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Christmas celebration and thanksgiving

Birthday celebrations are a very common phenomenon among many people around the world today. In fact every day is a birthday someone somewhere in the world and so every day there is a birthday celebration somewhere. The common argument for doing the same celebration every year is that one is thanking his or her god for being with and protecting him or her for the length of time he or she has spent since birth besides remembering the events that took place at the time of his or her birth. Birthday parties are always made so colorful usually decorated with a lot of flowers, abundant food and drinks of various kinds depending on the person’s financial capability (Vogel, 1990). Historically the act of celebrating the days when people are born can be traced back to the early centuries when the Roman emperors used to organize banquets in remembrance of the days they were born. This celebration was by then a reserve for the royal families and very rich people of the time. However, today, most people celebrate their birthdays quite often. It is with the need to celebrate the day of birth of a prominent person in the society that they need to celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ arose is a prominent person in the Jewish history (Williamson, 2000). This paper will examine the linkages between the various themes brought out in Bret Harte’s short story the outcasts of poker Flat and the celebration of the Christmas holiday and the art of thanksgiving.

Even though Jesus himself did not celebrate any day to mark his birthday according to the living history to date, many people around the world celebrate the day in remembrance of him. The Christmas holiday has for a long time been celebrated by the Christendom to mark the birth of their savior Jesus Christ whom they claim to have been born on the same date in the early 31AD in one of the then most powerful European empires, the Roman Empire. These people believe that Jesus came...