Early American Holidays

St.Patrick's day is celebrated on March 17, St.Valentine's day is celebrated on February 14. St.Patricks day has a four leaf clover as the holidays simboly. St. Valentine's day has a heart as it’s simboly. On St.Patrick's day people eat corned beef and cabbage, on St.Valentines day people eat chocolates and candy. St.Valentine's day and St.Patrick's day both have St and day in the name. Both St.Patrick's day and St.Valentine's day are celebrated on someone's death. St.Valentine and St.Patrick are both men. That is why St.Patrick's day and St.Valentine's day are both alike and different.

The two poems “Sonnet 130” and “Valentine” present similar ideas about love, though they are written centuries apart. Sonnet 130 (written by William Shakespeare) is like a love poem turned on its head. Instead of describing her in a positive light, he criticise her physical features. He describes the flaws of her body, her smell, even the sound of her voice. Then, at the end, he changes his tune and tells us about his real and complete love for her. Valentine (written by Carol Ann Duffy) describes a gift for a lover; such as you would give on Valentine’s Day. It is a rather unusual present – an onion. The poem explains why it is a powerful gift of love, much more than the clichéd roses or box of chocolates. The onion becomes a metaphor for love, and so the poem is about love as well as Valentine gifts.

The dark history of this all-American holiday is well documented and anyone who wants to know the truth can easily find it. What I will present here are just a few of the facts. In 1637, English settlers moved into the Connecticut valley, home of the Pequot Indians. Then early one morning while the Natives were still asleep, the settlers surrounded, attacked, and set ablaze a town full of Pequot Indians. They burned entire families alive. Anyone who escaped the fire, was hunted down, tramped into the mud, and savagely hacked to pieces. In the aftermath of the massacre, these depraved English terrorists thanked God for the easy victory over helpless and innocent people. Then on the very next day, their degenerate

Such as, the Holiday of “Easter” the painting of the eggs and the finding of the eggs, relates to Jesus Christ’s resurrection from death. After reading Paganism, I learned that “Easter” is a holiday not only celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, but a holiday of the Spring Equinox. Easter is a goddess known for fertility. In German she is called Ostara and in Anglo-Saxons she is known as Eostre. It’s celebrated the balance of light and darkness and the arrival of spring a renewal of the life force. In which, would explain why the Holy Roman Church would choose that date for Christ’s resurrection, so the people could not practice their religion. However, it didn’t stop the people because it’s we still practice paganism tradition that’s taken place today.

Did you know that the person named Patrick was not Irish. He was British and the originally color was blue. Did you know that St. Patrick's Day was supposed to be only about religion. These are my facts about St. Patrick's

In Chile, there are lots of Holidays such as... (January 1), Easter, Labor Day (May 1), Naval Battle of Iquique (May 21), Independence Day (september 18) and some others are, Dia De La Raza, Saints Day, and Christmas. If you were wondering what saints day was, family members go across cities and pay their deceased relatives homage and leave flowers on their graves. Sometimes this holiday may take over a two day period. Also Dia De La Raza is Columbus, day which in America we call it Dia De La Raza.

Each country celebrates each holiday a little different, or not at all. Day Of The Dead is

Clearly St. Patrick’s Day is associated with luck because luck has been known to come with a leprechaun. The term “luck of the Irish.” Is from the gold rush in 1800 and the Irish were the ones that found the most gold and silver. There were only Three leaf clovers to start with because

The American culture is a wide variety of things. This is caused from immigration. Some of the things we do to celebrate holidays and important days are similar though. Many people celebrate Independence Day by lighting off fireworks, and eating red-white-and-blue foods and decorating with flags. On Easter many families believe the Easter bunny comes, and on Christmas Santa Claus does. Also many people eat turkey on thanksgiving.

Saint Patrick’s day is a very important and famous holiday that is celebrated all around the world, but it originated in Ireland. Every year on March 17, people across the globe celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It started as a religious feast day for Saint Patrick of Ireland. People celebrate with parades, dancing, special foods and a whole lot of green. St. Patrick’s Day takes place on March 17th because it is the day Saint Patrick died and people wish to celebrate and honor him with parades, food, and leprechauns. Most people associate leprechauns with little, green, red bearded guys that stand at the end of rainbows and guard gold pots all day, but the original leprechauns were completely different. Leprechauns originally wore all red instead

The country France celebrates their independence day on July 14th while ours is on July 4th. This day reminds the French the end of the French Monarchy and the next start into the French Revolution. Basically this day symbolizes the great day of many French people rebelling against the royal powers in France. The word Bastille comes from the name of a prison located in Paris that broke out to start the revolution. Every year, down the famous French Avenue, the largest parade in all of the continent Europe takes place on this very date in remembrance of this holiday. A very big connections between the French and the Americans is on our independence day’s we both like using many fireworks to light up the sky! The main firework display takes place right over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Bastille Day and our July 4th connect very well to one

Valentine feels like Peter and Ender are like a coin. When one face is up, the other face is down. Ender thinks he's facing the down at the battle school. Valentine feels like she is the metal in between the coin. She understood Peter, even though she despised him and Ender had been only a memory till now. Valentine thinks that they have all been the same all along, they just thought they were different from each other out of jealousy.

▪ St Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14 of each year; the reason why it is celebrated on this day is because this was the day that the Patron Saint of Lovers "St Valentine" was supposedly executed on. On this day lovers all around the world mark this occasion as a day for sending poems, cards, flowers or candy, etc. They might also be a social gathering or ball to mark the occasion.

For a short time in Ireland many were faced with a hard decision due to the struggling with starvation in a time of famine. With this hardship many made the difficult choice to leave their country and seek refuge in the United States. The individual that I interview had family that lived in County Cork, Ireland and they decided to make the journey to the United States in hopes of a better life. Her Grandparents came to the United States through New York and changed their last name by dropping the prefix to make it more American. They moved to Cleveland and her grandfather was able to find work at chief Boyardee to support his family. Many traditions have been passed down from generation to generation. Celebration St. Patrick’s day was always an important day for this family. This was a time to eat traditional Irish food, music, and Irish folk dancing. The catholic faith is very important aspect of this

St. Patrick’s day is a cultural and religious event celebrated on march 17, the death date of Saint Patrick otherwise known as Patron Saint of Ireland. St. Patrick’s day was officially made a Christian feast day in the early 17th century, the day celebrates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity to Ireland. St. Patrick’s day is a public holiday in most of the world such as Canada, Great Britain, United states, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina. The wearing of green and shamrock is very popular on St Patrick’s day, the colour green has been associated with Ireland since the 1640's.