Easter Essays

For Easter Vigil this year I had the opportunity to attend Saint Rose Catholic Church on April 15 with my roommate Javier Guerra. The church is located in his hometown Great Bend Kansas. For me, it was the first time in quite a bit that I have attended an Easter Vigil at a catholic church. I usually go to a different type of Easter service with my mother at her church. Great Bend is a very small town and a lot of Javier’s friends and family were all there in attendance, which really made me feel

CORTAMONTE OR YUNZA Cortamonte is a festival that starts forty days before Easter (or as we call it in Peru Easter week). Nobody really knows how this tradition started, however, it is said that it came from the European religious tradition and our culture combined. Unsha in Quechua means Dress Tree. It’s another name Peruvians use for the festival; it’s celebrated in most of the Andes in Peru. The duration of the festivities and activities change with different towns. This celebration can also be

The Easter Rebellion was a six-day armed insurrection during Easter week in 1916 mounted by Irish republicans to end the British rule in Ireland. Easter 1916 was the first personal approached poem written by Yeats in response to the failed uprising of Irish nationalists. While he expressed concern about the violent rebellion against the British, he was angered at the execution of the Irish leaders, who he believe had sacrificed themselves for Irish independence. Easter 1916 was written with Yeats’

Easter Island: The Mysteries of the Moai On a tiny island off the coast of Chile, two thousand miles from the nearest civilization, there stand hundreds of massive stone statues hewn from rough volcanic rock in the shape of human faces. These statues remain a great source of controversy and disagreement among the scientific community. Almost nothing is left over from the time of the figures or their creators to explain them but ancient island lore and legend, unproven stories that serve only to

mystery to people nowadays. These two man made things are the Moai on Easter Island and the Panama Canal. Both of them took much dedication and also are marvels to people even today however, differ in many ways as well, an example of witch would be any known reasons to build them and how they were built. To begin this composition, both these structures took great dedication to make in both time, energy and resources. The Moai on Easter Island were great statues and due to their weight and height and complexity

to cannibalism. Easter island’s decision to not change affected everyone living there. Some were fortunate enough to escape while others had no choice but to stay there. In the article “Environmental Collapse of Easter Island”, by Jared Diaman, it states “Any islander who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation would've been overridden by vested interests of carvers, bureaucrats, and Chiefs, whose jobs depended on continued deforestation.” This means that Easter island continued

of the 1916 rising with particular focus placed on the RTE television series Rebellion.1 An analysis of this drama will allow this essay to examine the manner in which the anniversary of the rising contributes to contemporary Irish identity. The Easter Rising is a rebellion which took place between the 24th and 30th of April 1916 and resulted in 450 deaths including the execution of the fifteen leaders of the rebellion. The rising itself consisted of members of the Irish Citizens Army, the Irish

Diamond’s purpose is to preserve generations now and later from going down hill like previous civilizations such as the Maya, Anasazi, Khymer, and Easter Island. Diamond mainly focuses on Easter Island throughout this text. He states, “Unlike Easter Islanders, people have histories of the past- information that can save us”. The author speaks on how the islanders were unaware of what they were doing until they cut down the last tree. They did not have any knowledge nor advice on how to save their

The Lorax and Easter Island share a similar economical declension resulting in vacancy, deforestation, and lack of important resources, despite the different matters that accelerated to the overall issue. The fictional story about the Lorax and the real life event that occurred in Easter Island are similar in many aspects. The major issue in both situations was that all of the natural resources were depleted for personal benefit. In the Lorax, the Once-ler character decided to cut down the precious

Intro: The fall of Easter Island has been claimed to be one of the biggest mysteries in the world. Many people have debated if Easter Island turned into a small inhabitable island due to mass ecocide? Or, did the society fall because the tribes stated turning against each other, so was it genocide? Or was it a story of success, were the inhabitants adapted to the harsh conditions and limited food, surviving off rats and small vegetables. Was the problem one of the people due people, or people due

A comparison of imperialism in W.B.Yeats’ Easter, 1916 and Liam O Comain’s Ireland’s Bloody Sunday Both Yeats and Comain were the great Irish poetry writers and had written innumerable poems. Yeats’ poem Easter, 1916 and Comain’s poem Ireland’s Bloody Sunday were written post the Irish revolutionary acts in 1916 and 1972 respectively in which the rebels got executed or killed. During both the Irish revolutionary acts, rebels comprised of well-known personnel, who fought for the sheer benefit of

compares the superficial observance of Easter by herself and her parents with the unexpected true appreciation held - and put into action - by Matthew, Kayla Albrecht's little brother. Albrecht speaks of her family's Easter traditions, "Like most pious and holy families, we made sure to attend church every Easter weekend... We then honored Jesus' love for us by dipping eggs into bowls full of food coloring" (Albrecht 152). The Albrecht family did not go to church on Easter because of the fellowship - or

country. Easter – Religious Ritual On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Jesus Christ. It is typically the most well-attended Sunday service of the year for Christian churches. Christians believe that as said in the bible that Jesus came back to life, or was raised from the dead, three days after his death on the cross. As part of the Easter season, the death of Jesus Christ by crucifixion is commemorated on Good Friday, always the Friday just before Easter. Hypothesis

Holidays in Hispanic Countries Major holidays in Hispanic countries include the Day of the Dead, Carnival, Holy Week and Christmas. Some of the major holidays in the United States are Easter and Christmas. Each of these holidays range in time, have different people that participate, and they each have different traditional activities. The Day of the Dead is a two day celebration that honors deceased loved ones. The two day celebration starts on November first and ends on November second. The first

The Holiest days are: Easter (Resurrection), Good Friday (Death), and Christmas (Birth) The seasons of the Church year are as follows: Advent, Christmas, Time after Epiphany, Lent, The Three Days, Easter, and Time after Pentecost. The Church calendar begins with Advent, there are four Sundays; Christmas lasts twelve days; Epiphany varies year to year depending on when Lent begins; Lent has five Sundays and then Palm Sunday which is always one week before Easter; Easter lasts fifty days; and the

“Beware of the Easter Bunny” by Charles Colson, “Letter from Birmingham Alabama” by Dr. Martin Luther King, and “Salvation” by Langston Hughes depict the ways human have the wrong definition of Christianity. People often expect from God and what He can do, but do not understand the true concept of Christianity. People often expect acts of God, but they themselves do not act or stand up. In “Salvation”, Langston recalls his aunt telling him how “when you are saved you [see] a light… and Jesus [comes]

Virgin and the saints—. In turn, the Christological temporal cycle has two cycles: the Christmas cycle, which begins with the time of Advent and culminates with the Epiphany; and the Paschal cycle, which begins with Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week, Easter Triduum and culminates with Pentecost Sunday. The Christmas cycle begins at the end of November or the beginning of December, and includes: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany. Advent is the time of joyful waiting, for the Lord comes. The great figures of

Ostara is a celebration of the spring equinox that is on March 21st. Ostara or easter don 't fall on the say month every year. This holiday or festival is the same as Easter in the christian religion. This is when passover for the jewish is, as Easter or Ostara comes we celabrate the Goddess Ostara or Oestre or Eastre. This time is when the planting of the new crops and spring has arived as well when the spring babies are being born, as the march hare was a symbol of fertility. Celebrate the balance

Ready Player One - “Fireflies” The book Ready Player One is a sci-fi fiction novel set in the near future - 28 years in the future, to be exact, written by Ernest Cline. The song “Fireflies” is a song written by Adam Young, a synthpop with a medium tempo, three and a half minutes long and with lyrics throughout. “Fireflies” is a song that centers on a dream world - not being able to fall asleep at night, having very vivid dreams, and feeling as if they could come true; while Player is about a virtual

That morning there were noisy small birds chirping and very bright colored flowers blossoming. We got up from our beds and got dressed to got to my aunt's house because yearly she has an Easter party and invites the whole family. We all get together and play inside of this huge inflatable bounce house/ water slide. We had fun there just throwing ourselves from the top of the bounce house. Then I got tired and went to walk the dog for my