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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…

their presents awhile in advance, sometimes many months. Most gifts were handmade, needlework, or something useful. People exchanged remembrances with family and friends. Children made their gifts as well (Christmas in the Victorian Era. Site Title). Two other…

A Special Gift A gift is not just given to someone on Christmas or a birthday, it’s given year round for any special occasion when someone does something special. Gifts can either be tangible or not. In this case, the gift that I got was real. Gift…

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…

day to arrive. I used to sit and look out the dinning room window as the evening passed by. Oh, the anticipation of opening gifts the next morning was nerve racking but it had a magical tone to it as well. At last, it was Christmas morning! (6 o'clock…

and they perform a play On Christmas Eve a gift my be passed out or waited until Christmas morning. Many people divide their gifts between Christmas and the Day of the three kings. Still in some places throughout Spain people stick to customs and only hand out gifts…

In the short story ³The Gift of the Magi², by O. Henry, the couple, Mr. and Mrs. Dillingham Young sacrificed their most prized possessions for one another. They did this in order to buy each other nice Christmas presents. Della¹s most prized…

with my friend’s trying to find out where all the Christmas parties are at. Around midnight is when we gather in the living room to open our gifts. Then after I clean up the mess from all the gifts. My friends start to come over to my house. Most…

Every year at Christmas time millions of people crowd the malls in search Christmas gifts. Millions of these gifts are brought home, wrapped, and left under a tree until Christmas morning. Anyone of these gifts can be placed into one of six…

A Family Christmas I was very nervous because my tiny townhouse was full of hungry people, people with very different personalities, backgrounds and families who were now brought together as one family, my family. They were all counting on me…