Santa Claus

Named for the Roman goddess Juno, patroness of marriage and the well being of women. thunderbolts was Juno's thing to do as this was her ability. the calends, the whole month of June was sacred to Juno. Etruscan Uni as it also means "She Who Gives", as it says she is a generous Goddess of abundance and answers the prayers for those in need. Shes guarded over the finances of the empire and had a temple on the Arx. Also from the Latin word juvenis, "young people." The fourth month was named in…

For my essay, I am exploring the topic of slavery in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. I will argue that Jacobs’ narrative reveals that slaves are capable of retaining humanistic characteristics, which disprove earlier colonial perspectives of Africans. My essay will primarily focus on how the importance of familial, communal, and religious bonds creates emotions that can be felt universally. In showing that these feelings are not subjected to one’s skin colour, Jacobs…

Additionally pretend play presents opportunities to practice and consolidate new found symbolic representational skills such as gestures, signs and spoken words. Early speech often starts from self-directed monologues and progresses around the age of three to become more socially orientated and increasingly interactive moving from independent speech to shared content (Hamo & Blum-Kulka 2007; M. Hoffnung et al., 2016). Literature highlights the importance of language development for its role in…

Thus the recurring cycle of trials and tribulations start. I too am a victim of this situation. I turn the eye to the recurring cycle of pain, hurt, and sometimes love. I raise my children on the fun of the Easter Bunny and jolly happiness of Santa Claus but it 's only to mask and fabricate the hurt, pain, and love so that this cycle could be…

instance, now I understood that the reason he could not write his name or that “every letter in the alphabet…look[ed] the same” was because of his impaired eyesight. However, I now found myself confused in the fourth verse of the song where he says “…Santa Claus never left [him] one toy” since Lucas says in his autobiography how he received a piano from his father for Christmas and how special that was to…

As various nations develop, people migrate from many different places. When they arrive, those settlers have brought with them their cultures, ideas and beliefs. In the establishment of the United States, many colonists came from all over Europe. Although many of the settlers who began to colonize the Americas came for religious freedom in 1700, the beliefs and cultures were quite different. The groups of settlers who came to the Americas consisted of many different religions. J. Hector St.…

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established that psychology should study only observable behavior, he was determined to demonstrate that fears could be conditioned, through a processes involving an association of stimuli. Watson believed that the goal of psychology must be to study something that is definable and observable. He was doing his research on conditioning of fear in humans. Watson had already done research to prove that young children are not naturally afraid of…

The world has changed, and the mind of people’s thinking also changed. I agree with Justice Kennedy, he said “The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times.”(2) For instance, when we are child we believe that is a Santa Claus in the world that can bring gift to us at Christmas night. As a child we believe it was true, but after we grew up we knew that the gift is parents given us. We changed our thinking because we know much about the world, and it also worked in…

Telling children there is a Santa Claus or other mythical creature is also lying but for the sake of a child’s heart, it is also fun and bringing the imagination out in them. There are multiple ways we lie, and Ericsson was bringing this to light. We put such a bad stereotype to it, and…

In October of 1916, in small town Ely Minnesota, a local grocery store was built on nothing but the foundation of family. The small company has spread all around the Iron Range, giving that sense of family to all who have visited. The Zupancich’s have carried on their family traditions for over a century, making their family name well known, along with their famous “Zup’s” sausages. Throughout the many years of service, the family traditions have been passed along from generation to generation…