Thanksgiving In America

When the first European colonists arrived in 1620 on land in the New World, a disaster was forming. Arriving in what is known today as Massachusetts on The Mayflower, the settlers didn’t have enough experience surviving cold, harsh winters causing almost half of the settlers to die that had arrived on The Mayflower. This had changed in 1621 with the help of the Native people. The American Indians had started teaching the English people how to do many things including harvesting and growing crops. This help from the Native’s had led to the first Thanksgiving between the two groups. These two societies, however, didn’t remain friends. The English settlers had kicked off the American Indians of their own land and tried to make them convert to Christianity. The English settlers had also brought diseases from Europe causing many Indians to get very sick and even some die.

As the holiday season is coming nearer each day, I found it appropriate to look further into the traditional Thanksgiving topic. I can only describe what my family does, my Puerto Rican and Caucasian family. As far as I can say, we are not necessarily traditional with our celebration of Thanksgiving. So I figured why not use this assignment as a way to further look into the holiday and how it is celebrated across America, this can mean anything from families celebrating it in their homes, to the retail shops of the country selling holiday/seasonal items to go along with the tradition. I would like to examine the traditions of thanksgiving.

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

As long as I can remember my family has always had food on the table and a family gathering on the fourth November in our home. We have all heard elementary stories of wood cabins and the Pilgrims and Indians celebrating thanksgiving. Though, I never knew the reason they were celebrating. Today as Thanksgiving is closely approaching, I am going to talk to you about the history of Thanksgiving, its traditions, and how our era and personal preferences influence the traditions in our celebrations.

A day before Thanksgiving in 1971 a guy that called himself Dan Cooper boarded the NorthWest Airlines on flight 305. He was in a wearing a dark suit with a black business-like tie. While Dan was in the airplane he opened a brief case and showed the flight attendant a bomb. When the plane landed in Seattle, Dan demanded $200,000 in cash, four parachutes, and food for the crew. He let the passengers off the plane but left three pilots and a flight attendant on board. The crew in the airplane headed South of Seattle while it was dark and drizzling. 45 minutes after takeoff Dan sent the flight attendant to the cockpit while he was putting on the parachute. Dan also tied the money to himself and lowered the back stairs and somewhere in Portland

Thank you for your service! I admire your commitment to work full time and take college classes. I am a military brat and spent many years living on post. I have experienced not having a vehicle and walking to the exchange for both lunch and dinner. I also ate at the DFAC for many Thanksgiving Day dinners. Good luck this semester!

To start off, the timeline is relative. The Mayflower did not bring the Pilgrims to North America from Plymouth, England, in 1620, and they disembarked at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they set up a colony. In 1621, they celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that was attended by members of the Wampanoag tribe. It’s from this that we derive thanksgiving as we know it.

Many U.S. holidays are celebrated in similar fashions among several different families nationwide. Dressing our children up in funny themed costumes to receive candy from people we don’t know or celebrating America’s freedom with fireworks shows and barbecued meats are just a few ways some holidays are celebrated in the U.S. Thanksgiving is one of those many American holidays celebrated in traditional fashion; though not as old as one might imagine, but through the course of the late eighteen to the early nineteen hundreds, change to the popular Holiday may not be as recognizable to the common

It was a quite a normal fall day out here in Louisiana. The year was 1930, my daughter and I had been out working in the barnyard. “Lauren, work faster the guest will be here soon for Thanksgiving dinner.” I exclaimed to Lauren as she was cleaning the pigsty. Soon we were to have our family and friends come to visit us for Thanksgiving. I don’t necessarily like having guest, since they’re always a lot of cleaning do. Actually, cleaning wasn’t the problem since we lived in a very small house out in the country. The problem was food was very scarce for us, so we worked extremely hard. You see, out here in Louisiana it wasn’t easy to be wealthy so half of the town was what you would call ‘poor’.We can’t provide them with a lot of food,

How different are our Thanksgivings really? How many people do you know that do things differently than you for Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is a time where you get your whole family together and spend time with each other. During your time together, you reminisce about hilariously weird memories and laugh at all of the amazingly fun times you guys have had together. Also, you feast and make more memories that you will have with you forever! When your with whoever’s house you go to, you get to be you and not worry about what anyone thinks because you know your family loves you the way you are.

In 1621 the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians started doing a harvest feast that is now known as thanksgiving.

The Wampanoag Native Americans helped the pilgrims cultivate the land and fish, saving them from starvation. At harvest time the pilgrims were thankful that they had a good crop of food to eat during the coming winter. They thanked God and the Wampanoags for teaching them how to grow crops.

People celebrate their Thanksgivings different or the same as I do. Even the food you eat could be the same or different. So some similarities with me and Jack for Thanksgiving are, we both watch football and hang out with our family. We also play family games too, like twister and hide and seek. Some differences that we have are that Jack eats different food than I do.

This Thanksgiving break Emma and I had some differences and some similarities. Some similarities we had was that one, we both went black Friday shopping on the break. Next we both spent it with our families. Lastly we stayed up late all week/weekend. We also had some differences this week. First ,Emma stayed in Georgia, and I went to Indiana. Next, she helped cook and I didn't help cook at all. Lastly, Emma slept all day and I stayed up with my family.

When I am confronted with a moral dilemma I take into consideration morality. It is related beliefs about right or wrong. My thought process is moral judgment, it is a statement affirming that an action is right or wrong, and what makes a person or motive good. I believe that the best theory aligns with my own fundamental beliefs about morality is cultural relativism. To illustrate, there are parties what are popular in some countries while in other countries there are not. For example, I am from Cuba where the thanksgiving is not a tradition, when I came to live here in the U.S.; I know about it. In this case I cannot say celebrate thanksgiving is a mistaken or not; it is simply a new tradition. I believe that once I know about right things,