Night and Day

a severe and profound school for children ages 4-21. When asked what a typical day of her job looks like she responded by saying that "there is no such thing as a typical day for me! Mainly because there is a lot of variance in the day and the routine depending on the needs of the environment. However, our classroom usually has up to 4 students if all are in attendance, and being that we only attend half a day, their is usually an activity already taking place so…

‘Chocolat’, written by Joanne Harris, is a novel that talks about the way of both the protagonist and antagonist got to where they are now. They are in a small town in France called Lansquenet-sous-tanner where the protagonist Vianne runs a chocolate shop. Things are hard for Vianne facing tradition and the black man. Joanne Harris is trying to use symbols to describe two major meanings in the book with the wind and the black man. These are all looks on the effect that the church has on the…

could have a Nothing Day, he suggested. I don’t think you are, he said. They told me that those days are canceled… He thought again. You know what? I’m going to come up with our own day. My daughter and I used to have these days when we had nothing to do, and they are not called Nothing Days. Let’s call them… Let’s call them lazy days. Yes. We’re not having a Nothing Day. We’re having a Lazy Day. What are Lazy Days? Well… That’ s a good question. You get to be lazy all day. You can’t go to…

building funds from donations of schoolchildren in Victoria, and emblazoned across a building in the main playground of Victoria School and above the schools blackboards are the words 'DO NOT FORGET AUSTRALIA'. Each year, they even hold a small Anzac day…

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…