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"Attention Shoppers! The store will close at twelve due to the session!" It was the night before Christmas and I had one last present to buy for my mom. I had already got the rest of my family's presents and I had less then 30 minutes to get the last…

, was a Christmas concert at nursing home. We have couple performers, our own students or their family members who had talents in singing, dancing or playing guitar. We made little gifts for them and during the concert some of them were singing along with us. It gave me…

by Saki, two characters, Ulrich von Gradwitz and Della, sacrifice something of value and achieve something of greater value. In O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, Della sacrifices her hair - the only item she values - so that James can have a gift for Christmas…

and he has seen many kids ask for gifts and get disappointed including him; the Head Nurses treat him as a loud nascence, but he is tired of getting ball point pens, he wants something different and so he hopes to see "The Birds" this year for Christmas…

after the first full moon in March-April. Christmas is the birthday of Jesus. It is usually represented by gift giving and singing. Easter is the day that Jesus resurrected from the dead. Easter is the most important day on the Christian Church Calender…

culture, but they celebrate in different ways. The Hispanic culture typically does not wait for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve before opening their gifts. The gifts are opened on Christmas Eve and they celebrate the day with the women making tamales which…

to become more open-minded. For example: Your spouse may celebrate Christmas more as a religious holiday rather than secular celebration of gift giving. They might be volunteers from the "Salvation Army" and dress up like Santa Claus and stand in the street…

, around Christmas time, begin to think of gifts or other selfish wish upon themselves. Jonah's wish, although helping him, is mostly for his father showing a different "side" of American culture. The side that we, as Americans, love one another and want only…

are the gifts you receive as outrageous as some gifts kids receive nowadays, at Christmas? ' It depends on the family. They spoiled my sister, brother and me. We would receive an encyclopedia the first day and on the last day we could have received a car…

to never to have loved at all. How can that be true? In the story The Gift of the Magi, written by O. Henry, Della and Jim are a young married couple. They were very poor. Della had long beautiful hair and was just gorgeous. It was close to Christmas…