"Strange Fruit" (Song) by Billy Holiday. The song "Strange Fruit" was first written as a poem by Abel Meerpol‚ a white high school teacher‚ who was also a Jew and a member of an American Communists Party. The poem exposes the problem of American racism‚ in particular‚ the lynching of Afro-Americans. The episodes of cruelty towards people with black skin occurred mostly in the South of US‚ but the problem was not unknown to other regions as well. Lynching had reached its highest point in the 1930s
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year of 1857 to 1973‚ it was illegal in the state of Texas to have an abortion unless the mother’s life was in danger. Many thought the law was unconstitutional‚ especially a lady by the name of Norma McCorvey‚ more commonly referred to as her pseudonym‚ Jane Roe. She was a pregnant‚ unmarried woman. She was a Texas resident and she wished to have an abortion‚ but with
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The novella‚ Animal Farm‚ satirizes the lifestyle of Stalinist Russia. The author‚ Eric Blair‚ known by the pseudonym George Orwell‚ uses a farm in which every animal and conflict is allegorical to the lifestyle of the Soviet Union. In the story‚ Orwell portrays how the animals are unaware of their power similar to the working class in Russia. After the rebellion‚ which represents the Russian Revolution‚ the animals anticipate an exponentially better life that consists of bigger rations‚ proper care
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The silence dealt with the talk about slavery and whether or not it should have been abolished. Although there were heated debates‚ Joseph Ellis called it a silence because "no one from the North or the Upper South rose to answer the delegation from the Deep South" (Ellis‚ 105) and the delegation was ignored by most of the Founding Gathers in order to keep America together. James Madison and the state of Virginia were more silent than the Northern states‚ who wanted abolition‚ and the deep Southern
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constitution. The series of articles were first published in 1787 - 1788 in the Independent Journal‚ the New-York Packet and the Daily Advertiser. At the time of publication‚ it was unclear who the author’s were‚ since Hamilton‚ Madison and Jay used the pseudonym “Publius”‚ in respect to Roman diplomat Publius Valeria Publicola. It wasn’t until Hamilton’s death in 1804 that it was clear as to who were the creator’s of the “incomparable exposition of the Constitution‚ a classic in political science unsurpassed
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Born on 28th September 1929 in Indore (M.P.)‚ Lata Mangeshkar is one of the greatest singers India has ever produced. Mangeshkar family could very well be called the premier musical family of India as father Pt. Dinanth and 5 siblings- Lata‚ Usha‚ Asha (Bhosle)‚ Meena (Khadikar) and Hridaynath have all contributed immeasurably in the field of popular music as singers and composers. Lata recorded her first song Naachu yaa gade khelu saari for a Marathi film ‘Kiti hasaal’(1942) and in ‘Aap ki seva
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title come from John Bunyan’s allegorical story The Pilgrim’s Progress published in 1678 and held in a town called Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair is the most famous novel of realism in English literature of the 19th century‚ which was written under the pseudonym William Makepeace Thackeray and published in 1847. The story begins with Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies‚ where Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley have just completed their studies and are preparing to depart for Amelia’s house in Russell
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Hyo Lim Dr. Nelson PSY 3310.001 Observation of 8 Years Old Female Child The observed child is given a pseudonym in order to remain anonymous. She will be addressed as Lizzy in this paper. Lizzy is a 9 years old child who is part of a typical‚ traditional middle-class family I visited her while she was conversing with her best friend. She has no prior knowledge of me. Some degree of deception is involved in this observation as I lied about what I will observe; I said I will observe her house‚
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a possible reversal‚ resulting in riches to rags. The author offers a birds eye view of the wealthy American people‚ while commenting on the imperfections of their lifestyle. The author‚ a Yale graduate‚ explains his encounter with a man with a pseudonym of George Armory. Privilege was prominent in both the author and Armory’s families. Inheritance is he key factor in both stories of wealth. The Author‚ a knowingly wealthy man‚ was simply more mindful than his wealthy counterparts. His grandfather
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According to another version‚ Fountain is the result of a complex collaboration. In a 1917 letter to his sister‚ Duchamp himself credits a female friend with the idea‚ as he writes to Suzanne Duchamp: "One of my female friends who had adopted the pseudonym Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture."[4] Duchamp never identified his collaborator‚ but two candidates have been proposed as collaborators. First‚ the Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven‚ whose scatological aesthetics
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