... for Christmas, I was so exited. All the presents, all the lights and decorations and even more presents. I liked shopping for Christmas because of all the bright shiny things you could buy and the decorations. I went shopping with my dad a few days later and we bought presents for all the family and friends. My dad made me ... pick out a tree, "this one, this one", I shouted. He thought it was a bit big but I begged him for it. We already had some decorations at home so we bought some more tinsel, shiny sparkling baubles, some shiny wrapping paper and big red bows. As we walked back towar...

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... a lost cause and there wasn't much to do about it. Mother knew that she would never have any grandchildren that we would never be able to go shopping together I would never get married and least of all I would never be what she wanted me to be. There was no way for me to change what ... rest. I was happy my parents would be at work and I could sleep and get high in the privacy of my own home. The ride home was long and boring my mother talked about taking me shopping since all my old clothes were to big and I would need to get my hair done because I was becoming a woman. ... I didn't kn...

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... , presents are involved. The three other Sundays of Advent go by like every other year, all the worries are set aside during the church services but the minute you get home it is a mad house again. Sadly enough Christmas can lead you into depression. There is only a few reasons why to one of those is the giving and receiving of presents ... it that something so meaningless could be such a huge part of such a precious holiday. The good thing that comes out of having to go shopping for Christmas is that my family reserves a day in December and we go shopping as a family. We break up into g...

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... 51st St., after attending a seven o"clock Christmas Eve's mass in there. Then I started walking for a few blocks to the Fifth Ave. subway station to take the E or F train to get home. Next, I took the first available train that arrived, which was the F train; not knowing that something bizarre was going to happen to me in that train. There were not that ... particular car that I was in, there were only about six to eight commuters including myself. I could tell from the heavy shopping bags, which they were carrying that they were mostly last-minute Christmas shoppers. I assumed that mos...

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... four and I was seven going on hundred. It all started when we were coming back from doing some late night Christmas shopping in Jackson, and on the way home my dad claimed to see Santa and his sleigh. "We had better get home fast because Santa was on his way and we wouldn't want to miss him," Dad said to us. I told him ... ...

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... graduations. This gives us a chance to catch up on things that are new in our lives. Father is still considered head of the family and mother is responsible for the home matters but in today's society both take a role in economic status. When in need, often family members are willing to help others out if there are economical or social problems ... unit" includes not only parents and children but also extended family. In most Hispanic families, the father is the head of the family, and the mother is responsible for the home. Persons within a family have a moral responsibility to aid oth...

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Ultimately, the shopping malls, the week before Christmas, are a place where the lion comes out of even the quietest people. There is visible chaos, emotion and adrenaline in the entranceway to almost every ... appreciate the holiday season are those that cannot afford the materialistic presents, their idea of Christmas is to be warm for maybe just one night, and possibly to have a warm home cooked meal. All in all, the malls are for materialistic spazzed out mothers whose children have been so engulfed in how television portrays Christmas that they feel as though they ... ...

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