Dearest members of Manchester United, Being a captain of this football team is a bit like being father of the groom at a wedding, seeing players come and leave. Certainly if we dined in the style we are dining tonight we would all be plump. It's hard to believe that another season has come to an end and the time has come again for our annual end of year speech. Whether it’s been a glorious success or a dreadful disaster. Each one of us has had our failures and sorrows meanwhile we also have our
For many people, Thanksgiving is a time for food, family and fellowship. For a not insignificant number of people, Thanksgiving is also time for another F word: football. Football, specifically NFL football, has become a staple of the annual holiday, something the NFL is keenly aware of. “NFL games are as much a part of Thanksgiving as turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie,” boasts a side bar on the NFL’s website under their Thanksgiving section. That tradition of professional football on
esteemed holidays is Thanksgiving, which was made a national holiday in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln (History.com Staff). It was made a holiday at the time in order to bring the nation together during a time of pain and suffering. In this day and age, it is meant for families to come together and give thanks for what they have over a large meal, which is surrounded by football games, family recipes, and shopping. Thanksgiving, a ritual Americans have done for generations is a classic example of American
When the great holiday of Thanksgiving comes to mind, most people think of becoming total gluttons and gorging themselves with a seemingly unending amount of food. Others might think of the time spent with family and friends. The whole basis of the holiday is family togetherness, fellowship, and thankfulness for blessings received during the previous year. Every family has their own unique way of spending time together with loved ones only seen during the holidays. In the Stock home, there
Thanksgiving is one of the most celebrated holidays in America because it’s a time to celebrate with family. This holiday is at number two following right behind the beloved Christmas. That's why it’s so hard to get a flight really close to the Thanksgiving cause so many families travel around this time. Therefore, there are many different ways families celebrate this special holiday. Many families have other friends and family members over while watching the football game with a nice turkey. That
"I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are utmost importance to me." Marcus Samuelsson made this known and admittedly, Thanksgiving is an amazing holiday. The turkey, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie are just a few key staples to a classic Thanksgiving meal. Thanksgiving is clearly the holiday to celebrate if food is the objective. Although Christmas dinner may fall below the famous turkey and potatoes, it a great
The United States has been a safe location for many people from different countries and time periods. Both "An American Story" and "Of Plymouth Plantation" share many differences and similarities. The two authors are completely different people, but their works are both non-fictional and true stories. "An American Story," written by Anthony Lewis, is an article that tells about the struggles of a Vietnamese family who has tried numerous times in the past to get into the U.S. At some point during
When you look at a basketball what do you see? Most would see an orange, sphere, shaped rubber ball. There are black lines and real leather. If you look closer, you would even see the size of the ball in which you are playing with. A basketball could be just a toy for many, or even represent a release for others, but for me, it means a lot more. A basketball represents my blood, sweat, tears, passion, sacrifice, and most of all, a sense of belonging, like a family. At this moment in my life, there
On Thanksgiving morning, two major things occur, the first would be putting the turkey in the oven, and the other is the arrival of the holiday paper chalked full of Black Friday advertisements. With all those all ads in mind, they are designed to draw the shopper to their store, enticing them with huge savings and on-time special pricing. For instance, one ad that catches the shoppers' attention is Walmart. How does Walmart do this? First, they break their Black Friday sales into several “Events”
For most, Thanksgiving is a holiday spent with family and delicious food, but for others, it is a day consisting of tremendous planning in hopes for a major haul of “discounted” items. In the United States, it is safe to say that Black Friday is one of the biggest shopping events each year. In recent years the public's participation in Black Friday has continued to decline, stated by the National Retail Federation. ”Thirty-five percent of consumers who plan to shop during Thanksgiving week say they
Assistant. Christine is my mother’s daughter which makes her my grandmother. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I saw friends and family, but I made it my mission to sit down and talk to my grandmother. Being a college student, I am only fortunate enough to see her over my breaks and I make sure I never miss out on an opportunity to visit her. During our talk, we discussed her hobbies as a child, her favorite thanksgiving memory, and a stressful moment within her life. She also gave me words of wisdom and
The people who celebrated Thanksgiving sometimes didn’t understand the whole point of the holiday, and that is giving. Usually my family and I have celebrated Thanksgiving as our own way, like we do every year. My parents would shop for the meal by themselves, and my family would do their own thing, like go up stairs after we eat for the rest of the holiday, and we never really have had a fun family Thanksgiving, like other families. Unlike the past Thanksgivings, I decided to contribute to help
When it comes to being thankful, there are many things that I think about. I’m thankful for friends, family, and even the animals. Everything nice in my life is worth being thankful for, but what I’m most grateful for is the chance to be vegan. I’m grateful that I can go to bed each day knowing that I didn’t cause the death of another living being. I’m also grateful for the change I’m able to make every single day. That being said, what I’m most ungrateful for is the meat and dairy industry. This
Thanksgiving is a universal time of thankfulness. A day in which we set our differences apart like the early pilgrims and Native Americans and give thanks. But what has happened to people being actually thankful at the dinner table. They perform a ritual on feasting on turkey and pumpkin pie and race to the local super stores looking for great deals on waffle irons. Marketers have turned the usually festive and humble holiday into greed and gluttony. But not all holiday spirit is lost. Over the last
Thanksgiving: Then and Now Thanksgiving is a holiday that began hundreds of years ago. It was a celebration of many different things. One of the most important reasons for the celebration was thankfulness that many of the Pilgrims survived the first year of their new lives in America. Today, however, Thanksgiving seems to have a very different meaning to people. Their main focus is not being thankful for the things they have, but wanting more. In September of the year 1620, a group of 102 eager individuals
The author of this essay, Michael Arlen, in his summary of the holidays, Ode to `Thanksgiving is nostalgic and bitter about the subject. Arlen’s purpose it to break down and criticize every aspect of Thansksgiving in a cloying, annoyed way. Arlen speaks of the “pointless” traditons that go along with Thanksgiving and the bland history of how the celebratory day was formed. The author does this by using strong rhetorical devices such as imagery, syntax, and tone. While reading this one may feel
bright light remains at the end of the dark tunnel. By presenting a personal anecdote and emotional events, Mr. Lemieux skillfully uses these techniques to create a convincing passage. Mr. Lemieux begins his story with a flashback to the last Thanksgiving Day in 2002, the day he learned to beg. He explains in detail how he felt that day, so that the reader feels sorry or pity for him. Although, he makes
everything that humanity touches. Thanksgiving, for example, is a very important tradition in America and is a highly cultural one, as it already
family eating pork on Thanksgiving Day instead of the traditional baked turkey, and on every other occasion because, that was the food his parents grew up with and prefer to cook. Likewise, during thanksgiving in my house I don’t cook the traditional meal that is a baked turkey and mashed potatoes, rather I cook food from my native country because that is what I know how to cook and enjoy
Research on ritual with respect to consumption and holidays has been a growing topic with the support of numerous studies in recent years. However, a clear definition of what ritual entail is of debate between scholars of the social sciences, particularly anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Creating a clear set of criteria to describe what behavior is considered to be of an aspect of ritual or not has been an impossible feat for researchers, instead many definitions have risen from disagreement