My Thanksgivings Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. That’s the holiday when the whole family gets together. My Thanksgiving consist of family, friends, food, and fun. For Thanksgiving dinner we always eat turkey, ham, chicken, greens, rolls, stuffing, potato salad, yams, and sweet potato pie. We have a big feast. Most of the time for Thanksgiving we all go to my grandma’s house and eat their. During Thanksgiving dinner we say what were grateful and thankful for. Sometimes we even go see parades…
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My Thanksgiving My Thanksgiving is all about family and friends. We always have fun. What do you do for your thanksgiving. I will tell you what I do for my thanksgiving. First we prepare the turkey and ham. Then we go to my Uncle’s house and serve it. First I will snag a slice of ham and turkey plus mash potatoes. Then I will grab my favorite dish pumpkin pie. I usually get 2 slices with whip cream on top. Then I watch football games. Afterwards I let my stomach rest. After I feel glamorous…
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The way my family and I celebrate Thanksgiving is some what different from others. One thing I do that's different is the food. My family has the normal,like turkey, mashed potatoes, a lot of desserts, and etcetera. One classmate I interviewed on how she celebrated Thanksgiving said, her family didn’t have all the normal food like my family had. Her family had hispanic type of meal. Her family only had like turkey, ham and the rest was hispanic like tamales and flan which is a hispanic dessert and…
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holiday and festivities of Thanksgiving quickly approach, it is good not only to start preparing the abundance of delicious food, but also to look upon all of the blessings God has given us and express our gratefulness. (2) Things like Thanksgiving, where people generally reflect on the good things in their lives, help to bring into perspective the things that people might unknowingly take for granted in everyday life. (3) In the United States, the origin of the first Thanksgiving is traced back to 1621…
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November was an exciting month. It was filled with spending time with family and friends and helping other. In November, I raked leaves for my friends neighbor, had my family over to my house for Thanksgiving, and I went Black Friday shopping. November was an exciting month. In the beginning of the month, Charlize Miller, Valerie Hudson, Madeleine King, and I Raked leaves as a service project for 8 Blue CARES. The house behind Charlize’s used to be a farm with a bunch of land but they sold their…
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Thanksgiving has always been one of my family's favorite holidays. We love the football, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, the company of friends and family, the meaning behind the holiday and of course the food. Every year on the last Thursday of November, I wake up to the sound of pots and pans and the smell of chopped onions and crisp spices making the air thick. My family’s Thanksgiving meals have remained the same every year. We have mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, my mom's…
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Speeches at Thanksgiving need to be abridged so dinner can start. All of the Thanksgiving feast appeased my hunger. The turkey we had bought was a carrion, so we were unable to eat it. There was a conspiracy that my uncles were going to make the turkey explode. The pilgrims wanted enfranchise so they sailed away. I had an enterprise to start off saying what I was thankful for. There was a short interim between when the pumpkin pie was brought out, and when it was all gone. The legacy of the…
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the month of November, it reminds everyone to be thankful for what we have. The holiday Thanksgiving occurs in November. The theme of Thanksgiving is all about being thankful for what God has given us. Although I am thankful for many things, the three most important things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving are football, family, and school. Football is an important sport to me as well as my entire family. My father and brothers all have played college football. I aspire to play college football…
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Thanksgiving means to me having comical and great times with family. In Iowa we always had family gatherings at my grandma’s house on Sunday’s. We always fought when we were playing something. Thanksgiving means not expelling, or accusing anyone. The Thanksgiving times are very essential because we should get to know our family better. We should be happy that we get to have great times with each other, and we should cherish the times that we have. Thanksgiving means remembering all the things that…
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Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States and oddly in Canada. It came about when the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth rock and Squanto and other Natives taught them how to hunt and harvest food to survive. When people think of Thanksgiving they think of the Macy’s Parade, turkey, family, food, football, and tradition. Well, that is exactly why my family celebrates Thanksgiving on the fourth Wednesday before instead of the traditional fourth Thursday of November. We celebrate on the Wednesday…
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