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Strange Fruit The song Strange Fruit was first recorded by the famous jazz singer Billie Holiday and release in 1939. The genre of the song was blues and jazz. Strange Fruit was an early cry for the Civil Rights Movement, exposed racism, and performed the practice o hanging. The song has simple lyrics, that carry a huge strength, and haunt you even when the song is over. The juxtaposition of the beautiful landscape, the scent of flowers, with the blood of human beings brutally beaten, gives a powerful

Title: Fruit Recognition System (FruitCognizer) Introduction Motivation: Not just only consists of the most delicious foods in the world, but Thailand is also one of the countries which have various of unique fruits with unique flavors as its representation. On the other hands, even if they are unique in flavors, different types of fruits could look really similar to each other. Moreover, according to www.fruitsinfo.com, there are approximately over a thousand types of fruit around the world, and

Strange Fruit “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday is a song that’s known for it’s haunting imagery of the Jim Crow era in the south, as well as it’s riveting performance by Holiday. It’s been famously covered by Nina Simone and others like Diana Ross, prior to that the song we know and love was first a poem originally published in 1937. Penned by school teacher Abel Meeropol, it was shipped around for years (performed by himself, his wife, and vocalist Laura Duncan in Madison Square Garden, for

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was a well known jazz singer who was born in Pennsylvania on April 7, 1915. She was also known as Elanora Fagon in which unfortunately had fallen victim in her life towards the addiction of heroin. In conjunction with her addiction, she developed a criminal record due to her numerous arrests relating to her drug abuse and prostitution. She eventually checked herself into an institution to help break her addiction. However, at the young age of forty-four

Chapter 3: A survey on planted and unplanted fruit tree diversity for improve fruit supply in areas with increasing deforestation in Cameroon Introduction With the growing demands from a population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it is unclear how our current global food system will meet future food needs. Ensuring that all people have access to adequate and nutritious food produced in an environmentally and socio-culturally sustainable manner is one of the greatest challenges of our

Laboratory exercise 3 : Quantitative analysis of vitamin C contained in a fruit juice Aim: To investigate the amount of vitamin C found in all kinds of fruit juice Introduction : Vitamin C is an antioxidant, along with vitamin E, beta-carotene, and many other plant-based nutrients. Antioxidants block some of the damage caused by free radicals, substances that damage DNA. The build-up of free radicals over time may contribute to the aging process and the development of health conditions such as

THE FRUITS OF OUR CHANGING CLIMATE How Climate Change Affects Fruit Production INTRODUCTION GLOBAL: THE APPLE Apples, one of the most common fruits in the world, according to a study that was published in PLoS One, a peer-reviewed journal, may become more expensive or not possible at all in some areas, due to rising winter temperatures. Evan Girvetz, a Nature Conservancy climate scientist and co-author of the study, says: “…many fruit and nut trees, such as cherries, apples, apricots

Both Millay and Young show their gratitude for fresh food, but after the chicken is processed and fruit becomes rotten, the diversity of the speakers’ attitude drives two poems into different directions. Millay thinks the change of state of the fruit happens naturally, and people should acknowledge and embrace its decomposition rather than plucking it from the tree at its best moment, and then store it in the cellar. Unlike Millay, Young has a negative approach to the change of food, and his disapproval

In the music video/song “Strange Fruit”, the phrase strange fruit doesn’t really refer to a fruit that is strange. It actually refers to people being lynched and hanging from trees. More specifically, the term strange fruit applies to the lynching of African Americans. This song was performed by Billie Holiday in 1939 at the Cafe Society in New York. The music video was actually a recorded performance from 1959. The song was written and performed because the purpose of was to raise awareness and

“Strange Fruit” Messages can travel through art in any form. The message hidden in “Strange Fruit” started as a disturbing photograph of a lynching that was taken in 1930. Decades later, a high school teacher named Abel Meeropol decided to transpose the feelings the photo evoked and wrote a poem that uses an eerie metaphor to convey those feelings. Then a song was created using the poem. After it was sung by the famous singer, Billie Holiday, the world heard the message that started with a simple