Strange Fruit/ Blood on the Leaves Strange Fruit is a famous song sung by Billie Holiday in 1939.The song itself was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol in 1937. This song was to protest racism and especially against the lynching of African Americans. Lynching specially means to put to death‚ especially by hanging‚ by mob action and without legal authority. The Klu Klux Klan were basically known for being against the whole civil rights for blacks and against them having voting rights. They
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novel has an engaging plot‚ characters‚ settings and themes. This novel’s target audience is comprised of teenagers and young adults at the age of 13 to 21 years old‚ who are interested in seeing the world where everyone is beautiful in a the ‘image-obsessed society’. As you and I both know‚ teenagers and young adults are sick of living
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player? Humanity will miss one of the greatest writer of all time and arguably the best hockey player. This shows the importance of understanding their own potential‚ thus they can become the person they were destined to be. In Anthony Ryan’s “Blood Song”‚ it shows the significance of learning the purpose of life‚ through the eyes of the protagonist‚ Vaelin Al Sorna. The story starts when Vaelin’s father‚ the greatest warrior in the nation‚ leaving his son at the gates of the Sixth Order‚ a group of
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“The Lottery” is a story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and tells the story of a town that takes part in a barbaric ritual every year on June 27th. There are several themes in this short story. The main themes in “The Lottery” are our aversion to examine and challenge outdated ideas and rituals‚ that society will pick scapegoats to carry its wrongs and the horrors in following the crowd. The townspeople in “The Lottery” blindly go along with an appalling custom having lost the reason behind
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Song of the Powers: Poetry Response The game “Rock‚ Paper‚ Scissors” is quite well-known and is often used for making decisions or breaking ties. David Mason uses a metaphor of stone‚ paper‚ and scissors to tie into the theme of loneliness and the ironies of unity in the poem Song of the Powers. In the game “Rock‚ Paper‚ Scissors”‚ rock always beats scissors. In the poem‚ the stone brags of its ability to have power over time and boasts of its strength and power over human wishes. The first
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"Grenade" Easy come‚ easy go That’s just how you live‚ oh Take‚ take‚ take it all But you never give Should’ve known you was trouble From the first kiss Had your eyes wide open Why were they open? [Pre-Chorus:] Gave you all I had And you tossed it in the trash You tossed it in the trash‚ you did To give me all your love is all I ever asked ’Cause what you don’t understand is... [Chorus:] I’d catch a grenade for ya Throw my hand on a blade for ya I’d jump in front of a train
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Cited: Barrett‚ Leonard. The Rastafarians: Sounds of Cultural Dissonance. Boston: Beacon‚ 1988. Booth‚ Mark. "The Art of Words in Songs." The Quarterly Journal of Speech 62 (1976): 242-49. Campbell‚ Horace. Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney. New Jersey: African World‚ 1987. Chaffee‚ Steven. "Popular Music and Communication Research." Communication Research
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Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Okot p’Bitek worked as anthropologist‚ poet‚ novelist an even footballer which led him to go and being educated in England on law and anthropology and later literature. He differed himself from other African writers who wrote in western styles and in western point of view. He has chosen an African tool to express himself‚ a tool associated with oral tradition of Africa. He called it ’’song’’. He published his works in Acoli language however
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There are many gospel songs about life in the BC era but not many songs include both BC and present time. Most Gospel songs are about a relationship with God. Most current songs are about drugs‚ money and women. When combining both‚ the song “Girl in the War” by Josh Ritter is related to the biblical apostles‚ Paul and Peter‚ but instead of being during biblical times it is during the present and includes present matters such as Setting‚ Historic Context‚ and Theme. There is no full setting to
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There are many themes within the film that resonate with what families/individuals face today. For example: financial hardship‚ family values‚ relationships‚ trust‚ mental health‚ stability‚ and fighting to attain the picket fence ideal of the American Dream remain a part of the everyday struggle. The film follows World War 2 veteran‚ Tom Rath‚ and his family‚ who are in a time of financial hardship. Tom’s wife Betsy is a hard-working mother who is tired of their old house and dreams of having something
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