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I would like to clarify further what spring break is
This is possible the greatest part of the year. No holiday nor celebration can truely compare. popular activities include drunken absurdity, drunken nudity, drunken swimming, drunken beach activities like volley ball and frisbee beer pong and wet t-shirt contests. Spring break is a period of time from march to early april where colleges all across the world from the US to china release school for a number of weeks. most K-12 schools try and get easter in their spring break and most colleges try and get St. Patricks day to land on spring break to lessen on campus partying. This Rite of passage finds its origins in Greek culture when Athens elders found that their youth became particularly frolicsome during this time. Socrates then proposed, and the Greeks adopted, a wild rite to welcome Spring and allow young people to vent their ingrained urges… and Spring Break was born. Immediately thereafter were heard the first complaints that these strange new rites were destructive of morals and caused undue hardship upon the local residents of the seaside towns in which the festivals were held. so shortly after this spring break ended. this led generations of protest. Then, in 1237, St. Adledkopf proposed a solution- what if the Church co-opted Spring Break? Taking the uninhibited, riotous celebration that Spring Break had become, and turning it into something mannered and decent, alas, turned out to be a pipe-dream.
All attempts at substituting good fellowship and worship for drunken bonhomie and cheap thrills failed. Other than Mardi Gras in New Orleans, America never really caught the Spring Break bug… until the First World War, when American Doughboys serving in France watched, wide-eyed with wonder, as the Europeans would temporarily halt Spring Offensives, and instead, party. Miraculously, scantily clad women would appear over the trenches, dancing and prancing about like nymphs… unfortunately, it was discovered that many, if not most, of these "ladies" were in fact men. America's farm boys and day laborers were horrified, and therefore made the phrase "Show us your tits!" a Spring Break staple (which has since been adopted by Mardi Gras). Florida became the focus of Spring Break in the 1970's. Warm weather, beautiful beaches, and alcohol meant that somebody was going to get naked. Soon Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Panama City Beach were famous for drink and debauchery. It was during this heyday that a particularly bad Spring Break ritual was begun. Locals called it "balcony diving." Drunk Spring Breakers would climb and swing from balcony to balcony on multi-storied hotel towers, looking for a party or a partner. Many fell to their deaths. Unfortunately, every year or two, some student finds the idea appealing and makes a terrible mistake. Spring Break improved dramatically in the Eighties. In a decade that glorified over-consumption, a yearly event that reveled in sex, drugs and drink was a sure-fire hit. More students than ever broke the bank, or their parents pocketbooks, and hustled a ride south. Moralists countered by offering planned activities- sporting events, dive trips, scavenger hunts, even church services. No one noticed. Breakers in the Nineties eased up a bit on the over-indulgence, but just a bit. Superclubs, MTV, and corporate sponsors livened things up with concerts, shows, and give-aways.. but the Breaker's focus remained the same- get drunk and get laid. The presence of so many television and video cameras during Spring Break meant two things… somebody was going to get naked, and somebody else would bitch about it. A few nationally spotlighted cases, and Panama City Beach and Spring Break were savaged in the media. Savvy locals knew what that meant… even more Breakers next year! And there you have it, the history of Spring Break. An honorable rite of ancient origin, one that you should proudly proclaim your part in, and whose traditions you should do your utmost to uphold. (thats all copy paste sry) Spring break is the best party in america hands down
Uni's round the world eh?
Funny thing is over here in the uk, were still mid term during march to early april.
This history sounds like stupidly romanticised literature found plastered to the back of a frat houses broken and beer stained front door.
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