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what God is for." "You have been pretty good," He said, I know there's not much that you seek, I will pick a little something, Just to make your life complete." With great anticipation, I looked forward to my gift, I wondered what God had in mind…

to distribute gifts. According to folk belief, La Befana was too busy to accompany the Three Wise Men on their journey to visit the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. Now, to make up for her failing, she visits all good children and leaves them treats. In France Christmas…

The Gift Outright In the poem “The Gift Outright,” Robert Frost uses a historical theme to express the feelings of Americans long ago; feelings of oppression and desperation which ultimately lead to joy and triumph. Frost connects with the many…

Can you be both? “Bah! Humbug!” “God bless us everyone!” These phrases draw both positive and negative images to mind. The two lines are famous phrases from Dickens’ Christmas Carol. The first line belongs to Ebenezer Scrooge, and the second line…

Unacknowledged Gifts Does practice really make perfect? Can anyone reach the status of perfection? The answer is obvious; everyone makes mistakes. Trying to reach society's image of flawlessness, Americans endanger themselves everyday by taking…

Bodiless Gifts "What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here- that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened, by an intoxication or disease" A human poses the ability to develop specific talents…

that the thoughts most of us have about organ donation are myths. The medical profession and the public needs to encourage others to give the “gift of life” by signing organ donor cards and by letting their wishes be known.…

An audience member's gleeful first-hand account of Charles Dickens's public reading of "A Christmas Carol" unwittingly exposes an often overlooked contradiction in the story's climax: "Finally, there is Scrooge, no longer a miser, but a human being…

against evil spirits. They use electric lights after real candles proved a fire hazard. The custom of gifts being given on Christmas Day is fairly new. It used to be done on New Years’. They also replaced shoes by the chimney with stockings. They called…

in college outside the country, we only get to see each other on vacations and some holidays. I love holidays, as I'm sure many people do, but my favorite one has to be Christmas...which is what I've decided to make my presentation about. Christmas to me…