PS/IS 178 George Pinkhasov
802/8G 11/26/12
“Celebrations of Light” By Nancy Luenn In the book “Celebrations of Light” by “Nancy Luenn” there a lot of holidays in the book that has to do with lights. This story is about how holidays are celebrated across the world. My task was to compare and contrast these holidays to others from around the world.
Hanukkah is my favorite holiday because it’s the only holiday that I celebrate with my family. Hanukkah is my favorite holiday because it is long. Lighting the candles for Hanukah brings joy for me. Since there is 8 days of Hanukkah you get 8 days of presents. The best part of Hanukkah for me is that it is on my birthday so I get double the presents.
Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE. Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration held in the United States honoring African heritage and culture, marked by participants lighting a kinara (candle holder). Besides falling at a similar time of the year and both including the practice of lighting candles, they are not related.
A holiday that has similarities and differences with Hanukkah is Christmas. One similarity is that both holidays families’ parents give out presents to their kids. But Christmas is celebrated for one day Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days. So each day you get one present. On Christmas you get all the presents
friends. In the book, “Of Mice and Men”, George is an example of a loyal friend due to his actions in caring for Lennie. “No Lennie. I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know.” (p.106). When George told Lennie this, it made me realize that George is willing to take care and be there for Lennie no matter how much trouble Lennie gets into. George is also a person who will help you and be by your side. To begin with, George is a caring person, especially to Lennie…
(Regani & George, 2009, p. 146). Not only was the U.S. experiencing a recession and the bursting of the dot.com bubble, but 4 days after he began his term as…
US History I Midterm Essay George Washington: The Right Leader at the Right Time “Good moral character is the first essential in a man.” George Washington wrote in a letter to his nephew in 17901, during his second year serving as the first President of the United States. Not only is it an excellent lesson to teach a young boy, but it was also an integral part of Washington’s personality that would permeate his life and actions. Most know him simply as one of the founding fathers of our…
Analysis of George Washington’s Farewell Speech Analysis of George Washington’s Farewell Speech George Washington is well known as being one of America’s Founding Fathers. With much of his life spent in the public arena, President Washington characterized political knowledge, along with an understanding as to how it should be applied in order to become successful. As the end of his presidency neared, Washington decided to write his final speech with the “intent to speak directly to the…
that she is in. Which, in fact is very similar to the other guys. "I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely." "What's the matter with me? Ain't I got a right to talk to nobody?" "Seems like they ain't none of them cares how I gotta live". (P. 85-86) Steinbeck tends to allow the reader to emphasise and feel for Curley’s wife. Indeed, the author succeeds in the portrayal of Curley’s wife as one who only craves companionship and clearly substantiating the shattering affects of segregation.…
activities; and the values that are embedded, fostered, or pursued by those activities and practices” (De George, 2010 p. 8). Ethics is defined as “a systematic attempt to make sense of our individual and social moral experience, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct, the values worth pursuing, and the character traits deserving development in life” (De George, 2010 p. 8). Morals tend to remain the same for an individual; it is as though they are more deeply ingrained…
hard boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water" (p.18) This creates a setting and shows how men who work on the ranch have had limited, isolated and lonely lives. He also writes "an ash-pile made by many fires" (p.18) This shows that many men must have walked through this road. Therefore they must have entered the lonely and miserable life, moving from ranch to ranch finding useless…
norms (George & Jones, 2009, p.53) where they will stick with what has been tested and is mostly accepted as trite and true. However, as Bill Zizzi mentioned the stock market and by default mutual fund market are constantly changing, so an investor and consequently a manager who is able to think differently may have a better chance at succeeding because of the new ideas he or she brings to the table. However, this is not always the case. Today we see many entrepreneurs (George & Jones, 2009, p. 176)…
scare Lennie into thinking that George might abandon him, or die. Crooks is angry at society for oppressing him so severely, so he takes the opportunity to pass along some abuse, to take it out on someone else. He regrets it because his desire for company ultimately wins out, and he realizes that Lennie has mental problems. Curley’s wife regrets marrying Curley, and just wants companionship, like Crooks does, like Candy does after his dog dies, and like George and Lennie are lucky to have with…
Of Mice and Men Summer Reading Project Novel by: Jhon Steinbeck 9/24/13 P. 6 By: ZacMayle Of mice and men is a story about two men, A brainy but scrawny man named George and a tall but slow thinking man named Lennie, in search of work. The story starts of as the two escape from a search party for an unknown issue. After getting their work cards, they take a bus from weed (the area they where previously in) to a farm in an unknown location south of weed. They get off a few…
