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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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    speech; Jobs opts for a very solemn approach with few humorous departures while Gates is very liberal in his use of humor which in fact forms a very integral part of the first half of his speech. The second difference is the kind of content in the speeches; Gates shares his thoughts on inequity‚ the journey of his arrival at this epiphany and his thoughts on how the problem could be tackled while Jobs divulges very personal stories about his adoption‚ getting fired from Apple and being diagnosed with

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    States 6 2.5 Interview with an American Teenager 6 3. CHAPTER 2: American Traditions 8 3.1 Christmas Traditions 8 3.2 The Yellow Ribbon 10 3.3 The Window Candle 10 3.4 The Recipe Box 11 3.5 Thanksgiving Day 11 3.5.1 Origin of Thanksgiving Day 11 3.5.2 Thanksgiving Traditions and Customs 12 3.6 The Fourth of July 13 4. Conclusion 14 5. Bibliography 15 6. Annexes 16 1. INTRODUCTION

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    Name Date Class Period Title INDENT Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday that only happens once a year. During the month of November‚ many families get together to eat and celebrate what they are thankful for. Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday and is usually on the 3rd or last week of the month. The holiday has been occurring for several years and is the reason most of us live in America today. INDENT First‚ I want to describe the first Thanksgiving. It was many years ago in the fall of

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    English 093| Thanksgiving| Essay| Mark Hardy| Ivy tech community college | 12/5/2012| | The English colonist called pilgrims were not colonist to begin with. The pilgrims celebrated the days of Thanksgiving as part of their religion. Those day were days of prayer‚ and not looked at as days of feasting as some would believe. The national Holiday really stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the pilgrims and the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony’s successful first harvest

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    Class: English Topic: Thanksgiving Date: 10-11-2011 Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the USA and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the USA. Thanksgiving in Canada falls on the same day as Columbus Day in the USA. The first thanksgiving was in 1621 in United States‚ it was at Plymouth city in the present day Massachusetts. Also

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    on theses subjects. Barry opens up his article by going the humorous route and saying “Men are still basically scum when it come to helping out in the kitchen.” Already downgrading men by calling them “scum”. He then goes on says that on Thanksgiving Day is when most men become clueless to whatever instruction their wives give for the day. From asking them to help watch the children to cutting up turnips men do not know what they are doing. Barry’s tone of simile is used when he states

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    Osi Odume 12-5-12 6th period Ms. Reese The Real Meaning Of Black Friday Every year‚ in the early morning hours of the day after Thanksgiving‚ a ritual occurs where millions of shoppers gather impatiently outside stores‚ trying to take advantage of special deals. Some camp out for days in the November cold in the hope of buying a new item. When the doors finally swing open to deliver them from the morning chill‚ people swarm in like a cloud of flies‚ jumping on discounted items‚ and the chaos

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    unrealistically. Pieces Of April‚ directed by Peter Hedges‚ gives audiences a realistic example of how Thanksgiving can patch up holes between relatives and bring a family closer together. April‚ (the main character)‚ shows audiences the positive transitions of her own identity throughout the film‚ as she makes a believable attempt at creating a better relationship with her family by hosting Thanksgiving dinner. The apprehension April shows early on in the film regarding her family’s visit‚ turns into

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    around the world. Carnevale:- Provides information about the history of Carnevale with links to different places in Italy‚ masks and more. Thanksgiving (USA):- The American Thanksgiving holiday began as a feast of thanksgiving in the early days of the American colonies almost four hundred years ago. Thanksgiving (Canada):- The Canadian Thanksgiving Day came about because of a combination of traditions. Valentine’s Day:- Each year‚ on February 15‚ the Luperci priests gathered on the Palantine

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