The film combines the score and Williams’ two original songs with traditional but rerecorded Christmas carol recordings. The Oscar-nominated primary song of the film, “Somewhere in My Memory” is an enchanting new Christmas carol for chorus and orchestra. It is a beautiful sound that reflects happiness and light of the holidays. It maintains a jingly, wondrous theme and includes a children’s choir, which suggests a heartfelt innocence and ironic wonder of Christmas, and sleigh bells, and it really allows the listeners to picture themselves surrounded with family while snow is falling during the holiday season. The cue begins with a twinkling statement of the songs theme, emoted as a pair of descending minor thirds, carried by synthetic chimes, celeste, xylophone, and glockenspiel.
Generally Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner consists of a roast turkey or ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, and some vegetables. Dessert is usually pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and eggnog for Christmas. For both holidays children often enjoy helping their parents in the kitchen while making the dessert. The seating arrangement is also the same for both holidays, in that the adult will sit at their table and the kids will have a separate table. There are many types of decorations that are used during the Christmas time, which are traditionally green, red, and white.
It has become a tradition to sing carols in the streets to declare joy and sing praise. There are also special services for carols within churches. One of the most popular types of carol services is a carols by candlelight service; at this service, the church is only lit by candlelight, giving the service a more celebratory feeling. In general, Christmas carols are songs that are sung to celebrate the Christmas season, and are filled with joy and praises or stories of Christmas. The first Christmas carol for Christians has been traced back to the fourth century in Rome.
BE A BLESSING Celebration of Christmas day roots itself to the birth of Jesus as the long-awaited Saviour who has the power to save and redeem man from sin. Over centuries, people from every race, ethnicity and culture, banks on the fact that the certainty of the coming of Jesus was real and valid. As a tradition, people are commemorating his birth every year through fellowshipping with feasts, food, and masses, especially those who are religiously under the believing faith of Christianism. Thus proves, that respect and norms of conformity of one culture from the past has of great influence up to people in the future, though there are some shifts influenced by modern culture over time. In Filipino culture, we are known for having the longest Christmas season.
A Wonderful Life & Fred Claus are two highly inspirational movies. They both give a new meaning to the word Christmas. They not only get you into a Christmas spirit, but they inspire you to become loving & appreciative. These two movies make you look at life in a whole new perspective, you'd have to possess a very hard heart not to find something to love in these stories. A Wonderful Life is no doubt, an amazing movie!
I loved the style of narration, the overall message, and how the story presents the festivity of Christmas. The book has a bit of humor, some figurative language that was easy to understand, and even though there were like two parts that had me scared out of my wits, it was a great book that warmed my heart in the end. I recommend it to anyone who wants to read a timeless classic during this holiday
It has a real Christmas feel to it, not just because it's a Christmas Special but the fact that you get all 'tingly' about it - that feeling that you only get at Christmas. I feel this is because of many things; The wonderful script by Russell T Davies, the (as ever) brilliant acting by David Tennant and the new sense of humour that Catherine Tate brings to the series as the character Donna Noble. I'd like to take a bit on the side and say how I love the amount of references in this episode (to previous episodes). For example Torchwood is mentioned again (quite frequently) and the return of the (Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic) extrapolator. There are so many to talk about but due to limited amount of space, that will have to do.
Children’s gifts proved a particularly big market, and the sheer variety of games, toys and other gifts thrilled shoppers. Some gifts were considered to be suitable for both genders. These included rocking horses, wooden farmyard animals, board games, picture and adventure books, magic tricks, Noah’s arks and mechanical or stuffed animals. In 1911, Gamages filled its windows with stuffed animals, including the teddy bears which were hugely popular and became a symbol of the period. Other toys and games were targeted specifically at one gender or the other.
People prepare for this celebration in many ways. They make beautiful altars or “ofrendas” at their homes. They decorate these altars with candles, flowers known as marigolds or cempasuchil, fruits, peanuts, stacks of tortillas, and the most important which is “Day of the Dead” bread called pan de muerto. Pan de muerto is round and has a miniature skull in the center of it. To make the altar complete they add their colorful sugars skulls.
Prom Night to Halloween Night Halloween and Prom Night are events that create memorable memories in a child and teenager’s life through certain similarities and differences as dressing up casually to formally, receiving candy as to purchasing goods, one being private as to the other being public, another one is being scary as to the other being magical, and both being arranged in the evening. When I was a kid, Halloween was one of the Holidays or events that I would anxiously long for. Just hearing it made me fall into a hole of sweetness. Thinking, what should I dress up as? I could be anything my little heart desired.