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    Thanksgiving is a national and annual holiday where people express their gratitude and appreciation towards family members, friends, significant others, their religion, their health, their education, or are appreciative of what they have. Most of us are all aware that Thanksgiving is one of the happiest days of the year because we all share a traditional meal with our family and often give thanks to our loved ones. Typically, on this day interactions are what is primarily being focused on. Everyone

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    How different are our Thanksgivings? 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 you are with whoever’s house you go to, you get to be you and

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    ¨Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action,¨ stated W.J Cameron. This quote is just saying in other words, Thanksgiving is what you make of it. Thanksgiving can be all about what you’re grateful for and spending time with family or Thanksgiving can simply be about eating, and only that. This year, for Thanksgiving, I will be spending time with my family, for which I’m very grateful. Since some of my family has moved out of NJ, Thanksgiving isn't the same as it was before, but we still have a

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    Happy fall! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and had lots of turkey, spend time with family, and watched some football. I don’t eat turkey, so my plate was filled with mash potatoes, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, and my nana’s homemade roll. If only they served chicken for Thanksgiving… yum! What did you guys eat for Thanksgiving? Hey, don’t you guys have a field trip coming up soon? I see the future… you guys might be seeing a play… maybe it will be called… Go… Dog… Go… Am I right

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    Every family has their own way of celebrating Thanksgiving and giving thanks. Today, this holiday is a time for reunions, watching and playing football, but most importantly, food. Not only is this a day for eating, but it also gives a pass on our diets and stuffing our faces. For millions of people all across America, this is a day where cooking, eating, and spending time with the important people in one’s life comes to play. This is the time of year where everyone is bundled up in cozy sweaters

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    Prepare a Thanksgiving Dinner Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate our joys with friends and family. Unfortunately, if you are the person designated to cooking the holiday dinner, the joys can turn into complete and total fear. I'll never forget the first time I made Thanksgiving dinner for twenty family members and friends. I waited until the last minute to start and the dinner ended in a complete disaster. In the years following that failure, I have learned that preparing a Thanksgiving dinner

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    Thanksgiving Reflection

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    ever thought about the original Thanksgiving and how it is similar and different to yours? Or how about how your Thanksgiving is different to your friend’s Thanksgiving? Well I sure have, and that is what I will be talking about today. I think my Thanksgiving is not that similar to the original feast, tho there might be some differences. Now let’s get into a few of the similarities. First before I list a few similarities let me tell you about how I celebrate Thanksgiving. I go to my Grandpa and Grandma’s

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    What Is Thanksgiving

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    knew it was going to be a wonderful and unforgettable day for me. Due to the fact that I was fortunate enough to be able to experience and have a glimpse of what Thanksgiving looks like in America. Before then, what I knew about Thanksgiving were all from the movies, dramas or books that I had watched and read. I knew that Thanksgiving is an important holiday for families and friends to gather together, to celebrate, to feast and to enjoy staying with one another. It is just similar to one of the

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    The next day after Thanksgiving, which always is on the fourth Thursday of November, is called Black Friday and it usually marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. It has come to be known as the busiest shopping day of the year. The origin of this phrase has its roots in the 20th century. The first mention of Black Friday appeared for the first time in 1951 in a newspaper referring to the habit of workers to call-in sick after thanksgiving, in order to earn a four-day weekend. After approximately

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    The Thanksgiving and the Yuletide seasons are two of the top holidays where Americans get to meet their friends and relatives and share a moment or two over meals like turkey and pastries. As far as they were concerned, they do not seek to talk about politics since the seasons are all about enjoying each others company. In fact, a Reuters/Ipsos November 24 poll has presented that nearly one-third of adults will avoid political talks on purpose since politics was also discovered to be the least favorite

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