Explanatory Essay About Thanksgiving

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Amanda Michel Explanatory Essay 3 October 22, 2012 The History of Thanksgiving and Football: An American Tradition All over the world, people celebrate holidays. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “Holiday” this way: A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event, or, “A religious feast day, a holy day”. We look at our holidays today and think of the first definition. Thanksgiving was one of those holidays. When the colonists, or pilgrims as we call them, landed at Plymouth Massachusetts, it was the beginning of winter and they had very little time to prepare anything…show more content…
Thanksgiving did not become an annual national holiday until President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation: “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our father who lives in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions and justly due to him for such singular deliverance and blessings, they also do, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union”. After that every president since has proclaimed an annual nation…show more content…
Now, if you come from a rather large family, this can cause a problem, especially if you are hoping to get a good view of the games from a comfortable seat. Being a huge football fan, I have developed a plan to make sure I will always have a prime location to enjoy all the action. Getting into Positon: 1. The first most important part of the plan is to get to your destination as early as possible. Now don’t try to jump into the most comfortable chair in the house right off the bat, because the day is way to long to have to stay put all day. Instead, hang around the kitchen and chat with everyone. 2. The second thing this accomplishes is that is gives you a chance to fill up on some of the goodies so you won’t have to try to sneak out into the kitchen and loose your seat once the game has started. As everyone starts to arrive, it is now time to make your move into the living room, click on the pregame show and find your comfortable spot right in front of the television. Now you are in position to enjoy the first half of the game, but it will take a little bit of strategy on your part

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