Using specific memories from a family Christmas gathering, Rodriguez
My family and I celebrate Christmas and gift giving every year without having to be forced in any way. From Christmas shopping, decorating the Christmas tree, making Christmas cookies, singing carols, and gift giving, my family and I have always followed the "rules. " We are motivated and influenced by society to acknowledge the Christmas holiday and act of gift giving because it is what our culture has been governed to do. Once the "language" of gift giving has been learned and enforced, it then becomes a necessity in society that people automatically follow without
We are familiar with the US Constitution as it is our ruling document. However, the Constitution wasn’t the only ruling document nor the first. Prior to the US Constitution was the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was not very successful compared to the Constitution. It provided a weak centralized government contrary to what the Constitution proposed.
The book I chose is called Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto. The plot of the book is based on a Latin family of three celebrating Christmas. We know that it is Christmas due to the weather outside, the presents the relatives bring to the dinner, the names of the characters, but mostly because of the food that the mother and daughter are preparing; tamales. A Christmas tradition in many Latin homes. The young daughter (Maria) and mother are preparing the tamales by adding and kneading the mesa (a flour-like mixture) portion of the tamales.
The holiday 's in Iraq was sad. For Christmas, we made fake snow and put up a little Christmas tree. For the most part, operations came down. So holidays went by without you having time to be
More Christmas traditions, like decorations and a Santa like figure were brought over by the Germans when they immigrated to Texas. Christmas trees would be decorated on December 24th which is Christmas Eve. After the German families would eat dinner, children’s parents would ring a bell. The children were told that the Weihnachtsmann came and left presents for them under the tree. Their Christmas presents in the settlements were paper bags full of fruits and sweets.
Growing up in a big family, traditions were what kept our family together. As a child, every first weekend in December was spent at my grandma’s house. It was our traditional craft/tree decorating weekend. All 15 of us grandkids would arrive at grandma’s house filled with excitement and joy. It was at time that we all got to spend catching up with each other and playing.
We huddle together in a circle, in the tiny, confined living room to capture the evening in a family photo. A picture on which
Every Christmas Eve my family reunites with a platter of food, all the children wear the pajamas and we all bake Christmas cookies and watch a Christmas, usually animated since the toddlers are watching. An hour before midnight, we organize the journey that Maria and Jose experienced
Not the little cute snowflakes you see on TV while watching your favorite holiday movies, but lots of snow. It was the kind of snow that is unimaginable at least to me, at that time of my life. I have never seen it snow before, and as the cold white snow blows along the road and sticks to the window I holler oh my God.
This is what we do. I am going to talk about all of them. And explain what they mean to us in my culture. The food of my culture is really important to us because it is what Mexican like and it relates us who we are. In Christmas Day we have to be with the family and play games.
When decorating is complete we begin slowly buying gifts, wrapping them, and then setting them under the tree until the big day comes. This entire holiday is an automatic process. We have been doing it so long here in America that for those who celebrate this holiday, it is like second nature when it comes to that time of
On Christmas day wishes come true and then the celebration begins. There’s nothing like a great classic Christmas movie to bring all the holiday memories back with a rush. Cuddle up on the couch with some hot cocoa and mini marshmallows, and watch one of these great Christmas movies to get in the holiday spirit. Christmas has always been my favorite holiday, it is the perfect opportunity to treasure your family and friends. On this particular occasion we hold special senses to Jesus and each other and so the feeling is mutual, we feel it, we cherish it, and certainly promise to
On Christmas morning, my sister always wakes me up. Her anticipation of the day keeps her from snoozing, so she is always the first to rise. We are not allowed to come downstairs until my parents give us the “ok.” They would give us permission to come downstairs as soon as they were prepared with their recording devices and a cup of coffee. After given the clear, my sister and I would run downstairs to the living room to see what gifts Santa had left us.
Three inches of pure fluffy snowflakes covered as far as my eye could see. Soon, my neighbors also came outside to discover the masterpiece that lay in front of them. Children of all ages brought out sleds and began sliding down our hill. My dog began jumping and running around like a scared rabbit as he ran through the thick snow. Up and down the street families were playing outside, laughing and having a good time The delight and happiness that filled our neighborhood was something truly
