Essays About Thanksgiving

The Truth of Thanksgiving

While children are growing up in America, they are told several tales of America's establishment and history. However, these stories are generally not told as they actually happened. An instance of this is the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is explained as this elaborate ceremony where the Pilgrims and Indians gathered in harmony at this large harvest in celebration of their coming together. According to the primary document of William Bradford's journal, Thanksgiving didn't pan out quite as it is explained to Americans today. In the film,The Addams Family Values, the Addams children take part in a traditional, yet misconceived celebration of the first Thanksgiving. This...show more content...

The performance chosen was a reenactment of the first Thanksgiving. The "cool kids" were cast as the Pilgrims, while Wednesday and her friends were cast as the Native Americans. Wednesday is actually cast in the lead role of Pocahontas. In the beginning of the dinner performance, the Pilgrims give a speech regarding the Native Americans as savages and explain how they should become Pilgrims. In the end, the Native Americans do not enjoy a pleasant meal with the Pilgrims. Instead, they revolt, burning down the Pilgrims homes and torturing their families.

Many aspects of this film are worthy of analysis. The dual depiction of the Addams family is worthy of noting. The Addams family is portrayed as savages. They are shown as living very differently from the typical American family. They reside in a Gothic like castle, bury their pets alive, eat squirrel, etc. Interestingly, the family is actually from Europe, specifically France. The Addams family takes on a dual role of Native Americans (their savage description) and Europeans (their European background). When they send Wednesday and Pugsley to Camp Chippewa, it is actually considered to be the camp for "American's privileged children" (Addams' Family Values). This is a Native American based camp, yet the early Native Americans were not in anyway considered privileged by the Europeans due to their primitive way of living. When all the children take part in the typical "Indian" activities, the

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Happy Thanksgiving Essay

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Thanksgiving is a time for many things: food, family, and, with Black Friday sales starting earlier each year, shopping. It's also a time for giving thanks, something most people forget about despite the presence of the word "thanks" in the name of the holiday. People have a tendency to forget about this part, though, because it's easy to take the people and animals we love for granted. Sometimes, it's hard to appreciate them at all, especially when you have a cat whose been labeled the "bad cat" like my family's cat, Shadow.

Shadow got his name because he follows everyone like, you guessed it, a shadow. He's the opposite of the stereotypical, aloof cat. He doesn't like to be alone and he tends to get in trouble when he's left to his own devices....show more content...

Some of his classic antics include falling into the washing machine (luckily, it was empty), being rushed to the kitty ER for things like eating grapes and sticking his feet into doors, and breaking countless household knick–knacks. My family has had about dozen cats throughout our lives and none of them have been as mischievous as Shadow. However, no one can stay mad at him when he snuggles onto your lap and starts purring.

As a family, we've often theorized about the origins of Shadow's troublemaker behavior. While it's possible that it's just his personality, we think it's just as likely caused by the way he came into our lives. Shadow joined our family a little over a year ago when he was literally thrown out of a car into our lives.

Though the little, flea–covered kitten received some cuts and bruises, mostly to his face and head, the veterinary said that he didn't receive any serious injuries. His cuts and bruises have since healed; however, we still wonder if he doesn't suffer any lasting effects from his head injuries. Maybe, he does and maybe, he doesn't. Either way, that's the story I'm sticking it to explain his mischievous and quirky behavior, behavior was on full display during his first Thanksgiving with

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An Essay About Thanksgiving

What is the best holiday celebration event of the year? I believe the best is Thanksgiving. I have many reasons for this. The only bad part about Thanksgiving is the nice clothes. I have found a way to get out of wearing nice clothes for a most of the time. I think this can be awesome because I absolutely hate nice clothes on holidays. What I have done was I talked to my parents and we made an agreement that I would only have to wear nice clothes for the picture, but I have to bring other clothes to change into. This is a big deal in my family because we get really messy. One of the best parts about Thanksgiving is thefood. I think we can both agree with this. My grandmas make the best food. They make noodles, turkey, and mashed potatoes;

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What Is Thanksgiving Essay

Thanksgiving is my favorite time of the year. My mom Aunt and grandma rotate through the years. My aunt Heather and her family aren't usually able to come for thanksgiving sense they live in Texas. We always eat around 12:30 then we lay down and take naps or watch football. There is always an abundant amount of food on the table before we eat most of it. I help my grandma every year make the deserts. We adorn the cookies with sprinkles frosting. After about an hour after watching football or sleeping we go play football. But no matter what we play football everyone plays. My aunt broke we toe one year because she was not smart enough to wear shoes, she was mad but I thought it was pretty comical. I like Thanksgiving because you get to

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Thanksgiving Essay examples

The truth behind the tradition is surprising. Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims seem to go together, but the truth is, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksgiving feast. However the Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621, after their first harvest, and it is this feast, which people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving". This feast was never repeated, though, so it can't be called the beginning of a tradition, nor was it termed by the colonists or "Pilgrims" a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting, and would have been held any time that they felt an extra day of thanks was called for. Nevertheless, the 1621 feast has become a model that we think of for our own...show more content...

The truth of the matter is, when the Pilgrims arrived, they found an abandoned Wampanoagvillage and moved right in. In 1618, a massive epidemic of an unknown disease left by English explorers swept across Wampanoag country and decimated many of the villages. This epidemic caused the death of ten to thirty percent of the total population and all but a few of the 2,000 people of the village of Patuxet. When the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, they landed at Patuxet with no idea of what had occurred. At this point, there were only about 2,000 members left in the Wampanoag tribe, down from 12,000 in 1600. Despite the incredible losses to his people, Wampanoag leader Massasoit and 90 of his men sat down for a harvest celebration offered by the white men. For three days the Wampanoag and Pilgrims feasted on deer, wild turkey, fish, beans, squash, corn and other foods native to North America. Although the celebration was good–natured, this event truly signifies the beginning of a drastic decline of native culture and Thanksgiving would be more fittingly observed as a day of mourning rather than a celebration. In the years that followed, skirmishes occurred and more Native Americans were killed. In 1637, English soldiers massacred 700 Pequot men, women and children as an example of the English way of war, yet we still celebrate Thanksgiving as a joyful event. So, as we sit down for our Thanksgiving dinner, Get more content

Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks to your life and everyone and everything in it. Thanksgiving is thought of in different ways and is celebrated in unlike ways. Families have divergent meals, places that they visit on Thanksgiving, and activities that they enjoy taking part in on Thanksgiving. Overall, no matter what traditions there are, what meals you have, or the activities enjoyed on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving is truly a wonderful holiday. There are many places that people may visit on Thanksgiving, and some may not even go to a relative's house! For Thanksgiving at my house, my family and I travel to my Great Aunt Brenda's house. My Aunt Brenda lives about two and a half hours away, I'm not exactly sure where...show more content...

Pumpkin pie, chocolate cream, whipped cream, and strawberry lemon pie are normally the pies that we enjoy after our Thanksgiving meal. I enjoy a piece of each pie, and so do my cousins, but the adults, normally stick to the chocolate cream pie. My absolute favorite part would be the stuffing, and you can't forget cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and cornbread! The cornbread is so good, and I could eat stuffing by the spoonful! Food has to be my favorite part of Thanksgiving, and seeing family! I have discovered that people don't share the same Thanksgiving traditions as me. Chicken, Duck, Turkey, and Turdunkin are all enjoyed as main course meals! Vegetables, mashed potatoes, rolls, cookies, ice cream, lemon pie, and blueberry pie bars are also enjoyed on Thanksgiving. Cookies, assorted pies, and blueberry pie bars are commonly enjoyed, and they actually sound pretty tasty! The favorite part of some people's Thanksgiving feast would be the pie and rolls. Meals aren't always eaten with family at the table. Some families sit on the couch, while they watch tv, or they eat at a fancy restaurant. Everyone has their own customs when it comes to the holidays. Every year for Thanksgiving, my dad, cousin, and 2 uncles go hunting. Hunting is a tradition that we enjoy on Thanksgiving, and we have repeated it for several years. Hunting is done before the meal, and after, and we normally shoot 2–3 deer

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I can't believe my first college semester is almost over. Key word is "almost" because the weeks following thanksgiving break will be critical for me. Even though it's almost over, I must finish strong. I wouldn't want all my hard work to go to waste. All the A's that I earned so far must remain A's for me in order for me to be happy with my academic performance. These next 3 weeks are going to be hectic, but also relaxing. Thanksgiving break is just around the corner and I can't wait to be with my family for the holiday. My family and cousins are all coming into town, so it should be a great Thanksgiving Day. There is nothing like being with your whole family cracking jokes at each other and eating delicious food. I enjoy cooking...show more content...

I have made a schedule on what days I would be writing my papers for my other 3 classes. I also broke down the chapters I will be studying on different days for my algebra class. I don't think it will be to hard because in high school I had to take 6 exams for all my classes. This year all I have to take is one physical in class exam. So this whole process will be different for me. To this day I still appreciate how prepared I came into college, in large parts thanks to my high school. If all goes well, I can finish my first semester with all A's. Although the semester went by fast, there were days were it went by really slow. I've learned a lot in my first semester. Some things didn't go as expected for me, but in the end it's a lesson leaned. Lastly, next semester I will be having a new roommate. One of my roommates is transferring so I am assuming that they would place another girl in our room. I'm anxious to see who it is and how everything turns out. Hopefully everything works out because have good roommates is essential for a good college experience, in my opinion. Anyways these next 2 weeks I will be reviewing all my notes and writing all my papers. I know what the reward is for me if I everything goes well. I must finish the semester

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Paragraph About Thanksgiving

Every Thanksgiving my family and I always gather around the dinner table at my mom's house, and enjoy an enormous Jamaican Fest with a mix of the traditional Thanksgiving meal. The day before Thanksgiving, my sisters come over and we clean the house. We usually start with the kitchen. We start by fixing the stainless steel refrigerator, and pearly white cabinets. We organize everything perfectly so when tomorrow comes we won't struggle to find the items we need for the big day. Once the refrigerator and cabinets were done we collect silverware specially used for Thanksgiving day and put it on the stainless steel dishwater to clean

This year Thanksgiving is on November 23,2017. Every year my family Thanksgiving is the best, to me at least. So we always have Thanksgiving at my Grandmas and Grandpas, but not this year we are having it at my house. Which I mean could be good and bad. Good is it is at my house so it's cool and bad, the house has to be completely spotless or my mom will freak out. Normally what we do every year is we get my family together and have dinner, mess around, and watch football. This year my dad's brother is coming with his three daughters and his wife and my grandpa and grandma. I really can't wait to see them all because I don't really see them that much as I would like to. When we have a family dinner like this we always have a lot of food for everyone. So back in the day they has social standings for people. So basically what social standings is, is like where you are ranked in the community. So the higher you were the better food you would get to eat. If you were sitting by baked beans you would be eating baked beans nothing else. To me that would be the worse thing in the world! Me and my partner got to together and talked and we both said at our thanksgiving meal we don't have social standing. Everyone gets whatever they want and however much they want. We also came to a conclusion that we have both a lot of people coming to eat at our...show more content... Which is a lot of people to feed. But normally not all 140 people will like the same food that's why they had a bunch of stuff right? No they did not back then they only had squash,berries and pumpkin, and ham. Which does seem pretty good but not all 140 people would probably like that. But now in days you go to a thanksgiving and there is so many choices it's not even funny. Ham,turkey,rolls,mashed potatoes,macaroni and cheese, and so many more. Thanksgiving dinners have changed so much by how much food there is and what types of food there

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