The Christmas Invasion

Thanksgivings Differ If I ever wiped my face off on the tablecloth at the Thanksgiving dinner table, I would probably get smacked by my Mother. But, that is exactly how the Pilgrims and Indians did on their first ever Thanksgiving. Today, I am going to compare and contrast the differences between modern day Thanksgivings and the first ever Thanksgiving. The first person I asked was Dezmyn Abbring, a student at Kankakee Valley, about how he would usually spend his Thanksgiving. Some…

According to Nov.30 on Christmas is the day we celebrate for the day God was born. By Jacqueline L. Urgo argues about celebrating Christmas holidays at the shore, in order to show Christmas is more than just shopping but more about god, family and its all about showing love to the people around. Says " it is about more than just shopping. It's about family and a lot of great activities to do with family.” over time there has been changes of the ways we celebrate holidays and the reasons we…

It was early Christmas morning in Los Angeles, California. I woke up feeling like many kids felt when they woke up that morning, with excitement. I put on my clothes and rushed down stairs to find only one present under the tree. I looked at the name tag for who it was for, it was for me. I picked it up and shook it, I couldn’t hear anything. I ripped it open to find a piece of paper. The paper said ‘You have been chosen out of a special group to go undercover and fight crime over the world’. I…

My 3 brothers and I were just doing our thing holding up his bed getting ready for Scrooge to come in and go to sleep so we could party all night long just like usley. I was about to break my record for the most night stayed up without sleep. When he came in he locked the deadbolt which was very unusual. He looked almost scared. We just thoung the lost so money because that's all he ever thinks about. Then he left to go eat some weird liquid in a bowl. Then all the sudden all the bells in the…

As a child, my summers consisted of “cooking food for the soul” and creating skits with my younger brother at Gran-Gran’s, my great-grandmother’s home. Her home is where I learned to cook the best macaroni and cheese, dressing, and banana pudding in the world! I also perfected my own banana nut pancakes. On any given day, while the food was in the oven, my brother and I would sit in her basement, writing a new script or song, and rehearsing it nonstop. When we moved from Michigan to Nevada in…

I was a member of a car club called No Limits Kustoms (NLK), and we would focus our efforts on Making Christmas better for impoverished children by using our love of cars. One of the ways we helped was by donating our time and effort by volunteering at the malls Salvation Army Angel Tree program. We would alter public space in the center of the mall by setting up tables next to a huge Christmas tree. The table would have these angel name hangers with children’s names on them. When people came up…

During Christmas break, I did some fun lit stuff. I went to the stock show in Fort Worth and saw some really smelly animals. I also went to a family reunion and saw everyone in my family. I also talked with Weaver, but he was being a bum so I stopped talking to him. My Christmas was also really good. I got a lot of stuff and talked with all of Overall the first part of the winter break was lit, until some stuff happened. During the middle of Christmas break I watched Christmas movies and ate…

I love building igloos in the winter with my friends and family. Do you guys like making things in the winter well I do. In the winter me and my family make a really big igloo with a slide and stairs on it, I can remember like it was yesterday. One winter ago about 5 years ago, me and my whole family we were outside in the winter. We didn’t know what to do, so we went and got our parents and we made a really really big igloo. We just make a huge pile of snow in our yard, then we make the middle…

There is one incredible present that many authors wish they can get for Christmas. It can be something their reader knows, but one of their characters does not. This present can be a significant thing a character says in a story. The gift can also be a coincidence that the author plans. It is so ironic that many works of literature use the present. This fantastic present is irony. Irony is such a great addition to literature that O. Henry and Edgar Allen Poe used it in their short stories “The…

Our tradition of setting up nativity scenes began with Saint Francis of Assisi and the first creche. In the year 1223 AD, Saint Francis, a deacon, was in the Italian town of Greccio to celebrate Christmas with the Franciscans. However, the Franciscan chapel was deemed too small by Francis and so he would find an area in a rock to construct his own altar and hold the Midnight Mass. There, Saint Francis worked to construct a nativity scene, after receiving clearance from the Pope, such that his…