The Holiday

in 1937 was a poem that not only disturbed many, but made them realize the appalling actions of the whites encouraging to lynch many blacks on August 7, 1930. After the poem was published on April 20,1930, it was soon sung by famous singer Billie Holiday who originally brought the poem to many people's attention and was named her most iconic song. Abel Meeropol began high school at Dewitt Clinton High School and graduated in 1921. He later taught English at the same high school for seventeen…

will be acknowledged and discussed based on the lyrical rhythm this song has. Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915- July 17, 1959) was a professional jazz singer. Holiday had a huge influence on jazz music. She was mainly known and recognized for her amazing voice and ability to improvise her lyrics while on stage during performances. Holiday began…

the next four years, this holiday would be celebrated in over 400 cities. Oregon was the first state in the union to make Labor Day an official holiday, New York would follow later that same year. Furthermore, New York declared the first Monday in September as the official day to celebrate this holiday (Foner, 2005). By 1894, Labor Day became a federal holiday. How this holiday would look and take place was outlined in the first proposal for the institution of the holiday. A street parade as…

What we mean is don’t just plan to take a holiday trip, rather plan to maximize your time by planning your itinerary for the holiday trip. There are countless websites that will give you great vacation planning ideas, so you don’t need to waste time in your hotel room or at your in-laws’ house scrambling. Buy a fake tree The tree may…

attached to a branch hangs a rotting corpse covered in grime and gore. This is the image Billie Holiday puts into the mind of the listener during her song Strange Fruit. Strange fruit was written as a poem by a school teacher, Abel Meeropol, and was recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. During the song strong imagery effectively appealing to the listener’s emotions and their ethics as a person. Billie Holiday effectively paints a vivid picture of a lynched African American surrounded by a setting…

THERE ARE JULY BLUES TOO- 6 WAYS TO AVOID SUMMER DOLDRUMS The weather’s great and you’ve got a hundred things going on but somehow…the holiday blues. Not just a January thing but it is certainly true that, for some people, feelings of low mood and depression and bad moods can worsen as you see seemingly endless summer barbecues and jollity around you. Holiday blues differ from Seasonal Affective Disorder, which tends to happen again and again, year after year, usually in the winter. People often…

leading up to his discovery of the death of singer Billie Holiday. This poem is unlike most in that it lacks figurative language throughout. O’Hara’s poem uses what seems almost like a bulletin, with every one of his actions being listed. He includes every detail of his day from the time he completed an action up to the people he interacted with along the way. On the surface, all of these things seem to be unrelated to the death of Holiday seeing as that her death itself is not mentioned until…

Torah come the Talmud which is extra ideas collected by Rabbis from generation to generation that argue the points of Jewish laws, philosophies, and other principals for Jews to live by. Jews have countless holidays and traditions that come with those holidays, but the few most significant holidays are Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Shabbat, and Passover. Rosh Hashanah is the mark of the Jewish new year and also marks the beginning of the high holy days and the 10 days of awe where Jews are supposed…

The song Strange Fruit was first sang by Billie Holiday, who was a new performer on stage at Cafe Society, a new and popular cabaret club. The song was written in 1937 by a man named Abel Meeropol to criticize the racial discrimination in American South. Abel Meeropol, who was a Jewish-American school teacher from New York City, wrote Strange Fruit after seeing a shocking photograph of a lynching in a magazine. This song became very popular in 1939, the year where racial tension was at its…

root.” this is an excerpt from the poem “Strange Fruit”. In this poem, the main point that the authors, Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, wrote about is the “strange fruit” which is actually a metaphor. The metaphor is comparing the fruit and slaves, and how they were hung from trees during the pre-Civil Rights times. Along with the metaphors, the literary devices that the author Billie Holiday uses in the poem “Strange Fruit” are imagery and emotional appeal. These literary devices are seen…