The document discusses different traditions and celebrations of Christmas and New Year's around the world. It describes how Christmas is celebrated in America with a focus on Santa Claus, versus traditions in the author's family in Slovenia which focus more on decorating trees and spending time with family. It also provides details on the origins of Santa Claus and compares the depictions of Santa Claus versus Saint Nicholas. The document concludes by noting various calendar new year traditions in different cultures and religions, and describes how the author celebrates New Year with family.

1. Liza Mohorič 8.D

2. Christmas is a religious holiday, celebrated on 25th December goats commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ .

3. More recently, another form of exercise also celebrate Christmas, not affiliated with Christianity. Let's call it the American Christmas, because it came to us from America. The central figure of this form of celebration of Christmas is SantaClaus who brings gifts. American Christmas is a very consumer-oriented holiday, connected by buying gifts, writing cards, Christmas trees and decorations.

5. I n my family celebrated Christmas a little differently. We p lace the Christmas tree and decorate it . We c ook dinner and invite other family members. T hen we play games .

6. Santa Claus is a modern mythological figure who hired children in the night before Christmas (from 24thto December 25th). In 1931 Haddon Sundblom, the illustrator by Coca-Cola first drew Santa in red clothes with white trim. This image is about to become the global standard for Santa Claus .

7. Home: Santa Claus lives at the North Pole Date: Santa hired kids on Christmas morning - 25 December. Clothes: He wears red clothes with white fur trim. Escorts: accompanied by dwarfs. Transportation: when you arrive, the sled by the air pushed reindeer. The first in a sled is Rudolf.

8. Home: Living under Triglav in Kekec country. Date: Children hired before the new year or Christmas morning in the domestic circle. Clothing: He is dressed in sheep's fur coat with the Slovenian samples in hand the walking stick Escorts: Typically, no escorts, but may be accompanied by elves, animals and snowflake. Transportation: when you arrive with a horse-drawn sleigh.

9. Home: Nicholas is a saint and lives in heaven Date: 6th hired Kids December morning. Clothing: Saint Nicholas was a bishop, so he dressed in a bishop's liturgical garments, the head of a bishop's hat in his hand and episcopal stick. Escorts: accompanied by angels and hooves (the devil). Transportation: St. Nicholas comes to us on foot or on the sleigh (but not retrieved by reindeer, but usually horse-drawn carriages).

10. New Year is usually a public holiday, which marks the beginning of a new calendar year. In the Gregorian calendar,which applies in most of the world, this first in January. In Roman times it was the beginning of the first in March. In the Julian calendar used by the Orthodox Church New Year's 14th in January. Islamic New Year starts on thesolar west 30th in January. Jewish new year begins at West 22nd solar in September. In Slovenia, the New Year a national holiday, celebrated, as well as some other countries, in second in January.

11. I celebrated New Year with family and family friends. We eat dinner first and then we play board games. Children always prepare a puppet show and we get some candy. W hen the clock is almost midnight, we go out, toast with our neighbors and look at the firework.