a drink called jengibre. Some Dominicans celebrate…

questions for me to investigation. I have taken a couple of personality tests in the past, but this one was different because it gave me so much more feedback than just telling me how I think. I love that this assessment takes a look at spiritual gifts, and then gives plenty of bible verses and explanation to help with understanding what each one means. I really believe that this was a useful tool and was very impressed by how much I actually enjoyed the results. I learned a lot of surprising…

America’s Gift to My Generation How many gifts from America can you think of? My generation is very lucky to be living in the US. America has given my generation many gifts. Some benefits include freedom, rights, and choices. Freedom is an important gift for people in America. Imagine living a life where we had no control at all. One example is the freedom of speech. This means we are allowed to say what we want and what we believe in. America has also given us the freedom of living anywhere…

selfless act can positively impact the lives of many.”(Unknown) Today in our world selfless acts are becoming more and more scarce. People in our world are becoming really selfish. In the story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, the characters Della and Jim do some really selfless acts to buy each other gifts they really wanted. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon teaches Greg that treasure isn’t always worth a lot of money, sometimes it just has to have personal…

America isn’t just politics or the government. America is the united people, the soldiers who fought, and the lands we live on and enjoy. America has given so much to every American. However, America gives each generation a different gift, a different experience. The gifts that America bestowed upon my generation were things like this; education, opportunity, and a beautiful land that our forefathers fought for. First of all, the word “education” covers a wide spectrum of definitions. Besides…

Corruption is the utilization of endowed power for private edition. Corruption has two sides, the recipient and the provider. “Both parties to corruption engage in the practice to gain from it and, therefore, both should be accounted for the practice” (Myint, 2000). Debasement is an imperative hindrance to the improvement of a nation. The World Bank has distinguished it as the principle hindrance to creating nations to their improvement tries. The societal improved candid in the general…

The Gift of the Magi tells of a story about sacrificing what’s most precious to us for those that we love. Love requires many sacrifices, whether it be romantic or platonic it will that you shed blood to protect the many virtues that one may hold dear. The Gift of the Magi tells a story about a couple selling off their objects of such valor in order to buy a gift for the one who they love most but at the end they got rid of the objects that needed their partner’s already.The gifts were all in…