Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees. (1-4) August 6‚ 1930: “They got me up to the tree and they got a rope and they put it around my neck. And they began to push me under the tree. And that’s when I prayed to God. I said‚ ’Lord have mercy‚ forgive me my sins.’ I was ready to die.” This what James Cameron was saying when he was going to be the next victim of the Indiana
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“Strange Fruit Analysis” In response to the terrible act of lynchings‚ a poem was written in protest to the terrible acts. The poem “Strange Fruit”‚published in 1939‚ and written by Abel Meeropol and popularized by Billie Holiday is a poem that was written in protest to lynchings. Abel Meeropol was a teacher‚ poet‚ and social activist who was haunted by pictures of lynchings‚ which is when a mob takes black men who have been accused of wrongdoing‚ and usually hang them. The pictures haunted him
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Dealing with Strangers in Strange Lands The book‚ A Land so Strange‚ tells of an expedition of 300 men‚ women‚ and enslaved Africans who set sail from Spain in 1528 under the leadership of Pánfilo de Narváez with the dream of settling Florida. Yet‚ a hurricane‚ lost ships‚ navigational errors‚ leadership follies‚ and challenges from Indians well capable of holding off would-be European conquest added up to a colossal disaster. Expedition members ended up wandering along the Gulf Coast before
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the most is Strange Tools by Richard Rodriguez. It is a literacy narrative about a boy being introduced to the world of literature and how it progressed and changed his life. The thesis of Strange Tools is simply to open your heart and mind into anything because it could benefit you in miraculous ways‚ in this case that is reading. Another reason why Strange Tools influenced me‚ is because I can compare myself to Richard Hoggart‚ a boy that had no idea where books can lead them. Strange Tools was
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Lauren Brackett ENL3 Ryan Wander 29 October 2014 Essay # 1: “Strange fits of passion have I known” Nature‚ a theme considered unique to the Romantic Movement‚ was employed by William Wordsworth in his poem “Strange fits of passion have I known” to paint the journey of a love struck adventurer. “Nature” propels the expedition for love onward‚ yet also reveals the subject of the poem’s beauty in a gentle way. The natural landscape acts as both a leader‚ guiding the speaker
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The Strange Ride Home Traumatic events come in many different ways at many different times of ones life. Mine came on the school bus while I was on my way home from school. It was so sudden and it was definitely something I’ve never experienced before‚ it was different. The bus had stopped to let a couple kids off and I stood up to throw some trash away. I stood up and we were rear ended by a young lady who had been trying to get a bee out of the car and not realized the bus had stopped. I
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First recorded in 1939‚ the protest song “Strange Fruit” came to articulate the racism and brutality of lynching* endured by so many in the United States‚ particularly in the south. According to figures kept by the Tuskegee Institute‚ of the 3833 lynchings between 1889 and 1940‚ four fifths of the ninety percent lynched in the south were of African American descent. As horrific and cruel lynching was‚ it was considered acceptable. Society at the time believed that lynching was an act that was
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King Claudius greets Guildenstern and Rosencrantz at Elsinore and explains his concern about Hamlet’s strange behavior. Claudius chose both of them to investigate if there are any reasons to Hamlet’s strange behavior other than his father’s sudden death. As Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are both childhood friends of Hamlet‚ they are familiar with his normal behavior and personality. They both agree to do their best and leave to locate Hamlet. Polonius then enters the room and claims he has found the
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We go to school to learn and study. What’s strange is why we still have to study things that can’t be applied to our everyday lives. Like in math‚ why do we have to study X and Y when it wouldn’t be applied in real life. It’s not like we’re going to buy in the department store and the cashier would say this cabbage price is x5 – y9. That would be ridiculous. We can’t apply that to our daily lives. So why do we have to study such things. When guys flirt with a million of girls some would say
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Imitation can be simply defined as an act of copying or the assumption of one’s behavior observed in others. Humans are strange creatures with the ability to imitate and cope languages or ideas that makes “us” different and can be distinguished from animals. These all describes memes‚ which supports individuals to explore and experience new inventions through a way of imitating. In “ Strange Creatures‚” Susan Blackmore promotes the theory that a little conscious “me” is created by the memes so as to replication
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