Holiday

With the upcoming festive holiday season fast coming up on us, it behooves us to delve into the wonderful world of Italian holiday desserts. Few ethic groups exhibit such enchanting delights as do those of Italian ancestry at this time for year. Following, you'll sample, if only on a digital device, some of the most exquisite and well-known culinary samples from those with a discriminating taste from the world's best kitchens--the Italian home kitchen. Whether you're a college student away…

connection to secularism regardless of how strong their religious bond is. Modern technology is a part of our everyday lives, and to some, these material objects are vital. Apart from that, secularism benefits from other religions as well. Religious holidays are now being celebrated by the secular community worldwide. Even a completely different worldview has adopted a secular branch of thinking. Both secularism and freedom of religion are rapidly spreading throughout the globe, just as any…

I Am Tourist The poem “ I Am Tourist” addresses the concept of a tourist during a holiday. This poem is read to be more personal to the reader as it is written in first person and we can all personally relate to this poem through past experiences as we have all either encountered a tourist of we have ventured on holiday as a tourist ourselves. In order to portray this effect in the poem, Our author has clearly investigated literary devices such as humoristic devices but also creating imagery of…

ostracized and persecuted. People burned any person suspect of being a witch at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials. I thought this stigma regarding witchcraft was ironic. Our society seems to hate witches, but we adopted almost all of their holidays. I knew that people who practice Wicca have a deep appreciation of nature. I knew that there was a female deity in the religion, and assumed that the goddess was Mother Nature. I knew that there are rituals and spells involved in Wicca, but…

minority groups unlike the majority of White students. Furthermore, these two groups may have trouble learning in an environment where they are always discriminated against or thought less of than other. Also, these two races may observe religious holidays that fall on days in which school is in session. I know this was the case for some of my Latina friends in high school. Moving on, students with learning disabilities may also be subject to bullying…

grabbing the audience’s attention, but it wasn’t the right type of attention- it was the type no company wants. Bloomingdales was preparing for the holidays like any other company would during this time of the year as they created their holiday clothing catalog that November. Within the catalog, a particular ad gets too carried away in advertising holiday fun. The ad itself, displays a handsome mischevious young man…

ecent Wall Street Journal article “Toys ‘R’ Us Preparing for Potential Bankruptcy Filing Before Holidays” by Lillian Rizzo and Soma Biswas highlighted both the financial and competitive difficulties that Toys “R” Us currently faces. The article stated that increased competition from online shopping venues created unfavorable conditions for Toys “R” Us, including lower prices and fewer consumers making purchases in-person. Additionally, “Amazon’s toy sales were up 24% last year, compared with…

people at Thanksgiving in total. Towards the end of the evening, after everyone has eaten, and things are winding down, my mother, sister, and I pass out holiday ornaments to all of our guests. The holiday ornament is picked out specific to each person, so everyone gets a different holiday ornament that represents them. The ornaments are wrapped in holiday bags with tissue paper. All at once, we kind of gather around as a group and hand out the packages. Next, we kind of open the gifts all at…

Experiences When you're planning a holiday in another country or a road trip with a campervan, you'll probably ask yourself, "What will I do when I reach my destinations?" Aside from determining your accommodation, transportation and budget options, you will also have to plan your activities when you're already there. But most often, a place can provide a wide assortment of activities or it has a lot of interesting landmarks to the point that you think your holiday time won't be enough. For…

Operation Badr is the codename given to the joint Syrian and Egyptian attack on Israel. The surprise attack began on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur at 1400 on October 6, 1973. Coincidentally, not only did this war start on the holiest of Jewish holidays, but it was also fought during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which is why it is still referred to as the Ramadan war in the Muslim world. The purpose of this essay is threefold: first, to explore exactly why this war was fought in the…