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A modern-day myth that corporations have created is that Christmas is a time of giving gifts and spending time with the family. While the latter part is partially true, the giving part was not added until centuries after the first Christmas was celebrated. Christmas began officially when the Pope, Julius 1, said that the birthday of Jesus Christ would be on 25th of December. Nowadays corporations have turned it into a multi-billion dollar holiday season that starts usually from November the 1st to December the 25th. They have made people inadvertently think more of buying gifts than the actual celebration of the birth of Jesus. They have achieved this by having extensive advertising campaigns, commercials, endorsements, and good planning for
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Holidays celebrate an area’s culture and/or the day(s) it commemorates with various festivities and traditions. In Theodore Geisel’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas, the light-hearted denizens of Who-Ville are preparing to celebrate Christmas. For the Whos, it is a time of fun and merryness, in which they sing and play with one another. This is a time of camaraderie and fellowship between everyone in the town. Apart from this is the antagonist, the Grinch, who dreads the holiday along with the singing, feasting, and other festive activities that the holiday inspires.

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As a young adult, I can say that Christmas gift giving is likewise to language. Similar to how I grasped the language of English and developed it as I got older, gift giving has also grown with me throughout my childhood up till now. Both have evolved into society and culture. Christmas has transformed into a "cultural ritual" celebrated year after year all because of social norms. The idea that society celebrates Christmas and gift giving without having to be forced represents how culture regulates societal behavior.

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In the Washington Post (November 11, 2016, Outlook) Jason Brennan writes "Five Myths about Democracy", in which he writes about the few false beliefs that the majority of individuals assume about what our democracy really is. According to Brennan, there are five false beliefs about democracy, the first one being the idea that voters are selfish. It is believed that the "rich taxpayers" vote for low-tax republicans and that the "poor tax consumers" vote for high-tax democrats. According to Brennan, political scientist have found little evidence for this claim. "Self-interest is a weak predictor of voter behavior...

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By just experiencing what Christmas is lik in different perspectives, can change how a person sees things. Scrooge was able to see what Christmas was like for himself in the past, for other people in the present, and how he ends up in the future through the Ghosts that teach him to be appreciative. When I was in primary school, we were ordered to bring buckets and walk to a creek, fill it with water and carry it back to school to experience what it was like for those in 3rd world countries. Before this, I didn’t really acknowledge the struggles that people in these living conditions had to

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The day of celebration, December 25, was put in place by Pope Julius to replace the festival of Saturnalia. Multiple sources also state that Christmas was introduced by Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor because it was a Christian holiday. According to William Falk, the process of gift giving also originated during Saturnalia and that Christmas adopted that tradition. Even though Christmas was originally banned in the United States when the colonies were just being established, it was eventually legalized in the late 1680s and gifts of homemade toys were given. Gift giving was commercialized with the rise of the industrial revolution and became popular.

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So the point after all is pretty much inculcate faith, not raise some greedy competitive children. To this day, this popular tradition has actually been vanishing and I believe that it will disappear in a couple of years. Well, at least it has decreased its popularity over higher classes as these have developed more sophisticated Christmases. Anyhow, as of today many Colombians still cherish the day that Christmas eve arrives and it’s their time to prove their skills, win some extra bucks and spend a joyful time with their

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Imagine an entire civilization being destroyed in single apocalyptic event that was capable of eradicating almost all traces of an advanced civilization. This advanced civilization was Atlantis, and it has never been found. There is still today much debate concerning if it ever even existed. Many people believe that Plato completely fabricated the myth, and that it never existed; others believe it exists and has yet to be been found. Despite the extreme number of claims that Plato invented the entire story of Atlantis, there is undeniable proof that it was clearly based on the ancient Minoan civilization as the Minoans were advanced like the Atlantians, they had a radial island structure similar to that described, and they were destroyed in

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societies, cultures, communities, religion manipulates these stories and myths to satisfy their own needs. We know that our society is patriarchal and those who are in power will set certain norms and structure in it for they always live in fear of losing power. All most all the cultures and religion imposes this power on women as they fear the power of women for she has the ability to reproduce and making sure that the human race continues to exist. Biologically, females are weaker than males and this is also a very prominent reason for males that they can so easily exercise their power over females. Men fear women because, imagine what will happen to society and order if say few hundreds women don't want to get married or reproduce and that's why single women are a threat to the society and therefore it is the so called responsibility of patriarchal society to control female sexuality.

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