Nativity scene

“And...Action!” I exclaimed as my cousins and siblings stood in their assigned spots on “stage.” Weeks of preparation and had led up to this moment; I introduced the debut of the Christmas play to my aunts, uncles, and grandparents. The lights dimmed and play began. In the crowded living room, a giggling Mary and Joseph read their lines as an extraneous sheep ran across the floor. Murdered by the subpar acting talents of ten-year-olds, I sat watching my production crumble in front of my eyes.

which is contained in the unique manuscript of the Wakefield Cycle. The plays within the manuscript coarsely follow the chronology of the Bible, and so were thought to be a cycle. This play gained its name, because it instantly shadows another nativity play involving shepherds. Some would even say that the second play is a modification of the first. However, in both plays it becomes vibrant that Christ is coming to Earth to convert the world from its sins. Even though the Second Shepherds’ Play

Most of Kevin’s family is Lutheran and because of this they make Christmas and Easter huge events. During the whole month of December, Kevin’s family home has Christmas everywhere you turn, with decorations, Christmas trees, and nativity scenes everywhere in their house. In a ways, they almost bleed Christmas and it culminates with the family going to Christmas Eve service and then having a large Christmas Eve feast with many members of the family attending. They then end the holiday

Doddle is small Simon is very small. Simon’s size affects how others see and treat him. Multiple times in the movie he is shown to be bullied and picked on by the kids. In one of the beginning scenes he is ever showed being picked up and carried like a little kid. In a later scene, the church he attends has a nativity, and he is chosen as baby jesus just because he is the only person small enough to fit inside the cradle. Doodle on the other hand is small but he is also very young. We do not see his size

groups gathered together, the emotions and passion for their music were very apparent. To begin the concert, “Gloria RV 589” was performed. This piece, by Antonio Vivaldi, served as a biblical announcement of glory and peace to the shepherds at the Nativity by the angels. Eventually, it turned into a hymn of praise. To emphasize the feeling of celebration and glory in the first movement, “Gloria In Excelsis Deo,” the orchestra began with a phrase consisting of frequent octave leaps followed by several

Starbucks, a large corporation that sells trendy coffee, has a well-known tradition of creating holiday cups to go along with their seasonal drinks. There is also a tradition of criticizing the cups. In 2015, the year of controversy over the Starbucks holiday cups, Christians had the perception that Judah-Christian values were being attacked under the Obama Administration. Author Emma Green, wrote “The Inanity of the Starbucks Christmas Cup ‘Controversy’,” published in 2015 in The Atlantic, she

Photographing Indigenous cultures Photography is the art of explaining the natural or conceptual features of given object, lace or phenomena in picture form. This is normally done to reduce the cost of explaining the utmost unexplainable feature of some phenomenon. Since time memorial, there has been lots of understanding of lots features of around the human beings ("Photographic Knowledge and the Cultures of Travel by Alison Devine Nordström" 79). This has been greatly contributed to by the art

Our president during World War II was Franklin D. Roosevelt. On February 19, 1942, he “authorized the internment of ten of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan.”1 The attack on Pearl Harbor incited the fear against Japanese Americans, because the United States believed that Japanese Americans would turn their backs on the U.S. and be a threat to the security. This authorization was called the Presidential Executive Order 9066. Even though there was no

"The Temple [of The Sagrada Família] grows slowly, but this has always been the case with everything destined to have a long life. Hundred-year-old oak trees take many years to grow tall; on the other hand, reeds grow quickly, but in autumn the wind knocks them down and there is no more to be said"1. These words, spoken by Antoni Gaudi about his life-long work, Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, are a means to justify the extremely long time needed for the construction of the Sagrada Família

stole our country from us – “The deep 's bare bosom  that the breeze molests” is a metaphor for American colonization. So in our reading now, we understand  that Maramag 's insistence on our own “scene so fair” in fact becomes a chief motive and inspiration for the Filipino poet. For his own scene is nothing less than his lost country whose  physical and spiritual geography it is his task to imagine and so rediscover. There is still hope to heal all the wounds A literary technique (also known