Spring break is a much-anticipated time for students across the country, offering a much-needed break from the rigors of academic life and a chance to explore new places and experiences. Whether it’s a trip to a tropical paradise, a visit to a new city, or simply a chance to relax at home, spring break is a time for adventure, exploration, and discovery. In this essay, I will share some of the most exciting and memorable moments of my spring break...
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Reflection After going back to my home country for Christmas break, I have been enjoying my holiday to the fullest that I forgot I have an upcoming essay due on the first day back to school. After coming to the realization that the essay is due within exactly 24 hours right before I board the flight back to Birmingham, which flight is 17 hours long, meaning that I would not have wi-fi for the upcoming 17 hours, I then started...
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That the drought is significantly impacting Australian farmers, so movements and activism for greater support are vital. Over this most recent Christmas break, I had the opportunity to spend some time with my family in central Queensland. The Svensson family comes from a long line of graziers and farmers, with this past year being especially hard as my uncle has no choice but to spend his months on highways driving hundreds of head of cattle just to find food. There...
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Is Christmas really the happiest time of year? Christmas. Every year we count down the days with chocolate behind tiny doors, watch the same old Christmas movies as the year before – to the point where I think I could recite Nativity word for word – and eat so much food that, in hindsight, it becomes sheer gluttony. Every year we lie awake dreaming of the gifts that will be under the beloved tree on the big morning waiting for...
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Valentine’s Day is celebrated on 14th Feb annually in loving memory of Saint Valentine who was a roman saint of the third century. Starting from Feb 7th to Feb 14th called valentine’s week. If you love someone and want to express your feelings then this is the perfect time to do it. Don’t think so seriously just do it. Each couple eagerly waits for this week so they can engage themselves. This week is the most loved week of the...
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America has always carried the desire to ignore its past and live in its view of itself as a melting pot. America wants us all to forgive and forget the past to be one people. How can we forgive the past if this country wonât even acknowledge its true sins instead of the cookie-cutter version it feeds its people? How can we forget the past when our present injustices and state of living stem from what happened in the past?...
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During winter break, I was walking to Concordia (downtown) and the day was cold as always. I went to a store to buy some food since I didnât eat in the morning and I was really hungry. I went to Mcdonald’s to get a big trio. Right after making my order and picking up my food, I saw an old woman looking from the inside the fast food. She was very old and she was only wearing a blanket in...
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While I am in a Psychology class I learn about many psychological concepts, but it is neat to be able to witness them outside of school. Over Thanksgiving break, I saw several psychological concepts being lived out right in front of me. I never realized how many times a day these concepts are used until now. The psychological concepts that I saw being used were hindsight bias, lack of conservation, authority, and positive reinforcement. Every Thanksgiving the Dallas Cowboys football...
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The Navajo Tribe The Navajo tribe is the largest American Indian tribe. They lived in the southwest in areas that are known for Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. The Navajo tribe were semi-nomadic people and were hunters and gathers. Their spiritual practice is about balance and harmony. The Navajo boyâs ritual was their voice cracking and becoming a man and the girlâs rite of passage was getting molded into a woman. The rite of passage for the Navajo boys is their...
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Primal Traditions are the first traditions of humankind. They have been handed down from generation to generation through stories, songs or specific rites of passage in their tradition. These primal traditions are generally from non-literate people which indicates that they do not depend on scriptures or written teachings (oral) instead, trees and plants, water bodies, cliffs and mountains are believed to have spirits or be deities. The roots of these traditions are so distant that accurately detecting them can be...
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Holy Thursday is called Maundy Thursday for the reason that the word Maundy comes from the latin, ‘mandatum’, or ‘command’ which refers to the instructions Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper. In many countries the day is known as Holy Thursday and is a public holiday. Maundy Thursday is part of Holy Week and is always the last Thursday before Easter. There are a few theories about why Good Friday is called Good Friday, but only one seems...
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Working with a group can be challenging and exhilarating but my group members and I worked very well together in completing this project for our presentation as we each came up with enough information during meetings, and we made a WhatsApp group chat in order to keep in contact and get each otherâs feedback. Our group consisted of three people and we met up occasionally to visit the venue we planned to analyse and hold the Easter Wonderland event which...
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In the novel Passing by Nella Larsen the audience experiences what is called, the rites of passage. They have a sense that they are attempting to be something that they are not meant to be by constructing an illusion that they believe influence other people that they posses an identity. The Rites of Passage is what each adolescent goes through in their life, along with adults in certain aspects. In this novel I was able to look at the underlying...
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We see the moon as a beautiful bright light gleaming in the nightâs dark abyss. The round wonder that mankind thought to be the end all and be all of measuring time, was eventually proven to be leading them to a dead end. What hunters and farmers truly needed was a calendar to predict when the seasons would change. To them, having such a calendar would be a game changer. The crucial knowledge of when to plant seeds, prepare for...
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I was the girl whom everyone thought to be the ââslutâ or better referred to as the ââwannabe.ââ I was always looked down upon by others for my so-called hourglass figure and luxurious dark curled hair some called unfair but I called it gifted. I was the girl that everybody thought they knew but didnât even come close to. I was that girl. I was twelve when it happened, that strong smell of Axe cologne that just hit me, the...
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The City Dionysia, which is also called the Great Dionysia, is a traditional ancient drama festival held in Athens. At the festival, they had a variety of theatrical festivities such as comedy, suspense, tragedy, and satyric drama as well. The festival was always in March to honor and tribute to Dionysus, the god of wine. This festival was the second-most important festival after Panathenaia. The Panathenaia Games were held every four years and were games that included religion, ceremony, physical...
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There are seven signatures to the Irish proclamation of 1916. The first of these signatures belonged to a Fenian man named Thomas James âTomâ Clarke. Clarke was strong in will and had the endurance to go into insurrection for sixty years of Fenianism. Clarke endured the age-long national struggle against British foreign rule for political, social, and religious servitude that ended in the realization of hope long deferred.[footnoteRef:0] Clarke served two martyrdoms in his lifetime, one in a prison cell...
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In the poem Easter 1916, the author W.B. Yeats having an ambiguous attitude towards the Easter Rising is because of the contradiction between his values and nationalism, his personal feelings of love and respect, peopleâs attitudes before and after the rebellion. To start with, I would like to give a brief background of the poem. The poem Easter 1916 was written between May and September back in 1916, which was right after the rebellion movement conducted by the Irish called...
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Easter holiday is one of the christian religious holidays in our country. According the fact that Easter is a very important day for all Christians, it is also associated with the coming of spring, warmth, sunshine, and, of course, with Easter cakes, painted eggs and other tasty things that are usually put on the table. In addition, on this day, the whole family sit together at the table, and of course, itâs not without the nice presents that the closest...
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Festival dance is a cultural dance performed to the strong beats of percussion instruments by a community of people who share the same culture, generally performed to honor the patron saint or as a thank-you for the rich harvest. Festival dance can be religious or secular in nature. However, the best thing about the festival is that it adds to the fun of the place where the festival is held and the atmosphere of the festival, which is why it...
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To begin with, Cannes film festival originated in 1938. The founders Jay Zay, the French minister of education, Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret initiated Cannes film festival. Cannes film festival was created in competition with the Venice film festival which at the time was the only other international film festival and was widely criticised for its fascist bias by the press and public. Prior to Cannes film festival was called âfestival international de filmâ in French...
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Wozniak, D., & Allen, K. (2012). Ritual and Performance in Domestic Violence Healing: From Survivor to Thriver Through Rites of Passage. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 36(1), 80â101. https://doi-org.proxy.library.cpp.edu/10.1007/s11013-011-9236-9 In this article, it describes and analyze a community called the âRites of Passageâ which serves as a support group for survivors of domestic abuse. Wozniak and Allen discusses the unique process in which these women undergo in order to transform themselves from being âsurvivorsâ of domestic violence to âthriversâ who have...
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The United States is made up of many people, ethnicities, and political views. While the American people are one, there is a wide range of diversity within that whole. The great people that make up America differs vastly but come together to make up a country. The United States encompasses many cultures within itself. America itself has not actually invented a wide variety of religions and customs since its establishment as a country. The colonizers of the New World brought...
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This essay will focus on Williams, J. Nixon, E. Smyth, E. And Watson, D. (2016). âCherishing all the Children Equally? 100 years on from the Easter Risingâ Oaktree press. Cork, Ireland, a longitudinal study of children in Ireland concerning the 1916 proclamation that all the rights of children will be cherished equally. The author will focus on health, the change in family models and also childcare to examine whether or not the needs and rights of children in Ireland are...
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Kwara human beings say their demand for implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage is non-negotiable. The organised labour in Kwara has declared that the demand of personnel for implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage is non-negotiable. The workers, beneath the umbrella of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), made their attribute diagnosed on Saturday in Ilorin for the dimension of the Workers Day celebration. The TUC chairman in the state, Akinsola Akinwunmi, referred to as...
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Oshogatsu (New Yearâs) There are about three thousand festivals and celebrations in Japan and New Yearâs or Oshogatsu is one of the most important holidays in Japan. Unlike the New Year’s celebration in the United States, the Japanese New Yearâs is very traditional as it is directly tied to religion since most Japanese are Buddhists or Shintos. It is believed that the ancestral deity called Toshigami, worshipped by the Shinto religion, will visit the homes of believers on New Year’s...
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Maybe you often hear about Chinese New Year or Tahun Baru imlek, the Chinese community in Indonesia always celebrates Imlek every year. By the way, do you know that there is one show which is always enlivening the Chinese New Year in Indonesia? Yup! The answer is Barongsai. The cheap entertainment that emerged and became one of the traditional Chinese arts is indeed enough to attract people’s attention in every street in Indonesia during when Chinese New Year Celebration. I...
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The last Thursday of every November is always one of the best days of the year. Not having to worry about buying others gifts and just remembering what weĂ are supposed to be thankful for, are a few reasons why Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Ever since I was a kid fondest memories have taken place on this day. The main reason this is my favorite holiday definitely has to be the food that is provided, spending time with family,...
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Organizational Method: Chronological Order Topic: Sydney New Yearâs Eve General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the evolution of the Sydney New Yearâs Eve from 2015 to 2018. Central Ideas: Sydney New Yearâs Eve is an annual multitier event that is held every year in Sydney, Australia and it gets a lot of attention from all around the world. Introduction Why the Sydney New Yearâs Eve is so popular? Itâs because it is one of the...
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My Uncleâs Unconditional Love It was ninety-five degrees at the end of January in Malaysia. Chinese New Year festival is upon us and it always excited me because it is the time of the year when all my relatives would gather at my grandparentsâ house to celebrate the festivity. My grandparentsâ house was like a magnet that attract all of us in one place no matter how busy everyone was. I paid a visit to my grandparentsâ house a week...
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