Saint Patrick's Day
Do you happen to know on which day of the year the whole world goes green? Saint Patrick's Day is originally an Irish holiday celebrated throughout the world. It is named after Saint Patrick, the most commonly recognized as the patron saint of Ireland for religious purpose. However, as time went by, many Irish people had immigrated to other countries and, as a part of the effort to keep their root, it became a festival to enjoy the Irish culture itself. Its celebration happens on the 17th of March every year with certain steps.
Firstly, and most importantly, you have to wear green! The color green is the symbol of Saint Patrick's Day and proper outfit is the most crucial thing for this holiday. Before its celebration, people buy green clothes, accessories, and lucky charms. Especially, T-shirts with funny St. Patrick's Day-related sayings are extremely popular: "Kiss me, I'm Irish!"
On the day of its celebration, people indulge themselves into the richness of Irish culture. Let alone the well-known Irish drinking culture, Irish culture has many different aspects, such as traditional food, music, and dance. During the day, streets and allies are packed with people attending parades and street performance that feature Irish music and dance. Attendees, regardless of their age, enjoy this joyful celebration altogether.
As it's mentioned that the drinking culture is one of the essential parts of the Irish culture, you cannot say that you celebrated St. Patrick's Day without drinking Irish beer. So, local pubs and bars serve all kinds of Irish beers, notably Guinness. Moreover, they even have green colored beer on the tap, and it's served in a gigantic glass, turning people's tongues green.
Although St. Patrick's Day started as a religious holiday, it has become on of the biggest festivals all around the world, which is commonly celebrated throughout the U.K, the U.S, New Zealand, Australia, and Argentina as well as its country of origin, Ireland. If you ever get the chance to visit one of those countries above, you should take part in this massive celebration because it is a rare chance to experience all aspects of the Irish culture that Irish descendants put enormous effort to preserve.
1. What I like about this piece of writing.
ReplyDeleteI like this writing because it gave me chance to learn about the Saint Patrick’s Day. I always did not know what exactly we do on Saint Patrick’s Day. But now I know what we do on the day. Also, it was well organized that I could see the information about the Saint Patrick’s Day on one sight.
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It seems to be about what People do on the Saint Patrick’s Day. You explain some of Irish cultures and related activities on the Day.
3. This particular words or lines struck me as powerful.
People indulge themselves into the richness of Irish culture: It could be expressed in a boring way that ‘Saint Patrick’s Day is full of Irish culture’ Instead, you used words like ‘indulge’, ‘richness of Irish culture’. These kinds of words gave me a feeling that the sentence is more academic.
4. Some things are not clear to me. These lines or parts could be improved.
Lucky charms: It is quite unfamiliar to me. It would be clear if you explain what exactly a lucky charm is.
Guinness: This was also unfamiliar to me. May be it would be easier for the readers to understand that if you explain that Guinness is a type of beer.
Its celebration happens on the 17th of March every year with certain steps: I expected that you were explaining some progress to take on the Saint Patrick’s Day because of the word ‘steps’. Instead, you listed what we do on that day. It would be better if you change the word ‘step’ to get rid of that kind of misunderstanding.
5. The one change you could make that would make the biggest improvement.
I notice that the introduction and the conclusion paragraphs are shorter than the body paragraphs. It would be more profound writing if you add some details that can extent the content of the body paragraphs.
1. Saint Patrick's Day is originally an Irish holiday celebrated throughout the world.
ReplyDelete2. That day is named after Saint Patrick, the Irish patron saint. The nation which has the Irish celebrates this day, 17th of March.
3. No.
4. In the body, at first, the writer talked about what we have to know or prepare for the day. Secondly, she dealt with how people enjoy the special day. Finally, she said the most remarkable thing in the day.
5. There are so many facts, definitions, or details such as “St. Patrick”, “Guinness”, and the countries which enjoy this festival, etc.
6. Yes. She gave the countries that enjoy this day and recommendation to enjoy the special day.
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ReplyDeleteDo you happen to know on which day of the year the whole world goes green? Saint Patrick’s Day is originally an Irish holiday celebrated throughout the world. It is named after Saint Patrick, the most commonly recognized as the patron saint of Ireland for religious purpose. However, as time went by, many Irish people had immigrated to other countries and, as a part of the effort to keep their root, it became a festival to enjoy the Irish culture itself. Its celebration happens on the 17th of March every year, and people celebrate it by wearing green, taking part in street parades, and drinking Irish beer.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, and most importantly, you have to wear green! Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St Patrick's Day as early as the 17th century. Saint Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity, and the ubiquitous wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs has become a feature of the day. In this sense, the color green became the symbol of Saint Patrick’s Day and proper outfit is the most crucial thing for this holiday. Before its celebration, people buy green clothes, accessories, and lucky charms. Parents buy their children something green, or their kids would get pinched at school. Especially, T-shirts with funny St. Patrick’s Day-related sayings are extremely popular: “Kiss me, I’m Irish!”
On the day of its celebration, people indulge themselves into the richness of Irish culture. Besides the well-known Irish drinking culture, Irish culture has many different aspects, such as traditional food, music, and dance. During the day, streets and allies are packed with people attending parades and street performance that feature Irish music and dance. Parades consist of Irish marching bands with drums and shamrock display. Attendees do a face painting of Irish national flag and shamrock. Regardless of their age, enjoy this joyful celebration altogether.
As it’s mentioned that the drinking culture is one of the essential parts of the Irish culture, you cannot say that you celebrated St. Patrick’s Day without drinking Irish beer. Perhaps it’s fair to say that there are more people pouring out to the streets at night for drinking. So, local pubs and bars welcome St. Patrick’s Day! They serve all kinds of Irish beers, notably Guinness. Guinness is the world famous dry stout beer that is commonly found in any pub, in any country, also in Korea. They even have green colored beer on the tap, and it’s served in a gigantic glass, turning people's tongues green.
Although St. Patrick’s Day started as a religious holiday, it has become on of the biggest festivals all around the world, which is commonly celebrated throughout the U.K, the U.S, New Zealand, Australia, and Argentina as well as its country of origin, Ireland. If you ever get the chance to visit one of those countries above, you should take part in this massive celebration because it is a rare chance to experience all aspects of the Irish culture that Irish descendants put enormous effort to preserve.