Father Christmas

dress shirt and a tie. Throughout the night Brad rehearsed what he was going to say to the woman tomorrow. As he was rehearsing, the phone rang. Brad answered it and it was his mother on the phone. “I was just calling you to inform you that your father is getting worse and you should visit him before he undergoes surgery tomorrow afternoon,” said Brad’s mother. “Yes, I understand, I will be there,” said Brad. Brad hung up the phone and went to bed, he knew he had a big day tomorrow. The sun was

Source 1 displays a Indigenous prayer ceremony to prepare for Christmas. The ceremony is influenced by Aboriginal culture such as their connection with the land and the spirits of the First Peoples. For Aborigines “all objects are living and share the same soul and spirit as them”. Spirituality is heavily incorporated into the everyday lives of Aboriginals. Spirituality can be defined as the sense of a connection to something bigger than yourself and involves a search for the meaning of life.

Everyone seemed to afraid of Scrooge. No one would ask him anything when he was on the street, even the blinderman’s dogs appered to know him and when they saw him coming they would pull their owners into the doorways. Once upon a time, on christmas eve, Scrooge was counting houses in the cold, bleak and biting winter. He heard people in the court outside going up and down, beating their hands on their breast, and stamping their feet on their pavement stone trying to warm themselves up. Scrooge

One year for Christmas I got a doll. This doll was not ordinary, but extremely ugly and terrifying. I was very unhappy with my present, and demanded for a new one. My parents felt guilty, and of course bought me a new, beautiful doll. The next day, we went to New York to see the Christmas decorations and shop for clothes. To teach me a lesson, my parents gave me a dollar and made me give it to a homeless woman. After giving it to the woman and seeing how happy I made her with one measly dollar,

A History of Christmas Christmas is a holiday that has been celebrated for hundreds of years, but not in the ways you’d think. All around the world, there are different traditions revolving around Christmas, like Father Christmas in Britain and Santa Claus on the North American continent. There are also many foods related to the holiday, such as candy canes, ham, goose, and many more delectable food items from all over the globe. The modern Christmas in North America wasn’t like the ways we remember

of the most important aspects of their day to day lives, therefore it is only natural for the theme of family to be present throughout many of the periods ghost stories and other genres. The Victorians also created the modern Christmas, where families come together on Christmas Eve to read or re-tell popular Ghost stories of the time, many magazines which were

Scrooge is very angry, rude, unfriendly character. Scrooge’s cruel actions to most others are unkind, especially when it’s about Christmas. The bitterness drive in Scrooge against Christmas is very strong. Scrooge also hates things such as love, happiness, generosity, and regards them as irrational until such time that a rightful trio of ghosts came to set him right. Charles Dickens paints him as an old businessman, with a ring of frosty white hair on his head, a pointed nose, red eyes, thin eyebrows

Christmas stopped coming. Not literally, but the feeling of Christmas did. I sometimes could still feel the days leading up to something, but at seventeen, when Christmas Day rolled around, I did not spring out of bed and race Kasey down the stairs. Instead, when she came into my room to shake me awake at an ungodly hour, I pushed her off and mumbled to wake our parents so I could sleep another hour or two. Kasey is a persistent girl, so she did not let me rest. She left my room but yelled up the

Scrooge Scrooge is disrespectful to everyone around him. He is miserable now that Marley, his business partner of many years has died. According to the text, Scrooge hates things like happiness, generosity, and Christmas. Oh! How he hates Christmas! His feelings about Christmas are consistent until three ghosts show him that his way of thinking is wrong. On pages one and two, it says “External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather could chill

Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, and Chris Kringle are names associated with the most well-known figure among all children as Santa Claus. Currently, Santa lives in the North Pole with his wife Mrs. Claus, reindeer, and his elves who create toys to give to all of the nice children. For many, the act of making and delivering presents to all the little boys and girls of the world may appear magical to children and adults but there is evidence proving that it is all smoke and mirrors. In fact, devising