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Today's Christmas is no longer a celebration of Christ and happiness, but is a celebration of a now fake, commercialized, overweight Santa Claus. The idea of eating yet another turkey dinner while watching a forgettable Disney movie…

Today's Christmas is no longer a celebration of Christ and happiness, but is a celebration of a now fake, commercialized, overweight Santa Claus. The idea of eating yet another turkey dinner while watching a forgettable Disney movie on television…

Perhaps the best recorded and successful unofficial ceasefire was the Christmas Truce of 1914 during the First World War. On Christmas Day, 1914, only 5 months into World War I, German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired…

to a string. (Connelly, Eileen) Many families express their Christmas spirit by colorful lights, clear lights, blinking lights; pictures of Christmas orientated gadgets and many more creative ideas. To think back when Christmas lights were extremely rare…

Today's Christmas is no longer a celebration of Christ and happiness, but is a celebration of a now fake, commercialized, overweight Santa Claus. The idea of eating yet another turkey dinner while watching a forgettable Disney movie…

Christmas in Spain is a very joyous and religious time of year. You will see that a Spanish Christmas has a lot of American influence but also has much of their own heritage in it. In small towns and villages it is more traditional and distinctly…

Ebenezer Scrooge was a cold hearted old man, who always shunned the idea of Christmas because he believed it was an excuse for people to be absent from work and for the idle people to get handouts. Because of his cold heartedness, Scrooge is visited…

The ideas and views that one has are usually generated throughout their childhood experiences. The events that one face, the problems that one has to deal with, and the people they encounter all have an impact on the way in which a person views…

In The Battle for Christmas, Stephen Nissenbaum traces how Christmas came to be celebrated and how Christmas has evolved and been made popular in America. The Puritans in fact outlawed Christmas, which was celebrated much differently in the nineteenth…

It’s Christmas time again, the time of hopes, joys, and forgiveness. It’s the time that I always have the good feeling inside me. Every year at this moment, I like to be alone by myself to think. I think about many things that consider important to me…