St. Valentine's Day
Love is one of the most important things in our lives. It's very pity, but we have only one day in a year, when we can celebrate love's day. It's St.Valentine's Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of February. There are many phrases about love:"Love's eyes see love everywhwre", "Love's home is in heaven","Love can be sad, but patient" and so on. Every year, a week before the 14th of February we rush to shops to buy some cards. On Valentine's Day we send them and anonymous love letters to our good friends, and give each other small presents. Sometimes we want to change our handwritings, but it's very difficult, because this person who gets a letter, knows from others who wrote it. Valentine's Day is very popular at our school. Every year we have great parties in it. Our lessons are very short and during the breaks we can listen to music, we have a chance to greet our teachers too. Everybody is happy on this day. But the most interesting moment is during the lessons. Then we wait for the student's from other clases and when all people are gathered we begin to play funny games and dance.
Sometimes when we need more tasks for our games, we like to choose a girl or a boy who can tell us the best story or a poem about love. When he recites a poem, we give a present to this person, whose story or poem was the most interesting, stutting or very happy. We can spend our time greatly, but we have one reason, why we can't do this so fine, because evening is not so long, and when we begin to celebrate our parties, the hours pass like few minutes. But we are glad, what we do, and we all wish to others to spend St. Valentine's Day so great like we.
Love is one of the most important things in our lives. It's very pity, but we have only one day in a year, when we can celebrate love's day. It's St.Valentine's Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of February. There are many phrases about love:"Love's eyes see love everywhwre", "Love's home is in heaven","Love can be sad, but patient" and so on. Every year, a week before the 14th of February we rush to shops to buy some cards. On Valentine's Day we send them and anonymous love letters to our good friends, and give each other small presents. Sometimes we want to change our handwritings, but it's very difficult, because this person who gets a letter, knows from others who wrote it. Valentine's Day is very popular at our school. Every year we have great parties in it. Our lessons are very short and during the breaks we can listen to music, we have a chance to greet our teachers too. Everybody is happy on this day. But the most interesting moment is during the lessons. Then we wait for the student's from other clases and when all people are gathered we begin to play funny games and dance.
Sometimes when we need more tasks for our games, we like to choose a girl or a boy who can tell us the best story or a poem about love. When he recites a poem, we give a present to this person, whose story or poem was the most interesting, stutting or very happy. We can spend our time greatly, but we have one reason, why we can't do this so fine, because evening is not so long, and when we begin to celebrate our parties, the hours pass like few minutes. But we are glad, what we do, and we all wish to others to spend St. Valentine's Day so great like we.
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Valentine's Day postcard, circa 1910
Modern times
The reinvention of Saint Valentine's Day in the 1840s has been traced by Leigh Eric Schmidt.[26] As a writer in Graham's American Monthly observed in 1849, "Saint Valentine's Day... is becoming, nay it has become, a national holyday."[27] In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828-1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father operated a large book and stationery store, but Howland took her inspiration from an English valentine she had received, so clearly the practice of sending Valentine's cards had existed in England before it became popular in North America. The English practice of sending Valentine's cards appears in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mr. Harrison's Confessions (published 1851). Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary." The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[28] The mid-nineteenth century Valentine's Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the United States to follow.[29]
In the second half of the twentieth century, the practice of exchanging cards was extended to all manner of gifts in the United States, usually from a man to a woman.Such gifts typically include roses and chocolates packed in a red satin, heart-shaped box. In the 1980s, the diamond industry began to promote Valentine's Day as an occasion for giving jewelry. The day has come to be associated with a generic platonic greeting of "Happy Valentine's Day." As a joke, Valentine's Day is also referred to as "Singles Awareness Day." In some North American elementary schools, children decorate classrooms, exchange cards, and eat sweets. The greeting cards of these students often mention what they appreciate about each other.
The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards.
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listen to music,go to the scout,I go out my boy,go to he gym...I like shopping and I'm talkative...In my family they are composed the 5 person:my mother Renata,my father Matteo and 2 my sister Laura and Giulia in the end I...We live in suburb in Alcamo...
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my name is Alessia,I'm 15.I live in Grisi',it's small city..I like shopping,listen the music,watch tv and go out with my friends..I don't like play footbaal and play tennis..My family is composed by 6 people:my father,my mather,my two sisters,my brother and I..My father's name is Vincenzo,my mather's name is Giovanna,my sister's name is Giusy and Cristina,my brother's name is Giovanni.
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Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The holiday is named after two among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines." Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.[1] The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th-century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.[2]
The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend in average twice as much money as women... -lorena-
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