Santa Muerte

early as the day after Halloween. You hear Christmas music throughout the stores and in public places. Everyone usually has a big dinner fest on Christmas Eve night, and then in the morning everyone wakes up and opens presents that they got from “Santa.” That is basically what Christmas is like here in the U.S. In Ecuador, they have a little bit different…

open your Christmas presents on Christmas Day. It’s an annual tradition to open gifts on Christmas Day. Majority of families open on Christmas mornings. Children wake up early because they are eager to open their presents that they received from Santa Clause. The fire place is on, parents are recording the sequence, the Christmas tree lights are on and the children are simply happy. The benefits on opening presents on this day because the children have all morning to play with their…

The myths, folktales, and fairytales shared within a culture tell a lot about the values of that culture. Take for instance the story of Mulan. There are many different variations of the story, yet each have the same general underlying point to the story: a female pretends to be a male in order to fight in the Imperial army, and eventually her true gender is discovered. However, different cultural versions of this fairytale will differ in other aspects of the story. Insights into the culture…

Gingerbread Man on the loose. It was Christmas eve and Grandma was making gingerbread man and houses for him to live in. All of us made gingerbread man and houses for all of the gingerbread people. When we got done cutting out the gingerbread people grandma stuck them in the oven to bake, we started on their houses out of giant gram crackers. I use so many sweets I couldn’t even count and mine was the best out of all my family of course. My gingerbread house was 10 inches high it was…

Halloween in Twin Peaks It had been a cool and damp October so far in the small, suburban town of Twin Peaks, which is famously named after the twin mountains overlooking the city below. The city has an ominous feeling due to regular misty fog, and thick woodlands. These are reasons the town is famous for Halloween events. Teenagers use this knowledge to their advantage to scare and terrorize the town. Jake and Brian, two teenagers, know all of this and plan something good for 2015 Halloween.…

Five Nights At Freddy's So one of my future careers is a game producer, I’ve made this about my favorite horror name, FNAF! I really hope you enjoy. “Five nights at freddys”, some of you may know and play, others may not have a clue about what I'm talking about. So, “five nights at freddy's” is a video game you can find on your computer, ipad, or phone. This is a horror game, every night gets harder as the game goes on. The Main characters are Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy. There are…

was traditionally a way to wish someone a merry Christmas. Pictures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph—three important figures in Christianity—were shown on Christmas cards to wish them the best and happiest holiday. In contrast, candles, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and reindeers are some of the iconic figures and objects shown on cards in the 21th century. They represent the theme of Christmas. In the Victoria era, Christmas cards were sold for one shilling, which is not much in comparison to the…

Day of the Dead and Halloween are both very similar but different holidays. Although, based on most of the information and background knowledge I know about both holidays I believe they are more different than similar. I believe the holidays are more different than similar because they express two completely different reasons for being celebrated. The first topic that shares either a similarity and difference for both holidays is the variety and types of food that are being offered and handed…

Houston Community College Police force’s Sergeant Reginald Johnson made Christmas very merry for six underprivileged families. With the help of Officer Felicia Carter and Officer Karen Davis, he hosted his annual holiday celebration with at the West Loop campus on Tuesday. Sgt. Johnson was over fifteen years ago when he started asking coworkers to each give $20. Walmart donated all the toys for the children and $40 gift cards for the parents. Each of the six kids received five gifts each.…

Gorilla, My Love: Are comforting illusions and fantasies, no matter how untrue in the adult world, essential to childhood? How painful has the dispelling of childhood illusions and fantasies been for you? (Will you tell your own children that Santa Claus exists or not?…