Thanksgiving and it’s Celebrating

The holiday that I have chosen to write is about a North American holiday named "Thanksgiving." Thanksgiving is one of America's most cherished holidays and traditions. Whenever I heard about Thanksgiving, I always remembered as a family gathering that includes food and enjoyment, and joy of happiness is share among each other. This particular holiday attractive me to write an essay about it because I like the concept of making time for friends and family to share love and kindness, and also I appreciate what we already have. Everybody benefits as its a holiday of love and sharing. It's a significant holiday particularly in Canada and USA where big markets and stores items and material are in sale offer for Thanksgiving. When I used to attend Sunday church classes, my pastor told me that "in 1621 the Plymouth colonist and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations." People who are from the different ethnic group and belongs to the religious group will benefit from the knowledge I have as they will get familiar with holiday and what it meant to people who live in Canada and united states.

To find a source that I need I went to search my topic on the different website on google, but as I saw it as an unprofessional and trustless, I went to icollege as I was instructed by professor and by my mentors from the help center. I went to icollege where I went to library resources where I found a link for GALILEO website where I can search on my topic and found out numerous of link related to my question. To determine whether my sources and cited is for college-level academic research I check them on my subject my knowledge about this holiday increase more than I have excepted. I learned more stuff and event particularly about this holiday that I haven't learned before for example; I was unknown about when was the official Thanksgiving holiday declaration was by Congress until I started researching about this holiday where get to learn about it.

Here is America where people from all around the world came with the hope of a better life. Same as it one of my close friend of mine Rima who recently migrated here in united states is unknown about the places and religious culture and its aspect what she belongs to Hindu religious and has grown up in South Asian country Nepal and its Nepalese culture. As she belongs to a different culture, I decided to let her know some of the big festivals here in the united states of America. I Choose Thanksgiving holiday to let her know everything about it as I told her that Thanksgiving is one of the most grandly celebrated festivals in the United States which is celebrated on fourth Thursday of November each year. According to Robert Tracy Mckenzie, he stated that "tiny band of just over one hundred plain English men and women, seeking a better life, cross the storm-tossed Atlantic in the tiny Mayflower and arrive at the coast of present-day Massachusetts in late 1920. They blind themselves to one another as a self-governing political community and then go ashore to build a home in and frightening new world. Having arrived on the eve of an unexpectedly cruel winter, they endure unimaginable hardships over the next few months, death claiming half of their number by spring. Through the mercy of God and the assistance of their new Indian neighbors, the remainder survives to reap a bountiful harvest in the fall of 1621, at which time they pause to celebrate the goodness of the god with a special feast that we remember as the first Thanksgiving." Based on the quote above thanksgiving were celebrated to appreciate the god for giving everything they want in their life

Following Friday they celebrate as a Black Friday where the most items in the stores are in the sale as the tag "black Friday sale." During the Black Friday sale, people line up in each store for many hours to buy what they wanted at a lower price as it is in any other days of the year. Some peoples purchase gifts for their families and friends during a pre-black Friday deal so that it can be given out as a memorable gift for everyone. The following Monday of the Thanksgiving known as a cyber Monday where many people buy goods from online. Most of the people prefer to buy clothes and other home goods from an online store since it has a good deal on so many basics goods that are the needs of everyday life. Thanksgiving commonly is celebrated by eating what party regards as traditional feast featuring a whole stuff turkey as the main dish prototypical utilization of the main meat dist. Eating turkey is of one the highlight about Thanksgiving, where most of the houses have turkey as a dinner on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is also remarkable for many poor, and homeless people as organization and community gather together, fundraise and help people in need to improve their basic life and help them with their foods.

Thanksgiving is all about the appreciation of what we already have, sharing love and respect and having a good time with each other. with the information that I provide my friend Rima should be familiar with the national holiday Thanksgiving. It should help her to have a better understanding of Thanksgiving, and it's celebrating in the USA.

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