prosperity‚ andthe envelopes are red to scare away evil spirits. I always have to wait weeks tofind out what my parents have in store for me. I never knew where or howthe traditions of Chinese New Year originated‚ and I never gave it much thought‚until my mom forced me to attend a special Chinese school‚ where we learned aboutthe traditions behind the famous celebration. I had no knowledge of how thehanging of the red papers or the firecrackers began; as selfish as it may sound‚the only parts of the holiday
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Gutlib bravely went to fight for the Union. Soon after he went to fight‚ communication ceased between Gutlib and his family. During the war‚ the family was unsure whether Gutlib was alive‚ all they had keeping them going was the hope that he was okay. After the war ended‚ the family still hadn’t heard from him for weeks‚ possibly months‚ and he was presumed dead. His family mourned his death‚ shocked that he was killed in the war. They held a funeral in his honor and were completely devastated
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Alive Assignment The movie "Alive" is a shocking true story of an Uruguayan Rugby Team that crashed their plane in the middle of the Andes mountains. The Uruguayan plane crash carrying 45 passengers to Chile unfortunately resulted only with the survival of 16 students. Through a traumatic shocking experience‚ the movie reenacts the event of the crash. This movie demonstrates various examples of the importance of psychological and physiological needs in our daily lives. It also outlines how
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Keeping the faith “Keeping the faith” is a romantic comedy that encounters and challenges love‚ friendship and faith. At the beginning‚ a drunken Catholic priest tells his story to a bartender. Brian Ginn‚ Jake Schram and Anna Riley have known each other since they were kids. Anna met Jake and Brian in a middle school and they became friends. Since then‚ they were really close. They spent a lot of time together playing sports and riding around the city. Years later‚ Anna’s father got a new job
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How does a human-being feel alive ? Certainly by remembering. The act of remembering is the key to the relationship between writing ‚ history and memory. The past after all is a story that we tell ourselves. You can choose which story you want to remember as well as which story you want to forget‚ however you should know that forgetting your past might lead to your death. In Jonathan Safran Foer’s book‚ there is two story‚ one tells the journey of Alex‚ Jonathan and Grandfather and the other
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When our Sociology class was assigned to write about family traditions‚ I instantly became nervous because I couldn’t think of one tradition off the top of my head that was special and unique to my family. I sat there and wondered‚ should I tell the truth and reveal the fact that my family doesn’t have any traditions? Should I make one up and fake my way through the entire thing just to get a good grade? Should I take someone else’s family tradition and call it my own? As you can probably tell‚ I was
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In the book Stayin’ Alive historian Jefferson Cowie writes a very engaging explanation of the political and cultural aspects that effected white workers’ economic individuality and what damaged a “vibrant‚ multi-cultural‚ and gender conscious conceptualization of class” (Stayin Alive‚ Cowie. 72). A single portion of the narrative touches on the rise of the New Right while another tracks the breakdown of working-class cultural idols. New Deal liberalism and the growth of a New Right founded upon a
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God is Alive! Most people in the world these days believe that there is a higher being out there. Whether‚ they call him God or just an entity. It’s almost impossible not to believe in something higher than yourself. If you are an atheist‚ I still consider that a religion‚ but its different in that you refuse to believe in God. I do believe that there is a God‚ and he is out there waiting for you to come to him and have a relationship with him. I came to this realization just quicker than most
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Traditions -necessary -we were all born into different social groups thus we find traditions necessary to bond us all as different people -Social‚ religious‚ political‚ racial -emerge from culture Traditions still serve a purpose Traditions inculcate morals but how many people follow it? Traditions teach history‚ culture‚ belief but how many people care? Traditions bring people together e.g. Chinese New Year provides opportunity
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The television show I’m Alive‚ episode “Ambushed” makes viewers re-think holding a snake without it being identified by an expert. A biology teacher told her students that they could find animals in the wild‚ bring them into school‚ and she would identify them. In their classroom‚ there were turtles‚ spiders‚ frogs‚ snakes‚ and more. The teacher told the students that they could hold any of the animals that they wanted to without permission. Rusty Van Wert and Caleb Snow went over to a terrarium
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