Category: Christmas

When I was little, each time I heard someone say “giving is better than receiving,” I thought them to be crazy. Wasn’t getting presents the whole point of celebrating Christmas? It was the reason I couldn’t sleep on Christmas Eve and why I was always the first one up on Christmas mornings.

“There won’t be much for Christmas this year. Please don’t be disappointed.” Mother had looked at the decorated old tree in the corner and warned me.

Christmas had always been the time of the year when my parents would spoil me and my brother silly, the presents would pile up under the tree, taking over the entire living room. But that year had been tough on the family. My father’s business partner duped him off of his share in the company and left us with little money and a long court case to fight.

I knew I was not supposed to be quite so excited. I was old enough to know better. But every chance I got had me shaking each wrapped present to guess its contents. I had examined all gifts under the tree so many times that I could tell which present was for whom without even looking at the tags.

On Christmas mornings, I eagerly wait in the living room for everyone to wake up so we could start unwrapping the presents. That year was no different, despite the circumstances. The more I tried to conceal the excitement, the jittery I got. As soon as everyone was up, my brother and I rushed to the tree and attacked the wrapping paper.

“Here, Tony, this is for you.” My father announced as he handed my little brother another gift. I looked at the gift, confused. I had spent so much time examining the packages, I recognized them well. The gift they just gave Tony was mine! I couldn’t believe my eyes, my parents were giving away my present to him. Little Tony squealed at the idea of another present, but I knew. I recognized the handwriting, mom did this.

“Mom, how could you…”

I was stopped mid-sentence by my mother, I failed to understand her actions. “Look at your brother, Helen. Just look.” Eyes still blurry with tears, I looked at Tony, all of 3 he unwrapped the present with difficulty and then adorably pestered our grandfather to set up his brand new tent house. My tent house! Just as I was about to storm out of the room, little Tony came running, “Helen, did you see my new tent house? Did you? Helen, isn’t this the best Christmas ever? Only you and I can enter it, no one else. Come with me!”

All of eleven, I was taken aback. In my little universe, receiving always superseded giving, by a country mile. I never imaged how it would feel to give away something rightfully yours for someone else’s happiness. This act by my mother was a huge lesson for my eleven-year-old self. Tears filled my eyes and I wondered in disbelief just how wrong I was about Christmas all along.

Picking little Tony in my arms, I looked at mother and smiled. As small as the gift may seem, it was everything to Tony at that moment. In his little universe, this was now the best Christmas, all because he received an extra present. I was older, I had witnessed our parents going above and beyond each Christmas, this year was different to me but for little Tony, this was one of the first few Christmases he would even fully remember.

My mother’s actions, though incomprehensible at first turned into one of life’s biggest lessons for me. Starting that year Christmas felt different, I now knew how easily we can change someone else’s world, if only we stop and think beyond ourselves. What seemed absurd at first slowly became my motto, giving truly is better than receiving. Till date, my mother jokingly recalls that Christmas as my Christmas miracle.

Out of all my childhood memories, a memory that always comes to my mind is my Christmas vacation to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. This is a significant memory since it helps me remember a period where my relatives got together at a troublesome time. As well as seeing the environment in Honduras showed me to be grateful for all that I have.

Growing up my family tradition was always the same for winter break, the first couple of days was unwinding at home, watching ABC Family 25 days of Christmas, and on Christmas Eve we spend Christmas with my mom’s side of the family. But when I was 10, weeks before winter break, my mom got terrible news of my grandfather being ill, so it changed our traditions. At that time I was cheerful in light of the fact that I was traveling with my favorite cousins to Honduras and I was going to see a new place.

Upon arrival in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, I was very amazed at how green everything was and I felt super cool riding with my cousins in back of the truck. The first couple of days was reuniting with other family members and for the first time interacting with my dad’s side of the family, meeting my grandpa and grandma. However, the lifestyle of Honduras was challenging for me because I was not used to showering only with cold water and there being a limit in how much water you can use for only that day. Also seeing children younger than me come to my grandparent’s door trying to sell pancakes or offering to clean the house. It was sad to see how many children were already working and trying to provide for their family at such a small age because they can’t afford to attend a school. It taught me to be grateful to live in the United States because I can attend school and actually have a childhood playing with my friends, and not worrying about getting a job.

This vacation is a significant memory of mine because, on Christmas day, my mother and aunt helped the children living in front of my grandparent’s house that we regularly saw on our vacation working. They both bought all of there pancakes they were selling that day and those children were extremely grateful because they got a day off with a gift of buying them pizza. Although these weren’t my actions of kindness for them I was glad to see my mom and aunt helping them out and seeing the children not asking for materialistic things, but instead asking for food.

People, especially for Filipinos, celebrate Christmas yearly. Most see it as an opportunity to take a break, while for many it is the season to be stuck in traffic. To some, it is a time to receive gifts and to a few, it means to delight in the real meaning of Christmas. But what is the real essence of Christmas and how do we fully acknowledge it? The matter of celebrating Christmas has been evolving, but what makes it more meaningful lies on how an individual or a group revels it provoked by a purpose.

This article affirms that Christmas is a season that revitalizes love and joy in a manner of celebrating it and spending the moments with Family and love ones.

The Christmas is originally based on a historic events that dates back between 6 B.C. and 4 B.C. according to some scholars (Castro, 2014). This was the birth of Jesus of Nazareth a very prolific person in the Bible. The story began with a virgin woman named Mary who miraculously conceived Jesus and went to Bethlehem with her betrothed husband Joseph. And in Bethlehem, She gives birth to Jesus in a manger as they were visited by shepherds and kings, famous for the title of Holy Family. The whole picture paints the portrait of a complete family being together and relishing each other despite the inconveniences of the situation; running out of rooms to spend the night, giving birth in a manger, and having to deal with the limited resources. Centuries have passed and yet this same story is still told and accepted as the perfect picture and derivation of Christmas. It has become a tradition to western countries such as America as well as to European countries to hold such holiday. Influenced by previous colony, some Asian countries like Philippines have inherited the same practice that is yearly being acknowledge.

The Jesus story is not the same origin of the holiday to some cultures and religion. In Scandinavia, the Norse celebrated Yule In recognition of the return of the sun, fathers and sons would bring home large logs, which they would set on fire. In Germany, people honored the pagan god Oden during the mid-winter holiday. In Rome, where winters were not as harsh as those in the far north, Saturnalia, a holiday in honor of Saturn the god of agriculture, was celebrated (HISTORY.com, 2018). Despite that since the Roman Catholic Empire rise the centric view of the winter holiday became Christmas where majority accepted. It has become the common holiday celebrated by most in their own household. In light with Washington Irving’s The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. Christmas should be a peaceful, warm-hearted holiday bringing groups together across lines of wealth or social status, according to his mind (HISTORY.com, 2018). But then through the rapid progress and evolution of man through the centuries technology, materialism, shallow traditions and other external performs have impact the way the season is valued. Christmas party, exchange gifts, and Christmas trees are of some mentionable practices of the current generation. Such are not harmful nor bad but the meaning of the Christmas have depleted to a product of stress, expectations, rush, and such. To Filipinos, many children are exposed to the thought of always receiving gifts or money from their uncles and aunties. Most adults would expect for irritating traffics along the shopping malls and countless parties to attend to. Even crime rate are expected to rise because of the need of marginalized people. Whilst all this is creating distraction to the internal matters of the season.

Going back to the story of the first Christmas, all that the family of Jesus had was a manger, some visitors, and the whole family itself. Nothing much was accounted to happen or given besides the gifts of the three Kings. In contrast to the vague practices, the real reason to celebrate Christmas is not that we or any of us can give anything rather the thought that a God would give something valuable to us as a gift. Real significance revolves around the idea of love not merely the thought of giving but celebrating the love that bind the Holy family together and fostered the hope and love to mankind. Jesus being a gift to Mary and Joseph, and a present to all humans, this is what nurtured the value and importance of each family members watching over each other in their household.

Spending time with love ones bringing each one closer with one another are more important than buying gifts or rushing to parties. Right reason produces right values that maximizes the meaning and joy of Christmas. Thus, it is the internal factors and meaning that brings fulfillment to Christmas endowed with those person that truly matters to a person’s life.

References:

1. History of Christmas. October 2009. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved from: https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas#section_7
2. Castro, J. 2014. Live Science:When was Jesus born. Retrieved from: https://www.livescience.com/42976-when-was-jesus-born.html

For those who celebrate, they would probably describe the Christmas Spirit as the feeling of joy and merriment and for some it may also have tangible associations such as gifts, holiday related scents, family, and a lot of good food. When asking people where Christmas Spirit comes from, some people and movie adaptations such as ‘A Christmas Carol’ would answer that it comes from the heart. However, like love the Christmas Spirit stems from neurochemical reaction, which means it is occurs within the brain. The article ‘Where’s Your Christmas Spirit? Right Here, Here and Here’ written by Maggie Fox on National Broadcasting Company’s wellness section reviewed an article featured on the British Medical Journal ‘Evidence of a Christmas Spirit Network in the Brain: Function MRI Study’ discusses how people can find their Christmas Spirit figurately as well as literally. In the study by Hougaards et al. (2015), the researchers scanned two groups while they were viewing various images and analyzed changes in brain activity when they were viewing images of yuletide themes opposed to regular images. Differences between the two groups were calculated to determine Christmas specific brain activation. The researchers found a difference in the response of those who celebrate Christmas in comparison to those with no Christmas traditions; however, cerebral perfusion was similar between both groups.

The two groups consisted of 20 participants of which 10 of the participants were assigned to the Christmas group and 10 were assigned to the non-Christmas group. The ‘Christmas group’ consisted of eight men, two women who were ethnic Danes who celebrated Christmas according to Danish Tradition, while those in the ‘non-Christmas group’ were Pakistani, Indian, Iraqi, Turkish, or people of Pakistani decent who were born in Denmark. The Christmas group was the experimental group and the non-Christmas group was the control.

As mentioned previously the researchers used Christmas imagery and regular images to detect the difference in brain activity. In the study, a was used fMRI to localize and record the change in activity in the brain. In the article Hougaards noted that sorrow, disgust, and joy have been isolated to certain cerebral regions within the brain. Patients were scanned with MRI while they were watching a series of image through video goggles. A continual series of eight-four images were displayed for two seconds each and were organized to show Christmas images after six consecutive everyday images that were devoid of any Christmas symbolism. Alternating the images created an interleaved block of stimulation.

Researchers found significant clusters of increased BOLD activation in the sensory motor cortex, the premotor and primary motor cortex, and the parietal lobule (inferior and superior) were found in scans of people who celebrate Christmas with positive associations compared with scans in a group having no Christmas traditions and neutral associations. According to the article, these cerebral areas have been associated with spirituality, somatic senses, and recognition of facial emotion among many other.

The baseline perfusion scans showed a normal cerebral perfusion of 54 ml/100g/min for both groups. Activation maps from fMRI scans showed an increase of brain activity in the primary visual cortex for both groups of participants when shown images that had a Christmas them compared with the non-Christmas themed photos. However, the Christmas group neural activations had a significant increase specifically in the primary somatosensory cortex when shown the Christmas them images. The brain activation maps also showed activity in other areas of the brain that the Christmas group responded to with a higher activation than the non- Christmas group. These areas include the premotor cortex, left primary motor cortex, bilateral primary somatosensory cortex, right inferior parietal lobule, superior parietal lobule. The non-Christmas group had significantly lower responses to the Christmas images than the Christmas group.

We identified a functional Christmas network comprising several cortical areas, including the parietal lobules, the premotor cortex, and the somatosensory cortex. Activation in these areas coincided well with our hypothesis that images with a Christmas theme would stimulate centers associated with the Christmas spirit. The left and right parietal lobules have been shown in earlier fMRI studies to play a determining role in self-transcendence, the personality trait regarding predisposition to spirituality. Furthermore, the frontal premotor cortex is important for experiencing emotions shared with other individuals by mirroring or copying their body state, and premotor cortical mirror neurons even respond to observation of ingestive mouth actions. Recall of joyful emotions and pleasant ingestive behavior shared with loved ones would be likely to elicit activation here. There is growing evidence that the somatosensory cortex plays an important role in recognition of facial emotion and retrieving social relevant information from faces. Collectively, these cortical areas possibly constitute the neuronal correlate of the Christmas spirit in the human brain.

We realize that some of our colleagues within the specialties of neuroscience and psychology, who we suspect could be afflicted by the aforementioned bah humbug syndrome, would argue that studies such as the present one overemphasize the importance of localized brain activity and that attempts to localize complex emotions in the brain contribute little to the understanding of these emotions. Citing a paper reporting fMRI evidence of brain activity in frozen salmon,10 representatives of this view have even coined terms for this practice such as ‘blob ology’, ‘neo-phrenology’, ‘neuro-essentialism’, and ‘neuro-bollocks’ (Grinch and colleagues, personal communication). Naturally, in keeping with the good spirit of the holiday, we disagree with these negative perspectives.

Further research into this topic is necessary to identify the factors affecting one’s response to Christmas. For example, responses to Christmas might change with development from a child, who primarily receives presents, to an adult, who primarily buys them. Subgroups subjected to receipt of tacky jumpers as their Christmas present might also have different responses in brain activity from those of subgroups who tend to receive more attractive gifts. Understanding how the Christmas spirit works as a neurological network could provide insight into an interesting area of human neuropsychology and be a powerful tool in treating ailments such as bah humbug syndrome. Comparative studies of these patterns will also be imperative in studying other seasonal disturbances, related to, for example, Easter, Chanukah, or Diwali. This study could therefore be an important first step in transcultural neuroscience and the associations humans have with their festive traditions.

The Christmas spirit has eluded science thus far; though well known as a pleasant feeling, its cerebral location and mechanisms are still a mystery. Functional MRI has proved a valuable tool in locating which centres of the brain are active under a given stimulation such as viewing images. This technique has shown on several occasions that complex responses to stimulation evoke a network of activated areas in the brain. What this study adds: this study locates a ‘Christmas spirit’ network in the brain that is activated by images with Christmas themes. The network showed a series of cerebral regions that are more active in people who celebrate Christmas with positive associations compared with people with no Christmas traditions and neutral associations. Although many might find the article in The Journal of Neuroscience a bit difficult to follow, just reading this article in Scientific American will be very informative about this research.

Saving the planet is, without question, one of today’s most current topics. However, sometimes other issues may occupy one’s mind, for example, Christmas. Truth be told, during that time of the year, the environment is not everybody’s priority. Panic-buying gifts often take place online, and customers do not want to drive to the next mall to escape high traffic loads.

Almost 65 percent of Germany’s population used the Internet for shopping in 2013. Now, seven years later, the number of users is growing to over 69.1 million and is expected to reach over 71 million by 2024. With growing user rates, more packages are ordered. In Germany alone, every third online order is returned, resulting in more than 250 million packages per year. The market’s largest segment is electronics and media ($22,714 million in 2020).

December is, without question, the month of the year with the highest return rate. Every single day UPS picks up approximately 1 million return packages and has even coined the term ‘National Return Day’. Throughout the year, retailers usually wait for enough orders to fill up a van for delivery. Christmas is the only special case, with the exception of Black Friday, where retailers send out almost empty vans to deliver orders on time, especially with express delivery.

Customers tend to buy more items than they actually need. Ordering e.g. cameras via express delivery, testing the quality, choosing, and, in the end, returning the other items or all of them, thus often profiting from free returns.

And yet, buying Christmas gifts is not the real issue here. It is not uncommon for the gifted person to return their Christmas gift right after the festive season. Especially in America, where more than 55% of shoppers planned to return their gifts, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. Each returned package leaves a trail of emissions behind, and it is absolutely irrelevant which carrier picks it up.

Fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5, is associated with many harmful effects on human health (heart and lung diseases) – and significantly due to the emission of delivery vans. And, unsurprisingly, the total number of cars on the roads hasn’t decreased at all with the growth of online shopping.

To sum up, Christmas online shopping is not only, when left to the last minute, expansive but often quite questionable. Also, if done on time, sparing a thought and not choosing express delivery definitely is an adequate Christmas gift to the environment.

Perspective

This assignment was required to watch the documentary called “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”, and to explain the theoretical perspective that was assigned to us. The two theoretical perspectives that will be talked about more in depth in this essay are psychoanalytic theory and trait theory. Sigmund Freud was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis created a better understanding of the human mind and personality. Freud’s theory states that our personality is made up of three components that consisted of the id, ego, and superego. Ego helps develop the young child’s response to the real world. Id’s unconscious energy constantly strives for a type of satisfaction to basic sexual and aggressive drives.

The superego is a part of the personality that, represents internalized ideals and provides types of judgment standards. Our conscious awareness is like the part of an iceberg that floats above the surface. Beneath our awareness is the larger unconscious mind, with its thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality. Trait theories examine characteristic patterns of behavior. For example, every one of us has a unique trait and curiosity that helps motivate us in a way that only we can understand.

Summary of Behavior

The Grinche personality is best defined as a mean, anti-social, and cold-hearted wicked character who lives far away from the Whoville on the top of a high mountain in a cave with his dog Max in the documentary. The Grinch is known very well for hating Christmas and plans on ruining Christmas by stealing presents and vandalizing the Whoville’s houses. At the beginning of the documentary, the Grinch is an obnoxious character with a bad temper and bad attitude and has a heart that’s two sizes too small beating in him. He meets a little girl one night in Whoville named Cindy Lou Who and she decides that she likes the Grinch after that one night and wants to bring him back to Whoville to redeem himself. The Grinch stole all the presents trees and Christmas decorations from the houses and put them in a bag to throw over a cliff. When the Whoville awoke with no presents and Christmas decorations not even a crumb for a mouse they continued to celebrate the holiday of Christmas instead of being sad and gathered in a circle and continued to sing. The Grinch grows this feeling of happiness inside him that he had never felt before when he hears the Whovilles singing forgets about ruining Christmas and finally gets into the Christmas spirit. He feels guilty for what he has done and stops the presents from falling over the cliff.

The day of Christmas that the Grinch had ruined, he then promised to ruin their Christmas by stealing the Who’s presents and cutting the rotisserie chicken. He goes from someone who hated Christmas to loving Christmas at the end of the movie and finally redeems himself.

How Theory Explains Personality

One other perspective different from the one that was assigned to me is Social-cognitive theory. It’s different from the other ones that were assigned to me because it explores the interaction between people’s traits and their social content. Albert Bandura’s theory believed that we learn many of our behaviors either through conditioning or by observing and imitating others. Social-cognitive is similar to trait theory by Sigmund Freud because they both involve patterns of behavior influenced by others around you.

Standards of Assessment and Evaluation

A good test defines three important properties of any good psychological test validity, reliability, and standardization. The number of questions you answer correctly, on an intelligence test could reveal almost nothing. To know how well you performed, you would need some proof of information of your comparison. The scores help the next testing group by helping future groups compare different results throughout the year or month. If you take the test following the same procedures, your score will be meaningful when compared with others. This process is called standardization. Knowing your score in comparison with other groups helps the standardization group learn that the results won’t tell you much unless the test has reliability. A reliable test gives accurate scores, no matter who takes the test or when they take it. To check a test’s reliability, researchers test people many times to see different variations in the outcome. The higher the correlation, the higher the test’s reliability. High reliability does not ensure a test’s validity the extent to which the test measures or predicts what it promises. Using a miscalibrated measure can cause inaccurate results and could affect the experiment. Your results can be very reliable depending on the score you get.

Testing the Grinch

The test I would use in my office with my client would have to be the IQ test. This test is not only for young children but also for adults and helps determine scores of an individual’s intelligence, memory, and processing speed. Someone who could be using a psychoanalytic perspective could help the Grinch with the insight of understanding his awareness and help improve himself. The Humanistic theory focuses on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment. The Grinch strongly dislikes the Whos at first but as the movie continues he learns how to socialize better and communicate better with the Whos. The Whos only knew the Grinch by hearing false rumors and never really got the time to get to know him. Even after what he did to their presents and other belongings they decide to accept the Grinch for who he is and invite him to join the circle they were in to sing along with them. The Grinch regained his self-esteem and regained the trust of the Whovilles. Information that was gathered throughout the

The short story A Christmas Memory, which is written by Truman Capote, is a story about a small child and an older person celebrating Christmas together. They have many rituals that they complete every year, and the beginning talks about them. But, in the end, the 2 characters get separated, never seeing each other ever again. This invokes sorrow in the reader, knowing that the 2 best friends will never see each other again. Truman Capote structures the story in a way to creates an effect of sorrow.

Capote structures the story in a way that the happy part is in the beginning, and the sad part is at the end. This structural technique that he is using gives the reader a feeling of happiness at first, but that quickly transitions into sorrow. On the second to last page, the author says, “This is our last Christmas together.” This immediately makes the reader feel sad. They talk about the struggles Buddy goes through at Military school and the struggles the lady goes through at home. He then describes Queenie the dog’s death. This increases the intensity of the sorrow felt by the reader. Then, the old lady back home starts to become weaker and weaker and stops making fruitcakes altogether. Then, she dies. This is the climax of the story, which makes it even sadder. Buddy then goes on to say that he was severed from an irreplaceable part of his heart. The plot structure was a vital component of the story and the effect it created on the reader. The way the author structured it was very important in making the person feel sadder and making the effect stronger. The reason the plot structure played a huge role in the effect was that the reader would subconsciously compare the beginning and the end of the story to come to an emotional conclusion. Putting the sad part after the happy part was so that in comparison, the sad part would seem a lot sadder and would leave the reader with a feeling of sorrow

Truman Capote utilized plot structure and its versatility to his advantage to create a feeling of sorrow in the reader. Sorrow plays a big part in the overall tone and mood of the story. The way that he put the happy part in the beginning and the sad part in the end helped to amplify the effect of sorrow.

Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth and life of Jesus Christ with loved ones. Or at least that was the point of this holiday, because it seems that many have lost sight of what Christmas is really all about.

Between the decorations, the constant advertising, and the millions of Christmas lists made each year, it easy to see why we have lost the true meaning of Christmas. You can’t go anywhere without seeing some sort of Santa decoration or sales sign in stores windows, and that’s because it has become so commercialized.

People focus so largely on the materialistic side of it that they can’t take time to appreciate the true meaning of this season. Around this time each year, kids will make sure to come up with a huge list of gifts for Santa, a figure that their parents claim gives them the presents under their tree on Christmas day. Don’t get me wrong – I always loved the idea as a kid of Santa delivering my toys to me that his elves made me, but I don’t think I ever really appreciated what Christmas was all about until I was older.

Beneath all the glitz and glam, I came to a better realization that Christians all around celebrate this special day for the birth of Jesus who ultimately gave up his life for us. He did something so incredible and selfless for all of us, and as a child, I definitely did not appreciate it as much as I should have. I, like most other kids out there, loved Christmas mainly for the presents and didn’t really understand what we were exactly celebrating and why.

It is sad to hear stories of kids crying because they didn’t get the present they wanted or didn’t get as many presents as they thought they would. It’s even sadder hearing about parents who hate Christmas because of all the preparation and shopping that they feel they have to put into it. It has become all about the gifts, and not enough about the actual meaning.

While this is a day to celebrate Jesus, it is also a day to remember what Jesus did. Jesus helped those in need such as the poor, the sick, the hungry, the oppressed, the outsiders. He provided the help to anyone who needed it. As Christians, we have always been taught to love thy neighbor, and it’s time we started acting on what our religion preaches. The Christmas season is the perfect season to feed, donate, and share some time with the lonely and homeless, as well as appreciating our loved ones that surround us. It’s a time to really feel the ‘true spirit of Christmas’ through the helping of others.

I am by no means trying to be a Scrooge. I love Christmas just as much as the next person does, but maybe, just maybe, people can start to acknowledge again that there is more to Christmas than the fairy tinsel and the sparkling lights and the extravagant presents. Because if I were to ask kids today the question, “What is the true meaning of Christmas?”, I’m afraid those things will be the most common answers.

Lately, there have been many media expressing their feelings. We no longer need to feel a reason to give something to the special people who plan our lives. Numerous gift ideas on letters to mail that send messages that facilitate expressing or expressing our various emotions and feelings. Although for effective use in the central way, the message through the word becomes wonderful. The variety of cards recently acquired ranges from signed paper ID cards to high ticket designers. Recent developments in the use of the Internet have provided an opportunity for everyone or anyone to send our needs via e-cards. It helps you collectively create cards that embrace music with your own messages and animations to please and entertain your recipients.

Where it all started in 1843, the early Christmas cards were written in the European country. However, the card business did not establish itself until twenty years later. In the dark sepia, the Christmas card was lithographed on hard cardboard five 1/8 by three 1/4 inches, and it shows a family party on the lower floor, admitting that you have a Merry Christmas and a happy one New Year. It has been reported overall that it was published in the former workhouse at 12 Bond Street London, as the cottage’s treasury works. The value was 1s. First known as a Christmas card, the sons of Charles’s animal scientists were created in 1860 on a large scale. That they had a congratulatory measure of three to two inches. Because these days it was usual to leave a greeting after work in a house. These Christmas and legal holidays were the precursors to a card ID card.

The development of the Christmas card story in the late 19th century was very risky, but today’s cards do not have the gift of spiritual symbols on any of the cards. Hand-painted cards were heavily influenced by the art movement, widely circulated in the twenties. In the 1930s, the cards were popularized by animated film characters such as Popeye and Mickey Mouse. The rise of Christmas cards has left many living cards in the guise of new technology. Humor was introduced in the fifties. Santa Claus was shown on a card with no working TVs. Informal cards found the center in the sixties as Santa made fun of him and several cards showed signs of peace. New inventions allowed the cards to unfold and contain the foil. In the seventies was Athletic Santa companion to the public too mad to be in good shape. In the 1980s, the sophistication was huge. Short looks at the art as it progresses as technology improves. An agent shows up to Santa as he continues his crazy footage on public maps. Traditionalism returned somewhat in the nineties. The cards contained sheets of snowy landscapes and Christmas trees. The year 2000 depended on technology. Many card users used the Internet to order and send their Christmas cards, which prevented the need for a personal partner envelope. However, those who are traditionally still can purchase and email their cards.

From home-made cards and Christmas letters to e-cards, times are edited, which is unique to any occasion when it comes to delivering your needs. Whatever the event, create an unforgettable and exclusive home card. Christmas letters make Christmas a hit because it’s time to get in touch with people and write about them in the years to come. E-card thanks, though, for limiting each other a little to the invention. So the hassle and time of investing is low, which is because with changing times, everyone adapts to the current high-speed source of Christmas needs.

The history of Christmas remains a topic of hot debate worldwide. Particularly, December 25 (Christmas Day) has been substantially controversial. Some people view it as the anniversary of Jesus Christ, and others see it as a time to share gifts and meals with friends and families. Most historic American Newspapers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries indicate equally intriguing and surprising accounts of Christmas. Notably, there are striking similarities and distinctive differences between the newspapers’ stories and general histories of Christmas.

General accounts of Christmas described December 25 as an ideal time for the upper-class individuals to repay imagined or real “debt” to the community by entertaining the poor. As a result, the less fortunate would storm wealthy people’s homes to demand their finest drinks and best food. Similarly, historical U.S Newspapers of the late nineteenth century depict stories of a Christmas season that was marred by turmoil and class conflict between the poor and the rich. During this time, those in the upper class were subjected to constant gang riots and robbery with violence, leading to an urgent need to change the culture of Christmas celebrations in the U.S.

General Christmas’s histories perceive this period as commonly influenced by a convergence of ancient Rome’s Saturnalia and northern Europe’s Yule winter festivals. This merger led to celebrations characterized by livestock slaughtering, drinking, feasting, and social gatherings to celebrate Christmas birth. On the contrary, the U.S newspapers of the early twentieth century show differing Christmas festivals, which are also prevalent in contemporary America. In this era, newspaper headlines were filled with the typical merry Christmas messages from various organizations and influential people across America. Moreover, this period signaled the introduction of sending gifts to loved ones and the less fortunate, with Santa Clause becoming the central figure.