父亲节英语作文精选一
Fathers Day is a holiday to celebrate fatherhood and parenting by males, just as Mothers Day celebrates motherhood. Typically giving gifts to fathers and celebrating as a family is the main event of the day. Fathers Day is celebrated on different days in different countries.
Fathers Day exists almost all over the world to honor and commemorate fathers or forefathers. In the Roman Catholic tradition, Fathers Day is
celebrated on Saint Josephs Day, March 19, though in most countries Fathers Day is a secular celebration.
In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by selling male-oriented gifts such as electronics and tools. Schools and other childrens programs commonly have activities to make Fathers Day gifts.
In the United States, the driving force behind the establishment of the
celebration of Fathers Day was Mrs Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Creston, Washington. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, as a
single parent raised his six children in Spokane, Washington. She was inspired by Anna Jarviss efforts to establish Mothers Day. Although she initially
suggested June 5, the anniversary of her fathers death, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. The first Fathers Day was
celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane.
Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. President Woodrow Wilson was personally feted by his family in 1916. President Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in
1924. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made Fathers Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
父亲节英语作文精选二
You know, Dad, there was a time when we were not only separated by the generation gap but completely polarized by it. You stood on one side of the Great Divide and I on the other, father and daughter split apart by age and experience, opinions, hairstyles, cosmetics, clothing, curfews, music, and boys.
The Father-Daughter Duel of ’54 shifted into high gear when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the ‘54 Chevy whether you liked it or not. The police officer who escorted me home after you reported the Chevy stolen late one evening was too young to understand father-daughter politics and too old to have much tolerance for a snotty 16 year old. You were so decent about it, Dad, and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.
Our relationship improved immensely when I married a man you liked, and things really turned around when we begin making babies right and left. We didn’t have a television set, you know, and we had to entertain ourselves somehow. I didn’t know what to expect of you and Mom as grandparents but I didn’t have to wait long to find out. Those babies adored you then just as they adore you now. When I see you with all your grandchildren, I know you’ve given them the finest gift a grandparent can give. You’ve given them yourself.
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