Exploring My Christmas : The First Day Of Christmas

wide-mouthed bowl’s opening. My mother stands over my shoulder, watching my movements and holding my waist so I don’t fall. On the counter sits a large jar of off-brand peanut butter, waiting to be added to the buttery cookie dough. A perfect moment captured of a mother and daughter baking. The truth, however, is that in about two and a half minutes, my mother and I will be coated in a thick layer of flour, blown up by the spinning of the stand mixer. This is what cooking in my family looked like when

“What if we got a second dog for Christmas and it was our only present?” My mom softly replied, “possibly, however you would have to understand you would need to acquire the care of it and train it.” Getting a puppy for Christmas was something I would put on my list every single year. For the next month before Christmas I searched for many different websites where you could get a Siberian husky puppy that was a fiery red with eyes as blue as the sky. After looking vigorously, I finally stumbled

Seuss is still having a huge influence on American culture. Dr. Seuss’s books have a huge impact on the world. Some of the books have been turned into movies like: The Cat in the Hat, The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “It first was shown in nineteen sixty-six. It continues to be a very popular holiday program” (Davis, 2006). “Dr. Seuss added a name and virtually a dictionary definition to our culture: Grinch: any sour, pessimistic person who dismisses love and attempts

Italian and Irish descent. I grew up in Portland, Maine. My immediate family consisted of my mother, a father who was never present, one older brother, and one younger brother. My mother worked at an insurance agency my entire life and raised her three children by herself, while my father spent his life incarcerated for domestic violence and other various felony chargers. Yet my mother still believed in raising us with his Italian heritage. My mother worked hard to ensure we had everything we needed

their true identity, exploring and learning about their culture and giving them some pride of where they come from. My parents started to plan this trip many months prior. Before going, my family and I had to get these antibiotic shots to protect us from any diseases at Nigeria. I remember getting multiple shots to my shoulder areas; couldn't feel my shoulders for days. My cousins and parents also arranged to take the same flight as they were planning to go to Nigeria as well. My dad wrote a letter

culture like, Memorial, independence and Labor Day, with the explosion of bright colorful fireworks, the smell of fire when turning on the grill and the best part; no school! Also celebrating Christmas and new year’s the American way, going to church, eating, and opening presents on Christmas day. It wasn’t until 4 years ago I went to Mexico and realized there’s more to my own rooted culture and how lucky I am to have both the American and Mexican culture in my life realizing the generation of Mexican

My name is Ella Pedigo, and I am extremely nervous and excited for the year ahead. I went to Abernethy Elementary school over in SE for K-8 and I absolutely loved it! For my first two years of middle school I went to Hosford Middle school which is also in SE, however the teaching style there did not work for me, so I transferred to Laurelhurst K-8 for my last year of middle school, I enjoyed every second of it! I would definitely say that i'm quite outgoing, and tend to get bored easily and space

shells and living creatures are eminent throughout it, you only have to find them. It was not my first time to Florida. In fact, I had been a year before with my best friend when I had first swam in the oceans, yet this was my first time exploring them. When my family had announced we were going to Florida that Christmas break, it was not the news I had hoped to hear. All year long I was excited for Christmas break at home, the blustering snow and being able to snuggle up inside while staring out into

EXPLORING STATUS. During Improvisation Class I have learned a lot about status and how it can affect people in every day life, as well as on stage. Often, Status is what makes a situation what it is and a person who they are. “Every inflection and movement implies a status.” as said by JOHNSTONE (1979, p.33). In this essay I've written about the different things that can change your status and also partook in an experiment where I walked around different Christmas Markets, changing status to see

Readers can tell that his attitude and value of living is conflicted with what they are given to do. Wont and the rest of the squad struggle with second guessing who is supposed to be the real enemy along with the acceptance of death. While exploring the chateau where the soldiers are staying at, they find a mirror. Each start playing with their appearance and Wont makes a statement that he does not believe that “…we’ve been seeing ourselves the way we look in these mirrors; it’s hard to accept