Thanksgiving is one of the United States most celebrated holidays. Not all its citizens know the history of it though. For most of them, Thanksgiving means getting together with the family and eat a lot of food. Others means going out shopping on Black Friday. Thanksgiving is a beautiful holiday, and people should alter it more and learn its origins. Special Thanksgiving ceremonies and prayers is what Thanksgiving is about, thanking for the harvest and other times in life. The Thanksgiving holiday’s history in North America is rooted in English traditions dating from the protestant reformation. Pilgrims and Puritans were who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carrying the tradition of days of fasting and days of Thanksgiving …show more content…
Since the 1930s, has been known as the begging of Christmas shopping, is also known as the busiest shopping day of the year. Most of the retailers open very early in the morning and offer promotional sales. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but Pennsylvania and some other states observe “The day After Thanksgiving” as a holiday for state government employees. (Black Friday/Shopping) Black Friday might be one of the best days to go out shopping, however throughout the years, black Friday gets worse instead of getting better. There have been people that had lost their life because people go crazy for the sales. People do not care who or what it is on their way. There is a website where they have how many people have died or been injured since 2006. Since then, there has been 7 deaths and 98 injuries. (Black Friday Death Count)
Thanksgiving and Black Friday are somewhat the same. Thanksgiving is the day where people are thanking god for the blessing he has given them in their lives. Black Friday is the day where stores reduce their price and let people be able to get items a lot cheaper, which giving back to their customers. However, people forget how thankful they were the day before and the next day go and fight people, or even