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Protest Music Assignment For this assignment, I chose the song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday. She first performed this song in 1939, several years after the Civil War took place, but before the end of the Jim Crow South. Billie Holiday was born in the North, which was more supportive of equality between the races, but she was African American, and this was something that affected her life, even if she did not live in the South. This song is a protest song, subtle as it may be, against

The United Fruit Company Outline Thesis: Through compensation to workers and connections with the government the United Fruit Company (UFCO) it became the great force of Latin America. Introduction: “In 1871 the wholesale value of banana imports into the United States was less than $250,000; by 1901, the figure had jumped to $6.5 million” Banana Wars (49) The United Fruit Company was a business in Guatemala that helped to build railroad transportation, hospitals and introduce the banana to the

The author of strange fruit was Abel Meeropol. He was an english teacher, and social activist located in New York. He grew up when lynching and racism heavily existed. The origin of his poem “Strange Fruit” came from him seeing a photograph of someone being graphically lynched. The image reminisced through his head, which eventually lead him to writing his poem. Billie Holiday was known for her beautiful voice and lyrics to her songs. After listening to the song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday, produced

The United Fruit Co has driven Pablo Neruda Bananas! The Pablo Neruda's, The United Fruit Co., a free verse poem, published in 1950, emphasizes the domination of the United Fruit Company amid the Columbian people. Pablo Neruda's The United Fruit Co. is able to greatly describe what happened to the Colombian people when the Chicago based United Fruit Co. destroyed his home and his people. The United Fruit Co., was very successful in Columbia, due to its location in the Banana Republic and the poor

The United Fruit Company was founded 1899, after the takeover of the Boston Fruit Company, thus forming the largest banana company in the world (Landmeier, 1997). Through strategic business moves, immediately developed a monopoly over the rapidly expanding banana trade in Latin America. This new company had 112 miles of railroad, 212,394 acres of land, and a capital of $11,230,00 and proceeded to buy lands in Santo Domingo, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, and Cuba, and increase additional acreage in

to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Ultimately, Adam and Eve were tempted into eating the fruit, and were punished by God for doing so. Throughout the years, many painters have expressed their own interpretation of this story through their artwork; including James Barry and Pietro Facchetti. The Temptation of Adam by

of the fruit is echoed by Laura when she dutifully denounces the fruits by saying “who knows upon what soil they fed / their hungry thirsty roots?” (Rossetti, 68) Her words here sound odd as she evidently does not believe them, and she accompanies them by “pricking up her golden head”, which suggests a keen curiosity. The repetition of “We must not look” and “We must not buy” (Rossetti, 68) sound rote-learned and trite, while the repetition of the goblin’s call becomes mesmerising. The fruits are both

Classification of fruits 1. Berries – usually succulent fruit and very juicy. The availability of berries is between May and August. But grapes are berries that can be found year round. Some foods classified as berries do not fit the botanical definitions like strawberries and raspberries but are berries. There are fruits that are true berries but are not classified into other categories e.g. bananas and grapes. Berries grow in bunches in bushes and on vines. They are small and juicy. Examples

art. Major types are symmetrical and asymmetrical”. The art piece, “Table, Napkin and Fruit”, that Cézanne created is asymmetrically balanced along a wooden tabletop. The composition includes approximately 16 pears, peaches, and other fruits. Through the source, Cézanne has made the fruits closer to the centre of the art piece more defining and detailed with harder lines, whereas along the left corner, the fruits are made with loose lines, sketches. This defines a balance for the visual eye, where

“Strange Fruit” “Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root / Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze” (Meeropol 1-3). “Strange Fruit” is written by Abel Meeropol and published in 1937. Abel Meeropol is a jewish teacher; he adopted two boys whose parents were executed. When Meeropol saw an image of a lynching he got inspired to write an anit-lynching poem. It is a dark poem that creates a gruesome image to make you realize the truth of lynching. Racism