My Favorite Holiday Essay

Thanksgiving! People just call is Turkey Day, sometimes! So, there's one holiday food, OUT! Next in line, we have stuffing. Mmm don’t you just love good old fashioned wet bread to fill your genetically modified turkey's carcass? Ew! What? Why is that a thing? I don't need to argue this further, I think you get it. The only other key player in the Thanksgiving meal that comes to mind is pumpkin pie. Pumpkin spice is a fan favorite, starting early September people go wild over everything flavored to taste

that is most prominent in my life is Judaism because I share similar location and practices with other Jews in the area. Despite being a part of the Jewish local culture, I’m not very spiritual, instead I identify as being culturally Jewish. This means that I’m not connected to judaism through my faith but instead through customs or consistently followed practices as well as material culture or the artifacts created by my culture. As a result of this one of my favorite aspects of judaism is Shabbat

ridicule my sad baking attempts, my childhood would have indicated otherwise; I was always on the countertop next to my mother’s cooking bowl, adding and mixing ingredients that would doubtlessly create a delicious food. When I was younger, cooking came intrinsically with the holiday season, which made that time of year the prime occasion for me to unite with ounces and ounces of satin dark chocolate, various other messy and gooey ingredients, numerous cooking utensils, and the assistance of my mother

don't. Other families don't have traditions to do for a holiday or even on a day. My family is one of the families that have dozens of family traditions. We have traditions in almost every single holiday. We have traditions in Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving. Some of our family traditions aren't even on a holiday some are on days of the week. My favorite family tradition I love the most to do with my family is during Thanksgiving. My family and I enjoy Thanksgiving a lot out of all the traditions

anything for. 3. Who holds the most “status” in your family? Why? Answer: My dad; he is the main person that receives income. 4. How do you define success? Answer: Success is a moment where you have completed your goal. 5. Do you consider your parents to be successful? Answer: I believe they are extremely successful because they

The Change Hope Rebecca Davis, a little formal don’t you think? You’d think that my parents thought I was going to be the hope of the world or something of that sort, but that is the farthest from the truth. I was named Hope just because my mom thought that Hope was a “pretty” name. As you know that was probably a bit disappointing for me, but my name represents a great deal to me. Hope means to have a feeling of expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen… then I considered the following

are the Schoeningh/Gregory family. My mother’s side is the Schoeninghs, a heavily-German family whose roots primarily lay in Northern California. The Gregorys are my father’s side, a mixed-breed of all different nationalities who have lived in Newport Beach for as long as one can remember. Though both sides could not be more different, we have found harmony in the uniting bonds of kinship. We come together for various reasons throughout the year, but each holiday has its own uniform traditions. Uncle

“Wake up, we geh a long day ahead ah we!” My father would always wake us up early mornings with the sound of the military trumpet through his brambly hands. Everybody has a favorite holiday tradition that they look forward to every year. One of my favorite holiday traditions is Easter Break, or some may know it as Spring Break. Every year for Easter Break my family and I would go camping for either a week or two on a beach. My parents and other family members would prepare for the long week, just

4th of July is one of my favorites and personally one of the funniest holidays in my opinion. I like how it’s the only day that you are able to light up fireworks and the cops can’t stop you because the whole United States is lighting up fireworks. Love how we all get together as a family to buy fireworks and grill food and eat together and celebrate an Americans national Holiday. First thing on 4th of July of every year is to wake up early as in 9 a.m. which in my personal opinion is quite early

End.” This is a Celtic holiday that was considered the end of the years and the beginning or the new year. It is the time that is between time. Samhain was changed to All Hallows when Christianity was booming. But the Christians celebrated it on May 13, but since this was one of the favorite pagan holidays, it was not easily given up, so the Christians moved the date of their All Saints/ All Hallows from May to November first, the day after Samhain. Later in England, the holiday was abolished because