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Emily is a teenager and lives with her parents. She and her best friend, Kim, find out that their favorite band will give a concert in their town on Friday night. They really want to go, but they do not think their parents will let them.
Emily always asks her parents about the things that she wants to do, and they listen to what she has to say, so she decides to do the same thing this time. She explains that she wants to go to the concert with Kim, but her parents think that she is too young to go without an adult.
Emily tells Kim that she cannot go to the concert, but her friend’s answer is a real surprise to Emily. Kim tells her that she should just lie to her parents. “I asked my mom for permission to go and study with friends on Friday. But I will really go to the concert! She does not need to know,” Kim says.
Emily does not know what to say. She is always very honest with her parents, and they are fair in their decisions. Emily has never felt comfortable lying, and her parents always tell her that it is wrong.

“I really do not want to be dishonest with my parents,” Emily tells her friend.

“Oh, stop acting like a little kid! Everyone lies,” Kim replies.

But Emily is not so sure. She thinks that honesty is very important.
On Thursday, Kim invites Emily over to her house to watch a movie after school. When they get there, Kim and her mother get into a fight. Emily realizes that Kim lies to her mother all the time, and her mother does not trust her. Emily thinks this is terrible. She sits uncomfortably on the couch as Kim and her mother fight most of the afternoon.
As she sits there, Emily remembers that Kim always tells her how terrible her relationship with her mother is. Kim thinks her mother does not understand her, but Emily thinks maybe Kim’s mother is just tired of Kim being dishonest with her.
As she walks home, Emily decides she will not lie to her parents about the concert. There will be lots of concerts in the future, but these are the only parents she will ever have. She knows it is better to honor them and help them so that they can have a good relationship. Because her parents trust her, they let her do most of the things that she wants to do, and she really prefers it that way

Easter in Armenia
The feast of Holy Resurrection is also called Easter, which means deliverance, deliverance from sins and returns to God. Easter is considered to be one of the greatest holidays of the Old and the New Testament.

Easter is a holiday, meaning it has no fixed day to celebrate. It is celebrated every year on the spring equinox, the next Sunday of the moon, that is, always after March 22, for 35 days on the Sunday following that year of the corresponding moon. All the excitement of the last week of the Lent, the festive excitement was to be enjoyed today, and indeed, they were fully compensated. The Easter bunny, who was swallowed, is lucky. whoever slept that day would be deprived of fortune. But who are you? work and joy were in full swing. All the preparations for the Easter holiday were seen, but they were not over yet. The Easter sacrifice, which was called “stables” almost everywhere, was watched by the righteous people chosen by the community, and the young people gathered around the boilers playing the most favorite Easter game – the egg. Eggs were different, but the most popular forms were:

France

Easter egg hunt
Once the bells have returned, the traditional Easter egg hunt begins inside and outside the house. Lucky little kids get to go to Easter egg hunts in large castles, like the Château Vaux-le-Vicomte near Paris. Their annual Easter egg hunt is widely considered one of the best, where children hunt for eggs in the acres of gardens, ride on ponies and hunt for a giant one-metre tall chocolate squirrel.

Russia

Easter or the Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of Christ is one of the most important holidays of all the Christians in the world. According to church rules. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the spring full moon from March 21 to April 26. This year the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates Easter on April 12. The Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of Christ was celebrated with delightful event at High School of Northern University. High school pupils led by history teacher N. Simonyan presented a meaningful  and informative event dedicated to Easter

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Easter or the Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of Christ is one of the most important holidays of all the Christians in the world. According to church rules. Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the spring full moon from March 21 to April 26. This year the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates Easter on April 12. The Feast of the Glorious Resurrection of Christ was celebrated with delightful event at High School of Northern University. High school pupils led by history teacher N. Simonyan presented a meaningful  and informative event dedicated to Easter.

Easter in Germany

While Easter Sunday is not a public holiday, it is categorized as a silent day (stiller Tag) in all or part of Germany. In some states, special restrictions may apply for certain types of activities, such as concerts or dance events. Depending on the state, businesses may follow normal or restricted opening hours, or they may be closed for the day.

Spain

Easter is one of the most celebrated religious holidays in the world and marks the resurrection of Jesus after the crucifixion. In Spain it is celebrated with public holidays on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Monday.

 Brazil

Easter in Brazil, a country with one of the world’s largest Catholic populations, tends to revolve around religious celebrations and family and, of course, Easter eggs. This year, Easter falls on April 1 – another significant day for all the jokers out there – which is the first Sunday after the full moon of the Spring Equinox (when the Brazilian autumn season begins) as based on the lunar calendar. Let’s take a closer look at how Easter is celebrated in Brazil.

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We all know the stories. The princess falls in love with the prince. He rescues the damsel in distress from the tower or the dragon or the wicked queen … or anything at all really. The plot in many fairy tales relies on a woman in trouble needing a brave, strong man to rescue her.

I loved Disney as a child, and I still do, but it is clear that stories such as Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are based on gender stereotypes. They show children that women spend their time looking pretty, cooking and cleaning and that women need a man to look after them. These ideals are old-fashioned and outdated.  I personally would feel uncomfortable teaching these values to children – boys or girls.

Luckily, Disney has clearly seen that their female characters were weak and helpless and their new films feature strong female characters. Tangled, which tells Disney’s story of Rapunzel, was released in 2010. Rapunzel is an intelligent and creative 18 year old who asks a man to help her to visit the kingdom. Although he is helping her, she also helps and saves him. She uses her intelligence and people skills to save him from a group of criminals, and she uses her magic to heal him when he is hurt.

Disney’s award winning film Frozen was released in 2013. Based on Hans Christian Anderson’s story The Snow Queen, it tells of a young girl, Elsa. Elsa can make it snow and turn water to ice. When she starts an eternal winter, it is her sister, Anna, who decides to save the kingdom.  When Anna’s heart is frozen, an act of true love is needed to save her. We immediately think of true love’s kiss. In the end, the act of true love which saves Anna is her decision to give up her life for Elsa.

The females in these stories are intelligent, brave and adventurous. They are better role models for young girls and show children that girls can be heroes too. Disney’s choice to show strong, independent females working together with men shows the progress which has been made in gender equality. Hopefully, through efforts such as this, the idea that a man always rescues the woman will not be passed on to future generations.

Easter or “Zatik” in Armenia is one of the most colorful, joyful celebrations of the year.

Easter falls on Sunday, April 12, 2020. Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon.
Speaking about the traditional Easter food in Armenia we should mention that Armenian women bake a cake with white flavoring, which symbolizes purity, make fried fish, herbs of different kinds, boil and paint eggs in different colors, rice with raisins and what not.