Holiday Inn

something new is born from a beautiful flower to a buzzing bee. The plants and trees begin to wither in autumn as the days grow longer and cooler. Though, autumn and spring are similar seasons, they have many drastic differences such as climate, holidays, and changes in appearance. Spring is the giver of life and autumn takes life away.…

against splurging for materialistic items in the name of vanity and greed does not effectively create ethos and is not persuasive for her audience of Americans shopping for the holiday season due to its lack of fact based evidence. The first reason Quindlen is arguing against nonessential expenditures particularly during the holiday shopping season is that the economy is in a recession and it would be far wiser to spend money on the items necessary for daily life rather than junk soon to be…

In the 30 minutes that I analyzed for Mr. Bean’s Holiday, the kinds of music that they used was a collection of songs. Most of the songs used in the movie were instrumental and symphony orchestra like. The composer of the score would be Howard Goodall. The type of performers that are used are an orchestra. The genres of music that are included are mainly instrumental classical like songs. While they are driving to Cannes in the evening, Mr. Bean is listening to radio and Born to be Wild, a rock…

November 14, 2016 1614788 Black Friday “Black Friday” is a day when everything is on sale. According to blackfriday.com I discovered that the expression Black Friday “was coined in the 1960s to mark the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season” blackfriday.com. Black Friday refers to “stores moving from the red to the black” back in the past when accounting records were kept by hand, the red ink indicated a loss, and black ink indicated a profit. Black Friday originally occurred during the…

Black Friday 2015 officially begins right after Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. This is a highly anticipated shopping day because retailers across the country are eager to provide super deals for customers online and in their local stores. The fact is that millions of people look forward to this great sale day. Black Friday Sale 2015 commercials and ads are already appearing on television, radio, magazines, and online. Consumers are anticipating finding that great bargain and super…

FedEx has experienced steady growth in holiday volumes since 2007. They forecasted another record holiday in 2015. FedEx expected they would move more than 290 million packages during Black Friday and Christmas Eve, which resulted in a 9 percent increase in overall year-over-year seasonal volume. FedEx also forecasted the busiest day in company history was December 15, 2015 with a forecasted 22.6 million shipments moving around the world. Their peak projections included FedEx earnings…

Thanksgiving, a once unassuming and gratifying holiday where people gathered from near and far to gives thanks and partake in a meal together. Perhaps it was the blessing, that was not always said before other meals, that caused dinner conversation to be more pleasant. Afterward, table games were often played or a holiday special was watched and some folks would snuggled up for a nap. People would reunite in the kitchen to share leftovers and then go their separate ways basking in the glow of…

opening of stores for Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving day is a problem because it’s destroying the meaning of Thanksgiving by; taking employees and shoppers away from family and the holiday meals. Many workers can’t celebrate Thanksgiving the way it was intended to be. Black Friday isn’t just becoming a nationwide holiday, but it’s taking over Thanksgiving too.The Huffington Post reported that sixteen percent of employees will work on Thanksgiving, and 20 percent of households making less…

A Christmas to Remember The snow had fallen, December had come. The door to the basement had been flung open, and box after multicolored box was lugged up the stairs as the basement was expunged of every last piece of holiday decorations. Soon the fake evergreen was up, its green plastic eves slung with twinkling white lights, glistening red ornaments, and a patchwork of other mismatching baubles and family trinkets. The Christmas season was here. However, this Christmas was to be…

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is a beloved tale that people of all ages have loved for its emotional and moral appeal. It is a story focusing on the life of Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy and cold-hearted money-lender, who is visited by four ghostly apparitions who convince him together to change his merciless ways. At the beginning of this tale, Scrooge does not recognize the effects of his greed, so the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future take it upon themselves to show him how…