...A Dallas businessman Peter Steward was the first to visualize that in the heart of downtown Dallas there should be a place for people to worship and thanksgiving to our community, nation and the world. At the same time, a central gathering or a meditation space for office crowd to relax or to relieve the stress from work. The non-profit Thanks-Giving Foundation commissioned the postmodern architect Philip Johnson to design the Square and was finished in 1976. The Thanksgiving Square is designed in a triangle shape landscape that is surrounded by trees, grass and manmade waterfall. The site is in between the Pacific, Ervay, and Bryan Streets. The main entrance of the Square is on the Pacific Avenue. On the right hand side of the entrance there is a Wall of Praise with Rockwell Mosaic that illustrates “The Golden Rule.” After visit the Wall of Praise there is a Ring of Thanks that is made of aluminum and covered by gold allow the visitor to pass through and speak their thanks out loud they will hear the echo back. Behind the Ring there is a Thanks Bell Tower with three large bronze bells, and it rings every hour. After visiting the entrance, there is a long pathway leading to the Chapel. The pathway was designed in a slope below street level surrounded by aqueducts. About half way down the pathway on the right hand side there are stairs leading to the Wall of Presidents that made of concrete. The Wall is surrounded by trees and a waterfall wall. As people step into this...
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...Description: What is/are the artifact(s)? The artifacts are a lesson plan and photographs taken during my student experience. The lesson plan is on the history of the first Thanksgiving. The lesson focuses on the history of Thanksgiving and how the Native Americans and the Pilgrims way of giving thanks. The photographs are images of the students eating at the classroom’s Thanksgiving feast. In the photographs, students are also seen wearing their Pilgrim and Native American hats at the feast. Interpretation: Provide a rationale for choosing the artifact(s) The lesson plan was chosen because it is organized and revolves around the unifying theme of Thanksgiving and giving thanks. The lesson plan uses relevant content and it is developmentally...
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...Thanksgiving is a traditional annual celebration and it is celebrated on the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday people gather around a table with family and friends to celebrate this day. Thanksgiving has a different meaning for some people, but for most of them is synonymous of huge meals, parades, football match and spending quality time with the beloved ones. This holiday is not only about cooking delicious dishes and spending time with family but also is a reminder of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. More than half of American families celebrate thanksgiving. History The Thanksgiving Day had its origins in a mixture of European and aboriginal traditions. Both cultures had their own different way of celebrating the harvest day, but when the Europeans came to America for the first time; they brought their own tradition better known as the harvest festival which celebrates the end of their journey as well as the good harvest of the year. Despite the origins of Thanksgiving Day, this holiday is similar in Canada and the United States but everyone celebrates it in their own way. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621; where a group of 102 people (the pilgrims) from England arrived to the new world. They found a village called Plymouth. As the winter came along and diseases struck the village the...
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...Some typical foods to come in mind when thinking of thanksgiving is turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, potatoes and pumpkin pies. At the time, the Indians, and settlers ate deer, berries, and corn. The Indians would celebrate a successful harvest. Corn was a very important factor to the “first thanksgiving”. Corn was used in many ways during this time of harvest. During the “first thanksgiving” the Indians turned the corn into porridge. Fruits that were native to the land were gathered and eaten. Americans have taken the foods stated in the history of thanksgiving and transformed them into the traditional holiday meal. When Thanksgiving rolls around in the American tradition it marks the time for the holiday season. Thanksgiving begins the holiday...
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...Thanksgiving: A Day of Mourning By Roy Cook Children are taught now days that Thanksgiving was all about the pilgrims and how they helped native Indians and there was a big feast and they were invited. The information is however inaccurate and dangerous for the children because instead of calling it thanksgiving it should be a "Day in Mourning” for the Indians. The original name for "Thanksgiving” was called “Nikkomasachmiawene” in the American Indian language that taught the true meaning of the holiday. This happened in 1621 that actually formed the feast that was done originals with the Europeans to help the pilgrims. The feast was done with games and tradional food with lots of stories. The Massasoit came with over 90 men with plenty of deer, fish. The tribe near Plymouth had been wiped out for the land which they resided. Then, the pilgrims arrive five years later. The Native Americans did business with the English people in 1614. One of the men was Captain Thomas Hunt and he liked to do trading. Thomas also sold some people off as slaves in Spain. Lots of American Indians were tricked into jobs but ended up becoming slaves. Being around the English people and not having shots caused the Indians to become ill with diseases like smallpox, measles and so on.72,000 - 90,000 Indians were in this area and after being in slaved with the English people 80 % were lost over 100 year period. A lot of the Indian...
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...Although Christmas and Thanksgiving are both holidays, they both have many similarities and differences. Around Thanksgiving and Christmas, most families remain so busy that their memories of these two holidays tend to blend together. These two holidays are so similar, but yet so different at the same time, both Thanksgiving and Christmas are time of giving thanks, merriments, gift exchange and family reunion but the clear differences are there purposes are not the same. It is a time where family comes together that haven’t been around the whole year. Christmas differs from Thanksgiving in food, decorations, and family tradition. During Christmas, there is a lot of running around to do. Usually, weeks before Christmas, families get together and go out and buy Christmas gifts. They also go out and buy Christmas trees, decorations, wrapping paper, and food that is going to be cooked the night before Christmas. Days before Christmas, the families gets the gift and wrap them to put under the Christmas tree. When decorating the Christmas tree you usually put your lights on which are usually red and green. You also put ornaments which could be Christmas balls or hand crafted ornaments. At the end of decorating the tree, the traditional topping for the tree is an angel or a star. The night before Christmas families gather together to make milk and cookies for Santa. The food that is usually prepared for Christmas is ham, macaroni, collard greens...
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...Exam for Thursday Thanksgiving Day, which is always the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, is a week from today (today is Nov. 15, 2012; Thanksgiving Day is Nov. 22 this year). The day after Thanksgiving Day is called “Black Friday” in the business world. “Black Friday” is the unofficial beginning of the Christmas and Hanukkah shopping season. The word “black” in “Black Friday” is an accounting term meaning “profit.” Businesses that have been operating “in the red” prior to Thanksgiving Day will hopefully be “in the black” as a result of all the shopping and buying that people do during the holiday (Christmas and Hanukkah) season. Until about ten years ago, stores would open on Black Friday at their usual time (9:00 am or whenever). There would be a long line of people waiting to get in, as most people have the day off on Black Friday and want to begin their Christmas shopping or Hanukkah shopping that day or soon thereafter. Beginning about ten years ago, retail stores began to open earlier and earlier on Black Friday in order to gain an advantage over competitors who opened at 9:00 am. Stores began opening at 6:00 am on Black Friday, then, a few years later, would open at 4:00 am on Black Friday. Some began opening at midnight (12:01 am) on Black Friday. The retail chain Target Stores announced that this year (2012) their stores will open at 9:00 pm on Thanksgiving Day (Thurs., Nov 22). Their stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Day until9:00 pm, then will...
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...Thanksgiving Introduction Thanksgiving is a traditional annual celebration and it is celebrated on the United States and Canada. In the United States is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and in Canada is celebrated on the second Monday of October. Generally during this holiday people gather around a table with family and friends to celebrate this day. Thanksgiving has a different meaning for some people, but for most of them is synonymous of huge meals, parades, football match and spending quality time with the beloved ones. This holiday is not only about cooking delicious dishes and spending time with family but also is a reminder of being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. More than half of American families celebrate thanksgiving. History The Thanksgiving Day had its origins in a mixture of European and aboriginal traditions. Both cultures had their own different way of celebrating the harvest day, but when the Europeans came to America for the first time; they brought their own tradition better known as the harvest festival which celebrates the end of their journey as well as the good harvest of the year. Despite the origins of Thanksgiving Day, this holiday is similar in Canada and the United States but everyone celebrates it in their own way. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621; where a group of 102 people (the pilgrims) from England arrived to the new world. They found a village called Plymouth. As the winter came along and diseases...
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...originally inhabit the province. It is the only ethnic festival in the Philippines. Kaamulan comes from the Binukid word “amul” meaning to gather.[4] Kaamulan is gathering for a purpose—a datuship ritual, a wedding ceremony, a thanksgiving festival during harvest time, a peace pact, or all of these together. Kaamulan started as a festival on May 15, 1974, during the fiesta celebration of the then municipality of Malaybalay. A town official thought of inviting some indigenous people to town and made them perform a few dance steps at Plaza Rizal to enliven the fiesta celebration.[6] The celebration however proved very popular and together with national coverage the Kaamulan festival has become the regional festival of Northern Mindanao, as declared by the Regional Development Council of Region 10 on September 16,1977. Kaamulan was formerly held in the first week of September but in 1996, it was transferred to the present date to synchronize it with the foundation celebration of the province until in 2014 it was moved to the month of August in light of the 100th Founding Anniversary of Bukidnon.[8] The Kadayawan Festival is an annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. Its name derives from the friendly greeting "Madayaw", from the Dabawenyo word "dayaw", meaning good, valuable, superior or beautiful. The festival is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and serenity of living....
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...A West and East Coast Interpretation of Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner The first cartoon of the Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner was created by Thomas Nast in 1869. His cartoon shows a positive attitude towards and exemplifies a more unified American identity. His cartoon however, was lampooned eight years later in 1877 by G.F Keller, whom clearly did not have the same vision on immigration as Nast did. Through the stereotypes, variety of people, quotes, and symbolism shown in both cartoons, the illustrators reveal “a direct contrast on two different interpretations coming from the American East and the West coast on the issue of immigration.” In Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner 1869, Thomas Nast shows ethnic diversity and proposes a vision of what could be a future possibility on political equality in the United States of America. The people seated at the dinner table come from all over the world, they are: Native American, German, French, Arab, British, African, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Irish. In this image Nast subtly includes a portrait of the “Castle Garden.” The Castle Garden was a place where most immigrants were processed, this was similar to a home for the immigrant. Another strong tie to this image is the Fifteenth Amendment which is, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by ant state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” During this time period Mexicans were being...
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...more evident, certain cultures still cling to old practices and attitudes. Although the portrayal of Chinese families in “My Grandmother’s Dumplings” is fairly accurate, Amy Ma fails to address how western and technology-centric views have altered people’s outlook on things like family gatherings, roles of family members, and attitude towards family members. Today, family gatherings no longer have meaning. In the story, Ma writes about the Spring Festival, which is, “The most important celebration of the year: It is a time to be with family, to visit friends and start life anew.” Ma describes her family traditions and how there’s a cultural meaning to the holidays. As an example of one of these rigid traditions, Ma states in her story that, “It was considered bad luck to do any work.” In contrast, many people today work on holidays such as Thanksgiving as others spend their holidays waiting in line on Black Friday rather than spending time with their family. The thirst for great deals has overshadowed the main idea of family bonding. This year, many people skipped Thanksgiving dinner and spending time with their families to camp out at stores to get shopping deals on Black Friday. Starting in the twentieth century, women have started to take a more active role outside of the household. Ma talks about the old traditional ways of life and how women dedicated their lives to catering to the family. “Plates were cleared and washed, and the women were clustered in the kitchen...
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...Super Bowl, The Great American Holiday Super Bowl Sunday, anyone who considers themselves an american knows the meaning of those three word. It doesn’t matter who you are, doesn’t matter who’s team you’re on or even who wins or loses the game, everyone will stay glued to their television sets as they celebrate this cultural phenomena. No other holiday has more advertisements created for the sole purpose of being shown during the game than on Super Bowl. Its the only day other than thanksgiving, when food is served like a feast and not in small portions; and its OK to have potato chips and dipping sauces for dinner. Every year on this day, for three hours, you will find anyone who has a pulse sitting in front of their television set, with their family and friends; rooting for a team that may or may not even be their favorite. Its the only day of the year, just like a holiday; where a signficant portion of the country follows the same routine as everyone else, where families and friends put aside their differences and celebrate together. Even americans that aren’t necessarily fans of the sport join in to celebrate the victory of a team that they may have never heard of before. Speaking of large audience, Super Bowl is the only television event when everyone watches the whole thing in its entirety, even the advertisements. Most companies spend a majority of their advertising budget on showing their commercials during Super Bowl because they know that it’s the only event which...
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...Holidays and Celebrations The book “All Around the Year” by Jack Santino is about the holidays and celebrations in America and how different decorations have different meanings. It follows the change of the seasons and the holidays that fall during those times. The books starts off by telling the reader that everyone views holidays differently and that everyone has their own celebrations besides the main ones like Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have anniversaries and birthdays, ethic holidays and occupational celebrations. Depending on how you were raised and what religion you are decides some holidays you choose to celebrate or ignore and how you would decorate for the time of year. Chapter two is about holiday symbols and meaning. It talks about the kitchen being the center of the house, it is always decorated to go along with the seasons and the food that is created and baked to feed the family throughout the year. There are colors that represent different times of the year and you will always find the warm colors of changing seasons in the kitchen because the woman is customarily in charge of it. It talks about when they start decorating for different holidays and how long it will be before they come down. Neighbors compete against each other to have the most elaborate or most creative decorations for the holidays. It is a never ending battle to have the best of everything. Chapter three is about the winter and spring months. Winter has the shortest days and coldest...
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...Impacts of Fear Fear. The unpleasant emotion which intakes your body, triggering the idea that something you are scared of will occur. In some cases being in the state of fear can impact your decisions in a negative way. The Martian Chronicles is a classic novel written by Ray Bradbury. In these nonfiction sources, Need vs. Greed by Jeffrey Sachs as well as Thanksgiving – America's National Feast of Falsehoods, Defamation and Distress by Andy Porras along with the book both go together as fear is seen generating either positive or negative outcomes. It shows that fear embodies us to take actions which could either make things for the better or for the worse depending on the situation someone is in and put through. Fear can make people act...
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...In celebrating their culture, the Zuni tribe is neglected and stereotyped by many people. These Pueblo people are constantly put in a box or normally people do not care for them. American novelist Dorris states, “People of proclaimed good will have the oddest ways of honoring American Indians.” Dorris explains how people honor American Indians by making fun of them. Many people that try to celebrate or honor Native Americans end up doing it once or twice, but never again. These people from the Zuni tribe, which are Pueblo people, are usually unacknowledged by many people. However, many of the Pueblo people get their acknowledgement because of their jewelry. In the article named “Zuni Jewelry Celebration”the author claims that, “I just returned...
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