The Santa Controversy.
“A wiffin’, sniffin’ gift, especially for you! It’s from Secret santa, bet you can't guess who!... It’s a woman!” Can you imagine a woman saying this? This holiday season at Macy’s Department store in New York City they hired 5 women to play the role of santa. The reason why the women were hired was because there were not enough men to play the role of Santa . Adults got VERY mad when they found out that Santa was being played by a woman. They said that they would never shop there again. i believe that Santa should not be played by a woman. imagine this, you're a little 6 year old girl or boy. You're waiting to see santa. You’ve been waiting for a hour and then you finally walk up to “santa”. your eyes are sparkling like
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If santa was played as a woman it would be “breaking” tradition. It has always been santa (a man) coming down your chimney. He has always eaten the milk and cookies that you left out for him the night before. Clement Clark moore, whose Christmas poem “an account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” also known as ‘Twas the night before Christmas. If santa was played as a woman it would like a man wearing a dress During world war II, there was a brief controversy about woman playing the role when a large share of the nation’s men were at war. So Women were hired to play the role of santa. Parents were getting very upset. I believe that they were getting upset because they didn't want kid to stop believing. That would ruin their holiday. that is my last reason why I think that santa can’t be played by a woman.
I believe santa can’t be played by a woman. As you can see Santa shouldn't be play by a woman because some kids find out that she isn't the really Santa. Santa has been play by a male for HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of years. Lot of parents also get very upset. That is why i believe that Santa can't be played by a woman. that would a ho ho ho holiday
Dr. Seuss's original fable is a simple story told with a great moral that criticizes the commercialization of Christmas. The original story features an “Ebenezer Scrooge” type creature that lives up the mountains outside "Whoville." The Grinch indulges himself in the annual ritual of spoiling everyone's festivities with a series of nasty pranks. This particular year however he plans to sabotage the holiday season by dressing as Santa Claus, clim...
Jay Mocks article “Is Santa Clause a Conspiracy?” first appeared on The River Journal website on December 11th, 2009. Mock, an online blogger who has the mindset that there are conspiracies behind many things that go on in the world, seeks to encourage readers to discover whether there is a conspiracy behind Santa Claus. If so, whether or not it is maintained by the lies of parents, and whether or not their intentions are good because they support good, and even so would that still qualify as a bad thing? “We sometimes knowingly lie or overlook a lie if the reason is to support ‘good’” (Mock p4). The legend of Santa Claus can be the lure to which mankind falls into a ploy of conspiracy that may fortify a manipulative mindset and devious conduct in people. This article is a good example of how conspiracy theorist can appeal to readers through persuasion by the use of three kinds of proofs, reasoning (logos), credibility (ethos), and emotion (pathos). Although this article is a great attention grabber, it lacks the ability to impose the authors’ thoughts and feelings upon its readers.
Is Santa truly a secular figure or is he a religious one? This has been a long-standing argument. However, instead of viewing Saint Nick as either secular or religious, it would be more beneficial to examine him as a figure consisting of both religious and secular elements. It is true that the contemporary Santa Claus may be more associated with secular concepts, such as consumerism, but it is also crucial to emphasize the origins of the jolly old man. He is the product of Western Christianization. It is thought that he was created from a combination of the historical figure of Saint Nicholas, a Christian saint, who was known for giving gifts, and the fictional character of Father Christmas from British folklore (CITE). Santa Claus can be viewed
“He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake!” (Coots and Gillespie). The man is all knowing, benevolent, loving, generous, and kind. He can see people’s every action, and keeps a list of the good and bad that they have done. He rewards if they have done good, and punishes if they have done bad. He lives far away in a mystical, magical, un-chartable place. His name is Santa Claus. Or, is it God? There are undeniable parallels between the two. They are magical, mystical, and beyond the natural world. Santa Claus is very God-like. In fact, children take an approach to Santa that is similar to one they would God.
My last and final reason why I think Santa shouldn’t be a woman is because kids could get scared. If kids get scared then Erica Gopel said that she talks in her regular voice.” But kids go up to her and they say I know you're not the real Santa but I know that you work for him”. If I were a kid and I heard Santa talking as a woman I would scream my butt off. I also think that if kids saw Santa as a woman they wouldn't want to go back to tell Santa what they want for
...ch out only for themselves, we lose sight of what Christmas is truly about. Forgetting the being of Santa Claus only makes us slight the kindness on which this holiday is based. Not believe in Santa! You may as well not believe in the very gifts laid under the tree on Christmas morn. Without your faith, Santa Claus would be nonexistent. There would be no yearning in your soul to give of yourself to others, no example to follow. Thank God, Santa Claus exists and exists forever, lightening the heavy heart as the sight of the snow blankets the soul and defines the heart of childhood.
Christmas, a time of the year to cherish with loved ones where one will search for perfect gifts and hope to receive the same amount of thought back. Some may ask for more extravagant items such as a yacht, decorations from Tiffany’s, and a ring. The catchy tune, “Santa Baby” originally sung by Eartha Kitt requests for these and more in a short, light hearted tune. Other singers such as Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande created covers of the song and, while generally sing the same tune change the tempo and some lyrics to fit their style. In my opinion Taylor Swift blew Kitt and Grande out of the water with her rendition. The usage of honky-tonk style, change of a few words, and tone of her voice surpass the original and other cover. Each version represented itself differently, all while maintaining the same message however, I feel Swift’s performance stood out the best.
Men or women who’s side would you take? Macy's store in NYC and Wellington department store in Kalamazoo Michigan hired women and men to play the role of Santa Claus last year.They needed employees for Santa. Macy's decided to hire women because men were not available.5 women were hired by Macy’s. Macy's decided to hire women because men were not available.There are some Similarities and differences between men and women Santa Claus.
Women's parts were played by boy actors in Shakespeare's day, so the audience would have found special sophistication in Viola's part: a boy dressing up as a woman who, in the play disguises herself as a man.
Is it a good idea to tell kids about Santa? Some people believe that telling their children about Santa Claus is a good thing but others disagree. Some people worry about telling their kids Santa is real because they are afraid that they will feel betrayed. Kids that believe in Santa has said to help with their creative development. Parents should allow their children to believe in Santa Claus.
In Shakespeare's plays Twelfth Night and As You Like It both of the lead female characters dress as men. Both plays are comedies and the change in gender is used as a joke, but I think it goes much deeper. A woman can become a man, but only if it is not permanent. The affect of the change cannot be too great because she must change back to female once everything is settled. They are strong female characters, but must become men to protect themselves and ultimately solve the problem of the play. In the book Desire and Anxiety: The Circulation of Sexuality in Shakespearian Drama Valerie Traub calls the characters, "the crossed-dressed heroine who elicits and enjoys multiple erotic investments" (Traub 17). They can only acts this way when they are dressed as men. They return to their passive and nonsexual ways when they change back to women's clothing. In both plays the women are not in their own lands, Viola being shipwrecked on a strange land and Rosalind being banished from the court and wandering in the forest. Both women disguise themselves as men for protection. On the way to the forest Celia says to Rosalind, “Now go we in content/ To liberty and not to banishment” (1.3.137-138). Liberty in this line is the freedom they get overcoming the restrictions of a female role (Erikson 22). Dressing as a man is the way the women protect themselves, but as the plays progress the roles they play as men begin to influencing their actions and attitudes.
I sat up wanting to check again. I left the comfort of my warm, soft bed and headed down stairs toward the Christmas Tree. Although I was inside I could still feel the cold of December nipping at my nose. The tree was the very definition of pulchritude; of course nothing was under the deceiving tree. What was I expecting?
Emma, Marissa and I are in charge of the making the lefse. This has been our job ever since we were little girls, becoming experts through all our years of experience. My grandma makes the most amazing food and always has enough to feed us for a week. After we stuff ourselves full of delicious, lasagna, salads, and hot dishes all made with love and while the adults lean back comfortably in their chairs, us kids go put on our pajamas and troop downstairs to open our gifts. The most memorable gift would be the ring my grandma gave me that used to be my great-grandmothers who died a couple days after my grandma turned fifteen. My great-grandma loved to travel and had a great passion for fashion, so this circle of metal with a little diamond in the middle and a floral pattern surrounding it, had been bought in California and has been in the family since. “Bang, bang, bang!” A huge pounding comes from the front door. Dogs bark, adults grin, and we race to open the creaky door. Santa Claus, eyes twinkling, dressed in red with coal-black boots, and swinging a sack over his right shoulder, steps inside. He plops down heavily; ringing merry bells and passes them off to David, my brother, telling him seriously to keep ringing them so Rudolf won’t fly away without him. With wide eyes, little David shakes the bells with such rigor that if Rudolf was in the North Pole he would be able to hear them. We each take a turn perching on his knee, hesitant at first but then opening up and telling him our age and that, “yes we have been really, really, really good this year.” As Santa’s beard tickles our chin as we lean in close for a picture and his big belly shakes as he laughs at the same time as you start to giggle. Then he opens his sack and pulls out gifts wrapped in colorful paper for each of us. With a few cookies for the road, crumbs in his beard and a
For some odd reason people in the early 1600’s thought it was hilarious for a women to dress up and pretend to be a man, and they thought it was even funnier for a male actor to play a woman pretending to be a man. Now her character was not as much as a jokester than some of the other characters like Sir Toby and Feste, the clown, but the thought of her character just made it funny to the people of Shakespearean Time.
Christmas is a period of time, including 25 December, when Christians remember the birth of Jesus Christ. I think Christmas is also a season of presents, joy and family getting together.