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New Years´ Day is celebrated at the end of the year to celebrate the coming of the New Year. Common traditions include attending parties, eating food, firework displays and making resolutions. The earliest recorded festivities in honor of New Years. In the United States, the most iconic New Years' tradition is the dropping of the giant ball in New York City. This is a great ending to the end of all the festivities of the season.
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Symbols: grapes, fireworks, a giant ball in new york, champagne, wine, food, family, new years kiss, and the color of gold.
within my family, we eat how many grapes that is the new year. for example, last new years we ate 18 grapes and every time we ate one we would wish for something to come into the new year. so we had 18 wishes. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is the day where we celebrate the loving life of a person who fought for peoples rights. This is celebrated every third Monday in January which is usually around his birthday which is on January 15. We have no school and a paid day for those with jobs in order to be able to celebrate it. On this day, we should really take account all the hard work and perseverance that Martin did in order to change the world and its views.
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Symbols: marches, I have a dream speech, black lives matter movement, freedom, sadness, Washington and the color blue.
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Symbols: the American flag, the Bible, millions of people, the future president, the vice president, the first lady, the first family and the colors red, white and blue.
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On Inauguration Day, the candidates who won the election the previous year, are sworn into office as president and vice-president of the United States. This important event happens at noon in Washington, DC. There a huge parade along Pennsylvania Avenue in order to welcome the president and vice-president. The parade is also lined with thousands and thousands of people who want to be apart of welcoming the new president into the white house.
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Symbols: a sword, long white hair, fake teeth, biggest tobacco farm, a dollar bill and the color blue.
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On this day, not only do we honor George Washington, our very first president. But we also honor all the 49 following presidents right after. Fun fact, George Washington didnt even want to become president. Everyone just wanted him to be it and so he did. This is a paid day off work and students do not have any school so we can celebrate it. George Washingtons real birthday is on Feburary 11 although we celebrate it on the third Monday of Febuary.
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Symbols: the American flag, ceremonies, veterans graveyard, broken families, the colors red, white and blue.
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Memorial Day is a day where we as citizens, celebrate all the lives that have been lost and we remember our loved ones who died for this country. Memorial Day is celebrated on the last Monday in May. We celebrate it by having parades throughout the United States to remember and celebrate those who all served the country in order for regular people like us to be able to live the way that we do. We remeber those lives lost.
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Symbols: fireworks, cookouts, the sun, the American flag, beer, hotdogs, John Hancock, war, and the colors blue, white and red.
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On Independence Day we celebrate the day that our fellow ancestors declared their own independence from Britain. This is not the day we actually got our independence on this day but most people think it is. This is also a paid day for those who work. We usually celebrate this day by having parades, throwing big bbq parties and usually ending the night with some very loud and very patriotic fireworks.
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Symbols: the American flag, work, freedom, equality, equal pay wages, child labor laws and minimum wage.
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Labor Day is celebrated on the first Monday in September. We celebrate this day in order to honor the Americans who started and participated in the Labor movement. We also celebrate all the contributions that workers have made to the strength and the law of this country. This is also a day where kids do not have school but some people might have to work. People usually celebrate by having parades and parties also ended with fireworks.
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¨Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.¨ We have heard that in every social studies class since we were very small children. On Columbus Day we like to thank Christopher Columbus who sailed the ocean trying to reach India and actually landed on a land never explored. (Although there were millions of Native Americans who lived here and all he did was kill them off, infected them with diseases and literally did the worst things ever. But thats not something they teach you in elementary school)
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Symbols: the ocean blue, spices, the Nina, corruption, racism, homewrecker, rape culture, the year 1492 and the color yellow.
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Symbols: marches, ceremonies, American songs, the American flag, ¨America the beautiful,¨ parades, patriotism, the colors red, white and blue.
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Veterans Day annually falls on November 11. On this day, we celebrate the signing of the armistice, which if you did not know, ended the World War 1 hostilities between the Allied nations and Germany in 1918. All Veterans are thanked on this day for all that they risked and lost serving our country. Making it safe for us to leave our house without worrying about different things. We thank everyone who served for our country.
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Symbols: turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, pumpkins, rolls, Halloween, Black Friday, wine, cornucopia, ham, corn, praying, church, religious aspect, pilgrims, fall, leaves changing color, football games, and the color orange.
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We all know the story about the native americans and all the new pilgrims who celebrated the agreement to put all their differences aside and come together. It was celebrated for the first time ever in the year of 1621. We celebrate it by having a huge feast with a bunch of amazing food, surrounded by family and friends. We celebrate it to show and prove how thankful we are for all the year's blessings that life have given us. (It is the best holiday out there)
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Symbols: Santa, Rudolph, Christmas carols, a lot of great food, presents, secret Santa, the birth of Christ, Christmas trees, family, friends, ornaments, winter, hot chocolate, smores, cold, snow, snowflakes, church, the colors red and green.
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On Christmas, we religiously celebrate the birth of Jesus. Most of us take this time to be surrounded by our friends and family. We usually celebrate it by having a big feast on Christmas Eve and then on Christmas Day we have a big opening of gifts that we have received from our parents and from other relatives. Some people do not celebrate Christmas and celebrate Hannaukah in its place. Others celebrate on the 6th of January. Whatever you celebrate there is always going to be amazing food.
