The day before Thanksgiving‚ Wednesday‚ November 23‚ 2016‚ my parents‚ sister‚ and I file into my dad’s 2006 Chevy Silverado (with five dogs and luggage) and we travel to my paternal grandparent’s house in Mansfield‚ Ohio for a great Thanksgiving celebration. During the two-hour car ride from Warren‚ Ohio to Mansfield‚ Ohio‚ my family listens to the Sirius XM Holiday Music Channel. We partake in the “premature listening to Christmas music ritual” because as my dad expresses‚ “My girls are home from
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Giving & Gratitude During Thanksgiving Family‚ friends‚ feast and football. Sound an awful lot like Thanksgiving? Yet‚ a peculiar aura surrounds Thanksgiving. Often‚ it is the ONE-day multitudinous people express their gratitude to God and each other. That’s a good thing. But there is much to do and even more to say to encourage people to dedicate a portion of each day for giving thanks. So‚ how can we start living in a manner that our attitudes and actions reflect the gratitude in our hearts? Family
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Imagine Thanksgiving without food‚ home‚ or family . . . And thank God with me that Chris found help here at the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission. Right now‚ you can feed Santa Barbara’s hungry and homeless like Chris for just $1.51 a meal this Thanksgiving. Thousands will come to us this fall for food and care—hundreds on Thanksgiving Day alone‚ for a wholesome meal with all the trimmings: turkey‚ stuffing‚ fresh vegetables‚ even pie!
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Should Stores Open On Thanksgiving? I think stores should be open on Thanksgiving. Here are some reasons why. Here are some reasons why stores should be open on thanksgiving. First of all you can get the perfect bargain on the things that your loved one wants. You can buy these items that maybe weren’t affordable that now is. Everybody wants to sell everything so they will give out even more coupons so it will be even cheaper. So that is good that people who usually can’t afford things. Even
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Should Thanksgiving be celebrated? The most common argument went something like this: OK‚ it’s true that the Thanksgiving Day mythology is rooted in a fraudulent story -- about the European invaders coming in peace to the "New World‚" eager to cooperate with indigenous people -- which conveniently ignores the reality of European barbarism in the conquest of the continent. But we can reject the culture’s self-congratulatory attempts to rewrite history‚ I have been told‚ and come together on Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving is a holiday that many people look forward to celebrating every year. Even though most people have celebrated Thanksgiving their entire life‚ there are still some things that many people do not know about Thanksgiving. Below is some interesting facts about Thanksgiving: Turkeys Can Actually Have Heart Attacks Turkey is one of the Thanksgiving staple foods. In fact‚ it is estimated that 91 percent of people in America eat turkey during Thanksgiving. Many people would be surprised to
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The First Thanksgiving I believe the first Thanksgiving revolved around the pilgrims and Native Americans who were known at the time as Indians. It did not become an annual festival immediately. This historical day was not called Thanksgiving Day at the time; it was later declared a national holiday in the early 1800’s by a one of the first presidents of the United States of America. The pilgrims suffered some devastation which lead them to a feast of thanksgiving with the Indians. The first Thanksgivings
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Compare and Contrast What are other thanksgivings like besides ours? Well most thanksgivings are like you go to your grandparents and eat turkey‚mashed potatoes. What I am writing about today is thanksgivings that are different then mine. First things first thanksgiving needs a lot of food. Well I needs some people to right. What do we do on thanksgiving‚ we mostly will make turkey because you are trying to give thanks. We like to eat turkey and have or have a big meal. Some people like to participate
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homemade mashed potatoes‚ and creating memories with loved ones are some of the magnificent things about the Thanksgiving season. But how did Thanksgiving become what it is today? According to History.com‚ 1621 was when the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. Thanksgiving was also made up of three days which included: more eating‚ hunting‚ and entertainment in honor of the pilgrims
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grandparents house and ate Thanksgiving lunch there and helped with the dishes. Then I went to my aunt’s house and stayed the rest of the week there. I was only at my grandparents house for like 2 hours. I stayed the entire week at my aunt’s house and was with my cousin the entire time. It was a fun week. On November 26‚ 2015‚ I went to my grandparents house and ate a lot of Thanksgiving food. I stayed for about 4 hours and then I left and went to my aunt’s house and ate more Thanksgiving food. We all sat
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