English and Civics and Ethics.

Subject: English and Civics and Ethics.

Name of the teacher: CFP and CVA.

Student Name: BMLP.

Grade and group: 3 ° “H “.

Hi I just came to this country I call Antonio and I come from France, I heard since I arrived heard anything about the day of dead, I could explain well what is that?

Hello my name is Marvin , of course I look at the Day of the Dead is a Mexican celebration that honors the dead on November 2 , starting from November 1 , and coincides with the Catholic celebrations of All Souls Day and All Santos . The festivities were dedicated to the celebration of the lives of deceased relatives.

Antonio: And what are its origins?

Marvin: The origins of the celebration of the Day of the Dead in Mexico predate the arrival of the Spanish. There are records of Mexican ethnic celebrations, Maya, Purepecha and Totonac. Rituals celebrating the life of the ancestors in these civilizations are made from at least three thousand years ago. In the prehispanic era it was common practice to keep skulls as trophies and display them during the rituals to symbolize death and rebirth.

Antonio: What’s the occasion?

Marvin: The offerings include varied elements which for the most part, are taken or made from that provided by the natural environment. The traditional dishes offered up to the dead are almost always based on lentils, nopales, tamales, and hawthorn and sweet pumpkin, accompanied by pulque or drinks like rum, without missing waxes and candles, bread flower dead the most common is dead flower cempaxuchitl, confetti and hat shawl or deceased.

The rural people also bear flowers and light in their sails, the fruits of the earth and the elements of enjoyment for the deceased, confetti ornaments, drinking fluids, from the purest and comforting to the most delicious and intoxicating, without let the atolls, the land with grain products, fruits and flowers or the fire that rips coal, to burn incense, or stewing defunct preferences devotion.

If the dead is eaten or not so hard that he has prepared no matter, the fact is that you know that you wanted and washed tombs , even once a year , with endless flow of tears shed in the cemetery .

On the afternoon of the first day there is a mass in the church attended by the majority of the people of the neighborhood, downtown and some neighborhoods of the town.

Antonio: I have heard of Halloween and is very similar; you know what the difference between Halloween and the Day of the Dead?

Marvin: of course look at the Halloween originated from the day of witches, in which people dressed monsters and stuff like that to scare off witches and spells Lazaran prevent them, for which it has become a celebration purely commercial, with no trace of the actual celebration more than the costumes.

And the Day of the Dead is a Mexican celebration mainly dating from

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