Strange Fruit Juxtaposition

What is courage? Courage is the ability to do something that might frighten you. Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, explores the life of a legally blind middle school boy who loves soccer named Paul. The choices to save people in the sinkhole, join the Tangerine soccer team, and stand up to Erik encouraged Paul to gain more confidence.

“Strange Fruit”, sung by Billie Holiday and written by Abel Meeropol, is considered one of the first protest songs, being called by jazz writer Leonard Feather. “Strange Fruit” reflects the social environment and racial discrimination experienced by black Americans in the early 1900s. Lynching was one of many products of racism in America, and one of the various results of racial discrimination experienced by black Americans in the United States at the time, alongside disenfranchisement, segregation, labour exploitation, etc. Although being banned from most radio stations, “Strange Fruit” reached number 16 in the pop charts, highlighting the issue of racism in America by disabling the luxury of ignorance for those living in greater America and bringing the issue of racism and

“Love is like a faucet, it turns on and off,” is one of Billie Holiday’s quotes that she once said . Billie Holiday also had many issues she was addicted to drugs and alcohol which hurt her career later on in her life. Billies most famous song “ Strange Fruit” was one of her biggest hits. She has loved music her whole life. She also has helped shape jazz music.

This explication will be discussing Gary Soto’s poem, Oranges. This poem is a narrative about the speaker, a twelve-year-old boy, and his first date with a girl. The poet opens the poem about the young boy walking to the girl’s house to pick her up for their date. Then, once he picked her up they walked down the street and went to a drugstore to get candy. He wanted to pay for the candy, but the girl picked out chocolate that cost a dime, when he only had a nickel.

The soul food for African Americans is not only a matter of economics or habit, but also a symbol of cultural identity. The blending of techniques, ingredients, and consumption patterns that developed through the Columbian exchange made African American cuisine distinctive from others. However, because of the small number of source materials that specifically addressed culinary interaction and non-literate Africans, we cannot trace what exactly happened at that time. This is a regret for us that lost a chance insight into the old African food culture. Most of the sources come from the archaeological record or from European or Euro-American sources.

Did being faithful and strong had helped them survive? The early settlers’ attitude toward the Native Americans and their belief in their insecurity around them had helped them survive the hardships that they endured while benefitting their interaction with the natives. The experience on their journeys has aid them faced any obstacle during their survival. The main characteristics that the Pilgrims had gone through and and learned was the attitudes and faith they had upon God and the Native Americans, the problems they undergo, and their interaction with them. One of the main characteristics of the remarks was the attitudes and beliefs that they had upon the natives inhabitants.

According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the U.S. Department of Agriculture carries out programs of research, education, conservation, forestry, marketing, credit, export expansion, food distribution, production adjustment, grading and inspection, and development of rural areas ("Agriculture, Department of."). Nearly 100,000 people make up twenty-nine different agencies within the USDA. These people do their part to participate in the agricultural act of eating that Wendell Berry talks about in The Pleasures of Eating. Wendell Berry argues the importance of eating responsibly using the following rhetorical devices: pathos, ethos, repetition, and imagery.

The integration of fantasy and reality is an integral part of the young protagonist Jeanette in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. "People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe" (95). Jeanette makes clear the distinction between fact and fiction, therefore clarifying the belief systems she has been brought up with, and classifying extremist worldviews--like her mother’s religious doctrine--as rigid binaries. The final two stories of the novel follow two characters named Winnet and Sir Perceval, and help Jeanette to complete her quest through a difficult life.

Eating During the Renaissance Era Food of the Renaissance was not distributed equally; the wealthy indulged in many feasts, serving a variety of dishes. However, the people who were not wealthy or noblemen did not get the same level of nutrition or enjoy the same foods. Being wealthy has always had some sort of benefits no matter what time period it was. During the renaissance however, the wealthy are better than anyone else.

Build a Good Relationship with Food- Mindfulness Eating Script The short mindfulness script I am going to provide you in this post is a very good practice to overcome your food cravings and improve your eating habits. This post is a part of my article series “body and mind connection” and here I am going to discuss the most important step to maintain a good health which is to have a good relationship with food.

Tangerine, a novel written by Edward Bloor is about a visually impaired boy named Paul Fisher. Paul and his family move from Houston, Texas to Tangerine,Florida. This realistic fiction novel shows you Paul Fisher's everyday life through the eyes of Paul Fisher himself. Consequently Paul was visually impaired at a very young age sadly losing his peripheral vision. Paul never remembered how he lost most of his vision but his parents and family had told him that he starred at a solar eclipse for too long and blinded himself. Throughout the whole story Paul is constantly told that he cannot see well yet he can see more things than people think including his brother Eriks true side.

Is Paul's whole life a secret? In the novel, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor, Mrs Fisher keeps so many secrets from Paul and makes so many decisions that change his life! She makes three wrong choices in the book that changes Paul's life forever. The choices she makes were to keep a secret how Paul got his glasses, tells Paul’s new school that he is legally blind, and chose to support Paul with his soccer dream. All choices made by Mrs. Fisher was to only protect her son, but Paul did not see it that way.

Imagine moving away from home, changing schools, and having a family that won’t even give attention when needed. Paul goes through all of this, and he is left to make decisions that will change his life forever. Three choices Paul goes through are, changing schools, tattling on Tangerine Middle School soccer players, and informing the police about Arthur and Erik’s wrong doings. In the novel, Tangerine by Edward Bloor, Paul moves from Houston Texas to Tangerine Florida, and the first five months are filled with decisions and chaos. The choices made by Paul, and the consequences of those choices, affect the development of his character.

The realistic fiction novel Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor, follows the tale of a dysfunctional family and the dark secrets that they are slowly discovering within themselves. The author uses the motif -a repeated theme or idea in the story- of sight to further the story and in doing so, gives the character better understanding of each other and the truth. Through the motif of sight, Paul -the main character in the novel- has a growing understanding of his friends, family, and himself. The first group Paul experiences a growing understanding of is his friends.