celebrations:

Most people in the United States celebrate this holiday with family gatherings in their homes where they are preparing a banquet. In many houses is common to offer a prayer of thanks. The traditional main dish for dinner is a great roast turkey. This turkey traditionally accompanied with a filling made of corn bread and sage. It is traditionally served with a sauce or cranberry jelly red (in English "cranberry sauce"). Moreover often use vegetable dishes like green beans (green bean casserole), sweet potatoes and mashed sweet potato with a sauce made of the juice of turkey, as well as a multitude of desserts, and the pumpkin pie the most popular. They are also popular cake pacana and apple.

After dinner, the fun is seeing preferred American football matches on television and for others to take a nap. Most businesses and offices are closed on this day. Some stores, shopping malls, restaurants and bars are open. On Friday following the holiday is the traditional opening of the Christmas shopping season. This day is known as Black Friday. Stores and shops all offer discount prices and meets many people in shopping malls.

INFORMATION:

The feast is closely related to the events of the first English settlement in the New World. In 1621 a group of Christian settlers, who later would be known as pilgrims traveled to America aboard the Mayflower ship. Disembarked in November, in the late autumn, on the coast of Massachusetts (on the east coast of the United States) to fulfill its purpose in establishing the Plymouth Colony. The harsh winter in these latitudes took them by surprise, without taking time to prepare for harsh conditions of deprivation and cold. Of the hundred pilgrims did not survive half of them. Those who did it, they had to fend for aid and food that natives of the area, the Wampanoag Indians, they provided.

In the fall of 1621, already in place and with the first crop harvested, the survivors decided to share their results with the Indians who helped them when they had no resources. The governor of the colony proclaimed "a day of thanksgiving to the Lord for us in a more special rejoice after having collected the fruit of our work."

This peaceful coexistence with the natives last few years, as the massive influx of European settlers and the occupation of the territories of growing indigenous people out of their ongoing. The result of such confrontamientos was the almost total extermination of the Wampanoag Indians. After the so-called King Philip's War in 1675, only survived 400.

Although the tradition dates from 1621 and has been held in one way or another since then, the celebration as an official holiday is more recent. In 1789, the first president of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the date as a national day of Thanksgiving. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared that the celebration should take place as a national holiday in the United States. However, it was not until 1941 that Congress set the date as a federal holiday.

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Halloween is a celebration of the Anglo-Saxon culture which takes place in the night of October 31.
Its origins go back to the Celts, more than 2,500 years ago, when the year ended Celtic at the end of the summer, on October 31 of our calendar (Samhain). Livestock was taken from pastures to the stables for the winter. That last day, it was assumed that the spirits could leave the cemetery and take over the bodies of the living to resurrect, requesting food and maldecirles. They were victims of conjuros if not accede to their demands: give me something or you do a mischief, which is the translation of "Trick or Treat" (Trick or Treatment).

To avoid this, villages Celtic dirty houses and "decorated" with bones, skulls and other unpleasant things, so that the dead rising from long scared. Hence comes the tradition of decorating houses with sinister motives in the current eve of All Saints' and the costumes. It is thus a party associated with the coming of the pagan gods to life.

The Church of Rome decided to convert to Catholicism holiday. It was established on November 1 as All Saints Day, which in England is called "All Hallows' Day", and the night before "All Hallows' Eve" which subsequently resulted in "Halloween."

TRADITIONS:

children and those not so masquerade, while competing among themselves to see what is the most horrible of all disguise, and go from house to house giving the famous ultimatum "trick or treat" (trick or treatment). Meet the origin and significance of this famous speech, certainly the favorite of children on the night of Halloween.

Another custom deeply rooted in Halloween is to seek and eat sweets. Apparently tradition began in Europe in the ninth century when every November 2 (All Souls Day, Day of All Souls), Iban Christians from town to town asking for "soul cakes" (soul cakes), which were pieces sweet bread. The more "soul cakes" were more promising pray for the peace of the dead relatives of those who gave them such alms. Over time, this custom was fused with the feast of Halloween into another typical feature of the celebration.

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b)Free time activities:
hobby:listening to music
favorite sport:basquetball
favorite english song:you`r beautiful
favorite subjet at school:music

future job:Dentist
best friend:Camila Candia

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