Eng II Period 6 | Valentine's Day Article Reflection by Christina Zacharias https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection Read "Valentine's Day, So Lucrative for Businesses, has a Naughty History" http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-valentines-day-history-business-20170214-story.html. Write in complete sentences using proper grammar and sentence structure. (1) Provide an overview of the article (what is it about in your own words?) (2) How did Valentine's Day originate? (3) Why is a holiday like this one excellent for businesses? // Write in complete sentences and defend your answer by providing quotes/textual support from the article. Reference the author when you discuss the article (David Lazarus). This will be graded. en-us 2018-02-14 14:20:12 UTC 2018-02-15 18:49:52 UTC hello@padlet.com Valentine's Day vincent_manguno https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231569690 1. The article tells us the origin of Valentine's Day and how people celebrated the holiday.
2. It traced back all the way to ancient Rome where they celebrated it by getting naked, sacrificing, goats, and using it's stripped skin to whip nearby women. “We call this the invention of tradition."
3. During this holiday billions of dollars are spent on cards, chocolates, and etc.]]> 2018-02-14 16:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231569690 Valentine's Day nathaniel_alperi https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231665375 1. The article talked about the orgins of Valentines day along with how the Romans celebrated the holiday. It also talked about how much money is spent on valentines day gifts. 
2. Valentine's day originated in Ancient Rome where the men would get naked, sacrifice a goat, and us it's skin to whip women. 
3. During the holiday billions of dollars are spent on cards, chocolate, jewelry and other things.  ]]> 2018-02-14 19:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231665375 Valentine's Day otis_mcduffie https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231666462 1. The articles talks about the history of Valentine's Day and how it came to be.
2. Valentine's Day started in the roman empire days. Men would strip naked and sacrifice goats. The men would whip women with the dead goat skin. The St. Valentine story took over later
3. Advertisement, and buying cards and commercial produces lots and lots of money. ]]> 2018-02-14 19:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231666462 Valentine's Day megan_guthrie https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231667271 1. The article gives insight on the origin and traditions of Valentine's Day.
2. It is traced back to Roman citizens who sacrificed goats and whipped women with the dead goat skin. Then St. Valentine's story took over.
3. It is a holiday involving buying gifts and cards from business' that can mass produce the same product, Hallmark.]]> 2018-02-14 19:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231667271 Valentine's Day emelia_chatfield https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670429 1. This article shows how Valentine's Day have history behind it and how the traditions of how the Roman use to celebrate it. 
2. Valentine's Day originate from the Roman men who get naked and sacrificed goats and and take the strips of the goats skin and whip the women."This involved men getting naked, sacrificing goats and then using strips from the skins to chase and whip nearby women, thereby improving the women’s fertility." (David Lazarus)
3. This holiday is good for business because so much people spend billions of money on gifts and etc. ]]> 2018-02-14 19:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670429 Valentine's Day Article mateo_ramirez1 https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670580 1. The article talks about the commercialization and history of Valentines Day and how strange and different the history is.
2. Valentines day originated from the Roman people when in the middle of February they would run naked and put goat skin on women.
3.The people who celebrate it use the opportunity to buy cards, jewelry, clothes, and candy and gain millions and billions.]]> 2018-02-14 19:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670580 Valentines Day maximo_gomez https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670629 1.The article giver a basic origin and modern day of valentines day.
2.Valentines day started back to Rome when they sacrifice goat ans whipped women with the skin. 3.It is excellent for business because guys trip of women and try to spoil them with jewelry. ]]> 2018-02-14 19:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670629 Valentine's Day hannah_furshman https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670630 1. The article is giving showing the reader the history behind Valentine's day. 
2. Valentine's Day came from  roman CItizens. Eventually, St. Valentine, who was a victim of love, also added to the holiday. 
3. This holiday includes buying gifts and cards which helps business' such as Hallmark that can sell the same product, quickly and efficiently, multiple times. ]]> 2018-02-14 19:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670630 Valentines Day xavier_miot https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670639 1. The article talks about valentines day and where it came form, and as well as the traditions
2. It is traced back to people of Rome who sacrificed goats and more.  The story of St. Valentine took over after the sacrificing of goats and what not.
3. This holiday is good for business because the holiday is about love, whether they love their mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, wife, girlfriend, etc they will show their love.]]> 2018-02-14 19:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670639 Article Reflection cody_benton1 https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670657 1. The article gives information about the origin of Valentine's Day.

2. The article said it originated from the Roman people. The Saint Valentine and the other Valentines also contributed to this holiday.

3. Companies can produce the products people would buy during Valentine's Day.
]]> 2018-02-14 19:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670657 Valentin's Day brianna_durandisse https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670826 1. The article talks about the history of Valentine's Day. Going from a day of sex, wine and violence to being an ideal day for businesses to make money.
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3.]]> 2018-02-14 19:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670826 Article Reflection conor_cameron https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670849 1. Gives the place of origin and time period Valentine's Day started.
2. It goes back to Rome when men run around naked and whop women with goat skin.
3. Valentine's Day is the buying of love cards, balloon, teddy bears and jewelry that only produce same thing.]]> 2018-02-14 19:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670849 Valentine's Day Article matthew_dorcinvil https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670861 1. The article  informs the reader of how Valentine's Day originally began.
2. Valentine's Day originated in Rome when they would drink wine.
3. This holiday is excellent for businesses because people around the world will flock to buy Valentine gifts for their significant other. ]]> 2018-02-14 19:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231670861 Ethan Corbijn ethan_corbijn https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231671254 The article taught me a lot about Valentine's Day that I never knew. It originated from. Valentine's day originated from the Roman, and it gets a lot of money from all the advertisements . ]]> 2018-02-14 19:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231671254 Valentines Day kaya_ables https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231671596 1. The article is about the origination of Valentine's Day.
2. It is traced back to the Roman Citizens by sacrificing goats and whipped women with the goat skin.
3. It lets big companies advertise and sell a lot of products that have to do with romance.]]> 2018-02-14 19:11:20 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231671596 Valentines Day nathanlittle https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231671813 1. The article provides information about the history of valentines day and how it originated. It tells about the strange back story of it.
2.It originated from the Romans when they sacrificed a goat and hit women with the goat skin.
3. It involved]]> 2018-02-14 19:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231671813 Valentine's Day william_walker1 https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231672001 1. The article gives a overview of the history of Valentine's Day and how it evolved from the Roman Lupercalia. It then goes on a overview about our spending on Valentine's and how it has changed.
2. It started with Lupercalia where  Romans would run and around and whip women in wolf masks.
3. This holiday is great because it has become a requirement for all couples or spouses.]]> 2018-02-14 19:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231672001 Valentine's day keddie_vales https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231672390 1. The article compares Valentine's day back then to Valentine's day now .
2. Many historians agree that Valentine’s Day can be traced back to ancient Rome when, in the middle of February, the toga crowd celebrated Lupercalia.
3. Modern Americans will spend $18.2 billion expressing their ardor by the end of Tuesday, or an average $136.57 per lover, according to the National Retail Federation. That’s down a bit from last year, when rising consumer optimism caused Valentine’s Day spending to hit a record $19.7 billion.



]]> 2018-02-14 19:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231672390 Valentine's Day mackenzie_falla https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231673104 I think that Valentine's day should not be a holiday. Saint Valentine was a Roman Citizen and he did great things but so did many other saint and they don't have a holiday named after them. Many people make a lot of money for there businesses because everyone want to buy something for their girlfriends, boyfriends, or their friends. ]]> 2018-02-14 19:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231673104 marius_lambert https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674642 We use a lot of money on valentin s day.
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]]> 2018-02-14 19:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674642 Valentine's Day pierrivena_jean https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674696 1. The article shows us how Americans make holidays a big deal, the articles explains the actual history of Valentines Day. 
2. Ancient Rome when the toga crowd celebrated Lupercalia. This involved men getting naked, sacrificing goats and then using strips from the skins to chase and whip nearby women, thereby improving the women’s fertility. 
3. The holiday brings in Billions of dollars due to people having dinners, or buying there partner gifts. e\g ]]> 2018-02-14 19:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674696 Valentine's day jet_lica https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674734 The article talks and compares valentines day way back when and now.]]> 2018-02-14 19:17:09 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674734 v shai_aroshas https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674934 the article discusses the history of valentines day and how it originated.
it was a business of real lovers and there was sweetness under its delicate shy disguise.
$4.3 billion on jewelry, $3.8 billion on an evening out, $2 billion on flowers, $1.9 billion on clothing, $1.7 billion on candy, $1.4 billion on gift cards and gift certificates and $1 billion on cards.]]> 2018-02-14 19:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/christina_zacharias/EngIIPer6_ValentinesDayReflection/wish/231674934