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    and Thanksgiving. People enjoy Thanksgiving, for all the amazing food people get to eat and spending time with family. Many people celebrate Thanksgiving different. Some go on vacation, visit family, and the most common one to celebrate with having a big family dinner. The first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Thanksgiving is a big turkey, pilgrims and Indians. Although we enjoy thanksgiving, many people do not know the background of Thanksgiving or the true story of Thanksgiving. The

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    There are many different ways how so spend Thanksgiving. Some people spend Thanksgiving at home doing nothing, some even spend it on the streets. Some people aren't even home with their family, they are serving other people food and helping at food banks so that the people on the streets have food. Most of the people that I know spend it with their families and have a great time. The classmates that I interviewed do the same as well. I spend my Thanksgiving going to my grandma and grandpas house and

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    On Thanksgiving Day, I decided to observe my 86-year-old grandmother. I was with her for the whole day. My observation began that morning when she woke up and walked into the living room. My grandma started off with turning on the coffee maker. While her coffee was brewing she went and took a shower. When she was done showering she went to make her a cup of coffee and then she had a seat on the couch. My grandma told my little cousin to bring her purse out of her room. He brought it to her. She then

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    Thanksgiving is a the day we celebrate everything we are grateful. In which comes the controversial topic of how thanksgiving became what it is today. overall , I thinking slaughtering turkeys for a specific day is a horrific act and is considered a social justice issue. While on the contrary I do not believe it is a race and social issue mainly based off the history of thanksgiving. There is harm to the turke I think the reason it is such a controversial topic is the fact we are solely killing

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    Did you know Thanksgiving wasn’t a traditional holiday? Thanksgiving was not celebrated back then. Thanksgiving today is not nothing the same like it use to be before. The reason I chose Thanksgiving to do research about is because its really interesting to me to know how the whole tradition started. I know people would like to learn about it. In 1621 the Plymouth colonist and Wampanoag Indians shred an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledge today as the first Thanksgiving celebration in the

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    Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated by the United States, Canada, and a few Caribbean islands. It started off as a day that gave thanks or blessings for the harvest of the crops. Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, and the Second Monday of October in Canada. The first thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims after the first harvest in the new world in October in 1621. Years later, Abraham Lincoln declared the fourth Thursday of November the national day of thanksgiving on

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    Thanksgiving is known as a time that we give thanks to God and be thankful for the things people have. Many people also believe that the Pilgrims and Indians sat down and had a great time at a feast, but the true story is much more than Pilgrims and Indians sitting down at a table. This paper will be discussing the story behind Thanksgiving, how Thanksgiving started, why it started, the first day it was celebrated, when it first became a holiday, Thanksgiving facts, who was involved it the first

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    Thanksgiving is a very important holiday in present day culture. People all throughout America take time to make this day a memorable celebration. This tradition has been in America since 1621 when the very first thanksgiving took place. Nigel Hamilton once said, “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude” and even though the traditions may have been altered and changed, the true meaning of Thanksgiving remains the same. The first thanksgiving was an important milestone that made a huge

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    Thanksgiving is a celebrated holiday around the United States, it started many years ago, and still continues to be celebrated to this day! It’s almost that time of year again and people are already starting to get ready for the holiday. Thanksgiving is an older holiday, it was first celebrated with the Pilgrims and the Indians. Back then, they didn’t even eat turkey! Instead they ate seal and lobster. But to this day, we eat pumpkin pie, just as they did. We also have lots of varieties of food and

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    MICHAEL ARLEN: ODE TO THANKSGIVING It is time, at last, to speak the truth about Thanksgiving, and the truth is this. Thanksgiving is really not such a terrific holiday. Consider the traditional symbols of the event: Dried corn husks hanging on the door! Terrible wine! Cranberry jelly in little bowls of extremely doubtful provenance which everyone is required to handle with the greatest of care! Consider the participants, the merrymakers: men and women (also children) who have survived

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