Essays on Holidays

Diwali: The Festival of Lights Diwali is only one of the many festivals celebrated in India. Diwali, or the Festival of Lights, is one of the most highly celebrated festivals in the world, both among Hindus and people of other faiths. Since it is synonymous with folklore, the festival has long...

Tracy Kidder Meets Paul Farmer in Haiti Tracy Kidder is seated with Jon Carroll, an American Forces captain, at an army post in Mirebalais, Haiti, 14 days before Christmas in 1994. Carroll is told that he has visitors, one American friend, and four Haitians, as they are sitting. The American identifies...

Parables and Allusions in Charles Dickens' Hard Times Charles Dickens’ Hard Times can be known as a moral fable. This definition may seem as one-sided, however it contains a considerable share of truth. Dickens sometimes likes to lecture his readers, like he did in his Christmas Books and in many different...

Traditions are practices or values that are handed on in a culture because of their symbolic meaning. Throughout the world, diverse cultures adopt and follow a number of rituals that have important significance for them. Specifically, many rituals have been followed for thousands of years without sacrificing their significance. The...

The Gregorian calendar, which has twelve months, is the most commonly known scheme in most parts of the world. A new year starts on January 1st, according to this calendar, and new year festivities take place on this date. There are other new year festivities celebrated by other cultures and...

Christmas is the each year festival that commemorates the birth of Jesus observed on twenty fifth December as the cultural and religious celebration among billions of character around the globe. The fiesta evolved over two thousand years ago into the international secular and religious celebration integrating several pagan and pre-Christian...