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    The Importance of “Strange Fruit” On August 7‚ 1930‚ Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were broken out of jail only to face a fate far more gruesome and violent than that which they may have otherwise endured (Frederick 40). The tragedy of their story‚ though‚ would eventually inspire a work of art so powerful that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s is considered by some to have been born from it (Margolick 92). The song “Strange Fruit‚” written by Abel Meeropol and popularized by Billie Holiday

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    Japan - the Strange Country Japan is a small country located in east Asia. The population is around 130‚000‚000 (one hundred and thirty million) people. The total world population is 6‚800‚000‚000 (six point eight billion)‚ which means that roughly 2 in every 100 people are Japanese. Japan ’s land area measures 378‚000 (three hundred and seventy-eight thousand) square kilometers. If the earth ’s land area is 149‚000‚000 (one hundred and forty-nine million) square kilometers and the total area

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    Cameron Richards Essay #5 Mr. Whealy English 9 period 6 March 10‚ 2015 Why young love is like death In the play Romeo and Juliet‚ written by the great William Shakespeare‚ two “star crossed lovers” in the roman city of Verona take their lives for the sake of love. So they say‚ but many question if Romeo and Juliet were truly in “love”. Did they fall for each other for their looks or for their hearts? Each character had to make huge decisions through the story‚ that later caused more problems to

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    A Strange Love Affair

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    August 26‚ 2013 A Strange Love Affair Jan Myrdal wrote a narrative called “ A Strange Love Affair.” In this narrative is about a man that comes across a big problem. In 1947 he was going steady with a girl name B. and “was very much in love with.” He states that B. would not let him take the next step as to sleep with him. In December of that year he left to Belgrade. He returned to Sweden but in those two years got married “another girl.” In February 1949 he went to Stockholm by train from

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    “Morrowbie inside the Caste” In Rudyard Kipling’s story “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes” there are many aspects of the India’s traditions and customs. But one custom that is strongly present though out the story is the role of the Indian caste system. Within each character you are taken into the five levels of the caste system. The caste system has been present in Indian culture for as far back as their history can be traced. The five levels that are present with in the characters in the

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    William Shakespeare’s “King Richard III”‚ an Elizabethan play written as a piece of Tudor propaganda‚ and Al Pacino’s 1996 docudrama “Looking For Richard” set in contemporary New York‚ have distinctive parallels in what values they concern themselves with despite their markedly different contexts. Our understanding of both texts is advanced through exploring the composers’ contrasting values of free will clashing with Providentialism and the importance of integrity and honesty in the Murder of Clarence

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    complications utilizing natural supplements to create the medication needed. Technology has been evolving quickly and mostly everyone has adapted to it and is apart of their natural environment and utilizes it in anyway daily. In Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv utilizes rhetorical questions‚ anecdote‚ and repetition to convey his message about the separation between humans and nature. In the passage he utilizes rhetorical questions and asks two in particular to really get the audience thinking. "Why

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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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    In his book Richard Rodriguez argues the idea of using “family language” at school should not be allowed because it separates the students and makes it harder for them to comprehend one another.By doing this‚Rodriguez utilizes imagery‚ anecdote‚ and pathos. Rodriguez shows that bilingual students feel pressured when the teacher points a native student out making them feel as an outcast by using imagery. By using anecdote Rodriguez shows that by trying to make a bilingual environment there will

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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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