I Am From There Is No Such Holiday As Thanksgiving

Since 1863, each year the President of the United States has offered a similar proclamation, encouraging the citizens of this great nation to be thankful to Almighty God who has so blessed our nation. It was in 1863 that Thanksgiving was first recognized as an official holiday that was scheduled for the fourth Thursday of November each year. Thanksgiving is a joyous time, it is a time when many folks gather with friends and loved ones and remember the many blessings of a past year.

Thanksgiving, most Americans celebrate Thanksgiving but not everyone celebrates it the same way as you. Grandma’s house, that’s where i always go for thanksgiving. But that doesn’t mean that everyone else who celebrate thanksgiving goes to their grandma’s house, some people don’t even leave their home. Every person has a unique way to spend their thanksgiving

On the fourth Thursday of every November, families gather together to spend a day filled with food and laughter. Thanksgiving celebrates the day the settlers and the Native Americans enjoyed their first meal together. However, my parents were both raised in Mexico and never had a typical yearly Thanksgiving celebration. Despite my parents home being Mexico, they started a family in America and decided to teach their children about both of the places they come from. A compromise between American and Mexican traditions formed and served as a family tradition until last year. A year ago, my family ate a Thanksgiving meal at my sister's parent-in-laws house.

Holidays are always celebrated no matter religion, beliefs, or culture. Some are recognized more than others but none two are as highly recognized like the cherished Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays. The pair may seem vastly different, as they are two completely separate occasions, but in actuality they do share very similar attributes. Many of the similarities and differences are about to be explained, so here goes.

It is mind boggling to know that despite the quest for knowledge and learning the truth behind our history, yet a vast number of people still celebrate thanksgiving. What are we really thankful for?

When I imagine “The First Thanksgiving”, I think of peace and harmony. Then my History complex comes in, I remember all of the rape, cannibalism, and disease spreading that happened in the years before “The First Thanksgiving” ruin my picture perfect scene. The Pilgrims did not have a farming aspect when they came to The New Colony but with the help of the Native Americans they learned how to survive. When I was younger we always were taught that this time, in history, everyone got along and they were happy. The Pilgrims came to have religious freedom and not to be treated as second class citizens. This is a notable act but they had various pathogens that they were immuned to but the Natives were not. Historians say that the pathogens that

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

The story of the first Thanksgiving, as most Americans have been taught in school, is not exactly accurate. Blame the school textbooks with details so abridged, softened or out of context that they are rendered false; children's books that distill the story to its most pleasant version.

While American history traditionally recognizes the first Thanksgiving as having taken place at Plymouth colony in the fall of 1621, it wasn’t until 1789 that President George Washington issued a formal proclamation designating November 26 as a national day of Thanksgiving to recognize

Over 354 million people celebrate Thanksgiving. Just to think its all started as a feast between two very different types of people. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in between the The England Colonists called the Pilgrims and a Wampanoag Indian tribe. The Pilgrims celebrated thanksgiving as a day of prayer not a feast. The holiday is connected from the feast held in Autumn 1621 which was the Pilgrims first successful harvest.

“The Land of the Free” this saying has a very strong meaning that we often forget, this means that America is free. Free to say what we want, and most of the time do what we want. Everyone always overlooks how important holidays and historical events are and we get too caught up in the amusement of them. While some people believe that getting rid of all holidays and historical events is a good idea, no holidays should be eliminated because, they honor all different cultures and they help the economy by providing more public and private industry, they have shaped America one way or another, also these holidays and historical events make America diverse.

This is supposed to be a time when all the family come together and have fun and share stores. Thanksgiving has been the best holiday because there's food but the worst because I lost some people close to me.

Thanksgiving now is mostly known for feasts, family reunions, and weekdays off but does anyone still give thanks in this holiday. Thanksgiving started at a gathering and giving thanks of what they had and received in there life’s. The bad thing is now people are mostly thinking about the food there going to eat and make for thanksgiving .But the real question is why doesn’t everybody celebrate this holiday for it’s true meaning which is giving thanks. Regardless of how people celebrate this holiday, I’m thankful for three blessings.

As an American-Muslim my family never celebrated thanksgiving but growing up in America I have appreciated, and admired this wonderful western holiday because, it has so much more meaning than just having great food amongst family and friends. I have learned and understood that it’s time to reflect and understand what we are thankful for, and the words “thankfulness” and giving back are words that are very powerful in transforming, and understanding ourselves as human beings. As a Muslim, my family always reminded us before any action we take we must be thankful, and appreciative of what God has given us, which is very much similar in comparison to the western holiday of thanksgiving and that is very enlightening in the sense that even though

Christmas and Thanksgiving is a time of year when a vast majority of people are happy and/or festive, I am one of those people. Many families have traditions around the Holidays meaning something they do every year some go pick out a tree others hang stockings, however my family is different.