Mother’s Day

With today being Mother’s Day, I though it would be interesting to see if it is celebrated outside of the US. It turns out that it is widely celebrated around the world. Here in America we normally get together and have some sort of picnic, brunch, make our mother’s breakfast in bead, and so on. Children and Father’s get together to make the day special for mothers all around.

Personally, I made my mom a card with a promise to take her out to eat whenever she wants. My dad brought donuts home and we went to the park to meet the rest of the family. We all played horse shoes and botchy ball and had fun spending time with one another.

This got me wondering about how other countries celebrate it, so I thought I would look into the Philippines. “Mother’s day is extraordinarily revered and therefore it is celebrated throughout the country with utmost zeal”. Mother’s Day is a big deal in the Philippines. From my personal experiences with one of my best friend’s (who is from the Philippines) family, they value family above almost everything if not everything. They have a huge celebration in the Philippines where they celebrate their mother’s and grandmother’s.

They start the day by having mass. They then give their mother’s a day of relaxation and pampering in order to celebrate them as the ““ilaw ng tahanan“, which means the light of the house”

It is very interesting to me that other countries celebrate Mother’s Day on the same day that we do. It is an international holiday, we all think that it is important to celebrate the women that gave us life and raised us.

Mother’s Day is a day dedicated to celebrating women. This shows how important women are to us. There is also Father’s Day in a few month’s, but in my experience, there is always more emphasis around Mother’s Day. Women are incredibly influential in our lives, making us want to celebrate and pamper them.

I personally believe that we underappreciate our moms. We give them this one day where we pamper them, but they gave us life, changed our diapers, and raised us to be the people we are. I know that I have been greatly influenced by my mother, so even if they deserve so much more, I am glad that mothers are celebrated around the world.

Oral History

After just finishing my interview I can say that I learned some things that I did not know and really enjoyed talking to my Uncle about his calling people and reminding them to vote. He explained to me that he has probably called about 800-900 people in his time doing this and that about 10% of them he thinks are truly reminded by the phone calls. We talked about the fact that it is sad how few people vote in elections.

We talked about how important it is to vote, so many people think that their votes don’t really matter, but if all of those people that don’t vote went and voted for the same person, that person would WIN the election. We talked about how people should call all the people who don’t vote and ask why in order to be able to get more voters out there.

He talked about how he thinks that calling people is beginning to be obsolete because there are so many better ways to get to people, plus talking to an answering machine half the time is not very encouraging. As technology has advanced, so have the ways in which we get our information and communicate.

He thought it was interesting how it seems as though more and more people are becoming involved politically, but there are still so many people not voting.

We talked about how other forms of advertisement, such as signs in people’s lawns are useful as well, especially in local elections. You are more likely to vote for the person that you see all the signs for if you don’t know any of them. People want to be right, so when everyone else is voting for one person, they might want to vote for them as well.

We also talked about the wording of propositions and how a lot of times they are worded in strange ways, so no means yes and yes means no in some cases. This can be very confusing and lead to problems when voting, they should be better explained in the ballots so that the average person would be able to understand what is being asked of them.

I am planning on taking this paper in the direction of the importance of voting. It is incredible how many people abstain from voting, it is quite sad actually. Some think that the electoral college rigs the vote, but I think those people don’t understand that without it, the smaller states would get almost no representation compared to the larger states.

I am going to research the voting trends and how many people vote in different elections, federal, state, and local. I want to see how these have changed throughout recent years and talk about what can be done to possibly fix the lack of eligible voters who actually get out there and let their voices be heard.