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 * COMPARATIVE ESSAY: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHRISTMAS IN MEXICO AND USA**

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving. Christmas came from an ancient Babylonian custom, and moved to Roma as the Christian holiday. Christmas day is on December 25th, when commemorating the bird of Jesus in Belen according to the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke. In Latin America Christmas Eve is celebrated especially on December 24th with a family dinner that is made from a variety of dishes, desserts, and traditional drinks. Nowadays, Christmas is the time of exchanging gifts, meetings and family meals. There are some differences and similarities between the way that Christmas is celebrated in Mexico and USA.

Christmas in Mexico is wonderful. People dinner with their family, they give gifts and all people greet. Mexicans usually eat at Christmas turkey, cod, romeritos, tamales, and punch. Likewise Christmas in USA it is time to be with friends and family. People share the love besides giving and receiving gifts. Americans tend to eat at Christmas turkey with cranberry sauce, cake, and pumpkin pie. In Mexico, people put in their houses a Nativity scene. That is where the children are going to look at the gifts they left Jesus child. Also nine days before December 24th, Mexicans celebrated holiday inn. It corresponds by tradition one of each family member. On the other hand Christmas trees are a tradition in USA. A lot of families placed a pine tree and decorated it with colored lights. On Christmas morning, the children wake up to find their gifts under the Christmas tree. For Americans, Christmas begins with the Thanksgiving Day and ends January 6th.

I prefer the way that Mexicans celebrated Christmas because they eat delicious food like tamales, cod, romeritos, doughnuts, champurrado, and punch prepared with seasonal fruits. Besides that they celebrated the famous lodges where they sing carols, pray, and break the piñata. The nicest thing is on December 24th when lulls the child Jesus and carols are sing. However Christmas is beautiful in any country when is celebrated in family.


 * NARRATIVE ESSAY:**

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eyes. H. Jackson Brown. I did not believe in love. I was superficial, immature, and played with the people's feelings. But all of that changed when I started dating with special boy. I had never met someone like him. Before my last relationship I used to be immature and bad but all of that changed when I met Geovanni who taught me what the love is.

Now I completely change. I am so happy because I know what love is. Also I know what the love implies, like respect, confidence, tolerance, maturity, and sincerity. I have learned that if I want love I have to give love and respect. My ex-boyfriend Geovanni taught me that love is the most beautiful feeling that exist. That is why I stop being immature and bad with the people.

When I met Geovanni, I changed my way of being and thinking. I stop being immature and shallow-minded. Nowadays, I respect the feelings of others. Because of him I know what love is, although we are not together. As a result I am mature and respectful in my relationships.


 * ESSAY**
 * Introduction:**

Who opens a school door, closes a prision. Victor Hugo. Education in Mexico has been damaged in the last years due to the lack of interest of students and the bad manage of the Secretariat of Public Education. Teachers should implement strategies to avoid the students leave the school and they are desinterested in study. Because students are leaving the schools, teachers should promote interest and knowledge, and put in practice their strategies, so that Mexico being stop one of the countries with less knowledge.

Teachers should promote interest and knowledge to students to prevent them abandon the school. Mexico thus stops being one of the countries with less knowledge. One of the reasons for the apathy in the study is demotivation of young, due to not getting the desired goals. For example, low grades, fail exams, or repeat the course. Some activities thet teachers can use in order to promote interest in the study are make classes more interactive, classes plan with specific goals, use music and sports.
 * Body:**

In conclusion, if teachers start to put in practice their strategies to avert students dropping out institutes, Mexico will be a country with knowledge. In fact, schools will not have defection. Young people would like to go to the school because they learn new things.
 * Conclusion:**


 * 8.-**

Going to the beach with friends is amazing. You can eat or drink all you want, and no one will say anything. Also I prefer to go to the beach with my friends because they like to do the same things as me. For example I like swimming in the sea, going dancing at night, dinking bear and watching the sunrise. Additionally I am going to go to the beach next summer with my friends and cousins.


 * 7.- Food**

I eat a delicious dessert in Chillis. My family and I went to celebrate my sister's birthday. I decided to order a vanilla ice cream. They served the vanilla ice cream over a hot tart of apples and hot caramel. When I tasted the dessert, I feel so excited because it was so delicious. As a result my mom and my niece ordered the same dessert as me. I had eaten desserts but I had never eaten a dessert like in Chillis.


 * 6.- Music**

I love the music and the singers. My favorite types of music are banda music and pop music because they have a good rhythm. The singers have a lot of talent, and each singer has his own style. My favorite singer is Edith Marquez, she sings very good and she has a deep voice. I would like to sing like she. In addition, sometimes the lyrics describe me bacause the songs says how I feel. I really love music because is a good way to express the fellings. **//__Try adding two or three more sentences and make sure you follow the MEAL plan.__//**


 * 5.- University Life**

University life it is a good experience because you meet __other__ persons, make friends, the teachers are good, and you can spend the __time__ while you are learning. Sometimes the university life is kind of difficult for people who __work__ because they do not have enough time to study, to do their homework or to have a social life. In my personal experience, my life as a university __student__ is fine __because__ I do not have to work in the afternoons, I do not have problems with the transportatio__n.__I love my carrer. Ocaccionally I feel sad because during all the week I do not see my family and I miss be with them, but I think that //is an// small sacrifice that I have to do to get my goal. I love the university, it is great and my life to.


 * 4.- Paragraph about me.**

I am from Villa Garcia Zacatecas, but I just go on weekends to see my family, my boyfriend and my friends. During the week I live in Aguascalientes. The Saturdays I take english class in Harmon Hall. In my free time I like to sing, to dance, to read, to sleep or watch tv. Now I take the bus to go to the university and I preparate my lunch. I would like focus my proyect in writing bec ause this subject is the most difficult for me. My mothers n ame is Hilda, she is a dentist but she works as a teacher of biology in a high school; my fathers name was Hector, he died five mounths ago. I have two siblings, the older is Ivan, he is 30 years old and he is an english teacher in a high school; his wife name is Vero, they have two children: Ximena of eigth and Ivan of five. Also I have a sister, her name is Liz, she is 26 years old, she has a daugther, her name is Camila. My sister works as a chemestry teacher in a secundary school. I like to live together with my family and Friends.


 * 3.- Past Experience**

When I was four years I went to the beach for the first time. It was a great experience because I went with all my family. I remember we went out from Villa Garcia at daybreak and we arriveded to Puerto Vallarta at the morning. I was so excited to meet the ocean so I put my swimsuit and I went to the beach with my mom, my dad, and my siblings. I got impressed and scared when I saw how big the ocean was but then I lost the fear and my dad took me to swim with him. I never goinq to forget my fist time in the beach.


 * 2.- Lifestyles**

Mexicans have different lifestyles. For example, the people who live in the city have a lot of public and private schools, they can transport by car, bus or another public trasportation. Also they have a different way to speak. The people who live in the country just have public schoolsand sometimes they do not have a good teachers; they transport by bike, wolk and sometimes by car. But all the people of the city and the country have something in commun: they are kind and happy, that is way I feel so proud to be a Mexican.


 * 1.- My Family**

I love my family because they are so close. On Sunday, all my family meet to lunch in the hause of my grandma, and I like to go because I see my cousings, my aunts, my uncles and my grandma. They are funny, they like to dance, sing, and joke. I always can count with them. My family is the most mportant to me.