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    True Meanings of Holidays

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    Culturally‚ Americans have a common trend; the celebration of holidays. In most recent days‚ holidays have been condensed to a festival of bargains‚ retail finds and materialistic trinkets. We have reduced some of our most sacred holidays into giving and receiving gifts. Christmas‚ Valentine’s Day‚ Halloween‚ and Thanksgiving are just a few examples of how today’s society has skewed the true religious‚ diverse meaning of the holiday. The prime example would be Christmas. Christmas is supposed

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    Analysis of Strange Fruit

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    Meeropol‚ saw one of these postcards in the 1930s and was prompted to write the song “Strange Fruit” (which was originally called “Bitter Fruit”) - later to be famous by Billie Holiday. “I wrote “Strange Fruit”” Meeropol said‚ “because I hate lynching and I hate injustice and I hate people who perpetuate it.” Billie Holiday was only able performing at Café Society due to harmful ramifications of racist insults she ’d encountered while touring with the popular Artie Shaw band. For example she would

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    Latin American Holidays

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    El Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead): When the Spaniards first arrived in Mexico more than 500 years ago‚ they encountered the native people (Aztecs) practicing a ritual that appeared to mock death. The native people had been practicing this ritual for over 3‚000 years prior to the Spaniards arrival. At first‚ the Spaniards attempted to convert the natives to Catholicism and eradicate this ritual; however‚ they were unsuccessful. Instead‚ the ritual has been merged with Catholic theology‚ and

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    Gift to audience: "One starry night just before Christmas‚ a gift wrapper‚ ribbon‚ card and box were sitting beside the fireplace and a gift joined them.” Said Gift Gift sits beside other characters. Ribbon suddenly stands up. Ribbon to characters: "Christmas is only a few hours away from now‚ no one will notice us and as usual‚ we will end in the dumps." Ribbon to audience: Ribbon blurted out. Gift wrapper stands up beside Ribbon. Gift wrapper to characters: “I know right?” Gift

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    Future Perfect

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    <center><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknin’s Psychology‚ Philosophy‚ Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Many futurologists - professional (Toffler) and less so (Naisbitt) - tried their hand at predicting the future. They proved quite successful at predicting major trends but not as lucky in delineating their details. This is because‚ inevitably‚ every futurologist has to resort to crude tools such as extrapolation. The modern day versions of biblical

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    Chicano/Latino Holidays

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    Studies Chicano/ Latino Holidays Holidays are days of festivity or recreation in which work is normally canceled and families or friends get together and celebrate for a certain purpose. Within separate cultures the holidays or celebrations may be different. For example within the Jewish culture those who follow that religion may celebrate Hanukkah. Within my research paper I will be covering the holidays that the Chicano or Latino culture celebrates. For example holidays such as Cinco De Mayo‚

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    VacationSpot.com and Rent-a-Holiday were both on-line travel companies that focused on the independent leisure lodging segment of the travel market. VacationSpot.com company comes from Seattle‚ Washington while Rent-a-holiday comes from other side of western world Brussels‚ Belgium. Both companies started at around same time and in April 1999 they entered formal merge negotiations. In march of 1998 the CEO and president of VacationSpot.com Murch was contacted by the CEO of Rent-a-holiday Coppieters. Later

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    Strange Fruit/ Blood on the Leaves Strange Fruit is a famous song sung by Billie Holiday in 1939.The song itself was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol in 1937. This song was to protest racism and especially against the lynching of African Americans. Lynching specially means to put to death‚ especially by hanging‚ by mob action and without legal authority. The Klu Klux Klan were basically known for being against the whole civil rights for blacks and against them having voting rights. They

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    Ryan Holiday Commentary

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    Thesis statement: Ryan Holiday is an extremist who is trying to make a difference in media manipulation. Body paragraph 1: • Concrete detail: “…I felt that if I could just get everyone’s attention and expose the problems in the right way‚ it could make a difference” (xvi) • Commentary: Ryan Holiday is using his own way to expose media manipulation. Instead of being nice about it‚ to him the only way to make a difference is to go in extreme lengths. He wants people to truly open their eyes about

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    My Favorite Holiday

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    Bob Joe Biography 101‚ 4th Hour Mr. Max Mander February 14‚ 2014 My Favorite Holiday Sinulog is a dance ritual in honor of the miraculous image of the Santo Nino. The dance moves to the sound of the drums and this resembles the current (Sinulog) of what was then known as Cebu’s Pahina River. Thus‚ in Cebuano‚ they say it’s Sinulog. Sinulog‚ which is of pagan origin‚ is the link between the country’s pagan past and its Christian present. Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan came to Cebu

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