Thanksgiving

My best memory with food is when I used to go over to my grandma and grandpa’s house after every day of school. I would always get my mom to make me a turkey sandwich with mayonnaise, mustard, and cheddar cheese on sweet honey wheat bread. The bread always had a fluffiness to it and it was always soft with a golden brown color. My grandma always had mass amounts of the ingredients that were always better than the ones bought at the grocery store. She always told me that meat and bread freshly…

Christmas and Thanksgiving are right around the corner, so the time of giving to others is now. In our world there is so much violence and people who live less fortunate then my family and I. Millions of homeless people around the world and even here in the United States sleep on streets and in cardboard boxes with little to eat and the same clothes to wear every day. Also, the violence in the world makes me angry. The terrorist attacks on Paris break my heart and make me angry. Organizations…

Why Do We Watch the Big Game? Every year millions of people worldwide gather around their television sets on the first sunday of February to watch the two best football teams clash on the biggest stage. The event has become an unofficial-holiday in modern american-society. Friends and family come together on this day to watch the big game. Super Bowl parties are now an annual event, where there is food, friends, and of course football. Almost every single American participates in this annual…

Iroquois The “People of the Longhouse”, also known as the Iroquois people, are actually a group of tribes that is made of up of six tribes in total. Those tribes that make up this league are The Mohawk, The Seneca, The Onondaga, The Cayuga, The Oneida, and lastly The Tuscarora (they played a less important role than the others as they did not join in the league until the 1700s. These tribes were all run basically the same, but each had their individual parts to play in the league (Treuer 32).…

Observation of my life in the US Introduction: I will discuss about behavior in my new training group in the United States and about behavior in general because I am an international student and I am also on the track team. This field is very interesting for me because it is abnormally close to me, but I can see a lot of new habits and behaviors here. It is a new experience because I have never trained with another team since I was 9 years old and I have studied only in the Czech Republic. I…

T.C. Boyle’s book The Tortilla Curtain, its structure by two stories, one is the views of middle class characters and the other from the immigrant’s perspective. It explores their relationship with issues such as poverty, immigration and of course the American dream. This book was published in 1995, right after California voted against Proposition 187 which would have provided many useful public services/resources to illegal immigrants. The author unfortunately does not provide his personal…

service, which I thought was one way that the community was making Christ present without being involved in the liturgy right at that moment. As typical with the annual Thanksgiving service, people had brought canned goods and turkeys that were to be given to families who could not afford to buy the food necessary for their thanksgiving meal. There are many instances in the Bible where Christ makes it clear that it is our duty to take care of our neighbor, which is really anyone who is present…

In, Lies my Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen, many different important points are made about how the history textbook industry is corrupt, telling lies, or not telling the whole truth to the young readers. This should be very evident to most people, since textbooks spanning from elementary to high school often tell different pieces of information, and sometimes, complete opposite of those pieces of information. For years, history textbooks have been corrupted by the economically elite, and…

In Sarah E. Newton’s article, ““The Jell-O Syndrome”: Investigating Popular Culture/Foodways,” she focuses on Jell-O and the connections it has with folklore and popular culture. It begins with the argument that Jell-O has received relatively little attention for the amount of influence it has had. She claims that it is the only commercial food to cross regional and ethnic lines (Newton 250). Newton makes several bold claims at the beginning of her article. One of these claims is, “To many of us…

lands. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For example, the translation of verses one through four of Psalm one hundred starting with verse. 1, literally means the entire earth. Verse 2. Means to come to…