"The History of Christmas" is the story of the origin of Santa Claus and his impact on the world today. St. Nicholas was a wealthy Christian priest and later bishop, who traveled the country helping people, giving gifts of money and other presents. His gifts were given late at night, so that the gift giver's identity would remain a secret. The Civil War cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in 1862, and his drawing was used in the first Santa ads for the Coca-Cola Company's Christmas advertising in the 1920s. However, as the years progressed, the Santa advertisement had numerous images by many different artists, including Clement C. Moore's traditional St. Nicholas.
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They end up having to throw together a party in 4 hours. Luther also ends up having to put up all the decorations that would have usually taken at least 2 days to complete. While he is putting up Frosty on the roof, he falls off the roof and ends up hanging in mid-air by Frosty’s wires. Luther is saved by the same neighbors that were protesting him. The party still goes on and Luther has to celebrate Christmas.
Our family is all dressed up, and I can smell the evening’s food rooms away and hear the ending sounds of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on the TV downstairs. We seem like a classic, cookie-cutter family. And then the holiday really begins. My grandma is usually the first to arrive, complete with her leopard-print duffle bag she carried everywhere with her. After her I hear the front door open again and know that, from this point on, the house won’t have another moment of silence.
Everybody is having a good time. There is only a week or so before Christmas and Santa is inspecting his reindeer before the daily practice route. He motions the reindeer to get into their positions. "On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen, on Comet, on Cupid, on Donner and Blixen......" He pauses. Rudolf was not in front of the pack.
This is a very festive time for this country. January is a very busy month wrought with festivities as Carnevale comes in and proceeds up until Ash Wednesday. Carnevale as you can imagine just like in New Orleans is filled willed colorful pageants, masquerades, singing and dancing and so much more. Although this is celebrated throughout Italy, Each little village and town has their own unique way of celebrating. The celebrations usually continue for many hours into the night and usually end with the sounds of fireworks permeating the air.
I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen George Balanchine’s Nutcracker, but I can tell you it will never get old, and always be a tradition that I look forward to every year during Christmas time. Whether I am in a company performing it, or sitting in the crowd with my children I have some day, it will always be a tradition I appreciate fully. We all know what the ballet is about so I don’t really need to go over that, but I will go over a couple of my favorite moments in this particular show I attended. In the ‘candy cane dance’ Jermel Johnson performs his outstanding number with his fellow children candy canes, which I performed with him at
From the Big Bang to the Garden of Eden to the circumstances of our own births, we yearn to travel back to that distant time when everything was new and full of promise. Perhaps then, we tell ourselves, we can start to make sense of the convoluted mess we are in today. But beginnings are rarely as clear-cut as we would like them to be. Take, for example, the event that most Americans associate with the start of the United States: the voyage of the Mayflower.” (Nathaniel Philbrick). Every year late in November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving; a holiday which one is thankful for the house they live in, clothes on their back, food on their plate and family who love them dearly.
Rodriguez remembers hearing her predict the future and the presents they would one day purchase for their old parents. Rodriguez uses the above terms to show the drifting of his family and himself, which makes this Christmas different. Rodriguez exposes the thoughts of both his family and himself, with quotations and interjections of his own thoughts. Not only has the Christmas room grown “uncomfortably warm” but the conversation is headed that way as well. Comments such as, “We have to get
In one of the most moving scenes in the story, the ghost of Christmas present took Scrooge to watch the Cratchit family celebrate Christmas. Even know the Cratchit family were poor, they were all thankful just to be together and have a goose to feast upon. Bob Cratchit even showed his respects to Scrooge by making a toast. ‘He hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see. ‘God bless us everyone!’ Dickens is giving the Christmas image which is all about getting together and feasting.