The Novelty of Sending Homemade Greeting Cards Creating beautiful homemade cards is such a rewarding way of spending time with family and friends. The joy of gathering card making ideas, embellishments, images, fonts, and paper stock to make the cards and the contentment that homemade greeting cards give to the recipients are feelings that cannot be purchased. Being the recipient of a homemade card instills a feeling of love and consideration. History of Greeting Cards Greeting cards started out as simple slips of papyrus, which were exchanged by both the Egyptians and Chinese as messages of goodwill. The Chinese sent these greeting cards because of their beliefs that sending such a card would ward off the Nien, an ancient beast that attacked villagers during the end of each year (http://ezinearticles.com/?The-History-of-Greeting-Cards---An-Overview&id=271744). In the 1400’s, the Europeans picked up the tradition and began sending homemade greeting cards on holidays. The cost for supplies and printing were expensive, so this tradition was most popular amongst the wealthy. During this same time period, Germans began printing New Year’s greetings from woodcut. New Year’s cards did not become popular until the 1700’s; although the earliest New Year’s cards can be dated back to the 1400’s when the Chinese started the tradition. The most popular cards of the 15th century were Christmas and Valentines cards. Easter, Thanksgiving, and Halloween cards gained popularity in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s (http://www.netogram.com/history.htm). In 1840, the world’s first postage stamp was created, which in turn commercialized the greeting card. In 1843, Sir Henry Cole invented the first commercial greeting card for Christmas in... ... middle of paper ... ...ngs of love, wellbeing, and consideration in its recipient. References Berger, A. (2008). Seeing is believing: An introduction to visual communication. Boston: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Colloff-Bennet, T. (2009, December 19). The history of greeting cards unfurled. Retrieved July7, 2010, from http://quillcards.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/19/the-history-of-greeting-cards-unfurled/ Ezine. (2006, August 17). The history of greeting cards: An overview. Retrieved on July 5, 2010, from http://ezinearticles.com/?The-History-of-Greeting-Cards---An-Overview&id=271744 Netogram. (2001). History of the greeting card. Retrieved July 6, 2010, from http://www.netogram. com/history.htm Weyhrich, S. (1992, September 21). Apple II history. Retrieved July 7, 2010, from http://apple2history. org/history/appy/aha84.html#1984
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Christmas was originally supposed to be a celebration of the birthday of Jesus Christ. Modern historians suggest that Christ was actually born sometime in April, but that is hardly the point; the point is that a day on which to celebrate his birth and life was needed, and so one was chosen. During the season surrounding this holiday -- especially since it coincided with that of other, similar holidays -- it was thought right to honor Jesus by acting as he did, i.e., in a kind, generous, and forgiving manner. Out of this sprung the custom of giving gifts to loved ones on this holiday.
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The art of writing letters has existed as long as human existence. People may not have always written on paper with pens to each other but maybe on stones with carvings. As long as people have lived, communication has occurred. It has evolved over the years to emails and then texting. The significance of writing a personal letter will never top sending a quick text however. Writing a letter holds more significance and personal gratitude then a text message ever will. Writing styles vary more and people can gather more of a sense what person feels when they write to another person rather than reading something in the same text on a screen. Over the years technology has become simpler and people have gotten lazier which makes it more convenient for people to send a text rather than people taking the time to sit down and write a heartfelt letter. In the book Pride and Prejudice letter writing takes place all throughout the book. The characters all show different styles and
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Momma liked the Teddy Bear card that you sent; she likes all of your cards.
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The first name of this gift giver was Saint Nick, or Nicholas. Nicholas was born in turkey and he was one of the higher bishops. When Nicholas died a group of sailors who adored Nicholas to his bones to a sanctuary in Italy. His bones supplemented a female boon-giving deity, known as The Grandmother, who used to fill children's stockings with gifts. The Grandmother was ousted and there the Nicholas cult began. His followers began to give gifts to each other on the date of Nicholas' death, December 6. The cult spread north and was adopted by German and Celtic pagans. These groups worshipped the god Woden. Woden had a long white beard and rode a horse through the night skies in the autumn. When Nicholas merged with Woden her got rid of is Mediterranean clothing, rescheduled his flight for December and wore heavy winter clothing. The Roman Catholic adopted the cult and taught that we should give out gifts during December. So now you know the origins of one the most famous Christian holidays on the earth. But according to what we just read, the roots of these traditions aren't very Christian, but instead and pagan. The church leaders of old saw these customs and twisted them so they'd be Christian but still be the same custom. If someone ever says that Christmas is a very Christian religion you can tell them
As a beginning of music distribution and sharing between people, one could take an invention of a printing press in around 1450. The device was able of printing ink onto a print medium, which in Europe is credited to the printer and goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg. This invention could be taken as a starting point notes reproduction in paper form. However only in around 1800s the print media, including the sheet music was getting produced for wider audience.
In the United States, a picture or blank card stock that held a message and sent through the mail at letter rate first began when a card postmarked in December 1848 contained pr...