The World Of Cards And Holidays Essay

A holiday is a day designated as having special significance for which individuals, a government, or a religious group have deemed that observation is warranted. It is generally an official (more common) or unofficial observance of religious, national, or cultural significance, often accompanied by celebrations or festivities.

The excerpt ‘Turkey’s in the Kitchen’ by Dave Barry was written to portray his thoughts on gender roles in a common setting. Barry’s purpose in writing this piece is to address the steryotypes that are placed on men and women’s roles in household duties by using a humorous approach. The author uses personal anecdotes, humor, and diction to establish pathos and ethos to appeal to the audience.

It was Christmas eve, the smell was amazing! My mom’s Christmas cookie yankee candle was burning and the smell was still lingering from where me and my mom baked cookies and brownies to eat on christmas morning. I was in my room where I couldn’t go to sleep, My TV was still running hallmark christmas movies and I heard yelling from my parents bedroom but I was too comfortable to get up so I brushed it off and I finally told myself to get some sleep for the long and exciting morning that was just a couple hours ahead of me.The next morning was christmas morning I was wearing my favorite pajamas, a long-sleeve black shirt with two glittery hearts in the middle and my matching long black pants with red, pink,and white polka dots but

Every family has their own unique way of spending time together with loved ones only seen during the holidays. In the Stock home, there is only one thing we enjoy doing. Sure, like every other family we have our grand and elaborate dinner, which is composed of all the greatest delicacies my mother and grandmother can whip up. Of course, as is expected,

This paper explores a discussion about the Psychological Benefits of Our Thanksgiving Rituals. Four experts in the field of psychology, who specialized in family traditions, convened in a roundtable discussion about what ritual means in the subject of Thanksgiving. The four psychologists who were involved in this discussion are: First is Anne Fishel, an associate clinical professor of psychology and author of the book “Home for dinner”, Second is Janine Roberts, a family therapist, a professor emerita of family therapy at University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of (Family Routines and Rituals), Third is Barbara Flese, psychologist and author of (Family Routines and Rituals), and Lastly Bill Doherty, professor of family social science from The University of Minnesota. This article was written originally for The Conversation, which is a newsletter online that provides informed news analysis and commentary that can be read and republished. Published on November 24, 2015. This particular articles was republished in U.S. News World Report. In this paper, I examine the discussion between the four psychologists and critique the different views of thanksgiving rituals and how it benefits psychologically.

For as long as I can remember, I have valued the importance of tradition and simplicity. Instead of playing computer games with my siblings, I remember begging to play a simple game of tag or throw a ball back and forth. Although my siblings tease me to this day about my desire to play such elementary games, I pride myself on my values of customs and simplicity. Elements of my most valued memories include my family coming together to engage in what we could all involve ourselves in and enjoy. The few times we took a break from our personal issues was to come together to share or forget them. These sessions usually took place around our wooden dinner table and now that I am starting a life of my own, I imagine the one empty chair at the table. The once lively “New family dinners” are reduced to only four members and as uncomfortable as I am with it, I am aware that our entire family’s dynamic is changing. Like the story, “They Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the absence of tradition can make some uneasy.

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My mother bake with her friends and no longer goes to church while my aunts bake only with their children and still go to Sunday mass. My family stopped going to church and then when I left home for college, my mother stopped hosting Cookie Day, but no one continued the tradition. My mother and her friends began a new tradition, the Cookie Party. Everyone still observes Christmas and everyone still loves cookies, so why did Cookie Day end? Why did Cookie Day commensality dissipate? For my mother, the association between food and faith still exists. Now she identifies with Italian foodways and she and her friends now drink heavy bodied red wine while they bake an abundance of cookies, snack on Pecorino cheese, and involve their husbands. After baking and drinking their husbands cook together two types of pasta dinners (Giorgio and shrimp scampi); both the men and the women feed and are fed. My mother finds her faith through food and friends, but food reveals itself as the main instrument for connecting people in this narrative. Though the Cookie Party evolved from religious intentions, the event of baking cookies became holy for its’ purpose in brining together those with similar beliefs and attitudes about life itself. Last December, my mother and her friends gave the extra cookies to

Christmas is the annual festival celebrating the birth of Jesus on the 25th December, at least that is what it began as initially. Since it has expanded into an international phenomenon for consumption, taking priority over our everyday practices of life (Michel De Certeau, 1980). Our time we spend divided between work and leisure in accordance to the codes and conventions of society shifts, Christmas derails these expectations. Yet surprisingly Christmas gains little attention in terms of social research, despite the fact that it can be explored diversely. The inquiry ‘What is Christmas?’ links to multiple aspects of social research. The aspects of Christmas can be subdivided into the following; religion, commercialism, gift-giving, social relationships, sensualism and mythology. This essay will analyse these fundamentals of Christmas through both psychological and sociological perspectives, as the theories among these two social sciences are best suited to the elements which make up Christmas itself.

Christmas Day, Easter, and Thanksgiving are celebrated fairly similarly for the family; Haylee, along with her brother and parents, attend lunchtime festivities with Dawn’s branch of the family and dinner with John’s. Conversely, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are held at Haylee’s home with some family members from each side. Each holiday that the family celebrates has its own culinary traditions as well – Easter pie for Easter, steak and lobster for New Year’s Eve, turkey and pie for Thanksgiving, and the Italian tradition of seven fishes for Christmas Eve. Food plays a large role in bringing the family together but is not as important as the family connections themselves.

On Christmas, the whole family gathers at grandfather's house to eat together. We start lighting the candles and decorating the table to eat. When the feast is ready, everyone must sit around the table and wait until everyone has the food. Nobody of the family can eat until everyone has their food. The person in charge of serving the food to everyone is the family aunt and the family mother, and in the same way, family aunt and mother clean the table when finish eating. A difference of Christmas and New Years is can go to friends' houses before to eat with family at home. People from Peru must go out to celebrate on the street with the neighbors and all the streets are decorated with balloons, candies and music. These are the differences of setting on Christmas and New Years in

The perfect words, the right sentiments, the ability to say exactly what we ourselves can’t: just a few ways greeting cards are defined. Greeting cards, the stars of today, started with a humble beginning. The custom of sending greeting cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese, who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year, and to the early Egyptians, who conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 1400s, handmade paper greeting cards were being exchanged in Europe. The Germans are known to have printed New Year’s greetings from woodcuts as early as 1400, and handmade paper Valentines were being exchanged in various parts of Europe in the early to

Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. I love seeing the shinny Christmas lights that decorates my street and the sound of fresh fallen snow on the ground. Christmas reminds me of family, the laughter and loved we shared, and the gifts we gave to each other. My house on Christmas became the center of my joy.

As a child, my family would celebrate every holiday with grandeur, especially Christmas. We have specific traditions and rituals that we carry out during the season, but the most important of our traditions is what we do on Christmas morning. Our rituals and traditions reflect our values as well as my own of family, unity, and tradition. The morning of the holiday my mother has always woken my brother and I, and then brought us to our dad so we could all walk down to the family room. As we gather in the family room around our tree and presents, my mom serves us each a piece of her Christmas casserole, saved for this special morning. Following our video-taped walk down to our presents, my brother, mother, father, and I open one gift from each other and the first thing in our stocking. After this ritual, my brother and I would go downstairs to our in-law suite where our grandmother lived, to wake up our Mimi and pull her upstairs so that we could finish opening presents and have hot chocolate with our entire family. One Christmas morning

Research on ritual with respect to consumption and holidays has been a growing topic with the support of numerous studies in recent years. However, a clear definition of what ritual entail is of debate between scholars of the social sciences, particularly anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Creating a clear set of criteria to describe what behavior is considered to be of an aspect of ritual or not has been an impossible feat for researchers, instead many definitions have risen from disagreement between the social sciences.