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We have had a good winter for Winter Club activities. Mother Nature has only caused us to close down a few times and we had a good run of snow for sledding. We still have a bit of winter left in front us and lots of activities happening at the WC. We kick off March with our WC Family Skate Night. WC Family Skate Night is the last big party of winter and has become a great showcase event for prospective member families. This allows families looking to join the Club through our Summer…

Santa clause the jolly man that comes only once a year, is beneficial to children. He teaches them to believe in doing the impossible, to be respectful towards others, and gives children happy memories to look back on. The man that can deliver presents to all the children in the world in a single night, is a story told to children about how a man named Santa clause does the impossible every Christmas Eva. In a world where people are constantly fighting each other to get places in life, it all…

Constantly you heard “Look how much you’ve grown!” from visiting relatives, and waited anxiously on Christmas Eve for Santa to make his stop at your house. As a little kid there was no greater feeling than ripping open presents on Christmas morning to find the toy you had begged your parents for who would only respond with a “Wait ‘till Christmas,” or “Maybe if you’re good, Santa will bring it for you.” As you got older Christmas became a little more stressful between picking out gifts for…

“The Gift of the Magi” Literary Devices “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry is a short story about a lovely couple that worry about each other. Christmas is coming and Jim and Della don’t have enough money to buy a gift. They sale their valuable things in order to have a gift for their partner. “The Gift of the Magi”, O. Henry uses tone, mood, symbolism and irony to develop the plot of the story. To begin with, O.Henry uses the tone hopelessness, this makes Della look in a critical condition…

It was a cold night and out though the house, there was not even a peep. The little girl has always wanted to see Santa. She would love to see his house, ride in his sled and see all the reindeer. She believes in Santa but she has never seen Santa. All she has seen is people dressed up as him. The little girl really wants to see Santa this year. All of a sudden, she heard something. It was a voice right beside her. It was so close that she did not even bludge when she herd it. The voice said…

C. S. Lewis and His Reasoning Young children are easily fooled with mystical beings that are created for joy, like the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus. As we grow older however, we lose our sense of wonder as well as our beliefs in such characters, we can still look back on our childhood and when we did believe with the help of well known author C.S. Lewis. Lewis are able to bring back the wonder that older people were able to feel when they were at a young age by telling stories about magical…

Love is like a cupid arrow, it can end up in many places. “The Gift of the Magi” a short story by O. Henery, models a theme through direct and indirect characterization with two characters, Della and Jim Dillingham Young, who reveal the everlasting theme of love. When we are first introduced to Della through direct characterization, she gets an idea that could her more cash to buy her Jim a worthy present she has been struggling to find for Christmas Eve; selling her breathtaking hair to Madame…

Everybody loves holidays. I mean who couldn’t? However, which one do you like just a little bit more? How about we look at a couple of the biggest holidays, Christmas and Thanksgiving. Christmas is obviously the best holiday ever. From how long you get off school or work, to the food groups you focus in on for that holiday, to who figuratively or literally comes to your home. If I gave one the option of more or less, almost always one would choose more. Its just an instinct, who wouldn't want…

Irony helps to develop a theme of selflessness in the short story “The Gift of the Magi” as O. Henry reveals the misfortune behind the story. Near the conclusion of the story irony is frequently used to show the pure misfortune of the tale. Since Jim “sold the watch to get the money to buy [the] combs”, and “the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone” it’s easy to see the pure misfortune and irony of the situation (Henry, 5). However, through this misfortune we also…

The elf stays in sight of the children in the house all day and at night time the story states that the elf will fly back to the North Pole and report to Santa (who is referred to as, The Boss,) on how the children of the household have behaved. A line many kids would hear from their parents, and on I heard from my parents as a child, “Santa is watching,” every now and then, but this takes that to a whole new level of…