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  • Colors Of Mardi Gras
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    Tom Welch Service Article (revised) IT'S MARDI GRAS! Yes, New Orleans' famous Carnival season is this years' never-ending party and you " re invited. Mardi Gras, famous for its colorful and cultural parades, is an experience you can't go any longer w / out ! The Streets are packed with both tourists and Native Louisianans as they celebrate Mardi Gras in full color and sound... The Huge Parades come flashing down the street we fresh music, an explosion of lights, and spectacular floats. Everyone ...
  • Revival Of A Citywide Mardi Gras Celebration
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    Mardi Gras, literally "Fat Tuesday", has grown in popularity in recent years as a raucous's ome times hedonistic event. Buts its roots lie in the Christian calendar, as the "last hurrah" before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. That is why the enormous ends abruptly at midnight on Tuesday. There are well-known season-long Carnival celebrations in Europe and Latin America, including Nice, France; Cologne, Germany; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The best known celebration in the United States is in New O...
  • New Orleans People In Guyana
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    The smell of stale beer in the air, loud music everywhere, people shouting and laughing having a good 'ole time is what carnival, better known as Mashumani is like in Guyana. When it's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, however, broken beads and trash are all over the ground, and everywhere one looks he / she sees someone taking off some type of clothing for some beads. Unlike in New Orleans people in Guyana know how to have fun with out taking off their clothes. I am a native of Guyana, South America, ...
  • The Carnival On Mardi Gras In New Orleans
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    This paper is about Mardi Gras, A festival or Carnival celebrated once a year. In this paper I will discuss how Mardi Gras originated, when it is celebrated, how it is celebrated, and what does it mean to all the different cultures. Mardi Gras, in the French speaking parts of the world and in some US southern states is the last day of carnival festivities preceding Lent, the time of penitence observed by Christians in preparation for Easter. Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday") is a French term for Shrove...
  • Spirit Of Mardi Gras
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    It's marvelous, magical, mirthful, magnificent. It's Mardi Gras. After Christmas each year, the people of southern Louisiana begin their celebration of Carnival, an exuberant explosion of parades and parties that reaches its grand climax on Mardi Gras. Many people think that Mardi Gras is just another name for Carnival, but the terms have different meanings. Mardi Gras, which is French for Fat Tuesday, refers to only one day. Carnival, on the other hand, refers to the entire period from Twelfth ...

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