英语母亲节2020[借鉴].pdfVIP

Mother ’s Day10th May. 2020 Part I: Mother ’s Day is a holiday honoringmotherhood （母 亲身份） that is observed in different forms throughout the world. In the United States, Mother ’s Day 2020 occurs on Sunday, May 10. The American incarnation （化 身 ） of Mother ’Days was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. Jarvis would later denounce （谴责）the holiday commercialization’s （商业 化） and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar. While dates and celebrations vary, Mother ’s Day traditionally involves presenting moms with flowers, cards and other gifts. Did you know? More phone calls are made on Mother ’ holiday chats with Mom often cause phone traffic to spike （数量激增） by as much as 37 percent. The official Mother ’s Day holiday arose in the 1900s as a result of the efforts ofAnna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis. Following her mother ’s 1905 death, Anna Jarvis conceived（构思）of Mother ’s Day as a way of honoring the sacrifices mothers made for their children. After gaining financial （金融的） backing （支持）from a Philadelphia department store owner named John Wanamaker, in May 1908 she organized the first official Mother ’Days celebration at a Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia. That same day also saw thousands of people attend a Mother Day event at one of Wanamaker retail’（零售的）s stores in Philadelphia. Following the success of her first Mother ’s Day, Jarvis — whole life resolved— （决定）to see her holiday added to the national calendar. Arguing that American holidays were biased （有偏见的） toward male achievements, she started a massive （强大的） letter