and happiness, but is a celebration of a now fake,

commercialized, overweight Santa Claus. The idea of

eating yet another turkey dinner while watching a

forgettable Disney movie on television brings tears

of pain, not joy, to one's eyes. The main virtues of

the holidays have gone from an idealistic white

wonderland, to a migraine-causing festival of greed.

The Christmas of the past was once a beautiful

celebration of the birth of Christ. Families would

come together to enjoy the holidays together in a

peaceful, loving environment. Children ran around

in a pine scented home, clamoring over the presents

that Santa had brought the night before. The boys

enjoyed their Legos, G.I. Joes, and the lucky ones

got the most treasured of all gifts, the official Red

Ryder BB Gun. The girls also fussed over their Barbie

dolls and easy bake ovens. Also fathers all over

opened up their garage tools, just waiting to put

it to use and cut off their itching fingers. Money

was no problem back then because even if the family

clamoring over presents, but not from under a nice

blazing fire and watch a classic Christmas movie called

could also require big businesses to donate 5-10%

and shout if they don't have it at all. It is

mother and father will separate into different rooms

are having trouble making ends meet, how dare they not

also untouched new puppy. So what if their parents

control could help relieve some of the annoyances

honor. This is what Christmas has now become.

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)