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Fourth Of July Every year since I was 3 years old, my family and I always go to the Balloon Fiesta here in Albuquerque. Every year when it comes around the Fourth Of July, we always make plans to go to the Balloon Fiesta. We love to watch artists come to perform. Each  year is a country singer who comes. My family and I love country, it's a genre I grew up with. We still go the the Balloon Fiesta even after my mother passed. That was our thing to do together as a family. We always got stuff to play with and all of us always wore matching Fourth Of July shirts. It was the best part of my childhood, I always looked forward to Fourth Of July. When it's that time of the year, we get there early and always sit in the same place every year with our blankets and chairs. Then go get corn on the cob, snow cones, turkey leg, and kettle corn. Those were our go to food to snack on while watching the concerts and waiting for the fireworks to come on. This is my tradition.  ...

Skinwalker This skin walker  legend comes from Native Americans. The term "yee naaldooshii" which means "with it, he goes on all fours". A skin walker is a type of harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal. For the Navajo People, witchcraft is just another part of their spirituality and one of the "ways" of their lives. Witchcraft has long been part of their culture, history, and tradition. Witches exist alongside humans, and are not supernatural. Often skinwalkers are claimed as a medicine man or which who has the highest power in the tribe. These people who have such power use it to their advantage of the power of evil by taking the form of an animal to inflict pain and suffering on others. To become a skinwalker it requires the most evil of deeds, such as the killing of a close family member. These are often called evil witches to Native Americans. As a child, I was told that they disguise the...

Danny Elfman Danny Elfman plays the lead role of my favorite movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas. He was born May 29, 1953 in Los Angeles California. He's an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was first known while playing in a band in 1974 to 1995, it was called "Oingo Bingo". He is known for scoring films and television shows such as the Simpsons theme which he wrote in 1989. His first was "Forbidden Stone", which was produced by his older brother Richard Elfman. In 1985 Tim Burton invited Danny Elfman to write their first film "Pee-wee's Big Adventure". He used his experience with "Oingo Bingo" to conduct and make his music for certain films. He achieved his goal of emulating the mood of composers that he looked up to such as Nino Rota, and Bernard Herrmann. In the making of Tim Burton's film, he was provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in "The Nightmare Before Chris...

Clothing Donation For The Need Personally the struggles I face with this organization is not getting enough donations and people stealing our donations. The problems that my friends face when helping me with this organization is not having people interested in donating for those in need. We have over thousands of people who work for this company. We have over 15 organizations in the U.S. These issues are easily shown because we barely have anything in our donation boxes. A way that we can fix this solution is by influencing the community more by being firm with them and telling real life stories from people who struggle with this source of need. To get people to realize that donating those to people in need is very important and would help a lot of people out there who need clothes or can't afford a new certain clothing. Such as shirts, pants, jackets, shoes, and socks. This should encourage the community to help out and get children and adults new things. There are othe...